This was written on Saturday night (where I am) and emailed to the blog, but it doesn't seem to have ever left the ship. I'm posting it through the website. Perhaps it will show up twice.
Not much to report on today. I had FP watch for about 7 hours, much of which we weren't even flying, just standing Alert 7. At Alert 7, we have aircraft on the flight deck with pilots strapped in, ready to start engines and takeoff with about 7 minutes. We often practice upgraded alerts to ensure that we can maintain hightened states of readiness for long periods of time. Sometimes there's a reason for the alert, sometimes there's not. That's all I can say about that. Right after I got off watch, the ship did a GQ drill for a couple hours and I hung out in the ready room whittling down my ever growing stack of blue folders.
After GQ, I sat around with a group of JO's trying to come up with callsigns for some of our pilots who don't have one or whose call signs are not suitable. Many of our pilots' call signs are simply their initials. This is unsat. Quite frankly, my call sign ("String") is not a very good one, but I don't have much say in the matter and it seems to have stuck. The call signs we came up with for some of our newer JO's tonight include "Radar", "FOD Bag", "Hungry Man", "T-Bone", "IKEA", and "Meatball". Some of the call signs have stories behind them, some are related to their name, some just fit them. None of those details are appropriate for this forum. We still have a handfull of folks who need callsigns but the creative flow was waning. Most of the JO's headed up to 'rats. Perhaps a slider (cheeseburger from the galley) and some cookies will be inspirational.
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Some call signs are really obvious. Some stories behing the name can't be told in front of kids. I always try to figure them out, but most of the time it's difficult. If I get to know someone with a strange call sign, I will eventually ask, but some I really don't want to know.
I am going to get underway in a couple of weeks and I am so excited about getting a slider. I haven't been on ship since last summer. That is TOO long without a slider.
Still no poster? It was mailed the same day of the box. Keep me info'd.
BTW, I talked my coworker into buying a Mac Book. It started out as a joke, but he ended up getting a refurbished one for a pretty good price. It just arrived 2 days ago, so I haven't talked to him to see if he hates it yet.
Rich,
Enjoy the slider. Nothing like it in the world. That doesn't mean it's all that good--there's just nothing like it. I'm not sure anyone would pay money for ship food in the context of the real world. Sill no poster. There's a nasty rumor floating around that our supply ship has several thousand pounds of mail just sitting in a hold somewhere, but for whatever reason they haven't flown it over to us. Hmmmm. We're UNREPing with a different ship tomorrow, but supposedly we're getting some mail from them as well. We'll see.
I'm confused about you talking someone into buying a Mac. I seriously doubt if they'll hate it. A bit of frustration at first, perhaps, but that fades very rapidly--unlike buying a new PC where the frustration just grows over time. Hmmmmm?
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