Started out today with a CDO "fundamentals" lecture, given by one of the ship's engineers. The topic: "Engineering Fundamentals" of course. In the Navy, engineering refers to the parts of the ship that make it go. Power plants, reduction gears, auxiliary equipment, and, in the case of Nimitz class carriers, nuclear reactors. He talked about steam turbines and closed loop systems, and gland seals. It was a pretty heavy topic for first thing in the morning. This poor mustang LTjg SWO was standing in the front of the ready room, briefing 30 LCDR pilots and NFO's on a topic that is near and dear to his heart, but we really couldn't care less about. That's about as tough as jobs come. He did a good job of keeping it to the point and at about an hour long. Despite the coffee cups in just about everyone's hands, I don't think we all made it through fully conscious.
I spent the afternoon powering through the E-5 evals I've been putting off for the last couple weeks. They are all marked up. Now I need to update the files on the computer, reprint them, and have the divo's debrief the evals with their guys. All in the next two days. Ugh.
The evening was dominated by 7 hours of duty. Probably the most boring duty day since I started standing this watch back in June. I've always said that a boring watch is a good watch. Watches usually only get exciting when things are going wrong. However, a certain amount of stress and "problem management" can really help the time to go by faster. I think I checked my watch at least 50 times tonight. I even had time to "IM" a little with Janell again. I'm pretty sure she wasn't driving. At least I hope she wasn't driving. Her reply was delayed by several minutes, so perhaps she got my message on the phone and waited until she was done driving! I can only hope.
After my watch, I found that I was scheduled for a 0545 brief to go back to the CDG tomorrow. This was around 0100 in the morning. Mmmmm. Don't think so. The SDO helped to find someone to fill in. Now I have the day off to finish up those evals. Finally. On that note, it's time to head to bed. Perhaps a quick stop at 'rats, but I'm definitely not staying up too late. I'm trying to stay on this day-ish schedule.
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4 comments:
I thought this was going to be about sea animals with pituitary problems.
I had some training a couple of weeks ago that was close to that. We had two presentations: one about the DI testing of the HH-65 on 2 classes of Coast Guard boats. The other was about 45 minutes of rambling from our Senior Engineer about when he went to LPD-17 with V-22. It had nothing to do with the testing they did. He just showed a bunch of pictures and talked. The DI testing was interesting, but the other; I wanted to poke my eyes out.
Well, today is the day. I didn't think Kaitlin was going to get to sleep last night. The last time I saw a grin pasted on her face like that was last July.
BTW- Great pictures the other day. I noticed a big clock on the island of the CDG. Do the French not have watches (NO FOD)?
We have officially been invaded!!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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