I came home from duty Saturday morning to discover that the boycat had made an escape through the sliding screen door. Apparently we now have to keep a box or crate in front of it to prevent the stinker from opening it. He was gone until Sunday night and walked up to the door like he'd never been away ( Read more... )

Only means something to ya if you're a Chief. Pinned anchors on 35 new ones today in the Hangar Bay, and we are of course all exhausted from the team-building exercises last night. Of course, the process started six weeks ago, and in addition to all of the usual work-busy we've had training-busy as we tried to jam enough knowledge and new ideas ( Read more... )

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I have also tagged most of the flist as RSS feeds, which, while it won't show me locked entries, should allow me to keep up rather better than not at all. :o)

The cool thing about being here is that the day after we get underway, we're already in the area we'll be operating in. No month or longer transit just to get where we're going ( Read more... )

Once again, no LJ for a few months unless I happen across an internet cafe, which is not very likely at all ( Read more... )

Very busy. Up the main mast twice at work in two days, and that's quite enough, thank you. Chasing repair parts, finding yet more work that needs doing, buried up to the eyeballs in admin work ( Read more... )

When the wind kicks up and rattles every window in the house, it's easy to see why spirits became such a part of the culture. It sure sounds like something's trying to get inside.

When the girl went on a class field trip down near Mount Fuji on Friday, she had to go down a zip line. So she paid the kid in line behind her 500 yen to sing the Indiana Jones theme while she did ( Read more... )