Wednesday, July 26, 2023

the grind, the sweat, the Windows 95 game come to life.

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 It's been a minute since I posted, but I'm just working the routine at the moment, nothing exciting to mention, really. Wake up, wo...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Lie down with dogs... etc.

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 So, Iran is at it again.         Iran's non retarded unit, the Revolutionary Guard, has a habit of harassing western-owned ship traffic...
Sunday, July 9, 2023

Thank God for high blood pressure meds

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  So, it's a nice quiet night. Now.        I got to run to the store to get grub today, as we're in a lay berth alongside the Brookl...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

First Thursday in Ordinary Time

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 I'm back on board, and things are as they often are, which is to say: thinks are right fucked up.        Last night was my first watch ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Tuning the world out

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One of the big appeals of working on an oil tanker that I wrote about years ago is that by necessity we needed to tune the world out and foc...
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Friday, June 23, 2023

Titanic: Still killing rich people a century later

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Of all the ways to get killed at sea, being in an implosion at 13,000 feet underwater is probably not a bad way to go. Chances are it was fa...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Radio etiquette

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 I believe it is very important to conduct oneself properly when using the VHF radio in NY harbor. Proper protocol, channel selection for th...
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