People are not meant to rise before 4:00 am.
Let me just tell you, finishing up
standard household chores at
midnight and climbing from my warm bed at 3:40 am is, at best, unnatural.
Four in the morning is the natural dividing line between late night and early morning. Waking up before 4:00 feels
wrong. Go ahead, try it. The act seems to create a feeling of unease, as if one had stepped out of
ordinary time and into a time in-between.
They call it liberty becasue they can take it away from me
Liberty expired at 5:00 am, and the ship sailed at 8:00 am. Of course, stuff was found broken almost immediately, and I didn't get my second cup of coffee until 7:30. Not an auspicious way begin the underway period.
I miss the kids already.
Even though the
girls were
irritating and the
boy was
cranky and slept like he was
tortured by demons, I still wish I could be home tonight. I like hearing his voice at night, and I like reading to the girls before they sleep. We're almost done with
Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
Oh yeah, well I've got a bed where I work!
And I'm not
afraid to use it. I took time out from a rapidly deteriorating day to take a
big ole nap from around 9:00 until 11:30. Very nice,
If you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Some days are better than others
This day was not. Caught two guys
sleeping on watch. They didn't wait until they were done, like I did. Laid out on the floor,
snooring,
dead-ass-asleep. I walked in the switchboard, walked around them, and left without either of them even twitching.
Then, more things break. Lots more things break. We fix some of them.
Life appears to get better, but it turns out bad things were simply happening without my knowledge.
Words that engineers don't like.
Lube oil, although not overly flammable like
gasoline or
naptha, will still start quite a fierce fire. Engineers, and sailors in general, don't like fire, especially
Class B Fires.
So, today we had two major lube oil leaks and one fuel oil leak, along with all the other fun minor casualties.
Tomorrow is either going to be much better, or I won't be able to node for a while, because I'll be on fire.