Monday, November 14, 2005

Big Red

March 15, 2004 (525 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level 15 out of 100 Mood Huzzah! Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

Come one, come all. Upper Echelon Boxing is now in session. Halfway night at 8:00PM sharp. Get your tickets early, or you can view it live on COB TV. Fights will include:

The Warm Up Match

EM2 [“Supa-Fly”]

Vs.

SK3 [“The Butcher”]

This will be a Hardcore match, no holds barred, locked in the Wardroom

The I-Don’t-Give-Two-Shits Match

LT [“Bitter”]

Vs.

LTjg [“Banana”]

Another No Holds Barred match in a battle to see who gives up first. We’re betting this one will be short. Keep your eyes peeled.

The Super Light Flyweight Match

LTjg [“The Stalker”]

Vs.

ENS [“Smiley"]

A gruesome bare-knuckled Tai boxing match, with scratching and hair pulling allowed, battling for the title of MPA. Guest referee: LTjg [“Bright Eyes”]

Power vs. Speed Battle Royal

LCDR [“Brigadier General”]

Vs.

LCDR [“Whirling Dervish”]

Department Heads will have all of their department’s supplies, and equipment at their disposal in this devastating match. Exceptions are as follows:

["Brigadier General"] will not have access to any small arms lockers.

["Whirling Dervish"] will not have access to any ELT sources, meggers, or welding torches.

Pregaming, however, is allowed (ie: Morphaline spiked coffee).

The Prize Fight

CAPT(sel) [“Napoleonic Monster”]

Vs.

LCDR [“XO-1000”]

A gruesome battle to the death for the title of Supreme Master of the Universe.

Fatty

March 17, 2004

Care level: Eat shit Chief’s mood:Scary ( I saw him laugh today)

Late entry (March 10, 2004)

Commenced the growing of the sea monkeys. The Lower Level petting zoo will be in service soon. No [MM3] will not be one of the attractions.

Big Red

March 16, 2004 (524 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level 76 out of 100 Mood Gak! Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

So, [ELT3] goes to the rack late one night. It’s been a long day, and he’s feeling pretty tired. He takes off his coveralls and slides into the rack. Soon thereafter, he realized that there was some foul play afoot. Bafoonery, you ask? Nae, something much worse. Urination. It’s not a country in Europe, it’s the wet spot that [ELT3]’s laying down in right now.

Laughs were had by all, and no animals were harmed in the process. Except for [MM3]. He managed to get his head stuck between two pipes while talking to no one.

Today, the Captain was displeased to notice that the EDMC frequently watches gay pornography. Upon subsequent investigation, three garter belts, lipstick, and 6” patent leather heels were found in his rack pan as well. Also located in one of his many lockers throughout the Engine Room, was [MM2]’s blow up sheep, slightly used. No one mentioned anything after the incident, but silent nods were exchanged and no one looked the EDMC in the eye quite the same.

Big Red

March 15, 2004 (525 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level 15 out of 100 Mood Huzzah! Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

Given: The known point of [ELT3]’s nostril (point A, 0,0), and the height of his nose (point B, 5” above point A at a 90 degree angle). There is a 60-degree angle at point B, making another line (the bridge of [ELT3]’s nose) until it intersects the X axis at point C (the tip of his nose). Stating all assumptions and formulas, solve for the slope and length of [ELT3]’s nose. Note: final answer may defy all laws of gravity and physics.

And, a remembrance to an Email long gone:

Coner: KHONE-urh: (1) adj. Description of something incredibly mindless, stupid, and dimwitted. "You stapled your hand to your forehead? Man, what a coner." (2) noun. A person who primarily stands watch in the forward part of a United States nuclear fast attack submarine. "All the coners stand watch up forward because that's where the racks are." (3) verb. An act of embarrassment, caused by a diminishing capacity of brain cells to function properly. "I sure conered myself when I starting smacking around that rabid pit bull."

Origin: CONE (Latin) - A mythical sloth-like creature more concerned with leisure that it's own survival.

URH (Slang) - The sound a mentally handicapped person makes when trying to communicate.

I need the phone number for Webster's to recommend this addition to their dictionary. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

V/R - MM2(Forever) [Big Red]

“The Brine Tank has software? I thought it was all mechanical.” –MPA

(UPDATE 4:37PM) We just ran a light smoke in the trim pump drill. I am scared. The 706 has a 100% drill fire to real fire in the trim pump ratio. It’s only a matter of time…

Big Red

March 14, 2004 (526 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level: 32 out of 100 Mood: eh? Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

To all crew members,

This is a reminder that you all are stationed aboard the [this] mighty warship. We go into harm’s way, and fight it out, and casualties are bound to happen. In that regards, we will be conducting VIP tours in the upcoming future. In order to maintain our good standing presence and reputation with the local community, we will be slightly modifying our mode of calling away any actual casualties that may occur while these civilians are on board. We do not want to scare these people into pulling our funding, or dying for that matter.

First up, any ship’s alarm that is sounded for an actual casualty must be preceded with the 1MC, “The following is a test of ship’s alarms. Disregard.” Second, upon the commencement of all casualties, the VIP tour members shall be transported to the SK shack, and the door will be locked on the way out. They will be provided with one copy of Starship Troopers, 2 decks of cards, one pitcher of water, and a game of Monopoly (without the train, everyone fights over it).

Thirdly, our ways of calling away casualties over the 1MC will be modified slightly, and are as follows:

“Reactor Controls Division muster [in engine room forward] for training.”

“Loss of [control].”

“All hands stand clear of the Engine Room while cotton candy maker is in operation.”

“Steam Line Rupture.”

“The Feeling you’re experiencing is actually an increased O2 bleed rate.”

“Autofuel Spill in the Torpedo Room.”

“Venting depth control in Engine Room.”

“Feed Header Rupture.”

“All hands are welcome to join the marshmallow roast in Shaft Alley. See the XO for your stick and graham crackers.”

“Large Class Alpha Fire in Shaft Alley.”

“Bilge lubrication is progress in PLO Bay. All hands stand clear.”

“PLO Rupture.”

“All nuclear trained personnel muster in the Engine Room for daily PT.”

“Reactor Scram.”

“Commence Engine Room Forward field day!”

“Large Spill in ERF.”

“All hands muster topside for swim call.”

“Abandon Ship.”

“E-Brake engage light lit.”

“Loss of PLO.”

“Commence salt water washdown of the Torpedo Room.”

“Flooding in the Torpedo Room.”

“Surf’s up, dawg! Hang ten!”

“Man Overboard.”

“Please come see the magical electrical light show in Shaft Alley”

“0kOHM ground on the Stbd AC Busses”

“We hoped you enjoyed your stay aboard the USS Albuquerque. We’re sorry it could only be so brief.”

“Torpedo Evasion.”

Thanks for your cooperation while these changes are put into place.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Big Red

March 12, 2004 (528 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level: 45 out of 100 Mood: Dirty Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

The Hate Maker

There is but one exception to Big Red’s Universal Circle of Hate Rule, being that hate cannot be either created nor destroyed, merely transferred. She has a name, and in this Era, she is called Christine. Many billions of dollars have been spent, and lives have been lost to determine actual reactor theory. These are all lies. Rickover was neither an engineer, nor politician, nor genius as he is commonly referred to. His true nature lies in voodoo. He was a voodoo priest from the Georgia Bayou, born and raised into their occult dealings. His power grew large over his circle of heathens until one day, he called upon the supreme voodoo ritual, The Dance of the Small Statured, meaning to increase his incredibly small and frail frame. After many moons of preparation, and hours of tireless work, the dawn had approached to incant his spell. In a grand gathering upon the most formal of events, Rickover muttered the final words to the incantation, but alas, the fire that burned before him fizzled, and then disappeared.

His inferiors mocked him. Peers laughed at him until he was finally stripped of all status that he once had. Humiliated by becoming an outcast, Rickover went into a period of research. After many years, he came upon a black book written in an ancient language he could hardly decipher. He finally did though and realized that this was the book with the original, darkest, and most powerful voodoo spell of them all … The Dance of the Small Statured. Reading more carefully, he realized where he had gone wrong. The last ingredient, the most important of all that he had forgotten before, was one human soul. Rickover was appalled. He could never recite the spell again without his peers to help him and this very thought slowly drove him insane. Boarding himself into his house, many years passed before he was ever seen again.

Inside his home, his thirst for the human soul grew. Insane as he already was, and drawing upon his extensive technical knowledge, he designed a machine to draw the human soul out of the body and store them. It was Rickover’s new compulsion; to suck the souls from as many people as possible to make up for the one soul he failed to have. His ingenious device even utilized some of the stored soul energy to power itself, making it into a perpetual soul stealer. The next step was determining how to distribute it to the public and let the soul stealing commence.

The perfect community for this device was where the people died quietly and forgotten, in United States Submarines. He used his political might to install his machine into all submarines under the secret code name of, “The Hate Maker.” To make sure the secret stayed just that way, no one was allowed into it’s compartment while it was in operation.

Unable to escape from the “reactor’s” soul leaching abilities, these poor submariners were forced to have their souls stolen from them slowly but surely. This process has been shortened with the recent development of Continuous Training Programs, and Audit and Surveillance Programs to weaken the submariner’s soul before it is stolen. This standard protocol, in fact, works so well, that excess soul inventory is used to power the shaft and under the charade of reactor theory, provide propulsion to the ship while still collecting enough souls for Rickover’s greedy needs

In order not to outright kill these submariners, the void created from the loss of their soul is replaced with hatred in the form of “gamma radiation,” or within the inner circle of nuclear power, “Hatred Radiation.” ELT’s are unknowingly designated to measure the amount of radiated hatred each person receives. Too much radiated hatred and too much soul at the same time will cause a person to pop like a hot dog in a microwave, hence the fate of the USS Thresher, who’s real disappearance has been shrouded in mystery ever since. Hatred conservation has been created for those who have a high hatred to soul ratio as well.

Nuzzled away in his own self content, Rickover is not dead, merely feasting off the largest soul inventory known to man, as illustrated by the 1997 copy of the Guinness Book of World Records, “World’s Largest Soul Stockpile,” where Bill Gates and Donald Trump came in second and third respectively. This copy was however in limited print, due to Rickover’s Shock Troopers storming the factory and burning every last copy. The few and rare copies left can now be purchased on Ebay, starting at $200 with no reserve.

Fatty

February 23:

Days of madness left: Too many to count.

Care level: Too low to count

Mood: undecided

Chief’s mood: Don’t know haven’t seen him since turnover

No eggs or milk at breakfast! How the hell do you run out of eggs and milk inport. Also how do you not prepare for breakfast? (i.e. put bread out or put syrup out). You have one job to do fucking do it.

Fatty

February 22:

Days of madness left: Too many to count.

Care level: Too low to count

Mood: undecided

Chief’s mood: Don’t know haven’t seen him since turnover

[STS3] came into maneuvering looking for a checkout on DC distribution. He couldn’t even tell us what kind of power went to his shit, and did you know that we have [equipment] that power forward shit. It is scary that these guys don’t know dick about there own shit. He didn’t know [what frequency we operate at]. How the hell do you track a submarine and not know what frequency it operates at.

The Harbringer

February 22, 2004:

Quote:”Joe the Tuna isn’t going to know the difference between a pico cuire and a micro curie.” Joe the Tuna replies, “FUCK YOU!”

Care Level: 5 out of 100 Mood: Apathetic Chiefs Mood: Possibly suicidal. Haven’t seen him since lunch.

An air charge is commenced. The logs are being taken when all of a sudden a nut drops onto the bedplate, followed shortly by a stud. Upon investigation, it is found that the #2 HPAC gage board is secured by one stud and nut. Of the others, two of them have no nut and the third is all together missing. I would say that the thought that had crossed my mind was one of concern, or hope that the gage board would not fall off, but I really didn’t care.

Big Red

February 20, 2004 (549 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level: 62 out of 100 Mood: wOOt! Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

NEW NAVY VOKABULARY and FRAZES:

“Surge and Deploy” CNO

-Although your deployment is scheduled for [6 months], the Navy is going to allow us to leave 2 months early to get a “feel” for the area. Then we will go on deployment for 6 months. Then add on 2-3 more months on the end to add to the “unpredictability.”

“Predictable unpredictability” CNO

-Navy term to describe your future. You and the enemy know you are going out to sea, but neither of you knows when. The upper hand is to the enemy, however, b/c he knows when he is gonna blow up your shit.

rabbia. rage, fury,

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Fatty/Big Red

February 17, 2004

Today I spent most of the day in the torpedo room doing weapons load. It is amazing how the cone isn’t really required to know much about their own equipment. They have to bring in Nukes to be in charge of moving the weapons for them. It is fun when you teach a torpedoman how to do his job. HPBP taken apart and put back together today. Hopefully it works. Also from [TM3], “The nukes just aren’t going to ‘jive’ with them in the torpedo room.” Just wait until we completely take that place over. Fuckers.

Big Red

February 17, 2004 (552 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level: 7 out of 100 Mood: Giddy Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

Fowler (FA-whal-urh) Noun: He who watches birds. New code name for [ETCS] is … The Bird Watcher.

Knobology (knawb-AWL-uh-gee) (1)Noun: The study of knobs, their function and purpose. (2)Slang: “Gettin’ to know somethin’.”

Bafoonery (bah-FOON-ah-ree) (1)Adjective: Maximum goofage. See also: Section 2 Watchbill. (2) Adjective: Drilling into a refrigerant temperature well with a bent drill with an air operated 20,000 RPM drill upside down (looking into a mirror). (3) Noun: Primary Gage Cal.

MM2(SS) Big Red Standing Order #1: [MM2] shall be greeted in the manner of raising one fist into the air and shouting “[MM2] HEIL! WHITE POWER! All Hail the Aryan Table!” in your thickest German accent. Bonus points awarded for if [MM2] is present.

Big Red

February 15, 2004 (554 Days of Madness Left)
Care Level: 20 out of 100 Mood: Eh? Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

Underway again. I am about to run drills. I am the ERS. I have to shit. [EDMC] is on the prowl. Radio is down and trying to transmit with UHF. S&D Hydraulics spews oil. #1 R-114 is down. HPBP sounds like a box of rocks in a paint shaker. A TDU can is stuck. Duel weapons reload tonight and I am hot racking in the Torpedo Room. [A pump] just failed to start in slow speed. Distillate piping has a spraying leak in it. The brine tank dumps water from the granny-rotted gasket. This is all in the course of two days. Christine is acting up again, and she’s just warming up until the grand finale.

Unknown

February 9th:

Quote of the day:
“Expect the unacceptable” -[ETC]

Fatty

FEBRUARY 5th

Yeah that’s right fuck this place. That being said, if someone tells you to have a nice day, tell them you have other plans.

The Harbringer

Feb 4, 2004

(5:05 pm) I know you’ve missed me. I’ve missed you to. You’ll be glad to know that this very bastard of a ship’s nickname has begun to be spread here. When the hours M-div works was described to the other students of PO2 leadership the reply was, “Holy shit! It’s the suicide boat!” We’ve worked too many long and hard hours not to live up to that name. So, with that said, get to work.

Fatty

(Feb 3 2004) Quote of the day: The time it takes a job to get done is directly proportional to the amount of adult supervision present.
Hence the reason why [procedures] get done late at night and valve caps get removed and reinstalled with astonishing speed.

Another good quote: I do not believe in contamination, I can’t see it therefore it doesn’t exist. If I happen to find this so called “contamination” I will promptly wipe it off and continue to believe that it never existed. -Anonymous

Thought of the day: If a drop (or a gallon) of water falls outside of the catch and nobody but you is around to see it. Did it really fall?

Today I watched [MM2] run around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to put together a fuel oil load that he should have prepared days ago. While Chief went around asking [MM1] to do [MM2]'s job and find out about the status of the load. He also dragged [MM3] along to help him, wasting [MM3]'s time and causing him to talk to himself even more than usual.

Big Red

February 2, 2004 (567 Days of Madness Left)
Care Level:
8 out of 100 Mood: Suicidal Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable




This is my productivity scale. As you will note, it shows a steady increase throughout the day. 0700 until 0800 is for the early birds, those insane bastards who feel the need to come in early to work, as if staying late wasn’t bad enough. They just have to realize, it doesn’t matter how much work you get done in one day. That does not dictate when you will go home. The Chief will keep the entire division late, because of that one person who decided that real work was more important than the administration paper game. This time slot is awarded a productivity scale of 2%. Most people don’t know their own names that early in the morning anyway.

0800 graphs the most dramatic decrease in productivity, rounding in at a whopping Negative 10%. Morning quarters. This is a time-honored tradition, in which the Chief will pass on hate to his division (See Also: Hate Circle). This, in turn, also smashes the hopes and dreams of his division, transforming them into malleable, lethargic drones. This satisfies USS Albuquerque’s Critical Ship’s Mission #2, “Transfer the crew into malleable, lethargic drones.” It is my belief that Crazy [LT] had much to do with this Ship’s Mission.


0800 to 1500 is the time slot commonly referred to as “Idle Banter”, and is filled with ways to waste your time. Idle Banter can come in the form of Engineering Department training, stores loads, field days, E-5 and below muster somewhere to do jack-shit, and duty section evolutions. This time frame would, along with Morning Quarters, be negative productivity, however it averages 1.5% due to those lone sailors out there who defy the system, and actually do what needs to get done. Congratulations, Lone Sailor! My hat is off to you. A lone sailor can typically be identified by (a) Wearing coveralls during quarters on the pier (b) Reply with “Don’t ask,” or “Nothing,” when asked what they’re doing and (c) have a generally shady aura around them.




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1500 to 1700 goes exactly like the following everyday. Chief looks to the work list. Nothing is accomplished. LPO looks at the worklist. Still nothing is accomplished. Chief and LPO converse and muster all Machinery Division personnel to the workbench (this signifies the last of the Idle Banter for the day). Chief rubs head. LPO talks loudly. All permissions, tagouts, wafs, and procedures and completed in the next 15 minutes, which ends right at 1700; dinnertime. All work stops for the next hour.

1800 and later is when all work is accomplished. The JFMM Vol. 5 specifically defines that a hydro is not completed SAT until it takes place between the hours of 1800 and 0330. A 0330 hydro is defined as “The Perfect Hydro,” and will be documented as such on the QA-26. At this time of night, all monitors, auditors, and nosy khaki’s will not be around, and maintenance will be completed SAT, although not procedurally sound. This gives hope to the Blue-Shirt, and productivity skyrockets to an amazing 80%. Not quite 100% though. No blue-shirt will work that hard.

The Harbringer

January 31, 2004
(7:49 am) Quote of The Day: "You watched seven nukes walk onto crew’s mess without wiping their feet? Maybe you should find something better to do with your time." -[MM2] in response to [STS1] saying that the nukes are responsible for dirt on the crew’s mess decks.
(10:17 am) I see an MS (which I refuse to call CS because it would be an insult to every civilian cook in the world, from the greatest chefs that work for royalty to the lowly bar and grill beer batter masters. These morons should not have the word "culinary" in any part of their vocabulary) and ask what we are having for lunch. The reply is that we are having orange chicken. Translation: We are having dried out shit that resembles a chicken breast, covered in snot that contains some orange, and kept at a less than satisfactory temperature.
(12:05 pm) I have finished eating lunch. To recap the horror, I had the chicken described above, dried out oatmeal raisin cookies, and sliced potato slop. When they brought out fresh dinner rolls I was excited until I bit into one and found warm dough. Why did I ever think that over a period of three months they would learn how to cook? Please shoot me.

Big Red

30 January 2004 (570 Days of Madness Left)

Care Level: 12 out of 100 Mood: Giddy Chief’s Mood: Pissed/Indecipherable

8:47 in the morning and I am standing roving watch. I am forced to “take” portable air samples due to Laaaaary and Chaaaaarlie setting things ablaze in condensate bay. Due to a sheer twist of fate, it is engineering day off, yet I stand duty. This is the thanks they pay to me for staying on the boat 69 out of 85 hours in port critical steaming to fix the fuck-job that Laaaaary and Chaaaaarlie screwed up to begin with. Admiral Bowman sends his regards for putting up a good act for the CT officials, showing them everything that we don’t do, and don’t know aboard this big black turd. When the shit hits the fan, rest assured, we (as well as the greater Groton/New London area) are going down in a blaze of nuclear glory. They will decommission all nuclear vessels and I, MM2(SS) Big Red, will be out of a job. Hmm… On second thought… I need a steel-faced mallet, Excalibur, and the willpower to accept my exposure for the things I am about to do. Amen.

(UPDATE – 9:24AM) Laaaaary and Chaaaaarlie got the [APD] another byte code, forcing me, the SRW, to even more PAS’s. Fuck them. And their cat. The SEO refuses to take his PPU logs. I refuse to take my logs. It’s a vicious cycle. Perez and Sena checked off of leave. I figure my time on board will be generously shortened if I close my eyes, turn on the grinder, and let what happens, happen. I could spray my blood all across the M-Div muster bench, ruining our precious binders, and causing a traumatic scene that will mentally scar the rest of the M-Div’ers. What the hell am I talking about? All the M-Div’ers are mentally scared already. Who else could take the punishment that “The Man” puts us though?

Nobody.

That’s right. Nobody.

(UPDATE – 10:22AM) My balls itch. Stir craziness sets in. All work and no beer make rover go crazy… All work and no beer make rover go crazy… All work and no beer make rover go crazy…

(UPDATE – 10:32AM) As the good roving watch that I am, I send [ET3] up forward to fill our coffee can, because honestly, that’s all [ET3] is good for. The engineroom will cease to function without coffee. The MS’s have no purpose in their life. They know it too, so they’ve bred themselves. They must add importance to their trivial lives by ruling their mess decks with an iron fist, and secure it one hour prior to, and one hour after meal times, to assist in their laborious tasks of … and … and then they…

ok, you can’t bullshit that one. They have no purpose, except for one. To be the butt of the Submariner’s Hate Circle. If you don’t know what this is, ask Schwashbucklin’ Petey. He’ll be glad to fill you in on it. So now I’m stuck in the engineroom with no coffee, and a severe hatred towards all coners. Fuck them.

(UPDATE – 10:20PM) Darwin Award for today: MM2(SS) Big Red learns the value of the tagout system when tearing down [a valve]. Upon removing all but the stem, Big Red braces himself and pulls out with all his might against the stem. A distinctive “pop” is heard, and approximately 5 gallons of seawater spray him in the face. He pushes the stem back into place, and then drains the system in accordance with step one of the procedure. Laughs were had by all, and no khaki’s were the wiser. The rest of the maintenance was completed with no incident. In fact, no incident took place. Forget you just read this. Fuck-o.

The Harbringer

29 January 04

Fucking Gay:
I am writing in this fucking gay font so you will know it is me and that I fail to conform to stupid Navy text and why the fuck did I write 29 January 04 ???? For fuck’s sake and Jackhammer’s mom, that 2-bit whore, it’s January 29. Fuck whoever thinks I’ll write 29 January 04 in that format in here ever again. Fuck I just did it again. OK??
January 29

Still fucking gay but there, and I hope that doesn’t make you happy and cause ya know why?? Go fuck yourself [MM2]. Funniest thing that happened today?? [MM1] bit me on the back and I talked like a Mainer. There you go. I’ve no doubt [MM1] will print this out on his next duty day and beat off in bed to it ‘til he loses consciousness. I say bed cause [MM1] won’t sleep at work.

Ramestar or Rametard or The Harbinger or whatever other handle you like.

The Machine

28January2004:
Conceptual thought of the day about the Navy:
1). People who stay in the Navy (at least blue shirts) stay in because they don’t know how to do anything else or they are "institutionalized".
2). You are advanced in the Navy not because you’re the best, but rather you are what is left after everyone else (the better) gets the fuck out.
3) Is it possible for me to go anywhere on this boat for greater than 5 minutes without someone shitting their pants? I mean come on.

Daily Quote:
"What we do in life, echoes an eternity" -Maximus from "Gladiator"
"What we do in life, echoes an eternity, or, it will just fade away into a bleak, small little cave at the edge of darkness known to you as your destiny" -[MM1] from "USS Albuquerque."

Idiotic Binder of the Day:
"Minor Deficiency Binder" aka in La La Land as the CSMP and the ESL. You can never have enough ways to track the same shit. See also: ZDL.

What I saw [MM2] actually do today: He dropped the crow’s foot for the EAFW zincs from ERUL to ERLL. This enabled [MM1] to work longer. He left the drain valve for ASW to EAFW HX open. While the inlet was open. For a while. Check it off on the work list fellas.

Daily Motivational Attribute: If you work as much as the #37 E-5, you will make just as much money. Remember, nobody ever remembers the #36 guy.
Body parts God can take if he will just get you out of the Navy:
3 fingers not including thumbs or pointer fingers, a broken leg resulting in permanent disability, an eyeball, an ear, all of the toes, a testicle, every strand of hair, 1 layer of skin, eyelids, toe nails and finger nails, a kidney, a lung, 2 feet of intestines, and [ELT2].

Finally:

If you stare at this triangle long enough, someone will think you’re actually reading something important. Now go take your logs.


29January2004:
Happiness:
1 sheet of plain white paper soiled in oil- $0.15
1 black ink pen that runs all over the place- $1
1 Binder for tracking run time hours -$3.00
1 Scientific calculator from 1843 -$15.00
Listening to [MM2] scream about having to recalculate and re-write 3 ½ months of Run Hours. Priceless.

Picture of [MM1], [ELT2], and [MM2]:
Ways to spend your duty day: Make unrecognizable drawings of people you work with.



This chart represents how stupid I am for joining the Navy.


The Machine

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