That Cluster of Storms

Well Shipmates, we came through that cluster of storms better than you expected.

I'm kind of pissed that I was the only person with the presence of mind to warn Viking that his assignment changed. That's not my job! This incident has reinforced his anxieties about this company I really don't blame him.

FaGuyver is at the helm and weirdness always happens when he is. These are the days that live long in the legend of this ship.

Jello would like to punch O'Doodle, for that matter so would Arsenal, though I don't think it's wise I totally understand where that's coming from. The guy is arrogant. Thankfully he's temporary so if they can exercise their self-control a little longer there will be no blood.

I suppose the really big news is my pending departure. I will soon be aboard a different ship. She's a smaller vessel, owned by a different company, and promises to be a simpler operation. I need this break in so many ways.

Back to You

I feel deflated. It's sort of like feeling defeated but not as painful.

Let me tell you I don't appreciate directors who aren't strategic. I'll give you an example of what I mean. Say you get a phone call saying, "We need some one with your aptitude. You were recommended to us will you take this job?" You tell them, yes you do want the job. But they come back with, "Well, maybe we want something different...we'll get back to you." It kind of hurts to be offered a job and then get it yanked like that. I know they didn't say what their decision is yet so you could still have the job but it went from new exciting prospect to source of rage in a very short amount of time.

Not that I'm talking from personal experience or anything. But this jerking around does suggest some things about this company and yet it suggest a lot about this industry too. I hear that it's common practice to go for inconvenient solutions to simple problems.

Oh for crying out loud! Just give me a chance here. I won't break your product.

I feel really old. Like 1200 years or something.

Journey

Just got off the road these are some observations, since I'm so good at those.

The return journey was more eventful than the out journey. Why? because it involved speeding, a slipped serpentine belt, driving through storms, bad food, and a really cheap motel.

Only practice a craft in public if you don't mind strangers giving you things. Um, well, don't crochet or knit anyway or you'll get yarn dumped on you. Not that I think that's a terrible thing I was going to get yarn anyway but my dad did freak out a little because I had just gotten rid of yarn and here some lady gives me a suit case full of it. Yep, a whole suit case.

Technology is awesome. However, you have no business checking facebook in the mountains. If you're in the mountains just hide the phone. Unless it's your camera but really you should have your good camera anyway. I say that because your phone camera will not do justice to the amazing things you'll see.

Bears are messy. Do I need to say more?

There are no hipster Asians in northern New Mexico. I didn't realize how culturally "impoverished" this particular region was until I got to the Dairy Queen in Ludlow, CA and encountered hipster Asians for the first time in two weeks, wait now that I think about it they could've been bros. Anyway, it was kind of weird.

California smells different from other states.

Thunder storms are a lot of fun. Especially the monsoony ones out in the desert. I mean, yeah, they're small but they have lightning and they make the temperature bearable for a few hours.

That'll do it for now.