Two random pictures

Well, I guess two turned into three. Here they are. Two from the Cherokee Nuclear Project that Tim and I 'visited' a couple weeks ago, and one from a ride I took a few Sunday's ago. The weather is too cold now for riding, but hopefully it warms up again soon. South Carolina isn't supposed to have weather that gets to 19F like last night...

Still alive

I know I haven't written in a long time, but I'm still here. Tiger team is over with, and I'm back on crew now, training students again. Kind of nice in that the hours are back to normal, but I really did enjoy doing maintenance work. Tonight is the last night of mids, and then life can go back to 'normal' for a couple of weeks.

Tiger team continues...

Well into week two of tiger team. I've learned a LOT so far about the equipment on the boat. Lots of work, and long hours, but I'm enjoying it anyway. It's actually really good to not be on crew for a while. We're split up into a days and a mids tiger team, and we overlap each other by about an hour on either side, so it ends up being 13 or 14 hours a day, which isn't all that bad. No time to get anything done outside of work, but enough to get a decent amount of sleep once I get off work. Today we start installing new flash arrestors on all the battery cells, which is going to be very cramped, awkward, itchy work. The battery well is pretty small, and there's lots of fiberglass to work into your skin while you're working. The whole job will probably take about 48 hours, so I get two shifts of it...

Tiger Team

We just started a month-long maintenance availability shutdown at work yesterday. I'm on the tiger team for this one which means that I'm working for EOD instead of my crew for the next month. All the big-item repairs and replacements that can't be done when we're critical and steaming get pushed off until a shutdown, and then tiger team tries to get three months of work done in three or four weeks. So for the next month or so, I'll be working 14-18 hour days at all kind of wierd hours, doing maintenance around the clock, and not doing any student training. I'm kind of looking forward to it for the experience, but I'm not sure yet how tough it's going to be. We'll see

Where I work

With the exception of my brother Tim, I guess nobody else has seen where I work... so here's a picture.


Pretty boring looking place, huh? I spend about half my time in that building (called the TSB, or Training Support Building) and the rest of the time out on the boat. You can see the whole site courtesy of Google Maps by clicking here.

I'm not too sure why there are no windows at all. I suppose it's due to all the classified material and stuff in there. Anyway, there you go.


Anson

House buying

Should be closing on my house on August 31. I'm starting to get excited. Other than that, not much happening. Just spent a nice weekend at home in Waxhaw. There's some pictures of the new house and some other random stuff here. Thanks Tim for the PNG pics.