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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #60 on: February 15, 2005, 01:45:07 AM »
Well.... this is really weird. I just checked my bank account with Keybank. Because I'm a tad paranoid like that I check it at least once a day. Etc. Now, I bought a $242 plane ticket last week. Now, I had about $245 in there. So, there should be about $3. Then tonight I bought $2 in gas.

When signing in tonight I expected to see around $1 and some change. I log in and see instead $243.39. I go to Expedia and look at "My Trips" and see that I still have it there. This really blows my mind.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #61 on: February 15, 2005, 01:45:52 AM »
We used to do a lot of camping in a pop up camper. When it rained at night, that was so awesome, because the beds were covered with canvas, which made a really cool noise, but the top was fiberglass, so the sounds mixed, and it was just amazing for sleeping.

Gemm, maybe interest rates are up.  :)
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #62 on: February 15, 2005, 01:51:03 AM »
Your charge probably just hasn't cleared yet.  It happens.  


The sound of rain on a tent is really cool, but if it rains too much then you're wet.   :)
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #63 on: February 15, 2005, 01:51:32 AM »
try rain on a steel ship, or the lapping of waves on a steel hull...

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True dat..
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #64 on: February 15, 2005, 01:52:54 AM »
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #65 on: February 15, 2005, 01:53:56 AM »
But then again, you have to listen to the same thing when you have night watch, which must be torture.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #66 on: February 15, 2005, 01:55:45 AM »
Night Fellows and Fellowesses.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #67 on: February 15, 2005, 01:58:07 AM »
Night watch was fun most of the time... except off of Boston in a Nor'easter or at the end of the midwatch....

We'd play games on the mids to keep us up...

it was fun...
plus you get midrats before you go up,... which is burgers and fries and chili and pizza and all the crud that isnt good for you...

Watch was 4 hours long, and split into quarters. 1 hour at helm, one standing lookout, 1 more at helm and one more at lookout....

Lookouts use a pair of binoculars to find ships, obstacles and aircraft... (easier at night thanks to lights or harder thanks to idiots not using them)

Its cool...
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #68 on: February 15, 2005, 02:02:07 AM »
On lookout you learn to identfy where an object is in relation to true north (using a gyro compass) and where it is in reguards to the ships heading.

So a contact may be at both 220 and 060 at the same time. to find the true bearing of a ship we had these instruments called alidades (from the arabic alidada which were basically a monocular set on top of a gyrocompass. Draw a line on the contact and read the bearing... easier said than done in rough seas...
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #69 on: February 15, 2005, 02:03:12 AM »
I guess so. The part that I know would really get me about being on a ship like that is being so close to everyone all the time. I am extremely antisocial, and if I am too close to other people for an extended period of time I get kind of agitated and angry.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #70 on: February 15, 2005, 02:05:22 AM »
yeah we all did... 100 people in 270 feet X 40 ft x 35 ft of space (which doesnt account for the engine room, helicopter hanger, office space and ships stores [storage]) gets on your nerves after a week. Sleeping in a room with 35 people in a six foot by two foot area is rough... thats why we'd always have an end of patrol brawl.... to liven things up...

But after 2 years you kind of loved them too.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #71 on: February 15, 2005, 02:07:29 AM »
You'd have to love them, or you'd go insane.  
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #72 on: February 15, 2005, 02:09:07 AM »
actually you go insane... and then you love them...

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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #73 on: February 15, 2005, 02:10:04 AM »
Yeah, but with me, it doesn't matter who the people I am together with are. I need to be alone, that is just me. Although, those brawls do sound appealing. I have never been in a real fight, and I really think it is time.
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Re: The Vicomte de Superfly
« Reply #74 on: February 15, 2005, 02:10:18 AM »
Trouble
Oh trouble set me free
I have seen your face
And it's too much too much for me

Trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You're eating my heart away
And there's nothing much left of me

I've drunk your wine
You have made your world mine
So won't you be fair
So won't you be fair

I don't want no more of you
So won't you be kind to me
Just let me go where
I'll have to go there

Trouble
Oh trouble move away
I have seen your face
and it's too much for me today

Trouble
Oh trouble can't you see
You have made me a wreck
Now won't you leave me in my misery

I've seen your eyes
and I can see death's disguise
Hangin' on me
Hangin' on me

I'm beat, I'm torn
Shattered and tossed and worn
Too shocking to see
Too shocking to see

Trouble
Oh trouble move from me
I have paid my debt
Now won't you leave me in my misery

Trouble
Oh trouble please be kind
I don't want no fight
And I haven't got a lot of time
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