SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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Phillip Saul has come through in a big way with his recent contributions. Somehow, through all those moves (and all those years!) he managed to hang on to some real treasures from the early days of the boat. He packaged them up and sent them to me recently for scanning and archiving, which was generously trusting a precious heirloom to a near stranger, even if we had served on the same command.
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Half-way through a Monday, most of it spent developing a website for a project I'm managing. There is too much to do, and not enough time, and so I find the holiday is pretty well booked. Not much R and R, sort of feels like a duty day in port, if you know what I mean. My going-to-be high schooler daughter, and my graduating son, both marching band members (percussion, both of them!) are off to march in the parade and play at the cemetery memorial service. The family goes with, and I'm left alone with six flat-screen monitors, and pages of code. Normally I'd be with them, but as I said before, well, I've got the duty.
It doesn't mean I don't remember. I've grown to appreciate a little ritual now and again, especially regarding Memorial Day, and penning one of these short updates seems to be part of the ritual now. Prompted by an email from Denise, formerly wife of John (Johnny) Shive, I took a few minutes to update our Eternal Patrol page. Johnny's now moved to the confirmed roster, which seems no great honor, at least by those of us who know our names will be there one day, but today of all days, I take a few minutes to run down the list, my own silent ritual of honor for those that served with us, and for us.
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Some of you may remember MMCS(SS) Phillip Saul. A plank-owner from A-gang, he was one of the first COBs of the Bates.
He recently sent me a handful of photographs that are now posted under his name in the Up Scope! >> Crew Gallery. The images include such notables as MM2(SS) Norman Pettersen, MM3(SS) Dave Burks, LT Macros, CDR Arthur, RM3(SS) Vancleve, MM3(SS) Tisdale, MMCS Phillip Saul himself, LT Reed, CDR Houley (CDR Arthur's relief), and XO LCDR DeHaemer. There are also a few yet unidentified shipmates, that won't remain anonymous for long, if you'll swing by the Crew Gallery, click on Last Added, and identify the poor souls.
That reminds me, get your old dusty box of photos out and get your images uploaded ASAP.
I've always got room for more on the dink list!
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Sometimes I discover little things that really make life easier on this website. Today I found a little plug-in that adds some new tabs to your user profile that really make sense.
If you've updated your User Profile recently, (you have updated your User Profile, right?) or viewed someone elses, you know that there are tabs that let you see the threads you contribute to in the Scuttlebutt, any articles or sea stories you have contributed, and that sort of thing. It makes it easy to find what you have written.
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More items from the box I recently discovered, full of stuff I somehow thought was not only worth saving at the time, but also worth paying to have shipped across the country in the, let's see, one, two, three...hmmmm...now five times I've moved since I left the boat. Regardless, my suffering is your gain - enjoy this visual feast of new items in the Crew Gallery.
The BART Corner A one time publication of a proposed weekly update of the Bates Anti - Retention Team. My guess is the XO
