Sunday, October 11, 2009

Crew Journal, Deck Department

Posted by POLAR SEA
October 11, 2009
Today started off with a good breakfast after a long and well needed sleep. We are currently en-route to some of the targeted bears. Also we have today and tomorrow off for holiday routine. We passed our Materiel Inspection yesterday. So we were rewarded with today and Monday off for Columbus Day. This means deck force will stand 4 hr watches and have the rest of the time to ourselves. Most of the deck force will be found sleeping. That is normally what happens on holiday routine. The boat becomes a ghost town. But there are a handful of gamers on the boat that you can find gaming it up. I myself am a gamer. But due to the fact that my Xbox has seen its last day, I haven’t been able to play so much. BUMMER. The boat does a nice job on movies that we all can watch on certain channels. But I have my own lil collection of DVD’s. I feel like I am a mini Blockbuster. I have a CD case of DVD’s. I think the number I came up with is over 300. So you can always find me and half the male deck force in the aft crew’s lounge or in the ten man watching movies.
An event that I am looking forward to is the “pie in the face.” It is a chance for some people on the boat to smoke their supervisors in the face with a pie. Who wouldn’t want to do that? I already have a target in mind; that would be my BM2. Now if I could only find the money to make this happen.
They say that we have been losing about 15min of light a day. So it is dark up here for a good majority of our days. It reminds me of that movie 30 days of Night. So while I am on lookout, I look for ice, change in weather, polar bears, and now vampires.
~SN Avey
at 2:12 PM

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