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Finally, my first pay check from this job. Not being broke is fun.

Also, today's shift was great: a total of about 1.5 hour worth of work in 7 hours.
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Oh god yes. Ginger Lynn ... <drool>

Porn was actually movies back then. With a script, acting, and sometimes even a plot. No one is going to say those movies were Oscar-worthy, but at least they tried to make it entertaining.
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True, but most people don't watch porn for a movie and good acting. :P
 
SinisterMinisterX said:
Oh god yes. Ginger Lynn ... <drool>

Porn was actually movies back then. With a script, acting, and sometimes even a plot. No one is going to say those movies were Oscar-worthy, but at least they tried to make it entertaining.
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Yeah, I remember a couple of good movie series', Jane Bond, Agent 0069 being one of the better ones.  Miami Spice was one that I also remember.... hahahaha!  Classic stuff!

@Loosey, I'm off to read!
"I love Juice"
 
I knew it already, from previous efforts, but here's one again: DISCIPLINE. When you put yourself in a program, it's hard in the start, but after you can not do without your new habits.
For example since some time I'm doing every day 1) swimming pool and 2) some studying for my job. Now I just can't do without them  B)

I have a third project -I'm only wait to perfectly assimilate the first two: To write a (non-obligatory) theses. It would be of course less scientific than a real theses,
but much more useful. It's gonna be something like a practical manual for Class Surveyors for Annual Surveys and it will be supervised from my boss
who is a great engineer and more than 30 years Class Surveyor and very enthusiast with my idea.
It would be not for sale, maybe distribution to friends and colleagues.
There are instructions to surveyors & (enormous) check lists in every Classification Society, but they are very general. Practically they don't say nothing.
This one will attempt to go more in deep: 1) Why the x system is needed to be inspected -What are the 2) Interferences with other Systems -3) How (practically) we can do it.

Annual Surveys take one -two days, there is always the pressing from the client and your boss to do it as quickly as possible. Not only for the big survey fees
but every day that the ship don't move can go (depending from the chartering contract and the dead-weight) to a six digit number in USD.
And there are ships 300 meters length. And even worst, there are others, 30 years old.
Which means that one can not check everything. He has to choose what he deems essential. And sometimes with one test one can check multiple systems.
That's why Annual Surveys are in fact difficult. Time is running up, press from everywhere and at the end it will be your signature in ship's certificates for a year.

I'm looking fwd to it. In the worst of cases, I'll learn enormously from this effort  :)
 
Today is the USMC's 235th birthday! So... Happy Birthday to me in other words, I didn't feel a whole new birthday thread was warranted.
 
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