Pointless Ramblings – Page 39

December 5, 2007December 5, 2007

Bridge duty

Early start today, bridge duty on the SS Failboat. Quite a tedious task, sit in a quiet room for a couple of hours and look as the ships system monitors. Though only one of the six actually applies to me.

Seems that all the crew members of the SS Failboat need to spend time in here, well nearly all. The senior captains seem not too. I think this is probably my fifth time on duty and as with before I managed to get a bit of a kip. Easily done as the room is much quieter than the rest of the vessel.

The galley was a little shite this morning, 4 pieces of brown toast were requested. However as with the current policy of not actually getting stock when at port I find that brown is not on offer. However white bread is available. This took longer to actually prepare due to the galley chef not realizing that toasters can be switched on. So 4 stodgy slices of white later I’m full and ready for the 2nd part of my bridge kip.

Further developments from within the SS Failboat have kept myself and other crew members busy for a while. The Admirals ledger books have been due for replacement. So the Failboat governors have introduced a new ledger which the team from SS CACKSON have been busy working on.

Slight teething troubles with this new ledger

Some crew cannot open the ledger
Some crew once they have managed to open this ledger are noticing all the pages are missing.
Some people are noticing some pages are missing

Only slight problems though. It has saved the Admiralty a vast amount of money though. However we can no longer dock into certain ports due to these problems. I’m sure these minor issues will be sorted soon, without the need to those ports to involve the services of SS Smallclaimscourt.

Anyway, as this has been a major ‘suck’cess for the crew from SS CACKSON we will not be critical of their decision to hold a large party when their voyage was complete. Despite large numbers of people from SS SHATONSUPPORTSTAFF not turning up.

Anyway, must dash almost time for me to move away from the bridge and continue to work in engine room.

Yours,

SS FAILBOAT crew member

November 25, 2007

Fitness update

Yes, my body has finally started to fight against the fitness regime. For the last week I’ve suffered from a cold. Started with dizziness and fatigue on Mon to Fri. Now the weekend is upon us the runny nose and congestion has started. I can cope with the congestion and runny nose, so hopefully I’ll be back at work on Monday. For me, loss of smell and snot are much easier to cope with than the dizzy head.

Hope it’s sorted soon as I’ve had to miss the gym for the last week.

November 18, 2007

First Snow

first snow, winter 2007 Nothing too exciting, but the first bit of snow for this winter. Nice to see after a bottle of red.

November 18, 2007

Apologies for the outage

The recent outage was sponsored by pipex/123-reg. For some reason their DNS crawled up it’s own arse and died over the last few days. Seems to have gone back to normal now. However their website didn’t have anything listed. A note on the support page would have been nice.

November 6, 2007November 9, 2007

Workers Rally

Although it doesn’t effect me, I still attended the unions rally for Birmingham City Council workers. The rally was a protest for workers who have been told they are loosing a fair wedge of their salary. This is supposed to help out the lower paid. Strange that the management positions appear not to have been effected and in a fair few cases it’s increased.

Albert Bore, Labout group leader addresses the rally

Whilst I doubt it’ll actually achieve anything, at least the current councillors know that a majority of the cities staff hate them. Pictured is Labour group leader Sir Albert Bore, addressing the gathered crowd. Protest passed off without incident. Some other action group started to spout out something about housing, but this fell on mostly deaf ears as many of the council staff returned back to their jobs.