Jul. 13th, 2012

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.....Can you believe it?! Today, Friday the 13th, July, 2012, makes it five years that we've been married.

.....I still think that it is by far the best decision I ever made. Nothing else even comes close. You are the wisest, smartest, most perfect woman I know. I sincerely lucked out.

.....Love you, TBT. Happy Anniversary. With many, many more to follow.

.....Aaron / Arontius.

.....P.S. And, really, if we can survive this Coronet gig. We can survive ANYTHING! :-)
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.....July 13th seems to be an awesome date all around! :-) I had forgotten that twenty-five years ago today I walked into the Apprentice School at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and started my career as, an Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Mechanic. Shop 38. :-) I was reminded when the Mid Level Boss stopped me on my way out the door this afternoon and presented me with my 'official' twenty-five year certificate and pin. :-)

.....Wow! What a memory. Even though Olympic College sponsored the Apprenticeship, it was very much Shipyard in character and philosophy. Nearly did me in that first three month period, so different it was from anything I was used to at O.C. I was one of the last Apprentice Classes required to take mechanical engineering drawing. As in, sit down at a board and draw things out with compass, rule and pencil. :-) Ours was one of the last classes required to do Descriptive Geometry without a computer.

.....We were, however, one of the first classes no longer required to take a class on how to use a slide rule. :-) Making me feel old now.

.....The last time I touched anything to do with Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment was on the USS NIMITZ in 1991 - 1992. I was lead on installing all the HPAC Units on board. There are plenty of people who are surprised that I was ever mechanical in nature, as I certainly don't display any willingness to do it now. :-) But I did have fun on that job. It was the first time I had some real responsibility and I actually made it work out right. I had a good Team and I was able to figure out how to do everything on my own. A good feeling.

.....Things moved fast after that though. Almost lost my job a year or two later during the RIF / Right-Sizing at the Shipyard. Was moved to the Insulator Shop and spent many years pulling off the skin from submarines. Moved to HazMat Planning. Then hit the big time with Emergent Work Planning in 1999. Then ShipAlt installation in 2007.

.....Sometimes I wish I had stuck it out and went through college. But things work out the way they are supposed to work out. The Shipyard has been pretty good to me, so I'm grateful.

.....Happy Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Shipyard! Only twenty more years left to go until we part company. :-)

.....Aaron.
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.....Dame Macha wanted to see some pictures of the September Crown site. I took a few with the Camera phone and am posting them here for her to see. I'm pretty sure that Tsuruko was able to capture better ones. So maybe between the two of us we can fill in the blanks.

.....Starting at the bottom, at the Archery Field:
Archery

.....Transitioning between the Archery Field into the Equestrian Field:
ArcheryEquestrian

.....Moving into the Equestrian Field fully:
Equestrian

.....At the Center Terrace, looking West towards the Main Camping area:
Main&Camping

.....At the Center Terrace, looking East from the center of the Main Field looking East:
MainEastEnd

.....More to follow.

.....Aaron / Arontius.
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.....Ian used Google Map to create the September Crown site map. I'm putting it here for Dame Macha to get a view of the site with some mapping in place.

GoogleEarthSiteMap2

.....Aaron / Arontius.

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