{"id":21,"date":"2014-08-19T02:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T02:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-08-19T02:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T02:57:46","slug":"captains-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/tdc\/captains-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain’s Log"},"content":{"rendered":"

For TDC 951<\/a><\/p>\n

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Captain’s Log, 8\/18\/14.<\/p>\n

We are 3 days outside the Straits of Consumption. Bad\u00a0weather off the Cliffs of Copyright; some debate about pulling into Safe Harbor to wait it out. But there’s little change in conditions predicted, so we agreed to proceed. Weather drills have been a Fair Use of crew time.<\/p>\n

Having reached our checkpoint, we broke the seal on our orders. Scrabble tiles clattered to the table.<\/p>\n

Lt. Thrun could not contain himself at the sight, and has been confined to quarters for rank subordination.<\/p>\n

As I was struggling to make sense of the tiles, Seaman Pryzbylewski presented to inform me that he had lost yet another bucket and mop over the side. I prepared to gently instruct the Admiral’s son-in-law of the importance of even the most basic duties – and noticed that he was completely enthralled by the mash of tiles.<\/p>\n

“What do you make of it?”<\/p>\n

He reached out, and started flipping and rearranging the tiles. He mumbled, not really answering me…<\/p>\n

“Not a full set… odd distribution… Sir! Look at this!”<\/p>\n

The tiles were now in a tidy line, spaces between the words. From the other side of the desk, even upside-down, I could read the message:<\/p>\n

THERE ARE NO LEADERS HERE<\/p>\n

I sighed, and laughed.\u00a0“Well, that does sound like the Admiral to me.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah… but so does this, sir…”<\/p>\n

His fingers played with the tiles, and formed<\/p>\n

A RELEARNED HEROES THERE<\/p>\n

“A for Admiral, Sir?”<\/p>\n

“A… for All Of Us, Sailor.”<\/p>\n

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For TDC 951 Captain’s Log, 8\/18\/14. We are 3 days outside the Straits of Consumption. Bad\u00a0weather off the Cliffs of Copyright; some debate about pulling into Safe Harbor to wait it out. But there’s little change in conditions predicted, so we agreed to proceed. Weather drills have been a Fair Use of crew time. Having … Continue reading Captain’s Log<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tdc","category-ds106-2","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53vXx-l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephmurphy.name\/ds106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}