OOC The Watering Hole: AKA Black Sheep Ready Room (OOC Thread for the Black Sheep RPG. All Welcome!)

She just had a nice refreshing nap in hyperspace. Time to wake up and earn her flight pay.

 

Paid in the warm glow of satisfaction for doing the right thing. You just can't put a price on that.

 

Sounds good, if anyone else in the mixed flight is interested...

 

I guess that's a no on the raises, huh?

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Speak for yourself; I just got promoted.

 

Brief interlude:

Vehn baby #2 arrived early this morning. Mom is doing well and so is baby. I will be in and out of the boards this week a bit.

Keep carrying on awesome people. Eager to see what you develop.

 

Well done, sir!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

 

Congrats!!

I've had a wild month that I'm just sorting myself out from (only good things!) so trying to plan to get some catch up reading done this week so I can get back in the groove of things.

 

Congrats!

 

What life is like for the crew of the Intrepid:

Lets play Sailor:
1. Buy a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and out, and live in it for six months.
2. Run all the pipes and wires in your house exposed on the walls.
3. Repaint your entire house every month.
4. Renovate your bathroom. Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make
sure you turn off the water while you soap down.
5. Put lube oil in your humidifier and set it on high.
6. Once a week, blow compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.
7. Once a month, take all major appliances apart and then reassemble them.
8. Raise the thresholds and lower the headers of your front and back door so that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.
9. Disassemble and inspect your lawnmower every week.
10. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to 200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off. On Saturdays and Sundays tell your family they use too much water during the week, so no bathing will be allowed.
11. Raise your bed to within 6" of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in.
12. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack."
13. Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc.
14. Have your neighbor come over each day at 0500, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up."
15. Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 0600 while she reads it to you.
16. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 1500.
17. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not.
18. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you.
19. Watch no TV except for movies played in the middle of the night. Have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.
20. When your children are in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle stations. (Now general quarters, general quarters, all hands man your battle stations.)
21. Make your family menu a week ahead of time without consulting the pantry or refrigerator.
22. Post a menu on the kitchen door informing your family that they are having steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they finally get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have dried ham or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for hot dogs.
23. Bake a cake. Prop up one side of the pan so the cake bakes unevenly. Spread icing real thick to level it off.
24. Get up every night around midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (midrats)
25. Set your alarm clock to go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt button and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the backyard and uncoil the garden hose.
26. Every week or so, throw your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.
27. Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready."
After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox.
28. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time.
29. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket.
30. For former engineers: bring your lawn mower into the living room, and run it all day long.
31. Make coffee using eighteen scoops of budget priced coffee grounds per pot, and allow the pot to simmer for 5 hours before drinking.
32. Have someone under the age of ten give you a haircut with sheep shears.
33. Sew the back pockets of your jeans on the front.
34. Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for "liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.
35. Start at one end of your house and paint frame numbers until you get to the other end of the house, assign compartment numbers as appropriate to the various rooms of the house, assign responsibility for upkeep for these compartments randomly to family members...but make sure no two assigned compartments are anywhere near each other...get a hat and randomly pull a family members name from it every couple weeks to determine "inspection" schedule...unless your in-laws or parents are visiting at which point you must field day the entire house, even if you just had inspection.

 

F-16 pilot POV airshow over Miami Beach. Looks kind of like Scarif to me. Who was there? Kayn missed that one.

 

Lou was there at Scarif. Up above with Gold Squadron and the Y-Wings.

 

Max & her group didn't show up until after the Death Star.

What a fun video, @Sarge! Had to chuckle at "altitude, altitude"... our pilots just have R2 units screaming in their ears.

 

Zero came in before the Battle of Yavin but due to his rather...criminal behavior; he was probably of latrine duty instead of joining the folks on Scarif or the first Death Star (My boy probably got in trouble for looting enemy credit stores and weapons....)

Pudge probably joined the Rebel Alliance at it's infancy, though how many people he may or may not have given food poisoning is unknown (The Whiphids puts lard and whiskey in everything)

 

Yeah, that reminds me of the training flights I had with Major Gene "2-Step" Maples in the pilot seat. He was the only pilot on the whole base who could do the 2 step assault landing profile. Approaching the assault landing practice strip much higher than anyone else to keep out of small arms range, he would wait until we were so close to the runway that it was about to disappear under the nose, then he'd pull the throttles all the way back to idle, landing gear down, flaps at 100%, and nose over so far we were hanging into our shoulder harnesses. I know it was close to a 45 degree descent, but from our seats it felt like we were going straight down. The first time I was with him, my eyes must have been as big as dinner plates watching the runway come up at us like we were in a kamikaze dive. I started wondering if he was ever going to pull up, then the automatic warning system said "Pull up!" He kept going down. Didn't he hear it? "Pull up!" a second time, and we're still going down. Maybe there was something wrong with the intercom or his headset and he didn't hear the warning. At the third "Pull up!" I was reaching for my microphone button to say something, but just then he pulled the yoke right back into his chest, the nose came up as we pulled a couple of G's, then the main wheels squeaked smoothly onto the nearest edge of the runway and we were rolling down the strip. Perfect landing. I was so shocked I almost forgot what the engineer is supposed to be doing with the systems after touchdown. It was awesome. After seeing that, I knew he could be trusted, and when we did it again I loved it. He always waited to pull out until after the 3rd "Pull up!" warning. Flying with him was one of the best roller coaster rides ever.

 

Holy Frak all that’s a good story @Sarge! Did that ever stress the airframe?

 

No, he knew exactly how much he could pull before bending anything. And we had strict limits on how much weight we could carry during assault landing practice, and the fuel had to be distributed among the wing tanks in a special way that would reduce the stress on the wing spars.