{"id":1468,"date":"2012-06-28T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2012-06-28T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T19:56:05","slug":"on-adoption-ketchikan-06282012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1468","title":{"rendered":"On Adoption \u2013 Ketchikan \u2013 [06\/28\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s taken me a long time, a lot longer than on most ships, but at long last, I have managed to find the band. You would think it would have been easy, considering that there are twice as many party band members on board now as there used to be thanks to the new program, but this one was hard to crack \u2013 and even now, they aren\u2019t \u201cmy\u201d band, my band is mostly scattered to the four corners, two of them in Japan last I heard, a few still on my old ship, but none of them here. But these guys are at least someone that I can hang out with in the evenings, and the singer is a sweetheart \u2013though I know she\u2019s leaving at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

I still can\u2019t crack the Band Leader here, but having gotten to know him a little bit, I\u2019ve discovered I don\u2019t want to. Some attitudes are simply not becoming to me, and his is one of them. I don\u2019t think he realizes what he has in the rest of his musicians, nor do I think he knows how to treat them. But I could be bias, between my father and my big brother, I\u2019ve been lucky enough to know the best kind of band leaders \u2013 that makes me judgemental about the kind that pretty much makes you slam your own credentials on the coffee table before they\u2019ll deign to acknowledge you as an equal.<\/p>\n

I think I\u2019ll leave that one alone for now…<\/p>\n

Anyway, witness me on the slippery slope to being up too late at night having late-night dinner and rambling conversations. I don\u2019t drink much on ships anymore \u2013 it\u2019s true that I used to, but I find I don\u2019t need to anymore \u2013 but good conversation? With people who actually accept me as an equal even though I\u2019m not<\/em> working in my field at the moment? That\u2019s where things get dangerous for me out here.<\/p>\n

But it also makes me miss my guys, the band I took care of that I may never see again.\u00a0 At least certainly we\u2019ll never all work together again. That\u2019s the nature of the beast as my current HRM is fond of saying. Sometimes you don\u2019t realize how amazing a time in your life was until you\u2019re looking at it in hind-sight, without rose-coloured glasses at all, I can easily say how perfect my last summer contract was. Makes me wonder sometimes, what\u2019ll happened next to clear that bar.<\/p>\n

Something will though, of that I have no doubt at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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