{"id":2812,"date":"2013-12-19T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2013-12-19T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T00:24:56","slug":"so-shes-a-bit-of-a-fixer-upper-san-francisco-california-12182013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=2812","title":{"rendered":"So She\u2019s a Bit of A Fixer-Upper \u2013 San Francisco, California \u2013 [12\/18\/2013]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the_message_by_enchantedwhispers-d58y3ya\"<\/a> It feels like I never left. It feels like home. And yet\u2026and yet it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It should. It really should. I mean for three years the flagship has been more home for me than home itself, and I\u2019m honestly happy to be back. It just\u2026feels like something\u2019s missing this time, and I\u2019m not quite sure what that is.\u00a0 It\u2019s not necessarily a bad feeling, and I\u2019m sure it will pass as the days go by, but it\u2019s definitely there \u2013 sort of nibbling at the back of my mind. Something doesn\u2019t\u2026feel \u2026quite the same.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it\u2019s me who\u2019s not the same?<\/p>\n

Hard to say, and too many deep thoughts for my sleepy mind I\u2019m afraid\u2026<\/p>\n

For the most part though, it\u2019s good to be \u2018home\u2019. The place is basically exactly how I left it, but the flagship just came out of dry-dock so she\u2019s looking all pretty and shiny. The carpets are still springy (enough so that my chair doesn\u2019t roll back as easily as it once did), and every so often a room still has that \u2018new\u2019 scent to it. Of course, bringing a ship out of dry-dock comes with its own set of issues, which I was warned about beforehand but wasn\u2019t necessarily ready for. Y\u2019see, when a ship goes out of the water, everything that isn\u2019t nailed down gets locked up. This means that things aren\u2019t always where you left them, you know they\u2019re around here somewhere but you can\u2019t for the life of you figure out where. Also, simply navigating the ship is a learning experience \u2013 because they\u2019ve changed everything<\/i>. Everything from the crew office to the (newly expanded) Officer\u2019s Bar is in a different place. Your feet still want to walk the same worn paths they\u2019re used to, but those paths don\u2019t lead to the same place anymore!<\/p>\n

Embark day was the usual organized chaos, although perhaps more chaotic because<\/i> of dry-dock. There are people being moved about, offices being changed, rooms being reassigned, which means that A-Deck is in constant transit with people shifting belongings and office supplies back and forth. Right now I think the Crew Office is in two \u2013possibly three \u2013 different places! That makes figuring out where exactly to get your crew ID rather interesting! And also, there\u2019s nothing quite like going to drop your stuff off in your cabin and finding that someone is already living there.<\/i> Turns out they just hadn\u2019t moved yet\u2026ah embark day.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s other work related stuff going on of course, there always is, nothing bad (though it is rather substantial as far as the impact it has on my day to day working life) but I can\u2019t really go into the details just yet, partially because the details are still working themselves out!<\/p>\n

But as usual, life goes on, pictures go up on walls, hooks go up on cupboard doors, and here we go again…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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