time was changed from 7 to quarter to eight and my
ride arrived a few minutes' before 8. Same driver as yesterday and we took off to the immigration.
staff was great, but now I have had enough of this doing nothing, hangover and waiting.
believe my eyes when I caught sight of a thermometer, +8°C. That's a normal temperature for the winter, not in June.
terminal. OK, maybe it was the hangover, but I started to get motion sick when we were on the highway.
get out in the cold to pass a security check. Security check, well, they checked our IDs'
tea and if I'm lucky I might find my tea mug. I gave it to Mess Man when I went home last time.
down to the mess room and the stainless steel pitcher I use as a tea mug.
to leave the ship when we received my contract
carry. I took a shower and I changed clothes and we left the ship.
Pump Man and two 3rd Officers had been onboard when I left last time. Motorman saw me and came in to my office. He showed me his scalp first thing.
talked about home.

screaming of laughter wetting himself. But our Motorman was still trying to convince us that BABY SHAMPOO was the best thing ever happening to a bald guy.
my day with tea and then it was time to measure gas in cargo tanks 3 and 5. We have been ventilating
enough he only needed to go down to two tanks and
enough of waiting at the anchorage. I will only be here for a few weeks and I really don't want to start any project changing things when I will leave. It's better to let the two ordinary Chief Officers' have it as they want.
discharging and calculate cargoes. Well, at
least I managed to spend the time until lunch making an instruction on how to put the OBQ in to our ullage report. And of course, I have a case of diet drink on top of my desk
and Nostalgia 77 on full blast from my entertainment centre.
o'clock we launched the MOB boat, in Emergency mood. Of course, we need to test that we can launch the MOB boat even with a “DEAD SHIP”





so
but nothing much.

wee bit delayed to deck so I only got a 60 minutes' constitutional. But if the weather permits it will be 90 minutes' tomorrow.
our Engineers had bought cameras. Last time I was onboard they were always asking me why I took all the pictures. And now they know, they had all been updating themselves about Charisma Man's adventure in FUNKY TOWN.
- Well, every second day. I kept my self updated on www.aladdin.st! So don't try the school bullshit with me!

I was in a good mood even though they called me 10 minutes late. So I had to
have a quick shower before I went down for my morning tea and our last can of tuna.

hope the chipping will be ready today so we can put back the platform over the hydraulic pipes.
took us almost 1 hour. I had hidden a bomb (dummy) and our Chief Engineer had hidden one bomb in the engine room. We had three teams looking for the bombs while our Chief Engineer, Captain and I was in the “COMMAND CENTRE”
(scratching our behinds while screaming in the radio)
suddenly it was lunch time again.
cargo. So it might take some time before we get any loading orders. But I really hope
to do some adjustments before he went back out again to check the smoke.
asked him to prepare for us to pressure test our manifold valves. We will do this tomorrow and he can start preparing the stuff we need for the test. We will also check the gears in the valve on manifold 5 Stb so he will prepare this valve for tomorrows' adventure.
Philadelphia cheese. Darn! I had done my best to finish the other pack during lunch and now there is a new one. I had expected to never see the darn cheese again. If I knew I would not have bothered
finish the other pack. Yes it was a family pack as well. My plan was to finish the Philadelphia cheese so I got rid of this temptation and I could concentrate on my tuna.
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weather. So I was in a good mood when I came
down for my morning tea.
getting serious with my diet, or else...
fish around us. They fill a big box in no time.
I returned to my cabin after lunch for some Thai studies,
do our new CBT (Computer Based Training). Yes, where do they come up with all this bullshit? As Captain said:
before dinner. It was very nice to leave the library and the darn CBT behind and go for dinner, and that's even though we had spent most of the time laughing and Scooby Dooing around.
chopped onion. I mixed the onion with some scrimps and a hamburger that was left over from lunch.
Pancakes, whipped cream and blueberry jam. Not bad, but I was






to B-52's. And I had time to watch a stupid Cheech and Chong movie. Up in smoke
car is pretty funny. Chong brings out a jumbo joint and Cheech is asking Chong what the hell it is.
it's, yeah, straight up embarrassing from time to time. And this is the 4th or 5th C&C movie I have watched in
the last few weeks. I never finished 2 of the movies. And the movie Far Out Man with Chong (with a 7 seconds appearance of Cheech) took me 3 days to watch.
tomorrow morning is the last time I wake up on
Rotterdam anchorage. The company lose money and I'm getting bored.
now or I will go crazy!
the management meeting at quarter past 10.
library to finish his CBT.
But I will soon have to do them all over again, they expires after 3 years.
fun than to sit alone. And I think you learn more when sitting in class discussing the subject.
one more CBT and I was a few minutes late for lunch. Never mind, my CBT record looks better by the day.
ok, almost sure. I drink 10 cans per day and when I go to bed it's impossible to sleep. And thus I doze off when it is time for my mid days Thai studies.
felt a wee bit better. I didn't fall asleep until almost 4 o'clock so I was tired, well, almost dead
leaking manifold valves and our Pump Man, Deck Cadet and I started to remove the valve on 5 STB
after 10 o'clock.
the bolts. It went pretty quick to remove the bolts even though I told them some cock-and-bull stories and anecdotes from my life at sea.
- Yeah-yeah Blah-blah
the workshop in the engine.
while carrying the valve so I made a quick stop in my office for a diet drink and when I came down to the
workshop they had the valve on the floor.
my cabin and my Thai books leaving the others alone in the mess room.

so we could put the valve on it and test if the valve was tight.
Hmm, several hours of work and we came up with the idea of using a reducer and 2 blinds.
where we will load our next cargo. We will just stop at the roads of Göteborg to repair one of our boilers.
dead tired. Now I'm convinced that it is due to the diet drinks and I will try to give up the diet drinks.
woke up. Today they called me a little earlier than usual.
welder started the welding. They just arrived when I came down to my office. They were lifting onboard their equipments. I had time for a quick cuppa while I calibrated the gas detectors.
welding in the engine room. I was busy until the afternoon with our stores that we received with the boat bringing the welders.
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