I spend the rest of the day visiting from place to place. Carla is right about the competence of the sailors in this section. They know what they are doing and seem happy to explain it all in dizzying detail. I like that. People usually don’t bother unless they are proud of what they do. If I can keep Stawski in check, we probably won’t have any morale problems. I’d like to turn this thing over to whoever replaces me in better shape than I found it.
Asking questions when I can, I try to find out a little about each of the sailors. Turns out I was mostly right on the money with my initial guesses. Larry Miles, the office nerd, for example. He’s from Albuquerque and not long out of a community college where he was so good at computer repair that they hired him full-time. That came to a cras
