Fixed it for you. 
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Thank you. My wife just also corrected me. My apologies to the Millennials. I shall begin picking on the Gen Zs forthwith.
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The ops box itself is largely situated for defensive reasons, to give the shipâs sensors a good view of a potential threat axisâŠand also to stay out of TTW, not get caught up with merchant shipping, etc. Each evening the CO issues his âNight Ordersâ the standard things he wants to happen while he is asleep. There might be something in those âŠbeyond thatâŠIn the middle of the night, in the middle of the Gulf with absolutely nothing goingâŠahâŠnot so much.
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âŠactually, that appears to be a rendition of Vincent van Goghâs âa starry nightâ, but your point is still valid.
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I was wondering how long it would take somebody to post that memeâŠ
I did think about that when starting this tread, albeit technically that is not âAsk a pilotâ; it is more âWhat a pilot asks.â Perhaps a difference without a distinction.
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Ask a pilot:
Do you guys ever have scares? Not like âoop I might miss the nine o clock newsâ scare but âoh God, I want to live, please let me liveâ scare? Mind relating some stories?
Sure. I call them âred lineâ logbook entries. I had more of them in the beginning of my career than nowâŠLOLâŠgenerally YOU help get yourself into the situations that end up scaring you.
Weather is a common one. Flying into the side of a thunderstorm and hoping you come out the other side of it. That one was early in my careerâŠflying an A-36 Bonanza without weather radar. No GPS or XM back then either. In the Carolina summer, the thunderstorms can be embedded in a haze layerâŠso it can be impossible to know where they are. Flew into the side of one, the plane was flipped about 90 degrees and then a downdraft slammed me down so hard my head hit the ceiling and every single panel in the back of the plane came loose (all the cargo side paneling) and all of the cargo hit the roof. For a brief second or twoâŠI was completely out of control.
Despite having lost some engines and had some sketchy moments in instrument conditionsâŠthat thunderstorm put a tattoo on my psycheâŠ
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I can imagine. Was it hard getting back into the plane after that? Or wasnât that an issue at all?
Nope. Not hard at all. I needed that $48 a day. 
At that point in my career, I didnât know what ânormalâ wasâŠso I flew all kinds of broken airplanes, into all kinds of conditions, and never said NO to anything. Thatâs why all the red lines are mostly at the front end of my logbook. All of us that are still here after decades of it are only here because we survived and learned from our stupid first years.
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Just like car driving then, only more scary And in 3D⊠And going ten times as fast.
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Iâve had two, maybe three, but always in an airplane I was the sole occupant of. And they were always situations that I put myself in, not mechanical failure or some force beyond my control.
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Or Van Goughâs Starry Night maybe?
Safer challenges I hope. Iâm bossing a company now, still early days and small crew but still, guess Iâm a real CEO.
@TheAlmightySnark is an AMT. Poke.
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LOLâŠI know that was Starry NightâŠI was more generally trying to say that there are Etch-A-Sketch artists out there accomplishing incredible artwork. To my knowledgeâŠthere has not been a Last Supper depiction on Etch-A-Sketch, but I didnât search far and wideâŠ
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There was a dark night, at FL450 over Colombia that certainly got my attention.
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Yeah man, work is cominâ in at a steady pace and the crew is humminâ along. Nothing to do with aviation sadly. Weâre gardeners, landscapers. I bought up part of the tools and the van from my old boss when he went under 1) and now heâs my employee.
We were a special crew. Close knit and different from others in both who we were and how we worked. See we work with people who âhave a distance to the labour marketâ. Our bussiness model is not about eking all of the profit from the jobs themselves, allowing us some slack in either our pricing, or how long we take to finish a job.
We also have a very creative, Bob Ross kind of style of landscaping, letting it all happen in a series of âhappy little accidentsâ. Thatâs as messy and inefficient and fun as it sounds 
So when I offered to take them on and continue on in a slightly different vein, they jumped to it. Weâre not taking huge jobs, and Iâm watching the numbers like a hawk. So far, itâs going great.
No youâre not. Bossman needs to be âoffâ as much as the workers do. Perhaps even more so, as seeing all the numbers can become stressful at times. It can easily fill your soul to the point where you arenât who you were and all work and no play. That aint healthy. Youâll burn out. So you keep mudspiking mister, no matter how awesome the new business is going!
Bossman went under by biting off too much, growing too fast and losing track of expenditures. That and getting kicked in the head by some psycho which put him out of action for half a year while a succession of fools ran the business into the ground. But thatâs another story for another place.
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All this talk about supper is making me hungry 
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âItâs all ball bearings nowadays.â
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