Friday and another rope yarn day. Normally we would come in on at 0630 and go home at 1300. But since we pulled in late the day before, not really we were actually off the ship and on lib's by 1930, they let us come in at normal time. I wish I could say a lot was accomplished with 3 working days till INSURV, but I can't. Not enough people to go supervise. leaving new people making stupid mistakes which means more man hours, that we don't have, to correct the mistakes. so much needs doing, EGL's have to be accomplished, there is a new note on the PMS cards that concerns the handling and stowage of HAZMAT that I have to pen and ink onto over a hunred cards. That isn't even the last of it. My prediction is that we're going to get hammered this inspection and it's going to be ugly. But in the end painful as it may be, it's the last pain in the ass till after deployment. Yup after this inspection all that's left is operations and we know we can handle that. Just the same we are spending mad cash to order parts that should be on board. We've tried to get these items on board along time ago but at the time they weren't considered to be all that important. Now though we have a new regime and an inspection team that coming on board that isn't there for training, but just find things that are wrong with our equipment. So now we have a blank check and told to buy, buy, buy. By the time 'pac rolls around we'll be almost brand new.