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Henry Wood · 03-11-09, 04:29 PM

I'm now retired and sometimes have a couple of spare and totally clear days and I try to run SH3 at no time compression throughout the day. I don't sit in front of the screen all day but go about my business as usual in the house. A meal to prepare so out to the "galley" (kitchen) and become the boat's cook. A nap in the afternoon? Why not? Herr Kaleun cannot be awake all the time. I overcome my absence from the still active stations by a very simple method: I bought a wireless "baby monitor" on eBay! When I'm leaving the room I have my computer in, I just switch on the monitor and clip the receiver part to my shirt (or stand it in the galley when heating the sauerkraut) and I can hear the diesels merrily drumming away, hear the occasional murmer between crew members (great ambient sounds) and then when I lie on top of my bunk after lunch for forty winks, I can also hear that lookout yell: "Schiffs something or other!" and I'm up in a flash and right on the bridge. So far I have not been caught with my trousers down in the heads.

I'm even thinking of wiring up a spare monitor in the bedroom, setting the view to Kapt's. bunk and seeing exactly what they are saying so maybe I don't have to jump up every time I hear a call.

I spreed myself to one of those new tiny netbooks at Christmas so I can still check my emails and other stuff online without having to move away from SH3 on the big computer. I also installed SH3 Commander on my small netbook, together with a handwriting font, so I could keep a pukka war diary in the extended log facility, but I forgot, SH3 commander needs SH3 installed on the same machine or it won't open. So meantime, until I overcome that little problem, I keep my war diary in WordPad format.

This crazy game does some crazy things to some crazy people I guess. I don't know what the wife would have said about such crazy goings on if she were still alive and I've not mentioned it to the kids (or grandkids) yet, though they do gaze in awe at my Kaleun's cap when they come to visit.

03-11-09, 04:29 PM	#3
Henry Wood Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 150 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	I'm now retired and sometimes have a couple of spare and totally clear days and I try to run SH3 at no time compression throughout the day. I don't sit in front of the screen all day but go about my business as usual in the house. A meal to prepare so out to the "galley" (kitchen) and become the boat's cook. A nap in the afternoon? Why not? Herr Kaleun cannot be awake all the time. I overcome my absence from the still active stations by a very simple method: I bought a wireless "baby monitor" on eBay! When I'm leaving the room I have my computer in, I just switch on the monitor and clip the receiver part to my shirt (or stand it in the galley when heating the sauerkraut) and I can hear the diesels merrily drumming away, hear the occasional murmer between crew members (great ambient sounds) and then when I lie on top of my bunk after lunch for forty winks, I can also hear that lookout yell: "Schiffs something or other!" and I'm up in a flash and right on the bridge. So far I have not been caught with my trousers down in the heads. I'm even thinking of wiring up a spare monitor in the bedroom, setting the view to Kapt's. bunk and seeing exactly what they are saying so maybe I don't have to jump up every time I hear a call. I spreed myself to one of those new tiny netbooks at Christmas so I can still check my emails and other stuff online without having to move away from SH3 on the big computer. I also installed SH3 Commander on my small netbook, together with a handwriting font, so I could keep a pukka war diary in the extended log facility, but I forgot, SH3 commander needs SH3 installed on the same machine or it won't open. So meantime, until I overcome that little problem, I keep my war diary in WordPad format. This crazy game does some crazy things to some crazy people I guess. I don't know what the wife would have said about such crazy goings on if she were still alive and I've not mentioned it to the kids (or grandkids) yet, though they do gaze in awe at my Kaleun's cap when they come to visit.