Spike took a run at the UPS delivery man, who escaped through the gate. No wonder the pizza delievery guy stopped making deliveries over a year ago. I went out and signed for the package. I have about an hour to go before the computer completes the SH4 download. The UBoat missions successfully downloaded. Once I test the program, I will install the mods, and off goes the Barbarinna into the depths. The band is at dockside

, and is getting antzy. A trombone player is shaking his leg and making faces because I think he needs a bathroom break.

WE ARE READY!!!!
Here are my favorite Navy quotes:
"I wish to have no Connection with any Ship that does not Sail fast for I intend to go in harm's way."
Captain John Paul Jones, 16 November 1778, in a letter to le Ray de Chaumont.
[Morison, Samuel Eliot.
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959): 182.]
"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."
Commodore George Dewey, 1 May 1898, at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. The American squadron entered Manila Bay and took fire from the Spanish fleet, anchored under the guns of Cavite, for half an hour until in the position Dewey wanted. Then Dewey addressed his order to Charles Gridley, captain of Dewey's flagship
Olympia.
[Dewey, George.
Autobiography of George Dewey, Admiral of the Navy. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913) 214.]