Random observations are intersting too... I have tried to get over the the feeling that I am "performing" for whomever reads my journal. To me a big chunk of the enjoyment is seeing that others who come from such different backgrounds are amused or aggravated by many of the same things as I am.
The model looks awesome, I see what you mean about the funnel, but the ship is going to have to be so big that, in order to look "proportional" the funnel would have to be truly monstrous. I agree that an ovoid funnel would be nicer since being relatively short is a given. Like the #3 funnel on the NORMANDIE! However, there is function as well in the QE2's funnel, which I think they want to replicate on the QM2. The white part is designed to catch the slipstream over the top of the deckhouse and deflect it upwards at the funnel's trailing edge to lessen the amount of soot that comes down on the decks. This was more successful, I'm told, than the wing deflectors on the FRANCE, which is why Carnival added the forward "scoop" on their funnels. To me those look like the tailfin of a 727. Supposedly Ted Arison's wife designed that funnel on a cocktail napkin.
Thank you, Chris. I appreciate the comment and will take heed. Perhaps I am "performing" for an audience. I don't know. That's not really my intent, I think. I am enjoying this descriptive type of writing which I don't get to do very often ("Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 19606.1...). I do enjoy the fact that some of what I'm saying can be read by others and, perhaps, finding what I'm saying to be of some interest. I do appreciate the comments you make.
Unlike my work-related writing, when I write in the journal, it's not mapped or planned. Really, it's stream of consciousness (although certainly not worthy of Faulkner or Joyce). I'm really enjoying this style of writing and I get into it and maybe say too much (I'm always surprised by how long the entries are). Like today when I wrote about the Belarus game, I was expressing my unexpected excitement and I wrote what I was thinking at that moment. I'm trying to write about the more significant things that are happening to me on a daily basis rather than just the mundane because it's such events that make the day interesting on which to look back. Like the lunch yesterday. I didn't start of thinking I would write about Mexico but that's the connection I made in my mind while writing. So I wrote it down and enjoyed the good memories of that tiring trip. I ran into that guy today that made me "hot under the collar" last week at the ADD meeting. It was an interesting encounter and may write about it later today. Not in a way to perform, I think but, writing about something helps me sort things out in my own mind, sometimes. So, that's how I'm looking at this journal. I
The model looks awesome, I see what you mean about the funnel, but the ship is going to have to be so big that, in order to look "proportional" the funnel would have to be truly monstrous. I agree that an ovoid funnel would be nicer since being relatively short is a given. Like the #3 funnel on the NORMANDIE! However, there is function as well in the QE2's funnel, which I think they want to replicate on the QM2. The white part is designed to catch the slipstream over the top of the deckhouse and deflect it upwards at the funnel's trailing edge to lessen the amount of soot that comes down on the decks. This was more successful, I'm told, than the wing deflectors on the FRANCE, which is why Carnival added the forward "scoop" on their funnels. To me those look like the tailfin of a 727. Supposedly Ted Arison's wife designed that funnel on a cocktail napkin.
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Unlike my work-related writing, when I write in the journal, it's not mapped or planned. Really, it's stream of consciousness (although certainly not worthy of Faulkner or Joyce). I'm really enjoying this style of writing and I get into it and maybe say too much (I'm always surprised by how long the entries are). Like today when I wrote about the Belarus game, I was expressing my unexpected excitement and I wrote what I was thinking at that moment. I'm trying to write about the more significant things that are happening to me on a daily basis rather than just the mundane because it's such events that make the day interesting on which to look back. Like the lunch yesterday. I didn't start of thinking I would write about Mexico but that's the connection I made in my mind while writing. So I wrote it down and enjoyed the good memories of that tiring trip. I ran into that guy today that made me "hot under the collar" last week at the ADD meeting. It was an interesting encounter and may write about it later today. Not in a way to perform, I think but, writing about something helps me sort things out in my own mind, sometimes. So, that's how I'm looking at this journal. I
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