The crew was restive this morning. The messaging is in such velocity and so many vectors it has us in a swirl. Section Leader DeMille has admonished some of the crew to adjust social habits and medication, where appropriate, to handle the assorted areas of high interest.

So, some of us have been up for a while, considering there are rockets both overseas and a little closer to home with natural and local polemics in motion. The storm noise is almost deafening. The perceptions of the response to the massive destruction have become a partisan issue, of sorts, so it made the subject bounce from weather to response to it.

That brought out the contents of one of the seabags. Material was in media transmission mode, disintegration to digital, and some old film strips showed up. Black and white. Not negatives, but direct positive proofs like the ones we got in the photo lab on the ship in Japan. They were almost indistinguishable. No date, specifically, and could have been from operations in the Sea of Japan, pacific, South China Sea or the Indian Ocean.

No color or detail to sharpen the guess beyond the year, But it did evoke something quite vivid, and that was the memory on being on a big steel thing in relentless motion through medium seas. Other ships out there needing identification. Maybe something further over the horizon that needs to be dealt with.

Times are always interesting. It is the way of nature. But these are likely to be something quite unique, You know?

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