YankeeJock
This week, I’m exhausted. Although I’ve never been happier. I have a beautiful wife and three beautiful children. I’m making decent money and learning how to actually manage it for the first time in 37 years. Meeting wonderful people. Enjoying the autonomy and education of self-employment. Learning new skills and building on old ones. I […]
Threat detection, empiricism, relativism, and authority. It’s been a busy old week! Since joining my ship on Wednesday I’ve had nine arrivals and departures, shifted berth twice, went alongside a ship in harbour for cargo, and pushed on to so many ships and towers offshore that I’ve lost count. And I’ve been training a new […]
Why the more subtle iconoclasms of the left, affect us all. ‘Haha. So you are employee of the month? These Americans. When I was a cadet, I won Communist of the month’. I didn’t mind Pavlo (not his real name, for multiple reasons). He was a grotesquely large Ukrainian man. Seriously overweight, but strong, with […]
Observations after two weeks travelling the UK I’m drafting this article on the train, as I travel up North again for a three day job as skipper on a fast CTV. I’ll be departing on the flood tide, working some transfers offshore between larger ships and a wind farm. Arrival back at port should be […]
Apologies for not posting last Sunday. I had drafted an article in my usual vein, and was nearly ready to publish, when the news of digital passports for the energy industry popped into my inbox and destroyed my mood. Before I could re-write an article in response, I took quite ill with acute stomach flu, […]
A short piece on the portability of principles, instinct and having enough certainty to become your own ‘authority’. Has being ‘unvaccinated’ (i.e. normal until five minutes ago), damaged my career or made my life more difficult? Should I have kept my mouth shut? Was I just being a desperately paranoid weirdo? I don’t think so. […]
(This was written last week but delayed publishing. I’ve had a busy week, with my second command at sea, my 3-year-old son breaking his wrist again, and my daughter eating a slug! 🙂 Such is life.) Forget not, Passover, the Kirk and Pfizer Ok, so I lied. I did go to church on Easter Sunday, […]
What good is knowledge if we don’t apply it? For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. Proverbs 24:16 ESV The sting of failure cuts like a whetted knife. The butterflies in your stomach turn to fear, then to rage, then to disbelief. Dizziness. What does […]
Mandated medical procedures, psychopaths and consent *(for vaccine, read ‘immorally coerced medical experimentation’) When I first went to sea I was in the Royal Navy Unit at University. Mostly it was an excuse for me to be drunk 2 days out of every three. I didn’t take it very seriously at first, but it gave […]
The Bible, eh? You can’t trust that, can you? It’s all made up, isn’t it? Well, that may be. Or not. Increasingly though, I find it to be more true and relevant to my life and the times we live in than anything else. They say that only two things in life are certain, death […]