Long story short - I transferred into a different district than where I was stationed previously on the CYPRESS. Yes, both units are in Florida, however, Pensacola is barely Florida, and is in district 8, whereas the KINGFISHER is in district 7. Click here to learn more about CG districts and the units that are in them! (side note: if you just clicked that link - don't ask me where districts 12, 15, and 16 are... I cannot answer that question) So anyway, as you can see (or maybe not because you didn't click the link) district 7 is basically Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, which means more or less that the units there do a lot more law enforcement, search and rescue, and migrant operations because of the location and the warmer weather - which means more people out boating and fishing and things of that nature. When I was in district 8 my job did not require me to have a security clearance, however, district 7 requires it (at least for afloat units). SO. I applied for a clearance in March but because my profile displayed that I was on the CYPRESS still (and still does today... which is my major hangup), I was denied clearance. Basically, I cannot sail with the boat until that gets fixed, which will hopefully happen sometime next week - but until then, I'm going to be duty cooking at the sector galley - which makes me real mad.
The boat is significantly smaller than the CYPRESS in every way imaginable. When a small fishing boat buzzes by - we rock like crazy. My galley in its entirety is the size of two tables on the mess-deck on the CYPRESS. My rack (bed) however, is much larger with a much nicer mattress - WIN.
Other than that - I am really happy with my job here so far. It's definitely more work, but I expected that... and it's good work, it's not strenuous - it's more like figuring out the ins and outs of the boat and also, figuring out what people like to eat. Easy.
IN OTHER NEWS... this house has had fruit flies in it since we moved in. I bought a bunch of fruit (organic, of course) and set it on the counter... next thing you know - fruit fly fiesta. They are annoying the SHIT out of me.
A few years ago when we were living on Nantucket, there was this crazy infiltration of fruit flies all over the island. They were EVERYWHERE. That's because a fruit fly can smell rotting fruit from a mile away, and Nantucket was only like a quarter mile long (kidding). Anyway, I researched how to get rid of them because it was kind of gross that my galley had all these fruit flies swarming around. One article I read said to put some vinegar in a bowl and cover the bowl with saran wrap and poke holes in it - the fruit flies can get in but they can't get out, eventually exhausting themselves and drowning in the vinegar. This seems like an awful way to go because one of my biggest fears is drowning - but drowning in vinegar - UGH! Anyway, I've set about two bowls so far on the counter, I actually added a step to this by mixing in some dish soap, I hope it kills them faster, but who knows. I've killed about 50 fruit flies probably in the past week. And yes, I put the fruit in the fridge. I have a suspicion they are coming from our garbage disposal - because I have yet to find rotting fruit somewhere around the house, unless the previous tenants think it's a hilarious joke to play on the new people who moved in. OH WELL. I hope if you're having the fruit fly dilemma you can take away from this post. Until next time.
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