.. severely raised bow and stern. because of the style of construction, keeping water out was impossible so there was a bailer kept constantly busy sc...oping out water and dumping it back from whence it came. They were surprisingly seaworthy. They had rudimentary deckhouses with sloping roofs bow and stern.The style was absolutely NOT Chinese Junk. During the feudal area, China was landward looking. Internal dynasties frowned on anything that allowed serfs the possibility of escape.Oh ... in. Friends. They were alone in a universe nothing like where they were born.They were together. Human and Orang.Daium's eyes opened. A granite stone marker sat on the ground before her, a carved ball with the continents of Tanah etched in. Next to it, a brown stone with her father's name. A stone with Justin's parent's names. And so on. A memorial, Melinda had called it. A memorial to the dead, and the lost. They ringed the Sacred Tree of her home world. Someday, someday far away, she hoped, she. Heidi thought it might be better to be out on the open sea rather than in the constrained harbor but kept her amateur military opinion to herself.An additional contingent of about two hundred medical personnel who had flown in from San Diego came on board at the last moment and their compartments were bursting at the seams with new faces. About one third of the new arrivals were male doctors called in to bolster the lack of medical services for the upcoming campaign to free the subjugated. Meanwhile, the Parks Branch, asks us “Please Do Not Feed the Animals.” The stated reason for this policy is because “The animals will grow dependent on handouts and will not learn to take care of themselves.”That ends Today’s Lesson On Irony.New Retirement Job At Wal-Mart... To afford my ‘lifestyle’ I’ve been forced to seek employment to help pay the bills. In these tight economic times, you can’t really be too choosey about a job opportunity - You take what’s available when it’s available.I.