Orientation

This morning was spent at various hardware and supply stores: Home Depot, Harbor Freight, West Marine. This afternoon and evening will be spent making the kill switch work.

Orientation involved lots of powerpoint presentations and talking. It took about two hours, but I can sum up the important points pretty quickly:

• We'll be on a naval base, so we shouldn't do anything illegal or dangerous or stupid, because that would end very badly for us.


• The Navy uses dolphins and sea lions to do stuff and find things! Super cool!


• We were given the password for the wireless internet. Which we need to update our blog.


• They don't yet know what the frequency of the pinger is. Which is really the only thing we wanted to know.
  

We went to dinner, where Mike mistook the salmon on our pizza for tomatoes and Amanda attempted to explain the differences between humanism, posthumanism, and postmodernism. The Mai Tai she drank made this all quite difficult.

In other news, congratulations go out to Mike and his wife, who are expecting a baby this December.