Casualty

I stood my first casualty watch today. (That is, a watch where the staff will run drills on you to see how your react and perform while recovering the plant).

It actually went fairly well. The only casualties that were even serious were well handled by the enlisted students and so the plant was quickly in a safe condition again while I worked through the applicable casualty procedures.

I seem to still need some more practice though. Often times I would give an order and hear, “Uh, sir, recommend you do this first.” And of course, they would be right. Even better is when I would try to communicate with the Engine Room loudspeaker and end up announcing things in the Control Room by accident. I think I’m getting the hang of everything however.

I was hoping the worst would be over by the end of this week but I still have to stand as many Engineering Officer of the Watch shifts in the next week as I have in the last two weeks. :-(

In KDE-related news, those paying attention to the various KDE development mailing lists may have heard that Coverity, a company that has developed a sophisticated source code analyzer tool, has started examining the KDE source code base. What thrills me is that they are using kdesvn-build to perform the actual build of KDE. So the past few days I’ve been trying to adjust kdesvn-build as needed to make the Coverity output more useful. So there have been a few fixes related to the recently-added support for CMake. I haven’t heard anything else since then so I’m just going to assume that everything is going swimmingly. ;-)