Spain! My father not-so-secretly wants to ditch it all and move to Spain to live on the water, but my mom is like, "Uh, not so much." They did love it when my brother was stationed over there in Rota.

Cowardly piece of shit.

Seriously. How do you live with yourself? This is your JOB.

Somewhere near Madrid. I'm not sure if the sites are in Madrid proper. Of course, mostly just a lot of WORKING and not seeing anything, but hey.

The basis is that Scalia has no heart. Thomas has no brain, so he just signs off on whatever Scalia says.

That fails to capture the petty vindictiveness that is their hallmark.

Wow- I thought the leading principle of being a captain is that you go down with the ship

Seemingly not. I remember a few years ago there was a cruise ship that was sinking and the entire crew took the lifeboats, leaving the passengers (or most of them) to fend for themselves. If I remember correctly, some of the ship's entertainers took charge and managed to keep people safe enough until they were rescued.

Zuisa! Don't go down with the ship! But, on the other hand, save lots of people!

some of the ship's entertainers took charge and managed to keep people safe enough until they were rescued.

That's funny, because I was about to say that the captain staying with the ship is like a stage manager being the last one out of the building (or the house manager in case of the audience). I have actually been working in 2 theatre's that had minor fires start during a performance-- both times I was head of wardrobe-- and there was no way I would leave before the dressing rooms were cleared and I reported this to the stage manager. So anyway, it actually doesn't surprise me that the entertainers took charge

Zuisa is not the captain!!

I'm going for three in a row because I just thought of this contrasting story:

When I was in 4th or 5th grade I was sleeping on the sofa for some reason. I woke up to the smoke detector and the house filled with smoke. I did what I was taught in school. I got up and exited the house. With my mother, my uncle, my grandmother and my grandfather still asleep. I didn't even yell to wake anyone-- I just got up and went outside with the dog, who had been sleeping next to me.

It turned out that my grandmother had fallen asleep with the kettle on, so my mother got up, found the kettle smoking, and put it in the sink. And then couldn't find me, because I was outside on the lawn, just waiting.

And she was so very angry with me, but I couldn't understand, because they drummed into us at school the thing about exiting immediately, and not looking for other family members, etc, etc.

I blacked out both of my main sites (but not stuff like support or beta sites, which aren't really public anyway.) I also spent a lot of time resource-gathering and -sharing and nagging the twitters and generally being professionally pissed at SOPIPA.

It's possible that some of this was a procrastination mechanism disguised as doing good.