Administrative Down Time

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So you see, here's the thing, I have a bunch of administrative things that either need doing or are things that I want to do here at The Chant. Like the masthead, long time reader Pogue, who hasn't been around for awhile, once mentioned that it is a bit cluttered. Okay, it's a lot cluttered. It works for me, but it ain't everyone's cup o' tea. So there's that.

I have an idea for a new page which will be called The Hall of Honor, or I might call it the Praetorium Honoris, which is the same as "Hall of Honor" only in Latin. Putting something in Latin gives it a certain gravitas, yes? (Gravitas, from the Latin gravis, which means "serious," in English it means "dignity, seriousness, or solemnity of manner.")

This new page would collect all (save two) of those photos on the masthead in one place along with a brief paragraph or two as to the whys and wherefores of their presence in The Hall of Honor. The two who would not be moved off of the masthead? Really, you have to ask?

Lex and Buck. That is, Captain Carroll "Lex" LeFon and MSgt Norman "Buck" Pennington would stay on the masthead, they would also be in The Hall of Honor but their likenesses would stay on the masthead, in perpetuity, forever, until the blog ceases to be. The reason being of course is that but for Lex's untimely demise, I probably would have never become a blogger, and without Buck's humor and constant encouragement I probably would have quit blogging early on.

So yes, redesign of the masthead is in the planning stages (and yes, I'll listen to suggestions, ideas, and the like from you, the readers), along with the construction of the new Hall of Honor page. That's stuff which would perhaps impede, if not downright prevent, daily posting. Yes, yes, I know I don't have to post daily, but it is kind of an obsession, I do have a mild case of OCD. (I will check to make sure a door is locked multiple times before I am satisfied that it's actually locked, for example. Say, that picture hanging over on that wall, does it look straight to you?)

Another thing, I spent some time recently re-reading the work I've done on "The Book," working title "Panzer 413." I really like what I've done there, I've also found a bunch of errors and some inconsistencies in the plot. Not to mention that the whole thing is a very rough draft and having let it sit, virtually untouched, for over a year, I have determined that the damned thing ain't gonna write itself. Slacker.

So yes, I have a laundry list of stuff that I plan on doing. It might require the blog to go "dark" for up to a week. I hate doing that as this thing, which I've been doing for nearly eight years, is something of an obsession. (Didn't I mention that already, hey, is that door locked?)

So yeah, it's in the planning stages, a "training day," an administrative "stand down," as a lot of the admin offices on the base used to call it, back in the day. We viewed it as a day where you couldn't get anything done support-wise. Back then, I didn't understand, heck, we were already trained, why'd the admin pukes need a day to "train," didn't they know their stuff already? These days I get it, every time someone higher up changes a regulation or adds new requirements, the admin guys need some time to absorb that and adjust their procedures and policies. Yeah, a training day. I get it. Mrs. juvat could probably give us chapter and verse as to the whys and wherefores.

Anyhoo, here's what I'm thinking for the Hall of Honor header, I've done some work already. We'll see if there's a need for a stand down or not.

Looks kinda cool, doesn't it?

Oh, the opening photo, that's Chant Headquarters, somewhere in the Northeastern United States, kinda how I picture myself, getting stuff done. (Plus I thought the picture was awesome, the source under the photo has a lot of good pics from the Korean War era, check it out!)

Now I gotta run, need to (ahem) prepare some stuff...

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