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Every naval ship I've been on had one place where you could get everything personal you needed - from toothbrushes to shoe polish. It was called the "Ship's Store". In one corner was a barber's chair (this was back when no women were allowed on ships). There was usually a long case filled with all the stuff you needed in the personal items categories (writing paper, pens, cigarettes, lighters, combs, etc), and almost always had what we called a 'gedunk'. The gedunk is where they sold sweets like ice cream, sodas, candy bars ans stuff. It wasn't always open, so the shipwide announcement system usually told us when it was open. *Bosun's Whistle* "Now hear this. The ship's store will be open from 1200 to 1500."

How about we just set up a "Universal Store", where items like that area available. All you would need is one reference to the 'store' and your readers would know what available there. A call from the PA system during a conversation between personnel would do it.

~Tom

Karen:

I'll modify the deck plans for unisex heads and add a link to the new ones. I am also thinking that one "barber" shop would be sufficient. Now we need a term somewhere between "barber shop" and "beauty salon" to name it.

~Tom

Thanks, Karen.

I intend to add just a bit of color to the passageway. I am thinking that the bulkheads will remain white and just highlight certain pipes, gauges, and cutoff valves in either red or yellow. The non-skid on the floor will be dark black. Most of the lettering will be in green, except for the Emergency Cutoff Panel (on the far right). Lighting will be very light yellow. Obvious aluminum will be silver.

If the pictures will open, they'll open for all of us. So, instead of taking up forum bandwidth, if anyone wants to download it, they can just use the URL and drag/drop from the browser to their computers. In a special case, I could post the picture if we get into details of any given one.

~Tom

Happened again, Sol. I wrote a review that contained 55 words. When it posted, I didn't get the points because it said I had only 47 words. What happened?

~Tom

As an aside, to post pictures, you have to host them on an external site and then refer to them by a link.

Like this: 

~Tom

Dirk:

David Weber, in his Honor Harrington series, names quite a few spaceborne fleets. They are mostly named after the system that they guard - even though they may be a detachment of the Manticorean Space Navy. Thus, the detachment guarding Basilisk Station is called, in various spots, the home guard, Basilisk Force, and even Honor's Attack Group.

Using this as an example, I figure you could capitalize or not capitalize depending on context and who is speaking. In your US example, components of any fleet are simply given numbers also: Fifth Fleet may have CTF 5.2 (Carrier Task Force 5.2) and beneath that might be Desron 5.2.4 (Destroyer Squadron 5.2.4). Name them any way you want and the reader will either accept it, or shrug and move on. Either way, it won't make much difference because they aren't living in your world(s).

~Tom

I just gave editminion.com a try. I love it! It is purely non-judgmental and flags everything I though it should have. I haven't given it a really good test text, so as soon as I can devise a few paragraphs to hit it with, I'll report back on how well it did.

~Tom

That was an interesting read, Max. When I tried entering a sample input on their web page, it correctly identified my work as being plagiarized. Intrigued by this, I sent them an email asking them if there was a switch that would turn off the search for similar text. They seemed scandalized that I would ask such a thing. I wrote back and gave them my reasoning: I am proofing my already published novel before posting it on a writer's review site and need to save the time and effort their program spends searching out what I know it will find. Still, no dice. So I responded that my purchase was 'no dice' either.

~Tom

I've tried the free trial at Whitesmoke and passed it one of my short stories. It refused to continue because it "detected significant signs of plagiarism". Um, what? This was one of MY short stories, so undoubtedly it managed to find it posted at Booksie and here. Apparently, there is no way to bypass this bogus charge, so I can't use it as I posted my novels elsewhere.

Grammarly did the same, but gave me proofed results anyway. i didn't go on to create an account, though.

~Tom

Yup. I'm back on track now, Dirk. I wasn't in any real danger, it was just uncomfortable with the top half of my heart doing the jitters. Thanks for your concern.

Karen: I've found that I didn't review the chapter, but I took care of that this afternoon and gave you an in-line, so be on the lookout for it.

~Tom

I am almost sure I responded with a review for that one. My a-fib started just five minutes after midnight on Wednesday, so I probably got it. I'll check.

Ah, I see what you mean. Just highlight the important things in the picture. Got it.

~Tom