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Oh yeah!!! I agree wholeheartedly, Dirk. I is aggravating to have to do that especially in multi-page threads like 'site bugs 2' and such.

~Tom

Great spot. I'll make it look like an atrium with the 'back' wall and overhead of plastisteel. (I like that better than Transparent Aluminum, which is already taken.)

~Tom

And again

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~Tom

I think she means either in-line or regular reviews, Sol. That has happened to me several times. I also have been blocked from making comments in a forum for 60 seconds, but that only happened once.

~Tom

Whoa! I did forget that! It needs a good place, where most of one wall (and/or even the ceiling) can look out over the cosmos. I can't think of anything more inspiring than that. You wouldn't even have to mention any specific religion, but call it a 'meditation' room.

~Tom

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