Alas, the Steaming series is coming to an end. This will be the second to last volume. This edition contains letters from 6/27/06 to 6/1/08. As you can see, the frequency of correspondence is now starting to greatly diminish. I didn't know it then but the KP Site was starting to take on water. Technology was rapidly advancing and it was leaving me behind. Hell, I was still editing my webpages the old-fashioned way, using a 1999 version of Microsoft Frontpage. This dog was too old to learn new tricks and it was starting to show. I love the letters in Volume 6. They're about people I knew and loved, places I knew and loved, and the special times I had with these people in those places. Almost everyone from my era is now present and accounted for and most agree they remember only the good times. Even veterans of the Newport News overhaul seem less jaded. Time had finally softened the Norfolk nightmare. Could it be that even the Y2K gang was becoming sentimental too? It sure seemed that way. The Big E's last generation of nukes and engineers were reporting aboard during this era of correspondence. These yarns (and the ones that had been coming in for six years) were now required reading. The KP Site was a poorly kept secret. Even the scrambled-egg-on-the-hat types were secretly lurking. A tale uploaded one day was discussed the next down in the plants, up in the wardrooms, and even in some remote NAVSEA office. We 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s old salts might not have contributed much to overall plant safety, but we certainly inspired many a 3rd Class Petty Officer to accept his or her lot in life and strive to be noteworthy on a ship that had a history like no other. Grandfathers, fathers, and now sons and daughters could brag that they steamed on the mighty Enterprise. No other ship of the line had sailors that loved their home more. How could that be? The Big E was a genuine shitshow. Everything was FUBAR. HP-tape and J-B Weld held most of it together. There wasn't even a supply chain that could help anymore. But yet, everyone did their job and did it better than any other snipe or twidget in the fleet. They understood they were part of a legend. They knew it would actually mean something to have served on the Carrier with Class. Sadly, her time is up. Sure, another ship will call herself Enterprise, but that one-immaculate, sleek, pristine, state of the art-could never be as special. What made the CVN 65 unique was her crew, not her labyrinth of machines. No other ship in the world had men and women serving with such pride.

Steaming Volume Six: King Paul's Big, Nasty, Unofficial Book of Reactor and Engineering Memories (The King Paul Series)

History

Tuli, Ram W.

Military

Independently published

Steaming Volume Five: King Paul's Big, Nasty, Unofficial Book of Reactor and Engineering Memories (The King Paul Series)

Dying Horribly at Harding Hall (The Harding Hall Mysteries)

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Footsteps in the Fog (The Harding Hall Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

How do vintage Fender amps sound clean, at the point of break up, and fully dimed? What’s better: the juicy, well-rounded, smooth, rich distortion from a pair of 6V6s, or the bold, firm, low end and prominent highs that come from a pair of 6L6s? What’s so magical about Allen Bradley carbon comp resistors, cardboard-covered Astron Minimites, molded Mallory blue coupling caps, and Sprague Atoms electrolytic caps? Are NOS 6V6GT, 6L6GC, 12AX7, 12AY7, 7025 and 12AT7 tubes really worth the extra bucks? What difference do 5Y3, GZ34, and solid-state rectifiers make? How do paraphrase inverters, cathodyne inverters, and long-tailed inverters sonically compare? Is negative feedback a good or bad thing? How about those tweed, brown, and black-face tone stacks—what makes some more touch sensitive than others? Is there more magic in a big iron interleaved Schumacher or a wispy thin-wound Triad output transformer? Is it better to push air with 1x10, 1x12, 1x15, 2x10, 2x12, 3x10, or 4x10 speaker combos? Do Jensen P12Rs sound better than the Oxford 12K5-6s? How about professional grade brown tremolo compared to the bias affected smaller combo tremolos of the same era? What sounds better, black-face reverb or a splashy brown Reverb Unit? These questions (and many more) were answered when I entered the studio with The Psychedelic Mooj to record Naked and Dimed, our 5th album.

Naked and Dimed: My Lifelong Quest for Awesome Tone

Arts & Photography

Music

When I began these Steaming books in January of 2018, I had no idea it would take two years and 4,280 pages to summarize everything on the old KP Site. I guess I collected quite a few stories in those 13 years. In this final edition of Steaming you'll witness the KP Site slowly fade into oblivion. It would become dormant twice when I tried to pawn off my editorial duties to the KP Facebook page. That didn't work. Everyone wanted the old site back up, even if it was rarely updated. So, I tried again. Technology, however, was unkind. I couldn't adapt to the new ways of doing things and finally pulled the plug after the 2014 inactivation ceremony. In my mind that seemed like the logical place to end it. I'm 56 years old now. The time I spent on the Big E was only 7-percent of my life. That's such a small chunk compared to the over thirty years now spent serving society as a dignified and productive family man. But that 7-percent sure was significant. It shaped me in a way everything I've done before or afterwards never could. I now look back on that time with pride, knowing I served on the greatest warship of all time with the greatest bunch of misfits ever assembled in one place. How truly blessed I was. I hope you guys enjoyed the Steaming books. I know I sure enjoyed collecting the tales and putting them together in a somewhat manageable form. Has it really been 30 years since I last set foot in 4-Plant? Yes, I guess it has. Damn, I miss you guys.

Steaming Volume Seven: King Paul's Big, Nasty, Unofficial Book of Reactor and Engineering Memories (The King Paul Series)

The Official Vintage Guitar Magazine Price Guide 2025

Greenwood, Alan

Vintage Guitar Music

The Mango Tree (The Harding Hall Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Gather ’round, my fellow tars and pour yourself a drink (preferably a San Miguel). What you’re about to read is the largest collection of sea stories ever gathered in one place. Best of all, these stories come from fellow USS Enterprise nukes and engineers. No one can deny that the Big E was the greatest warship ever built, and that the guys who gave her her steam were the best nukes and engineers in the fleet. We were also pretty darn funny. In fact, our sense of humor was legendary. It was the one thing that helped get us through it all.More than just sea stories, these are the tales of our youth, the recollections of life-long friends, and random memories of strange people and faraway places.

Steaming Volume One: King Paul's Big, Nasty, Unofficial Book of Reactor and Engineering Memories (The King Paul Series)

Stratocasters and Telecasters: A Love Story

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