20060507?

We were lost, me and the other mechanics, 10 years into the future from where we’d begun. No charts, no landmarks and no known destination. It had been quite some time since any one seemed to be looking for us. Then today the rumor came from the surface: they’ve stirred. It’s been long since I’ve felt any hope that we could get this vessel off the ground again - she’s half sunk under water. The others got busy with details, as usual. Trying to go from plotting a course to systems check when we haven’t even got gas yet. Where are the ideas going to come from now? Those channels haven’t been fully opened in years and the moderating mechanisms hardly worked when we shut them down in ‘02. We’ve got to repair the mains or we won’t even have a fuel supply, but these guys are the real specialty techs - not generalists like me. I suppose every team needs a couple of each, but with out a kicker I’m not going to balance these two out without some heavy handedness. We’re only three now and as much as we need each other I can’t help but feel outnumbered much of the time. So some of these practical questions I’m going to solve alone. It’s not how I prefer to work but clearly consensus is just not getting us anywhere. The longer we wait, the deeper she sinks and there could yet be a chance for us.