Owner's Share (Trader's Tales From the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper)
“Messages from cargo control and the chandlery left me worrying that they would both try to get aboard at the same time.
I should not have worried. The stevedores showed up to grab the load around 0800, and were gone by 0900. The chandlery workers showed up with an incongruous load of electronics parts and mattresses. We needed linens and wall hangings, but Ms. Arellone and Ms. Maloney were still debating decor, and I waited to see who would win. In a test of stubbornness between either of t...hem and a rock, I’d bet on the rock to lose.
We used the lift to push all the new stuff up to the first deck. Except for the system comms boards which needed to go into the cabinet in engineering, all the rest of the stuff would be installed on the main deck, and we spent the rest of the day laying down mattresses, putting the boxes of electronics in each compartment, and generally distributing the load.
Near the end of the day, cargo control sent word that our new shipment would load late on the thirteenth, which gave us a bit of time to consider our next moves.MoreLess
I should not have worried. The stevedores showed up to grab the load around 0800, and were gone by 0900. The chandlery workers showed up with an incongruous load of electronics parts and mattresses. We needed linens and wall hangings, but Ms. Arellone and Ms. Maloney were still debating decor, and I waited to see who would win. In a test of stubbornness between either of t...hem and a rock, I’d bet on the rock to lose.
We used the lift to push all the new stuff up to the first deck. Except for the system comms boards which needed to go into the cabinet in engineering, all the rest of the stuff would be installed on the main deck, and we spent the rest of the day laying down mattresses, putting the boxes of electronics in each compartment, and generally distributing the load.
Near the end of the day, cargo control sent word that our new shipment would load late on the thirteenth, which gave us a bit of time to consider our next moves.MoreLess
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