Engineers on Submarines are known for their really intense schedules. We were able to get one of Brian’s friends from SOAC who is now an Eng to come get drinks with us since we were on the other side of the island. Here he is on the phone talking to one of his guys about a critique they’ll be having on Monday. I sent it to another mutual friend with the caption “We found an eng out in the wild, doing his eng’ing”. It’s very hard for Eng’s to get time off or enjoy things without being bothered.
We were over there because a friend of Brian’s from the USS San Fran, Ty, was visiting Hawaii from Colorado with his gf Megan and we met them in Honolulu at Waikiki brewing for drinks. This was the start of a fun adventure of them being in Hawaii!
This second picture was taken using my very nice camera. I have this really awesome feature on my camera called “live view”, which basically gets the picture to show up on the screen before you take it, almost exactly like using a phone. So it makes for an easy hand off to a waitress or willing budding photographer. I turn that mode on and we show up on the screen, then they just have to click on any of our faces to focus and then click the shutter (big, round button) then voila! Picture on a really nice camera. I make sure the exposure settings are correct before handing it off, but they still have to fix the focus. It took me a while to discover this, but I figured it out so that Brian could start taking pictures with my camera of me in it.