hey!!! how is everyone? ok what an amazing year! you know i was sick last feb. i am doing so much better now! i have not touched a cig. since feb. 1, 2009 breathing is an amazing thing! i got to meet johnathan and andy with tabitha in norwalk, conn. they are too kind. i am literally working my tooshy off! which isnt such a bad thing. i am wondering where the heck everyone is?! please drop me a line and let me know!!! love ya!

SISTAHS!!!  Hey gals, it's been forever since I was here and I missed it alot! I had limited time on a computer but hope to be back to a normal life soon! I hope everyone is well? I need to do some serious catching up!! I even missed almost all of season 5 that was hard! Love you all, TWIN Dana, St Beth and adopted daughter C, bubbles, Bonnie and elf....muah! 

Hey all.... Can't wait for the new season.  I saw Phil at a Meet and Greet down here in Creswell for his coffee.  What a nice man!

Sorry to bring possibly bad news but thought you would all want to know.

Bubbles - It is good to see you on her girl and i am sooooo glad you are better!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm hanging in here lol!!!!!!! Where is everyone?

This past season I have become a big fan of the Deadliest Catch show on Discovery.  I like all of the Captain's and crews on the show, if I had to choose between Captain McDreamy and Captain McSteamy it would probably be Captain McDreamy.  I am looking forward to the next season.

Wow!!!! It has been too long since I caught up with you girls. I hope all is well and although I haven't posted here for a long time I have thought of you often. I agree, it is wonderful to have Phil back and in good health it seems.The show is not the same at all without him and his *&%%#* vocabulary!! LOL. I send hugs to all of you and I will check back soon.

Where did everyone go? Did you all jump ship?

Yes Mary(?)  There are lots of us northeasters that watch the Bering sea Chippendales.  Im upstate ny.

How is everyone doing?It is still raining here.So I guess today will be a good day to do some serious cleaning.Are there any DC fans from the east coast?

OMG!!!  Capt. Phil is the hottest EVER!  Sincerely, thank God there are some real men left in the world!

I think Murray left because he was exhausted! Can't wait to see tomorrow nite's show.

Good evening to all--Thank you Colena for your condolences.I'm still hanging in there.Glad to see Phil has got his chair back. It must have been a real awakening not being able to work for 11 months.But I'm sure his body appreciated the rest. I am sure he will be back to his old grumpy self

Hey sistahs!!!!! Wow it has been a long time!!!!!!

Mary Kathleen - Im so sorry to hear bout your horse.

Denise - It is so good to see you posting again!!!!!!!

Kimmie - Good to see you here again too!!!!!!!

Dana - My dear friend i hope your stone passes and you feel better!!!!! Love ya!!!!!!

Bubbles - I really hope you are doing better and taking it easy lady!!!!!!!! I love ya!!!!!

I am VERY glad to say things are much much better my way!!!!!!!!!! Still battling things but i am getting through!!! I am focusing on myself and it is nice!!!!!! My migraines and tension headaches are back so i am trying to keep those in check and my blood pressure is creeping up. Have to change my diet lol. My pulse rate is always around 102 but last week it was 113!!!!!!!! That was at work!!!!!! I have to work on not letting myself get stressed so easily!!! Easier said than done lol. but it is so nice to say that i am doing good now!!!! Now if only i could tame my insomnia!!!!!! Its real bad lol!!!!! Trying to find a new apartment as well!!!! I hope everything is wonderful with all you ladies!!!!! I miss you all terribly and it ticks me off that i dont have cable. I have to buy the season when it comes out on dvd. That sucks!!!!!!!! You ladies are never far from my thoughts and prayers!!!!!! Love you guys!!!!!!

Claudia , Mama C , Debbie , Gayle , Bonnie , Shelli ,  and anyone else i forgot - I love you guys and take care!!!!!!!!!!!

Mary Kathleen - so sorry about your horse, hope your doing OK.

 I was wondering why there are no G.P.S locator's on survival suits. This would save time locating crew members in the water by the coasties. There are small water proof units that could be activated manually or auto when in the water. This would help save lives. marinomike987@verizon.net P.S. I was home sick for a week and am hooked on this show. May you all be save! Good hunting.

It's been a year or so since I have posted.  Loving the new season.

Hello Everyone! This article was posted on the Harvard Business Publishing Site. Pretty amazing!

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• On Crabs and Leaders

  Posted: 2009-04-14 19:08:54 UTC

  The best TV show ever created about leadership and management starts a new season Tuesday night.

  It's Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch. If you don't know DC, it follows several crab-fishing boats through the Bering Sea as their crews risk life and limb (literally) and work like mules (figuratively) so that you can have bisque.

  DC is an engrossing portrait of life at sea. It's beautiful, and sometimes harrowing, to look at. But what in the name of Opilio crab legs does this collection of foul-mouthed, hardscrabble Alaskan maniacs have to do with leadership and management?

  In a word, everything.  In fact, the show has sustained itself (it's entering its fifth season) because it's about leadership and management, and not in spite of it.
  

  Deadliest Catch uses leadership as its narrative arc. No, the creators probably didn't sit around a table and say, You know this show is really about the stuff Harvard Business Review writes about. Let's go with that. Rather, they recognized that these men's lives depend on good management and great leadership. It makes sense to focus on the inherent drama of those specific moments of leadership. Those times when their decisions have immediate, and palpable repercussions.
  

  Without that chance to see leadership in action, we'd probably get bored with the big waves and clanging steel pots and swearing, no matter how spectacular they look in high-def.

  
  

  So how is the show about leadership? Watch for even 15 minutes and it becomes patently obvious. Here's an incomplete list.

  Strategy and execution. Every crab season starts with the captains deciding where to put their pots, and then adjusting that strategy as they get real-time data on their results, in the form of full or empty pots. By focusing efficient execution, keeping the fishing fast and safe, the crew can lay more pots and catch more crabs.
  

  Employee onboarding (literally). The captain must integrate rookie fishermen ("greenhorns") with the veterans, without much time for orientation or feedback. Usually, a deck boss handles this,  but you will hear captains assessing their greenhorns and deftly putting them in positions to succeed, or in positions to see how they handle pressure situations.
  

  Competitive cooperation. Like many businesses, crab fishing is full of "frenemies." The captains work with and against captains of other crab boats to ensure their own success and also the success of the industry. Captains talk about where they've found good fishing grounds, and help each other in trouble. But the sharing only extends so far. In one episode a young captain gets too aggressive looking for help finding crabs and the other captains hasten to chastise him.

  Innovation. Ever try to fix a punctured hydraulic pump 30 feet above the deck of a boat, sitting on a slick, oil-soaked crane, rollicking in rough seas, during a snow squall?
  

  Morale. Obviously keeping the team's attitude up is one of the most important leadership functions in this environment. In many ways it's the core of the show. How do you keep men fishing for 20 or more hours straight in freezing weather, with 20-foot seas crashing over them, when the pots are coming up empty?
  

  In one memorable episode, with his team exhausted and ready to rebel against him, Sig Hansen, the captain of the Northwestern, literally talks us through his approach to the above scenario as it's playing out on his deck. (He had gotten frustrated enough with their attitude that he set up a suggestion box; "It should be called a complaint box" said one crew member, and for a brief moment, office workers everywhere could relate to the deckhands.)
  

  Hansen tells us in plain, sometimes profane English, why he's pushing the crew and how he knows it's okay to do so at this moment, and when he'll back off. He was basically explaining emotionally intelligent leadership.
  

  Sure enough, in a few hours, the crew's lauding their captain for his decisions and his ability to push them to succeed. They're saying this is why they love working for him--why they risk their lives for him.

  And that's what makes this such compelling leadership and management content. When someone could die if you make the wrong decision, you'd better not make many wrong decisions. These guys are better managers than you and me. They're better leaders than most.

  Oh, and if they don't catch crab, they don't get paid, and neither does their crew. Hansen noted in an online Q+A that one season his crew came home after hard weeks of fishing with negative 300 dollars. No one complained.

  But somewhere near Wall Street, someone was probably complaining about the price of his bisque.

Today is the day! We made it to another season! Whew, I  was getting close to serious syptomatic Capt. Phil withdrawals!

I can not wait to see his adorable little face tonight!!!!! I'm so excited!

Can you tell?

Thanks Deb, found my way back this morning. Good morning ladies.