I enjoy fleet ops. There's something about flying around hunting for targets that I find fun, even when no targets are found. Generally I find it quite amusing when people make mistakes. Having had a bit of a Britney moment last night (oops, I did it again (and messed up)) I've found I'm far (far!) less tolerant of my own mistakes than I am of others' mistakes.
I could make excuses for why I screwed it up, why I wasn't in the right place at the right time, making subsequent instruction from the FC out of context and therefore somehow filed in the "irrelevant chatter" section of my brain ("don't shoot" seems pretty irrelevant when you're peacefully floating on a gate and not shooting in the first place), but the bottom line is I messed up.
I'm not even sure what lessons I can learn here. Go easier on myself? Maybe I should. I'm pretty sure I won't though :). Pay more attention to comms? I thought I was paying attention at the time. It was reasonably late at night, maybe I was tired? I'd like to think I could excuse it with that, and it might even be true. Perhaps the lesson I need to learn is "don't play Eve when you're tired".
On the bright side, a kill's a kill even when it wasn't supposed to be :)
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