Many moons ago I was in the US Navy, a submarine-qualified Radioman aboard the USS San Francisco (SSN-711). Earlier this year that same submarine ran aground on an undersea mountain and the damage was devastating. Here are some pictures released by the Navy.
I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like to be aboard on that day. CBS News has an article with more details, including an interview with the Captain and crew of the USS San Francisco.
Me: I’d like the fish strip basket.
DQ: The shrimp and chips basket?
Me: No… the fish strip basket.
DQ: OK.
Me: And a small Snickers Blizzard.
DQ: You want tartar sauce with that?
Me: *blink* I do with the fish strip basket.
DQ: Oh. Yeah… tartar for the fish, not the blizzard.
Me: Yeah. That would be gross.
was hesitant to post this since I’m fairly superstitious and this is one of those things that could easily be reverted, but last November I stopped biting my fingernails. I know, I know… it’s gross, etc., but it was a habit of mine for 30-something years, and those types of habits are hard to break.
I’ve attempted this many times before; I even used those hot-pepper polishes and tried a bunch of other techniques, but nothing ever worked. Then one day I was driving the kids home and there was Evan with his finger in his mouth and his nail on his teeth and I thought to myself “NO!”. I don’t want him to grow up like that. So I stopped right there and I’ve been free from nail biting ever since.
I find that I still instinctively move my hands to my mouth every now and again, but I always keep from actually biting them. I’m pretty darned proud of myself, actually. Quitting smoking in 1994 was much easier than stopping the nail biting.
<parody>What’s the one feature of an iPod that isn’t being talked about very much? Why it’s the spectacular portability as well as the incredible amount of space that you can store your porn with, of course!</parody>
Moe #1: <says_something_gross />
Me: Great. It’s a good thing I’ve got two kids, because now I’m sterile.
Moe #2: So you had a mental vasectomy?