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How many contributers on Delaware Liberal is too many?

Ohhhh, that liberal media…

Just because they say it over and over and over again, doesn't make it true. Some of the documents unearthed by his investigation include notes taken at the time by…

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Are you cutting back on your Holiday Shopping this season? How much?

Donviti is back on the Air….

Well, just like yesterday folks, I don't think I will disappoint you.   So if you are here... and you aren't here: http://www.delawaretalkradio.com/ then you don't know what you will be…

Ummmm I don’t understand

If you are here then you aren't here: Delawaretalkradio.com which means you must be a total neo-zoom-maxi-dweebie (name the movie) and you aren't listening to Delaware's Coolest F'ing Blogger. LIVEBLOG…

Verizon Wireless

Update:

I recieved a call from Verizon Tonight! 

They said F-off.  You signed a contract.  Instead of the $175 cancellation fee they would waive…are you ready?….they would waive $5 a month for each month I have had the line.  12 x 5 = 60.  Not sure how $5 a month equals $175 though.  They did also offer to allow me to suspend my account for 90 days while I got my shit back together and hopefully could repay them again.

So….on to the Email Bomb As suggested by Mark H. 

Unreal. 

Previously….on 11/08/2008 I wrote:

Advance Preview of DTR

Ok, so I am going to KILL tomorrow morning on DTR.  I have an AWESOME joke I plan on using too! So, I pretty much have several items I plan…

Veterans Day Story

I remember my first “Northern Run” aboard SSN-708 USS Minneapolis-St.Paul. I believe we left around October of 1993. My daughter’s were 1 & 1/2 and 4 months old. I was about to turn 21 and thanking God I got assigned to a ship that only did 3 month tours. The ship had recently done a bunch of “Med Runs” and was one of the few Submarines that had special weapons aboard it during the first gulf war. Some of the guys on the ship still lamented the security they had to go through to get the things on and off the ship. They said 6 months was brutal especially if you have family.

Off we went. But before we left land about a week or so prior the Ombudsman and Chief’s wives handed out “care” type packages to wives of the crew. In the pack it had various things in it that helped first time wives, mothers and girlfriends cope with the absence. In it there was also 3 strips of paper that had 30 boxes on each. That was the only way a loved one could communicate with a crewmember. 30 words or less.  That was it.  The wives were advised not to send bad news that would worry the husbands if there was nothing that could be done about it.  They suggested that you send about 1 a month but there was no gaurantee though that the men would get any of the transmissions.  If the boat was in a safe enough location to deploy the 300 foot antenna out of the ships sail while patrolling at 3kph then at the end of the transmission from Norfolk sometimes the notes from loved ones would be recieved.  

If you didn’t know a submarine has 18 hour days. Not 24. You stand a 6 hour watch and have 12 hours “off” to sleep, study to a true submariner, eat, shower, and do the actual job you are the boat to do. Their are several times to not want to have the 12am – 6am watch, or aka “midwatch”. One is when the clocks go back an hour for fall. I was fortunate enough to only have it happen to me one time in the 4 falls I was underway. ( I think they send you underway just so you have to fucking watch the Quatermaster set the clock back an hour when it goes to 3am.) It is truly awful to watch the QM4, unlatch the clock, and turn the dial all the way back to the 2am hour you just willed yourself past with the nastiest 6 ounces of coffee ever.

If you want to know how men perfect the fine art of learning how to complain then you need to be underway a submarine during the midwatch of either the night the clocks get set back or the mornings that you are running fire drills.