December 4, 2005

  • You wanna know what's scary?

    It's hearing that your next-to-youngest child's friend, who just graduated from Navy boot camp, is heading to Connecticut to attend submariner's school.  Turns out Joseph is going to study to be on a nuclear submarine, manning a Tomahawk missle. 

    Bad enough how young the police and doctors are getting....when the kiddies take over the nuclear subs, we're really in deep weeds. 

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  • Good for Joseph!

    My brother was a Navy nuke officer on an attack sub (which is what it sounds like Joseph will be on).  Amazing stuff he's told me, and we're Very Old and Rickety, maybe he'll finally tell me the Really Good Stories which if he were to tell me now, he'd have to kill me afterwards.

    Seriously, it's an amazing environment, mission, life-style. 

    It's not my brother's lifestyle now.  He did well, did a stint teaching tactics, served the function of what we would call a construction-site foreman in the building of a nuke sub, and was good material for his own command.  But he noticed two things: 

    1.  Sub commanders seemed to have a very high proportion of daughters.  Nothing against daughters, you understand, but the balance was so high he wondered if commanding a sub didn't make a contribution in that way.  Reading up on the background of conception, he found that high levels of stress are associated with high proportion of daughters sired.  He didn't need to know why; the association was enough.

    2.  But, most importantly, he noticed that most of the commanders were divorced.  Some repeatedly.  Some only once, since they never remarried. 

    Looking at a sub command on one hand, and a marriage and kids on the other he took the no-brainer choice.  Now he's the happy father of two boys and two girls. 

    May Joseph have all the manly adventures possible, and may he avoid all the manly pitfalls he can.

  • hey hey! OMG so how are yooh????i'm good! well it's really really cold out here! well talk to ya later

    olga

  • My brother is up in Conneticut. He isn't on the subs anymore though, long story. AND his wife is having a BABY in JUNE. I can't wait. I am so pushing for a Boston in July trip :)

  • I do know what you mean about that "Kids in charge of the world," thing. A few years ago we needed an attorney to settle up some garbage with our mortgage and after we'd met with him for the first time I said to Faron, "Gosh, he doesn't look much older than Jason." Faron said, "I'm sure he's YOUNGER than Jason."

    But hey, he done good.

    And that stuff about stress and daughters - what's that say about my poor father?? Six girls and he died of a massive coronary at 65. I never really thought of Dad and stress. They always laughed about the bad times when I heard about them. Just another instance of learning to see our parents as Real People.

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