TAN 201: Yanti races Ironman JaTAN (Page 81)

I like it! Let's get this sucker to 85 so MEH can start that biatch

and...... toppage, previously.... not this one. This one is just an extra post to push this thing along.

So you are just wanting filler posts in TAN????

Where is Tony?  He is usually good for something like this?

AH JEEZ I am listening to a guy make an appointment with a vet to have his dog put down. Apparently the dog has cancer. I wish he would have had that conversation away from my cube

i just had 2 different friends recently post about putting their dogs down on FB.  ugh.  shadow and kinsey --- this is NOT an option.  i would seriously be on bereavement leave if this happened.

I'm sure I said congrats somewhere in FB.  On of the pics or something.  Think I texted it to Mr. BEBG.  But congrats again.

I LOVE things like the battleship tour.  I did one in Hawaii and could just about imagine running around that ship in WWII, the guns blasting, etc.  The Capt hat pretty nice quarters.  That's what I would like to be! 

Ugh.  I hate stuff like this.  I've got a friend who can't find her missing cat right now and they're now on day 3 of driving around looking for it.    

I really can't wait until we have a big enough place to be able to have pets, but at the same time... I absolutely dread these kinds of moments.  

Thanks Jim!!  Other than the swim and the bike it was a great day!     

The battleship was really cool and I'm glad we took the time to go and check it out.  I'm sure we could have spent even more time there, but unfortunately we were running way late on time.  Even being on the ship and seeing the cramped quarters, it was hard to imagine fitting 2000 people into that small amount of space... unless you were the chief petty officer - that dude had a freakin' suite on the ship which was arguably bigger than the captain's quarters. I would want to be that guy!  

I'll have to google or ask a squid what that job it to warrant such digs.

I looked at the bunks the regular enlisted got.  SUCKS!  I thought they even have to share with someone (rotate bunks with shifts).  PLEASE tell me they change sheets.  So cramped and no privacy.  YUCK.

former squid here

A Chief Petty Officer is a rank (E-7), then there is the Command Master Chief, who is the highest ranking enlisted guy aboard any ship, and the pecking order typically goes something like Command Master Chief -> God -> Ship's Captain 

The "hot racking" (sharing bunks) thing was usually just on submarines, and no, they don't change sheets between shifts.  The racks on the battleship were WAY more cramped than what I slept in... they were stacked five high, my ship only had them stacked three high.  With it being 5 people in a six foot space, you'd be surprised how many guys you could get sleeping in one compartment.... you could easily have 300 in some of those larger spaces.  Privacy is something you just learn to live without.

My brother and I took the tour on Friday, but we got cut short because it closed at 5pm, so we never got to check out much above main deck. 

CONGRATS, B2B FINISHERS!!!  WOOT WOOT!!

Wednesday morning shout out to all the 7 TANners.   :-)

HUMP DAY

TAN, TAN, TAN, TAN, TAN, TAN.... what day is it?!?

what does 30a mean?  i lof the beach and i'm going to the outer banks in like 10 days!  WHEE!

my husband started a new job this week and he will not be able to take off the day after thanksgiving.

and i am SO THRILLED cause i don't need to spend thanksgiving with his family.  

should i feel bad?

nope - enjoy it! just don't ACT too thrilled

i said - oh that sucks!  well, i can make us a thanksgiving dinner at home!  but in a more eeyore ho hum tone than i was feeling.

We are hosting Thanksgiving this year and my wife mentioned she wanted to invite an old family friend. Single guy, late 40's, airline pilot. Apparently I rolled my eyes and made a face even though I thought I was being non reactive. Must be why I lose at poker all the time.

Sounds like Quagmire from "Family Guy"!