Category Archives: Life as a veteran

What life as a Cold War submariner and disabled vet entails.

Barium me not.

There are a few things in life that I’ve always hated doing that, over the years past, I always seemed to end up doing anyway. The top of my list of things I hate doing are:

Moving
Changing out drum brakes
Rebuilding Harley Davidson Sportsters
Drinking barium

So far I seem to have managed to distance my self from the [...]

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Thank you for your patience

Obviously I haven’t posted for the last several days. There’s a simple reason for this.
I haven’t felt all that well.
In fact, I’ve felt absolutely lousy and yes, it has to do with those blasted disabilities of mine (may they rot in whatever area of hell is reserved for disabilities that hinder the lives of man). [...]

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Triple Whammied

I seemed to have triple whammied myself. Sucker punched, knocked over and kicked myself when I was down. Slam, bam, wham and I was out. Or wish I was.
I’m not going to go into any detail here but it has to do with an apple (Cortland—first one in two years), RLS and more RLS. The [...]

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When modern technology doesn’t make it easier.

I receive a lot of prescription medication by mail, like all of it. And one of those medications I have to sign for since it’s one of those controlled medications (da-da-da-dum!!) and there has to be due signature in acknowledgement of receipt, etc, etc.
Now just a little background here.
Our back door bell is one of [...]

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Women on Submarines? Not too sure about that.

Looks like a member of the top Naval brass is pushing for allowing women for submarine duty again.
The nation’s top military officer has called for lifting the ban on women serving aboard submarines, in a significant step toward reducing the barriers to women in combat.
Navy Seeks to Allow Women to Serve on Submarines – washingtonpost.com
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Attack of the low blood sugar

As most of my regular readers already know (all 3 or 4 of them), I’m not exactly what you might call a big guy. I’m more like that guy that has to run around in the shower to get wet. I’m actually more like the guy who has to run around outside in the sun [...]

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Russian Subs Off East Coast a Surprise?

In case anyone missed the big headline today, the US (Navy, most likely) has “discovered” that two Russian Akula class fast attack subs have been patrolling approximately 200 miles off the east coast of the United States.
Oh, really? What a surprise.

Russian officials responded vehemently to accusations that they were dabbling in Cold War-style cat-and-mouse manoeuvring [...]

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Contrary to popular belief—I’m normal.

A few years back my then Primary Care Physician (PCP) at the VA, whom I shall refer to as “Young Dr. Young” henceforth,  had me take a pulmonary function test. This just happened to be the period of my life that was several months after my parents had passed away (my sister and I [...]

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