That’s it! Just keep at it!
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Always nice to see you logging!
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Thank you. 
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BTW - my son started playing the trumpet for band in fifth grade. Music goes along with that nerdy math/science thing. As does foreign language.
Last year he got an electric guitar for Christmas. His nerd friends play, he can read music, so he wanted to teach himself. He has noodled on it the last year and this year he got an acoustic guitar, an ocarina, and a harmonica. And guitar lessons.
My daughter was concerned about him having friends in college, voiced over dinner at family weekend at my daughter’s college (she is a sophomore) and he responded, “Dude, I’m in the band, play video games, and am on the robotics team. There will be a ton of dorks for me in college.”
My daughter later confided in me that her friends really like her little brother. He is kind, considerate, smart, plays music. “Dad, he’s going to pull mad bitches in college.”
What happened to blissful ignorance?
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This is almost the definition of “cool” at my uni.
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Oh how times have changed.
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Sounds like your dear daughter took a hammer to it!
Kiddo has a good ear too. He has been poking around on a keyboard for a while. He really likes piano and more orchestral type stuff. 4th grade music involves a recorder, so that just began this semester for him.
Wife will be helping him with that. She played flute & piccolo and can read music. I never learned or played an instrument, even though my parents both played piano and were very musically inclined.
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Well, I haven’t gotten any more working out in but I have been busy.
Wifes birthday:
Melting Pot
Joke cake from our favorite bakery. (She’s not really 60).
Work stuff:
These things did not want to budge.
But they did anyways.
Thanks for hanging in there through my ramblings.
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Looks delicious! How often do you make them?
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Usually once a week. Me & kiddo put on some tunes and make a good time of it. He’s getting pretty darn good at stretching the dough, saucing it up & everything else.
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Very cool. The shared time, skills learned, and memories being created are soul food for you both.
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Ugh. Had to blow off the stink. Been languid lately.
So, 6 miles in about 26 min.
And I found out that my one cat is completely bonkers. She was curious and amused by the vacuum cleaner, but when I fired up the air bike she went completely nuts in a funny playful way. Zooming around with her toys and just being a total goofball.
I wasn’t expecting that.
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You mentioned working as a contractor at Norfolk naval shipyard, right? Or maybe it was Newport News?
Either way, I keep finding piss bottles in my spaces left behind by contractors, and I swear to god I’m one bottle away from throwing hands lol. Some dudes aren’t even capping them, and my guys are getting seriously angry about piss just being stored everywhere
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Yeah, I was with a company that contracted at both, but I spent the majority of time at Newport News.
Soo…
These guys they hire now. They’re actually trying to get it done, but leaving piss bombs is the result of the stress they’re under to accomplish well, almost anything. If it doesn’t dry up and disintegrate there might be some poop 
too.
Now, when I was down there, those guys were a different kind of degenerate. They would climb all the way through a hull space, get to the place to be welded, then turn around and come back out to use the bathroom, which coincided with break. So they go to the little porta pizzashop thing. Now they have to make a #2. By then its lunch- so go to the 7-11 outside the gate, have a few beers (bring a couple back for the crane operator) get back to the hull space-
And its quittin time.
Was your ship in the yard recently for a refit or something?
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Currently still is. The joys of shipyard life lol. I think I preferred deployment
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Oh!
I’d be pissed too then. They’re not even old!
Tell the management person in charge of the contractors that they’re creating a fire hazard by leaving trash in the work spaces.
They have to take that seriously. Can’t have that where hot work is being done.
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Oh god no man, we find a couple new bottles in the spaces every day lol. Along with food wrappers in the reactor plant, another big no no.
The fire angle is a good idea, I might try that. To be fair, you do have to go off ship to use a head, so I see how it’s a pain in the ass, but like… if your gonna piss in a bottle, at least take your damn bottle.
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Yeah. That is a nasty habit.
In the midst of this walk down memory lane I just looked up Nance Construction co. He actually had a serious intolerance for those kinds of things. Like, fired on the spot intolerant.
Given the nature of the work you could also call into question the practices of the main contractor who is hiring the piss bombers.
Any whisper of drug use, smell of drug use, etc. should send a seizmic rattle through them that would tighten up their practices very quickly.
There are tons of ways to rattle their cages, because those contracts are very lucrative and there are a lot of rules. Every rule is a lever that can be jostled.
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To be fair, I’ve honestly had pretty amazing experiences with most of the contractors. Great groups that I’ve had working with my division directly, just seems that among the hundreds that are roaming around onboard, a couple are really causing some problems.
No issue with drug usage that I know of. Off topic, but one actually did have a heart attack the other day, and one of my sailors did CPR. Super proud of him, routing him up an award for it. Guy was okay too, all around just happy ending story
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