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Time is coming up for annual physical.

Recently enrolled in VA Health System. Anyone have their annuals done by VA?

Still have to pay for family coverage so I have an option.

Thanks

"I Am The Cheese" Robert Cormier

Whenever practicable...

If you have a good cheese pizza that's the test. Don't over do the stuff you throw on it.

Pizza, like beer, is proof God loves us.

Excelsior

I had a small repair done two years ago. the recovery was quick but after a year I couldn't jog more than half a mile without swelling and needing an ace wrap. I am working out and have lost about 12...

Working on a very old school's physical plant, I found that that having a swiss army knife, 6-in-1 screw driver and a leatherman got me through 95% of the daily walk through repair and maintenance...

Kind of rough when you wonder if mount 51 is gong to make it back home with you. Watch it from midnight to 4 am with a brick tied around your neck and three people vomiting the entire time for a...

Built for comfort and speed!

It's when they told me it would take a second hour that I took my prescription back and left my cart at the pharmacy.

That is just plain insulting.

I pick up Bud Ice when I can find it (do they still make it) and if the WalMart pharmacy hadn't wasted so much of my time I'd probably go back there. But I've got choices so I take my business...

Now I can sharpen my little teeny carving tools!

I love my Foredom.

I think Mr. McColgin's advice is good. If there are no cracks on the outside of the bent radius it should move back in one slow squeeze. I recently straightened a bent andiron, brass, that had been...

Black socks, when worn with a Speedo.

Greetings for the Garden State!

Bennie

I've car-topped our Folbot on the roof of the old Volvo on a set of Thule kayak racks that hold the boat on its side. Strapped around each holder and with bow and stern lines to the bumpers. Gone...

When you don't know what to do; go sharpen a chisel.

Pete Culler

Rest in peace Buddy, Richie and Jiles

BZ, Go Navy

I used to buy unhandled gouges and made my own handle without a lathe. the handles are 8 sided, cut and tapered on the bandsaw. Used a rasp to round one end for a copper tubing ferrule, drilled pilot...

If a pizzaria makes a good basic cheese pie then they're OK. The rest is gravy.

That gravy by the way is made with tomatoes and covers your general menu of Italian dinners.

Basta

And what is wrong with skeezy barrooms?

Signed,
Navy Vet

Thin 50% and do afternoon coats. Primarily lay down some thin coats.

I put my feet up on the couch.

I believe Mr. Vice would say: "To the United States Navy" and we'd proceed to toast the USN and down one last glass of port.

Excelsior

Dude!

I'm surprised, too. After all, it is after 4:30 and there is no bloviation in the air.

Apparently the anechoic coating ignited. that could be an issue for firefighters.

Did they take the dog? and the cheese?

fcpgroton.com for car parts

Ropes? Clean and lube a rope with 30 weight oil thinned 50-50 with turps or sub turps. Clean a mooring line by scrubbing in some brine, rinse in fresh water and dry in sun.

Excelsior

And think about the reduction gearing aft of the power turbine on an FFG-7.

We smoked turkey in the past... They were so hard to keep lit.

To paraphrase Captain Kangaroo: Every Day is Blasphemy Day!

If the guy's wanted poster said, "Wanted Dead or Alive" would there be any kvetching?

Tradition.

That is why so many of us belong to The Order of the Greasy Legs.

He'll, you can walk home from a steam tractor. Anyone else steam a 600 pound plant at sea or go racing around on a FRAM can?

Ted

Scarred pit snipe

African Queen

It's not how fast, it's what you get moving. I was the CHENG on USS Nitro (AE-23) and a full power run on the old Duke of Earle was a wild ride even at 16 knots.

Anchors aweigh!
Ted

The Studebaker on blocks in the front yard should be enough.

There are a lot of good references at Lindsey Publications. A friend and built a foundry from their plans and they have beaucoup info on lots of old technology. Another place is Iforgeiron.com where...

Congratulations and good luck.

I believe a lot of just goes to keeping it simple and preserved. If you could take time lapse pictures of a captains gig, the first day out of the yards it would have some areas of bright work and in...

This may sound heretical but during my years in the nav' I never saw the boatswains mates shellac anything. Rails, wheels, columns that got covered with turks heads and wrapped where painted white.I...

My old man, a not quite high school grad and carpenter, taught me the 3, 4, 5 rule to square a foundation. He didn't deal with fractions. If you had something bigger than a unit of 3 or 4 or 5 you...

Looks like a nice of drums. I'm an old drummer; Slingerland, Ludwig snare, Zildjian and Paiste cymbals.

Have plenty of good cymbals and set up so everything can be reached easily, get plenty of...

BZ Seals and go Navy!

Excelsior,
Ted

I would change "substantially" to disastrously. Is $400 too much to insure the boat doesn't sink? A 2" hole will let a lot of water in before you can pry yourself out of that compartment and get the...

Check in with the smiths on Iforgeiron.com. There are many Canadians and metal workers who have done everything. Very civil group.

Excelsior,
Ted

The Economist has an interesting article and chart of the US states and their GDP with countries of equivalent GDP. Vermont :: Yemen, Mississippi :: Bangladesh.

With neither state having much in...

In hoc agricola conc
Jean Shepard

He's the man. We should all be Weiners like Anthony.