[Tax-chick]

Seaman Anoreth heads for the next place ...

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We're supposed to pull in later, but I have duty. After we moor up I can tell you where we are, at least, even if nothing interesting happens on my duty day.

I would hope that we'd have a fairly calm day, since the last week has been ridiculously busy. 12 hours of at-sea fueling and stores, port and starboard watches on the gun mounts after some suspicious fishing boat almost collided with us in Singapore straits, 4,000 gallons of seawater flooding in the engine room at 2 in the morning ... Anyway, I'm hoping nothing much happens after we moor up later.

I kind of learned to do butterfly in boot camp so I could pass the swim. This was after being told that dog-paddle was not a stroke. I didn't know that previously. Maybe you should switch Ash to one of those natural food diet things ... where you cook meat and stuff. That seems like a lot of work, but since she apparently doesn't like dog food anymore ...

There are rumors that the radio OS's have ship's mail, so some magazines and bank statements may turn up fairly soon. That would be nice. I'm out of new reading material.

[AnAmericanMother]

Great heavens! Learning the 'fly to pass a swim test is like learning the Argentine Tango so you can pass beginner's dance class. Degree of difficulty off the charts! I would have thought that breast-stroke, side-stroke or Australian crawl would be a big enough step up from dog-paddle. . . .

Of course, there's dog-paddle and there's dog-paddle, ranging from puppy-trying-to-climb-onto-surface to Ruby the Torpedo Boat.

I'm sure you don't have time to do a raw-diet for Ash, but just fwiw my vet is against it because of contamination problems with raw meat. She says unless you're willing to run your kitchen like a hazmat lab, it's just not a good idea. I'd go to one of the premium no-grains before I tried raw-diet.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the updates. Liked the Pat story too.
Schadenfreude is my métier.

[Not A Snowbird]

I kind of learned to do butterfly in boot camp so I could pass the swim. This was after being told that dog-paddle was not a stroke.

LOL! I passed the swim test at The Basic School by doing a modified dog paddle thrash.

I guess I was amusing, trying to keep my nose above water with 70 pounds of gear on my 100 pound frame, so they let me slide.

[Quix]

Thanks for the update.

Hmmmm . . . reading material . . . I have tons . . .

And also man the used book table at church . . .

what are her interests?