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No clue, but wife has been on a “UV” kick since I bought her a UV light. She has a number of UV perfume bottles.

Little slow on the “pickup”…🤣🤣

First time in 20 years I put marbles in a case for sale. I had a booth with my previous wife, we had a high-security gun display case where we put the good stuff. Someone lifted a bunch of higher-end AKROs, the store owner shrugged it off. We packed up that same day we found the loss. Fast forward 15 years and we (my current and last wife) had a locked case in a local store, had an expensive Case knife stolen. Again, pulled and left. this is my 3rd attempt selling in a local store. While we were stocking I noticed 2 knives were gone. Habit kicked in and I was pissed. Turned out the owner had sold them, listed them as being for another seller.🤯 we have talked about opening our own store, even selling from the house. But I don’t want strangers wandering around our “museum”, too many expensive smalls out in the open.

Do you know who made glass dice? I’ve never seen one before.

Trying my best to start downsizing, but it’s hard. I found a Blenko 5616C vase while we were there, too inexpensive to leave it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/364212620687?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HkiWpCqRQyi&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Wife “ no, you can’t buy those jars of marbles” Me “Why not???” (Whiny voice) Wife “Because you just put them in the case!!!”

haha… I have a lot of memories that are not printable. almost got married in both Taiwan, and Olongapo. Fortunately, neither happened. We are what/where we are now because of our past… wouldn’t trade my life for $100 million.

We seem to have drifted from the music theme…?

I wouldn’t trade one minute of those 5 years for a million dollars. It made me who I am today.

I remember being in a sushi restaurant in Fukuoka, the locals were buying us drinks for being “poor US sailors”. We were singing rock-n-roll songs along with the jukebox, woke up with on hell of a headache.

I have a patch somewhere for the USS Chicago being turned into razor blades in 1980, I was on the decomm crew. The captain was pissed and banned them from being worn.

I remember hearing about that issue… it was expensive, and the Suntory whiskey sucked. The beer was good.

We had nuclear ASROCS onboard DDG-14, but nobody talked about them. I remember hearing about the testing, fire one and book at 30 knots in the opposite direction, the ship still took serious structural damage. Destroyers were expendable, all to save the carrier.

The shellback ritual went woke, no abuse allowed. They saved a weeks galley garbage on a tarp on the aft deck we had to crawl thru. I had my shower sandals on my knees under my dungarees to keep from scraping them while crawling around the decks. got soaked with a firehose on the bow while doing 25 knots.

Never had any issues in Yokuska Japan, even went to Fukuoka in China. They were happy to take our money.

After that we monitored 2 ICBM launches from a sub. Was supposed to by 500yds from launch, it broke water about 200yds out, scared the crap out of everyone on deck. crossed the equator for shellback ceremonies, I have pictures of the event. It was intense, the firehose shelighlies hurt like hell.

In 1977 on Westpac, we did a unrep with the USS Shasta. Our aft boiler fuel pumps tripped and Had to do a breakaway. Shasta cut the cables before we could release, the cables wrapped around our port shaft, which was my engineroom. 85RPM to 0 in a heartbeat, the reduction gears jumped maybe 6”. Hit the main steam stop valve and booked it out of the space, never been so scared. We limped into Guam and spent two weeks there. Crazy times…

Qualified as 600lb and 1,200lb Engineroom Supervisor. left as an E-5. captains mast twice, once for telling a chief to KMA, once for getting tattoos in Hong Kong. Never liked having stupid people tell me what to do. Still don’t, became self-employed in 2007 after 20 years as an HVAC design engineer in the Bldg design industry.

I also did A school (MM) at Great Lakes.

Boot was in Orlando, co-ed. USS Buchanan DDG-14 76-79 USS Chicago CG-11 79-80 USS Prairie AD-15 1980 i was on the Prairie headed to Portland for the Rose Festival when MT ST Helen’s blew. We got diverted to Seattle, spent 3 days. Fell in love with it, the day I finished college in 85 we loaded up a u-haul and we moved to Seattle without jobs. Rented an apartment out of the paper, not really knowing where it was. It was on 2nd street across from the Seattle Center, didn’t sleep for a week due to the street noise. After 6months we moved into a house on Bainbridge Island near Fay Bainbridge park. Didn’t sleep for a week due to the silence.

I do remember doing a few other “things” while on shore. never made it to Singapore. HongKong and Subic Bay were the favorite stops. when were you in service? I did 75-80 out of San Diego 32nd street.

everything was bootlegged!!!!

What did it say?

I remember one, ”If you’re gonna ride my ass, the least you can do is pull my hair”🤣🤣🤣