Welcome to the IHoP

[mrray13 30]

i got a new gun!! hehe

that is all...

for now.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

I don't use AIM, and theres only a handful of people I care to talk to on MSN

You can add me to msn if you want.

[Godsmack 361]

i got a new gun!! hehe

that is all...

for now.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

What did you buy yourself now and where is mine????

J

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Ok a little story with some history to learn with it. To preface this, I am currently working for a Navy contactor who deals with almost strictly submarine work. During my time here much of my work has been on the primary fairings, NAVSAT, Periscope, HDR, and other comm or system masts. Just yesterday I learned that years ago, during an upgrade / repair due to a collision with a Tug boat, a certain sub the USS Thresher, the company I am at now was part of the work on the USS Thresher. Now here is the history part, the USS Thresher is infamous because it is one of only two US Navy subs to ever be lost / sunk. The other being the USS Scorpion SSN 589 The USS Thresher, SSN 593, had a weldment failure and sunk on April 10th, 1963. All 129 men aboard died nearly instantly.

Great portions of the outer skin of the hull was crushed like paper. Here is one of the very pictures that exist of the USS Thresher SSN 593 at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine.

So now comes the weird part. Most of the completed projects of recent here that I know of, are on the Los Angles Class submarines, SSN 688's. They are nuclear powered attack subs. Yesterday on my way home from work, I head to the gym. I started with Cardio yesterday, and CNN is on along side King of Queens, and Around the Horn. Of the three I will always watch CNN. So about 17 minutes into my cardio, head lines come across the screen....

"SUB SUNK"

I felt like WTFmate, did I just jinx something because of the fated USS Thresher SSN 593? Well tuesday night the USS San Juan SSN 751, also a Los Angles class submarine was doing training off the coast of Florida. It was scheduled to report back to port sometime mid evening. The return to port time came and went, no inbound communication was made. A distress signal was sent out, and not answered by the USS San Juan. Instantly other subs and a few air craft carriers in the area scrambled to the approx area where the the USS San Juan was last known. During the massive movement of naval ships to the area a blip showed back up on the radar. The USS San Juan re-established communication at approx 3:30am. Undamaged. So a $900 million piece of machinery and 100+ men were missing for more than a few hours.

Here is a picture of the San Juan:

So everyone is ok and home safely. Great! But now the really spooky part. This morning I pull into work and a flat bed tractor was here to pic up two masts to go to philadelphia to be re-installed on their original boats. As I get out of the truck, and walk past the massive long crate, the side of it is labeled...... (wait for it)

SSN 751

The periscope to the USS San Juan shipped out this morning from here. Sorry for the long story but tell me that is not a little odd.

[mrray13 30]

cool denim!

jordan..i bought a saiga .223 sporter. it's an ak47 without the pistolgrip stock. and at $300 with tax and all, cheaper too! best part is, if i want it to be a ak, 30 minutes of work (i've already saved the procedure) and i have one. but i like it as is. pictures will be up later.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

eee

[Beat_Dominator 2]

Denim is cursed

[topgun 262]

Bout to spend some money with Knu for the little sub install in my pickup.

[topgun 262]

I don't use AIM, and theres only a handful of people I care to talk to on MSN

You can add me to msn if you want.

xring _ shooter "at" hotmail . com

Take out the spaces and 'at' etc, and you've got my MSN email.

*that goes for anyone who cares to add me*

[topgun 262]

I'm going to shoot someone/something

I hadn't been saving while doing some C programming. My compiler pucking crashed.

God damnit.

[JimJ 11]

How do you lose track of where a sub is?

"My bad..."

[vladd 26]

lol jim i had to reread that post about 5 times before i realized you didn't mean lost a subwoofer

[Chevy350TPI 12]

Dealing with these stupid automated service things is driving me bloody insane.

Same hold song over and over again ...

"How may I help you today?"

'You can begin by changing that stupid Nelly Furtado hold song'

[Chevy350TPI 12]

ACDC now. Much better.

Still on hold though.

Oh ... "We have to transfer you to this department, please hold"

All I want to do is change my fucking address ...

[Acidburn 10]

I don't use AIM, and theres only a handful of people I care to talk to on MSN

You can add me to msn if you want.

xring _ shooter "at" hotmail . com

Take out the spaces and 'at' etc, and you've got my MSN email.

*that goes for anyone who cares to add me*

i added you

[JimJ 11]

*crosses fingers* might have found the speakers I want...maybe...

[JimJ 11]

And they might be just down the road from Sean, depending on where he lives, lol

[Tirefryr 1,742]

Hmm, gotta post my goods up. Anyone need a great DIGITAL setup?

[JimJ 11]

digital, ew

What do you have?

[dennisp 0]

Back pain. What does one do?

Aspirin ain't cuttin' it.

[Tirefryr 1,742]

digital, ew

What do you have?

It'll be listed in the classifieds tomorrow.

[///M5 2,833]

The more I think about it, the more becoming a state trooper/cop sounds like a good idea. Get paid to drive around, around guns all day, etc, etc, dosen't sound like that bad of an idea. Beats hell outa engineering classes.

Engineering sales really isn't such a bad profession though.

[///M5 2,833]

Prahaps an enironmental engineer? Go design farm equipment?

J

I can hook you up with Deere.

Or Cat, or pretty much you name it.

[///M5 2,833]

How do you lose track of where a sub is?

"My bad..."

I lost a pair of old school Rockford Powers for a couple years.

[///M5 2,833]

lol jim i had to reread that post about 5 times before i realized you didn't mean lost a subwoofer

you beat me

[///M5 2,833]

And they might be just down the road from Sean, depending on where he lives, lol

whereabouts?