The Life and Times of a Navy Husband

Succubus
Last night I woke up at about 12:30, and I wasn’t wearing any pants. This is curious because I was wearing pants when I went to bed. After that, I did not sleep well. I just kept waking up.
And so this morning when the alarm spun up at ten past six, I actually got up. [...]

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A couple weeks ago I got an email from Starbucks inviting me to be part of a group of “Beta Tasters” for their VIA Ready Brew Instant Coffee. They sent us a bunch of VIA and asked if I’d blog about it online. (They also sent a very cool Flip Mino camera to shoot and [...]

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Ever since I bought Silversun Pickups’ latest album, Swoon back in May, I have not been able to stop listening to it, along with their previous album, Carnavas. Swoon rekindled my interest in the latter, which I’d downloaded on a whim from iTunes. Together, the two albums have dominated my listening for two months.
But I’ve [...]

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Sean and I have been traveling this week and visiting Danielle, and the confines of a hotel room (actually a room in the bachelor officers’ quarters where Danielle is staying for her training this summer) have acted like a pressure cooker. I’m so much more aware of the bad habits he and I are developing.
Now [...]

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My sister sent me the following e-mail review of Twilight, the phenomenally popular first novel in the series by Stephenie Meyer:
Twilight is a book about what to say to your girlfriend when you want to feel powerful. Presuming she’s already weak, you’ll have the upper hand even more than you already did in just [...]

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Gay Talese has a piece on the City Room blog over at the New York Times. He’s taking a more creative approach to helping panhandlers in the city.
When Panhandlers Need a Wordsmith’s Touch – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com.
Via kottke.org

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Sean and I went to Best Buy today to take a look at voice recorders, and I was shocked to find that (a) their prices are competitive with Amazon.com and (b) that their music selection is laughably skimpy and has been relegated to the back of the store.
I guess the fact that I’m just now [...]

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There’s something I find oddly fascinating, yet scary, about eye surgery. The whole time I was reading this, my internal monologue was screaming, But it’s his eye!
navalgazing » Medical Oddity

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The other day, Danielle noticed I had stepped in animal feces because it was smeared on my left shoe’s upper. Thankfully, my shoes were outside and not on my feet when she noticed this.
We naturally assumed that this was canine fecal matter. I wondered where I could possibly have stepped in it, as I had [...]

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When Sean was about 2 or 3 months old, he decided he wasn’t that into  his pacifier. He would pluck it out of his mouth and throw it away as if to say, ‘This nipple-shaped piece of silicon isn’t fooling me, Dad.’ And then he’d resume crying.
At 3 months, he was sleeping on his own [...]

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