Hm, basic education. Reading, writing and arithmatic. I had reading down [and was reading at the high school level] by second grade, call it the age of 7. I had basic math [up through decimals, fractions, percentages] by the age of 8. At the age of 8 I could cook basic foods - my pride and joy was making a pumpkin pie…

Young, working in kitchens, what are friends for =) Though I ended up stopping working in kitchens after 3 years, I still kept my friends for years after that. I still tend to prefer to have people hang out here instead of going out - kitchen, cable tv, *clean bathroom* and crash space =)

I had an extra bedroom and would let friends crash there wen they had the shit clopenings. Most of my friends worked in the 3 places nearest my apartment. Any given morning I would have to wade through 3 or 4 people to shower for my 8 am class.

Nothing wrong with the perfectly good Chevy S-10. Gone through 2 so far, the original 1984 [nicknamed Zombie, after 15 years, parts started having connectivity issues, repaired with wire, bondo and duct tape...] and a 1992 [Zombie 2, still chugging along, though getting a bit cranky and starting to have rust issues.]…

She could easily pass for Jewish, Spanish [continental] or Sicilian Italian very easily. Spain and Sicily both were conquered by the Moors for several hundreds of years and had a small influx of Northern Saharans living there. <shrug> I don't get the desire to own someone, but I suppose it is because I have been…

I grew up spending a fair amount of time on my grandfathers yaw, I love the motion of the waves and the sound of the slap on the hull. I don't get motion sick, I am the type that gets the boiled bacon ready <evil grin> I'd rather not add planes and engines to the mix!

Try working nights .... with flybys going on through your entire sleep period ... *sigh*

If you can use this, you can make homemade soups. I did a wicked good chicken and veggie soup [dice chicken, make small chops of onion, carrot, celery and potato, to 1 pint of chicken broth from a can/box never cube add a large pinch of italian herbs and several grinds/shakes of pepper. cook until veggies and meat are…

Meh. Lived under 2 flightlines, NOB Norfolk and NAS Oceana. I can probably ID aircraft by sound still. Underwhelming. Though living in Ocean View was decent, we got low flight black unmarked helicopters and the helos from HM14 doing low passes over the beach looking at bikini girls.

Going on a family day on a 688I is fun when they do an emergency blow to amuse the kiddies =) I used to just head straight down to Machinery 1 and hang with my husband and his buddies to avoid the kiddies and idiot wives. I would absolutely hate family day on a carrier, way too many wives and kids.

Well, maybe if I was going in for a colonoscopy later =) Chocolate would beat the hell out of the fake citrusy drink you have to choke down to prep.

Works for me ...

I am diabetic, and have to give props to a co worker who made me a beautiful chocolate cake ... and was so proud of making it as sugar free as she could ... to the extent of melting down sugarfree *maltitol* based chocolate candy to make the ganache and such for it.

I live in small town rural Connecticut, we go to an Asian grocery in Hartford CT that has the most amazing junk food aisles. I see I need to go browsing again! [I normally go for the red bean paste jelly rectangles, and one or two pockeys]

Ok, without slogging through 250 + responses, what the FUCK was someone doing flying/traveling out of their country of origin within 3 months of delivery? And on vacation rather than an emergency? Hell, they don't want you taking a cruise vacation after 4 months ...

Hell, take it all the way, snap a pic of your driver and send it to someone ... if they knew you had a good clear picture of their face it *might* dissuade someone from raping or robbing you ... but it is a shame you need to be *scared* of getting into a cab.

There are some pretty incredible gamers around. Some total assholes, but a lot of really great people.

Or doing just under the speed limit, and hitting the brakes because there is a cop on the other side of a divided highway with someone pulled over@_@

I drink ice water instead of snacking, the colder the water the better. And I can drink anywhere from 2 liters to 4 liters of water in any given day. Better water than junk food! And I have noticed that if I eat after 8 pm, I burp and have acid reflux all night, so I don't eat after 8 pm. Doesn't have anything to do…

I knew Vile Rat ... he taught me a lot - I guess the sight of a relative newbie running a newb frigate 36 jumps through goonspace amazed him enough to take an interest in shepherding a baby pilot unofficially with tips and occasional hours of training on the test server and pretty much hours of conversation on…