Walt's Corner

According to this news article, someone was questioning the validity of someone else’s veteran status and asked for some ID. A knife was pulled, followed by an air gun, which ultimately led to someone being shot in the chest.

Reminds me of an old war-story. All Veterans have some good war-stories. Here’s one of mine.

It was around Y2K timeframe. I know that because that’s when I did a year in Korea. I was so sure that nothing would go wrong with that whole situation that I booked my return flight back to Korea just as it turned midnight, December 31, 1999. I was correct. Nothing bad happened. Also, it is the setting of this story.

I won’t mention this person by name to protect the guilty. We’ll just refer to him as OP-4.

OP-4 had a tendency to pull his nuts out. You know how guys are in the locker room. Someone tells someone to suck something. Somebody then tells the other someone to go ahead and pull them and he will. That’s where most locker room banter would end. Not with OP-4. He would pull them out. In front of everybody. Someone was then left with the choice to, uh, shit or get off the pot, so to speak.

The world was OP-4’s locker room. He called his nuts, his “plums.” Group picture? Zoom in on OP-4. Plums. Hanging outside his pants.

One time we were in a club on Kunsan Air Base, seated around a table ordering drinks. Some Air Force guy asked to see OP-4’s ID. So OP-4 pulled out one his plums and proceeded to call it his “ID.” If memory serves (it has been over 25 years since) he also asked if he needed a second ID as well. He did not need a secondary ID. Thank fuck for that.

“Oh man! That’s fucked up!” Exclaimed the Air Force guy, “This is my wife!” He was pointing to the female at his side. OP-4 was never asked to show his ID again. That I’m aware of.

The Coast Guard released their Report of Investigation on the disaster of OceanGate’s Titan submersible. Their conclusion? “This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable.”

Slap my ass and call me stupid, but I do believe I came to that conclusion myself. And without spending any money or time. Do stupid things win stupid prizes. Fuck around, find out. Winner winner, ocean’s dinner.

If you haven’t watched Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster on Netflix yet, I suggest you do so. You’re welcome.

I saw this meme on facebook. Reminded me of a childhood memory.

Circa 1980 my paternal grandparents, known to us as Grandpa and Grandma Basil, took us out to eat at this restaurant called Tin Pan Alley, in Bradenton, Florida. I was a very finicky eater as a child. So when he ordered the buffet for all of us, I ended up with pretty much just a salad on my plate.

When we had all settled own at our table and started to eat, Grandpa noticed my plate. I could see the disappointment in his face. He told me, “I could have bought a head of lettuce for twenty nice cents. Go get some meat.” I complied.

Jeff Strand, Bram Stoker and Splatterpunk award winning author, has released his most depraved novel yet – YOUR BODY WILL NEVER BE FOUND.  Said to have been written in the vein of PRESSURE, MY PRETTIES, and BRING HER BACK, this novel certainly begins there. But that is where the similarities end. The story reaches that previously set line pretty quick, then punts it into next week.

Some will no doubt say Jeff has crossed the line and that is fine. This story is not for everyone. In fact the first page plainly tells you “WARNING This is an unpleasant book.” Filled with Jeff’s usual humor and more than his usual gruesomeness, we can all laugh while sucking our thumbs, and rock back and forth in the fetal position while chanting the words of Willa, “We ain’t right.”

I’m a watch guy. You’ll never catch an Apple Watch on me. Or Samsung. I take pride in mechanical/automatic watches. And a few quartz models as well. Not that there’s anything wrong with Apple or Samsung watches. You do you, baby!

Seiko Five are some of the best bang for you buck watches you can get. That is Seiko’s entry level watches brand. Nothing wrong with them. I have several Seiko Fives and all of them cost me less than $500 each.

So when I read this article claiming that Walmart was having a sale on a Seiko Five watch that normally retails for over $1000? My bullshit alarms were clamoring like a red alert on the bridge of the USS Defiant.

The Seiko Five SNK601, features the 7S26 entry level movement. Search google. You’ll find many stores selling them between $100-150.

Whoever wrote this article on The Street is high as fuck. Is this a great watch? Hell yeah it is. Has anyone ever paid $1000 for it? Na. Slow news day.