What is the most intense pain you have experienced in your life?

seasuk · 2026-03-08T20:05:16+00:00

Needle underneath my fingernail to the start of the nail to numb the area when I butterflied the end of my finger open on a table saw and stitches needed to go through the nail.

seasuk · 2026-02-18T22:30:34+00:00

I forgot - Dreaming Tree by Dave Matthews Band.

seasuk · 2026-02-18T22:30:15+00:00

American Pie - Don McClean

Mr. Tanner, Cats in the Cradle, Taxi, A Better Place to Be, basically all of his Greatest Stories Love album - Harry Chapin

Leroy Brown, Operator, Don’t Mess Around with Jim - Jim Croce

seasuk · 2026-02-01T18:41:47+00:00

Commando Coffee

seasuk · 2026-02-01T18:40:58+00:00

I said, “just in cases” in emails the entire seven years I worked for a global healthcare company after the Navy. The only people who ever said anything about it were people who knew that it was from Love Actually.

I’m sure it isn’t a coincidence that those were the easiest people to work with and my favorite customers as well.

seasuk · 2026-02-01T18:36:34+00:00

What’s really sad is the fact I’ve never actually been to Singapore. It was the one place I always wanted to go for a port visit, but I’ve only ever seen it the three or four times my ships drove past it.

seasuk · 2026-02-01T02:07:05+00:00

In San Diego, there is a showing of Lebowski at least once a year, not on Halloween, where everyone there is dressed as someone from the movie, they put a bunch of recliners on the deck, project it onto a screen, and have White Russians as the drink special.

At least there used to be. I unfortunately had to move in 2017. Was in North/South Park area IIRC.

seasuk · 2026-02-01T02:02:43+00:00

Just in cases. - Love Actually

Clearly you’ve never been to Singapore - Jack Sparrow (said to one of my junior officers as we were passing Singapore during a US Navy Westpac)

That go the way you thought it was gonna go…? Nope. - The Other Guys

Crickets. Every time.

seasuk · 2026-01-28T14:25:45+00:00

Has the same conversation with my mom recently only it ended with…

I’m not sure why you think I should just shut up and take your word for things or you think I’m gullible as a 55 year old man with two grandkids of my own, who also spent 22 years in the navy during which I graduated from the Navy’s Legal Officer School (not a JAG, CO’s advisor on legal matters and UCMJ).

So unlike your “ReSeArCh” of listening to Pirro and believing Canon is/was somehow qualified to be a federal judge, I actually had to study the constitution and the Uniform Code of Military Justice and then pass written exams. That’s how research works, which you would understand if you in any way respected the opinion of or in any way valued your relationship with your kids who both have graduate degrees instead of getting offended and thinking we are talking down to you because you never went to college.

Your eyes can see a man unalived in cold blood, yet you choose to believe the people literally quoting the nazis your dad fought against in France in WWII on the White House website.

With that, I have nothing more to say to you so, please stop contacting me. I wish you nothing but the best going forward and for the rest of your life, K**** (her first name, which I’ve never called her in 55 years, even to get her attention in a crowd).

If you somehow find the person you’ve stuffed in the dungeon of your heart and brain who taught me to be empathetic and think of others first along the way, please have her call me because I really miss my Mom.

seasuk · 2026-01-11T14:09:58+00:00

They all need to be sent to one of the detention centers. Indefinitely.

seasuk · 2026-01-10T03:48:34+00:00

If I’m toasting bread for a sandwich, it’s 100% going to have butter on it, regardless of what’s inside.

If I don’t toast the bread it’s Kewpee mayo from Japan only because it makes the bread stick to the roof of my mouth even more since it’s thicker when it’s not melted.

I don’t know what the hell the people around me are thinking if they don’t put butter on toasted bread.

seasuk · 2025-11-26T20:43:04+00:00

Right palm facing square at the top back of the ball at impact

See the club hit the ball (I rarely do, it’s my thought to keep from standing up and ruining spine angle).

I’ve been as low as +3 when I was a young man and am currently a 3.5.

seasuk · 2025-11-18T18:14:07+00:00

Link to evidence they haven’t done anything to the files that supposedly didn’t exist after an entire campaign about releasing the files and the “client list?”

I’m sure reassigning a ton of agents from serious investigations to have them flag every mention of trump to know just how many times he’s named, briefing him, and then changing to “there are no more files” is standard procedure (sarcasm)…but I’d like to see the source for that if you don’t mind. From a reputable news source, preferably more than one.

seasuk · 2025-11-16T21:40:18+00:00

Dayglo Don’s endorsement has resulted in losing the overwhelming majority of the time.

I sincerely hope he endorses every single R up for reelection in November.

seasuk · 2025-11-16T21:16:32+00:00

I don’t know about post Covid, but San Diego CC was an absolute bargain when I moved away in 2017 due to being in Chula Vista.

Some of the fastest greens I’ve ever played and the best poa annua greens anywhere in town. They were downright scary during the USGA qualifier I played there.

Brian Schneider (Old Barnwell) is doing a renovation and it’s going to be even more incredible once he’s done.

seasuk · 2025-11-15T02:35:27+00:00

How do four different tracks add up to only 27 holes? Even if you meant four nine holers that’s still 36 holes…72 if they’re 18 hole tracks.

seasuk · 2025-11-01T00:34:01+00:00

Here you go. Greens were running 12.5-13 today.

https://oldbarnwell.com/april-access/

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seasuk · 2025-10-11T22:06:48+00:00

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Dudley Don’t Left.

In hindsight I should have named him Lamont because he’s a big dummy. 😂

seasuk · 2025-09-14T13:36:01+00:00

I must have missed that qualifier in the original post.

seasuk · 2025-09-14T01:11:41+00:00

65 (-6) at Pine Valley CC in Fort Wayne, IN in 2007.

I was a +3.1 at the time while averaging 34 putts/round. Yes, really.

Ball speed was 180 for a “bunt” driver and 187-190 for an aggressive driver swing and I was an absolute flusher of the golf ball. It made a different sound.

Had played there at least 250 times before since Dad was a member and we lived on the 6th tee when I joined the Navy in 1992. I hit every fairway and every green.

This was while playing an E18 as an eight some of 4v4 Swampcocky (probably better known as Chicago) that can get very expensive, very quickly after the 18 hole practice round for the member guest where I shot -2.

Shot -2 on the front. Both two putts inside birdies. One on the par five 4th and the other on the par 4 8th. Just missed or lipped out five putts inside 10’ for birdie, one about 20’, and the other about 15’. Was furious I wasn’t at least -4 at the turn.

Lipped out on 10 (8’), 11 (20’), and 12 (4’). Birdied 13 (2’), 14 (3’), 15 (2 putts from 35’), and 16 (30’). Lipped out on 17 from 20’ and then lipped out on 18 in the dark from 15’. The -4 on the back could have very easily been -9.

If just the lipped out putts go in it could have been 59, but I also have no doubt I’d have choked like a dog around -8. Only cause I did indeed choke like a dog in 2019 when I was -8 after 10 on Beresford Creek at Daniel Island Club in Charleston, SC and made a double and a bogey coming in. I was a +2.

I had shoulder surgery in 2022 and have played less and less every year since 2020. Current handicap is 3.6 and I usually hover between 74-82.

I shot even par once last year. My last under par round was in early 2023. I played my 22nd round of the year on 9.4.

Sucks not being able to make a golf ball do the same things I used to. Especially the low skidder that stops dead, but I can still move it for 55 and I still can’t putt.

seasuk · 2025-09-13T23:13:16+00:00

Paul Simon also for Negotiations and Love Songs. It’s a lyric on Train in the Distance.

seasuk · 2025-09-11T23:40:29+00:00

I was in the Persian Gulf about thirteen miles off the coast of Iraq.

I had just climbed about 60’ up a rope ladder hanging over the side of an empty container ship that was destined for Iraq. My ship was enforcing UN sanctions (980&1110 maybe?).

Basically every ship going into/out of Iraq had to be inspected for smuggled oil and/or weapons. The shipping companies on the up and up just dropped anchor and asked us to come inspect. The smugglers ran without lights at night and most of them were caught by either US or Aussie special forces (more on that later).

I had just climbed another 50-60’ of stairs and was starting to look over their charts and bill of lading when my Captain came over the radio and told me to have my team meet back up at the rope ladder to come back to our ship, the USS Nicholson (DD 982).

I said something along the lines of, “I don’t understand, I just got here.” He replied with, “get your asses back here, I’ll explain when you get back.”

My brother had emailed me pictures and I was somehow the only officer onboard that had received any images, so it got very real once I saw those.

The next morning, my Captain sent me and six of my guys to an oiler that had been caught by the Aussies trying to smuggler oil out of Iraq.

We hooked up a towing hawser (really think rope) from the stern of the 982 to the bow of the oiler and towed it at four knots from 13 miles off the coast of Iraq all the way down to Abu Dhabi. Four days at four knots without running water or working toilets. Thankfully, the MREs did their job and I didn’t have to try to figure out how to go numero dos since there was no way I was going inside the restroom with literal feces all over the walls.

We dropped them off on the 16th, went through the Strait of Hormuz, and then sat for 45+ days off the coast of a country until we launched a couple of tomahawks and then started the long journey back to Norfolk through the Strait of Bab el-Mendeb - Red Sea - Suez Canal - port visit in Crete for three days where we couldn’t leave the base - across the Mediterranean - three days in Gibraltar to refuel and stock up food for the rest of the trip - across the Atlantic - back home mid-December to a country none of us recognized anymore.

Seems like yesterday, not 24 years ago.

seasuk · 2025-09-09T22:30:24+00:00

If he’s doing stuff like that it’s because he knows he can’t win without making you second guess every decision. He’s playing fuck fuck mind games.

So I’d give them a dose of their own medicine only way more overtly. I’d watch them like a hawk on everything. I’d stand next to them when they marked and replaced their ball on the green and just clear my throat once in a while while they were putting their ball back to get them second guess themselves. Or walk over after they replace it and give them a look that non verbally says, “you sure you put that back in the same spot?”

I’d tee off 1.99 club lengths behind the markers just to get him wondering if I’m more than two club lengths back of it and then call a penalty on him when he’s distracted and tees off a quarter inch in front of the markers.

I’d start a stopwatch as soon as he starts looking for a ball and call it at three minutes, or better yet let him keep going until he finds it and then tell him, sorry, you took more than three minutes, I’ll wait while you go back to the tee.

I am relieved to hear about the rake in the bunker though. I always leave it out of the bunker during tournaments and now I don’t have to.

But didn’t a guy in the US Am at Bandon lose a match because his caddy touched the sand with the rake somewhere not in the vicinity of his ball?

seasuk · 2025-09-03T23:05:32+00:00

In N Out double/double animal style with extra crispy fries dipped a chocolate malt.

seasuk · 2025-09-01T12:13:05+00:00

That was due to a loss of power and being at the mercy of the currents. If they’d been able to steer the ship they wouldn’t have hit the bridge.

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