At first I thought this meant you created the largest piece of sliced bread made from beer that the world has ever seen.
Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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It was a slice of bread that Alec took to Tunisia.
Skill.
My wife recently tried to snap my neck while we were both asleep. And not a gentle twist, either, really full-on 90° angle yoink. I woke up quite confused, and then she woke up from my reaction.
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Sam has graduated from Air Force basic training. She made it to her tech school last night and had her first orientation today. Surprise! Tech school is NOT 35 days like she was told. It’s 4 months! Didn’t say it was a pleasant surprise.
Could be worse. There are some in her school who are married and have kids. Their Sgt said he’s been trying to get them to update the information for about FIVE YEARS! No telling how many people they’ve done this to.
Could be worse. There are some in her school who are married and have kids. Their Sgt said he’s been trying to get them to update the information for about FIVE YEARS! No telling how many people they’ve done this to.
Rose and I were talking to her about it last night. I remember when she told me just over a month I thought it was weird because one of the guys that works for me is a motorized armor electrician in the army guard (he fixes the control systems in our armored vehicles) the school was 6 months after normal army basic. Doing what she is doing just over a month did not seem like a long enough time to teach her all the basics of her job. Wishing her nothing but the best in any case, sorry she got bamboozled.
Dave
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I told her: My school was a month and they only taught us how to count cans.
35 days is 7 weeks of school, the count is only instruction days. Could be longer if there are federal holidays.
"this is the pointy end of the spear, this goes towards the enemy" doesn't take quite as much time as some of our modern technology, of course.
Ugh. That sounds like a good way to end up with someone who wants to kill Steve Martin.
Yes, never claimed otherwise. But 7 weeks does sound like much more than 35 days.
It sounds exactly like 35 days IF your 35 days are M-F x 7wks.
But that makes an uncharacteristic amount of sense to come from one of our US Armed Forces.
--Patrick
In Navy boot camp, we had 5 day weeks.
First week was a processing week, and didn't count.
After that, weeks/days were counted as such: "1-5 day" was week 1, day 5. Which, incidentally, was the day all medical records would have been processed and therefore the very first day they can exercise ("cycle") you. So they exercise you to death by way of celebration.
First week was a processing week, and didn't count.
After that, weeks/days were counted as such: "1-5 day" was week 1, day 5. Which, incidentally, was the day all medical records would have been processed and therefore the very first day they can exercise ("cycle") you. So they exercise you to death by way of celebration.
An old meme, but any time I posted it, every parent I know shouted "Accurate! Too accurate!"
Heh, my mother has always said that neither I nor my sisters ever woke her up during the night & always slept through the night from the day she brought us home from the hospital.
Others have pointed out that she's always been a very heavy sleeper so it's probably less that we didn't wake up & more that she didn't. OTOH my dad wasn't so heavy a sleeper so he would have been woken up and...well, in those days he'd have woken her up to deal with it so *shrug*.
I don't know if this is always the case, but bigger babies tend to sleep longer. I think it's because they have more tummy room and can hold more milk in between feedings. I was almost 10 lbs. when I was born, and my family swears I was sleeping through the night by the second night I was home. And there were 4 adults around 1 kid (we lived with my paternal grandparents) so someone DEFINITELY would have heard me if I squeaked. Heck, our dog at the time used to fetch a person whenever I made a sound.
Meanwhile, my average-sized kid took about 2 months to start sleeping through the night. I'll get him back for that eventually.
Our kids had their days and nights reversed for a long time. This was before streaming, so we watched some truly disturbing overnight tv together.
When I was born, I was sleeping a full eight hours, but during the day rather than the night. Then, some months later, myself (had very limited options at the time, you understand), my mom and my dad, who had been accepted at London's Royal College of Music before my arrival, left Quebec for England. The time difference was enough to flip my biological clock and I was now sleeping through the night.
So maybe a trans-Atlantic trip is the solution to sleep schedule flip!
So maybe a trans-Atlantic trip is the solution to sleep schedule flip!
My child is 4.5 pounds.I don't know if this is always the case, but bigger babies tend to sleep longer. I think it's because they have more tummy room and can hold more milk in between feedings. I was almost 10 lbs. when I was born, and my family swears I was sleeping through the night by the second night I was home. And there were 4 adults around 1 kid (we lived with my paternal grandparents) so someone DEFINITELY would have heard me if I squeaked. Heck, our dog at the time used to fetch a person whenever I made a sound.
Meanwhile, my average-sized kid took about 2 months to start sleeping through the night. I'll get him back for that eventually.
I do not wish it upon you, or any parent, but I really hope you don’t have to deal with a cholicy period and the constant crying that comes with it. I literally fell asleep/passed out from exhaustion one night under our daughter’s crib while trying to settle her enough to sleep herself.
Li'l Z was kinda like that. The first week or so he was home, he'd only sleep if he was on someone's chest. Family and friends would help us out doing "shifts" so it wasn't just me. I do remember being quite exhausted, so there was a few times I'd wedge myself into the couch and prop cushions so I couldn't roll over, let him sleep on my chest, and lightly doze while he did. Actually, I don't think I had any deep sleep for the first few months he was alive. I was so worried, I'd wake up at the tiniest sound from him or the baby monitor.
We found a nice swaddle blanket that velcrod and kept the babies nice and cozy. All three of our kids slept well in that baby straightjacket. But we were still up a couple times a night for most of there first year. It gets better or you will adjust to less sleep.