( And cruising sailors will, too)

RECAPTURE THE MAGIC OF LIFE ON A DESTROYER!

1. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. 2. Replace the closet door with a curtain. 3. Six hours after you go to sleep, have someone whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack" or "Your watch!" 4. Renovate your bathroom by building a wall across the middle of the tub and moving the shower head to chest level. 5. When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping. 6. Every time there's a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous. 7. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High." 8. Don't watch TV except movies in the middle of the night. Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one. 9. (Mandatory for ex-engineering types.) Leave lawnmower running in your living room 24 hours a day for proper noise level. 10. Have the paperboy give you a haircut. 11. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week. Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub. 12. Wake up at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread. (Optional: cold canned ravioli or soup.) 13. Make up your family menu a week ahead of time without looking in your food cabinets or refrigerator. 14. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night. When it goes off, jump out of bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your yard and break out the garden hose. 15. Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together. 16. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot and allow it to sit for five or six hours before drinking. 17. Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months. 18. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books. 19. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them. 20. Lockwire the wheel nuts on your car. 21. When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is baking. Spread icing really thick on that side to level the top. 22. Every so often throw your cat into the pool, shout "Man overboard, ship recovery!" run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter onto the floor, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea."