Few days late with this but I've been in
intense focus mode on my contest story. Still wanted to congratulate Digit though on successfully turning his interest in tentacles and Japan into a potentially lucrative and respectable career.
I had some doubts at first because I kept hearing he had a very eager and persistant man taking him to a hotel and promising him money as long as he could pass some kind of 'seaman test' and a doctor could confirm he didn't have AIDS. But it turned out that no, this is all a normal part of military procedure and not a cause for concern.
It's strange, I still think of a lot of you as my precious helpless, hopeless, nerdy Down Syndrome children, but you're all growing up now. Kind of brings a tear to my eye. Why it seems like less than a week ago (because it was less than a week ago) Digit was coming to me for guidance on the complex questions in life like 'what is a button down shirt', and now in less than a year he's going to be in a nuclear sub battling giant squid on a hunt for the Megaladon, or whatever it is one does in submarines when not dying horribly.
Anyway Digit should post more here about his quest to be able to use the Navy SEALS copypasta unironically. If anyone else has any military related stories from their family or personal experience to share, or wants to try to terrify him or give him terrible advice, go right ahead. Or even just unironically congratulate him, if that wouldn't make things too weird.