U.S. Coast Guard Captures a Sub

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL-755) crew members board a self-propelled semi-submersible drug smuggling vessel (SPSS) June 18, 2019, while operating in international waters in the Pacific Ocean. SSPS vessels ride low in the water, half-submerged to evade detection.

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, July 11, 2019

    • I caught another special on the moon landing. The son of the Soviet premier was interviewed and was asked where he was during the event. He said, “Of all places, at a river in Chernobyl.” As for news coverage, he said there was a small article on the first page of Pravda and then three columns on page five. Here’s another interview with him in which he goes into slightly more detail.
    • It doesn’t matter what CBS11’s Erin Jones is covering, I’m watching.
    • Oh, hello doldrums, welcome back.
    • I’m not sure why I don’t watch Songland on NBC, it seems like something I’d like – how a song comes to be from inspiration and formed into lyrics accompanied by instruments by collaboration. Also, I attended high school with one of the hosts and I’m really proud and happy for him.
    • I often hear pastors speak about the importance of having a child dedicate his or her life to Jesus before the age of fourteen, that statistically speaking, the likelihood of them being involved in the church after that age drops dramatically. There’s little doubt in my mind that stat is true. I understand their concern and get what they are saying, but the way the message has often come across (at least to me) is that the church has to reach children and youth when they are at their most vulnerable, least suspecting, and that the ability to reason, challenge, and question is a bad thing. I don’t think there’s a way I could word or phrase that in a manner that wouldn’t stir a hornet’s nest and offend. And, I tried like heck to write that last sentence without using two negatives. I know there are times it’s acceptable to have a double negative in a sentence, but I try to avoid it if possible.
    • You’re having a bad day if a cactus goes through your windshield. I mean, you might be lucky you’re still alive, but it’s gotta be a bad day.
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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, July 9, 2019

  • No Spoilers: We’re only two episodes into the new season of Stranger Things, and anytime there’s a mall scene my brain goes into reminiscing overload. I can’t process any of the dialogue in those scenes because I’m transported back in time and my eyes are darting all over the screen taking in every bit of Eighties detail. They do such a great job with the little stuff. For instance, pay attention to the lighting. I don’t know how to explain it, but it’s just right. Their mall is a perfect combination of my two childhood malls, Ridgemar and Hulen. Ridgemar had a warm feel to it, lots of wood with Parque floors and red/maroon carpeting. Hulen was heavy with the tile and used a lot of lighting and brighter colors.
  • Apparently, WifeGeeding’s sister got into some sort of parking lot kerfuffle at the local Wal-Mart which involved an elderly man who exited the passenger side of a car parked in handicap parking who banged his can on her vehicle.
  • While watching a documentary about the return of the Apollo 11 astronauts, I was quite surprised to learn that they traveled to 43 countries in 45 days. In that timeframe, they also gave speeches in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles in one day. I believe planes didn’t travel as quickly and smoothly as they do now, so that’s not an easy feat. 
  • Reassigned but not fired – Florida principal is reassigned after writing that he couldn’t say the Holocaust was ‘a factual, historical event’
    • “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened. And you have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs.“
  • I miss “Stupid Pet Tricks”.
  • I watched David Letterman’s interview with Tiffany Haddish, who is a lot more interesting than I thought.
    • It wasn’t until high school in which she learned to read well.
    • Her stepfather tampered with the brakes on her mother’s car which resulted in an accident and left her mother with brain damage. Haddish was nine at the time, the oldest of her five siblings, and went in and out of foster care.
    • Because of her foster care experience, she now supports an organization which provides suitcases for children in foster care. She revealed as a child in foster care she was often shuffled around and sometimes had to carry all their belongings in a trash bag. When she received a suitcase to carry her belongings, she said she felt like a traveler, a person who had direction and a purpose and was no longer trash.
    • She really cut her teeth in comedy. When in high school she got a chance to attend the Laugh Factory’s Comedy Camp which allowed her to be briefly mentored by the likes of Richard Pryor and the Wayan brothers. She did stand up for a while and all sorts of comedy and entertainment bits which shaped her into the comedian she is today.
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