Went bird hunting again this weekend. Tired, and now I have a head cold.
For the better part of a couple of weeks, I’ve been working my butt
off trying to make some things happen on a couple of larger projects that I’m
trying to kick off and closeout, respectively.
My muse hasn’t really been tickled recently. Ukraine continues to go exactly as I thought
it would – a mostly peaceful occupation by Russia with the folks there working
on the courage to have a vote on whether to cut the pretense and become part of
Russia or not. Politics have gone on
uninterrupted, with the people who are convinced that they are running the show
demonstrating daily that they have no idea at all what is going on, and that
things continue to happen in spite of them, not because of them.
Borepatch is too busy playing with his new toy to post much
this week, although he did post about the passing of Bill Guarnere, a
soldier in the Airborne who was dropped in behind enemy lines on D-Day, Market
Garden, and left to freeze and face down the entire German Army in Bastogne
during the Battle of the Bulge, where he lost his leg to a German 88 while
trying to save his friend. If you have
ever watched “Band of Brothers” you’ll know who Bill is; he was featured prominently
in the series. God speed, Bill. Thank you forever for what you did.
Tam has been talking about stuff more local to her than Icare to post on – who gives a crap about crimes committed in Indiana, and old lady's that pray too loudly am I
right? This is Spokane! (seriously, follow the link, ti's kind of funny).
My posting on Greenland Sharks and Loch Ness has been coming
back to life with the re-playing of the Discovery Channel episode of “River
Monsters” where Jeremy Wade goes looking for the Loch Ness Monster and
seemingly concludes that the monster is, in fact, a Greenland Shark. I posted at the time about the foolishness of
that conclusion, and many folks have come by to chime in with their opinion,
which is great. I appreciate you all, as
few as you may be. The comments tend to
focus around disagreeing with my assessment that a Greenland Shark could never
live in fresh water, pointing out cases of the shark having been found in what
appear to be riverine environments, mainly in and around the St. Lawrence
River. However, upon further study, it
is generally discovered that the areas where the sharks were caught were well
inside of the saltwater stretches of that waterway. The St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers are both
defined by having huge river fjords, that go some large fraction of the river’s
length inland, and which are entirely salty, meaning that in places that appear
on a map to be very far inland, you are actually still in a very deep, and very
marine environment. One thing of note is
that it appears that I’ve gotten a couple of folks from as far away as Scotland
to chime in on that thread, which is awesome.
Thanks, friends!
They’ve arrested and are working on trying all the folks
involved in the hit on my friend Doug.
It looks like they’re going for the death penalty for the actual hitman, which makes me think they’re dangling that over his head, trying to get
him to “roll over” on the guy who hired him, who they’ve only gotten so far on
firearms charges (he’s a felon, so having guns in verboten) and other various
fraud and tax-related violations. I hope
they can actually hang Doug’s murder on the POS, because it looks to me like
this is a guy that needs to just go away and never come back, for the benefit
of everyone else. ***UPDATE - they just decided to retract the death penalty possibility, which makes me wonder if Hendrickson ought not to be getting a little nervous now...
I’m being goaded into making a jet boat run on the Spokane
River between Harvard road and Post Falls Dam.
This is a run that can only be made in the spring when water levels are
high, which you can deduce means that it is a tough and treacherous run that is
not for the light of heart. I’ll see if
I can get pictures.
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