Fourscore
Into the Savage Land, The Alaskan Journal of Edward Adams, a journal edited by Ernest Sipes, takes us on an 1850 journey into Alaska, in search of some lost countrymen. Edward Adams is a doctor and naturalist and maintains a journal of the events as well as the natural world they encounter.
Unfortunately the journal has many gaps and lost pages that make the narrative incomplete. The many obstacles that were encountered and had to be overcome make for an interesting read. For those interested in Alaskan history pre the US involvement will learn about the local customs of the indigenous folks.
The much more libertarian oriented The Death of Liberty is a great book that discusses the history and socialist destruction of America’s freedoms using the income tax. Authored by David Thomas Roberts. Roberts takes us on the ride starting with the history of the income tax and how it has become the destruction of the liberty that the Founding Fathers had sought.
An in depth look at why the Income Tax is so destructive and why it will never be abolished. The slide into Marxist ideology, with politicians maintaining a vise grip on income (taxes) to buy the necessary votes to retain personal power cannot be overcome.
This should be required reading for college students. Anyone interested in either or both of these literary gems can have them in their personal libraries for free. I’ll be happy to oblige
Raven Nation
Just finished reading The Long Goodbye for the first time (part of my effort to read classics from genres I don’t normally read). It’s my second Chandler after The Big Sleep. I enjoyed LG more than BS. And I think they’re much better than contemporary detective fiction (such as the Bosch novels). I probably prefer Elmore Leonard over Chandler. But I did enjoy LG and would recommend to any who haven’t read it.
Beau Knott
Still in mostly video mode, so only 1 new book this time around. I will point out that the Bob Moog biography I mentioned in the previous installment lived up to expectations. (Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution). The man was creative, great with analog circuitry, and absolute crap at running a business. Extensively footnoted, lots of documentation, many stories clarified or shown to be erroneous. The sole book this time period is The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennet, one of my favorite current Fantasy authors. Not as twisted and convoluted as the superb The Raven Scholar, previously mentioned, but a good read. Whiffs of Nero Wolfe kept wafting through, and sure enough, he credits Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe as an influence. By no means a copy, but reminiscent of Wolfe and Archie in a fantasy realm. Recommended for mystery lovers, fans of R. J. Bennet, or the curious. Otherwise, I’ve been re-reading, mostly books I’ve reported previously. But mostly video binging 😉
Trials and Tribulations
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
This book is mid. All I could think of while listening to it was how much better a book I read in the summer of 2024, The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight to Save North America’s Other Wolf, did a much better job covering a similar wolf reintroduction program (the Red Wolves to the Albemarle of North Carolina). Blakeslee jumps right into the wolf introduction skipping over the reasoning and seeds of the development program. He sees fit to almost exclusively focus on the Aspy Yellowstone ranger that is obsessed with the wolves and the grouchy local hunter that killed (unbeknownst to him) an unofficial mascot alpha female of a Yellowstone pack as his sources. The book doesn’t follow a logical progression and thus it just kind of …ends.
Do NOT recommend (I would recommend the Red Wolf book (skip the last chapter about how all the RWs are going to drown in the ocean due to climate change though)
Simply Christian by NT Wright
I saw this suggested by Hoopla to me. I did at lest one NT Wright Bible study 10 years ago. He is (still?) a well respected theologian even as he remains rather traditional while Anglicanism (he’s an Anglican) and Western mainline Protestantism commit suicide via progressivism. As the title suggests this isn’t deep theology but is graspable for the layperson. Perhaps a unique theme to this book as compared to other introduction to Christianity books is his explanation as why Deism and panentheism are contradictory to Christianity.
Recommend for those interested in the subject
Princess Bride by William Goldman
I didn’t even know there was a book which the movie was based upon. The movie nearly exactly follows the book with only the beginning, the ending, and Westley’s rescue being different. The only negative I have is that Rob Reiner was the voice actor for the audiobook and we wasn’t great he had some noticeably hard cuts in the beginning.
Recommended (if you liked the movie)
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
I read Grann’s superior Killers of the Flower Moon. This was simply not as good. It is clear he nearly exclusively relied upon the logs of John Byron and John Bulkeley’s for the Wager’s development. The book is barely more engaging than the Wikipedia entry.
Do NOT recommend
DEG
Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien – This is a collection of stories and essays Tolkien wrote to fill out the mythology of Middle-Earth. We have yet another draft of the Children of Hurin. We have several stories and histories of Numenor in the Second Age. There is a long essay on the background of Celeborn and Galadriel. We have stories in the Third Age giving background on the Quest for Erebor and some battles in the War of the Ring. The collection wraps up with some essays on the Istari, the Palantiri, and the Druedain. Pistols of the Warlords: Chinese Domestic Handguns 1911-1949 by Ian McCollum – This is mainly a catalog of known collections of pistols made in China during the Warlord period. Mainly made by hand by Chinese artisans, the pistols were based on Western pistols such as the FN 1900 and Mauser C96. Quality varies. McCollum talks a bit about the markings. Like Westerners getting tattoos of Chinese or Japanese characters when they don’t understand what those characters mean, the Chinese artisans had no idea what the Latin alphabet and Arabic numeral markings on the guns they were copying meant. Chinese culture had an emphasis on symbolism, and they knew the markings were on powerful guns, so more markings is better right? You have guns with mixes of Mauser and FN markings, random streams of gibberish, rear sight markings that make no sense. Some pistols are actually quite well made and look much like the original pistol copied. Some, on the other hand, are not well made. The book includes a little background on the Warlord Era, biographical information on some Warlords, and information about the Chinese arsenals producing the pistols featured in the book. Destinies: The Science Fiction Magazine Summer 1980 edited by James Baen – We have a long series of essays on Heinlein plus an excerpt from “Expanded Universe” by Heinlein. We have a very interesting story of hunting an alien by Dean Ing. We wrap up with further essays and stories slamming government regulation of space. Miskatonic Missives Volume 1 Number 1: H. P. Lovecraft to D. W. Rimel November 1934 – The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, in conjunction with Helios House Press, is working on a series of books on H. P. Lovecraft’s letters. The idea is to take one letter and then go into the details of the letter. This is the first of the series. Duane Rimel was one of Lovecraft’s correspondence partners. In this letter, Lovecraft mentors Rimel on writing. Lovecraft also discussed cats, culture, etymology, and a variety of other topics with Rimel. The book includes stories from Rimel and others that Lovecraft talked about in this letter. There is a brief history of the Owyhee Idaho Spud which Lovecraft mentioned in the letter. There is a short essay on New England dialects which gives background on discussion of dialects from the letter. This was quite an interesting book. This set has two other books in it, which I will read soon. I hope that the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society continues this series.
As always… of now.
Remember if you would like to be included with all the cool kids email your reviews , criticisms , and or synopsis to whatarewereading25@proton.me by the last Monday of next month. Whenever. We’ve become unstuck in time regarding the scheduling so I’ll just wait until five or six of you people send in submission and then throw together the next edition.
Thanks and good luck, The Hyperbole.
Leftie logic – AirBNB is the main driver of rising rents, socialist who will run NYC says so. Not importing millions of third worlders. Even proponents of open borders have been forced to admit that of all the increased costs immigrants create, housing is the worst.
Also not private equity companies snapping up properties as fast as they can.
Also not putting every conceivable roadblock in place to deter building new housing, including universal requirements to subsidize rents for favored groups in order to fuck over everyone else.
Look at these three – can’t even agree on who is the villain, like there might be multiple independent factors not under one cabal’s control. Sheesh.
I know leftism is just an idea, but the villains behind all three can likely be categorized as leftists.
I am a BIG fan of (early) Wittgenstein.
Hope nobody ordered any physical books by UPS.
At least 3 killed, 11 injured after a UPS plane crashes near the Louisville airport
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ups-plane-crash-louisville-airport
Heard that on the radio. Sounded bad.
It’s real bad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJJM1wXfebQ&pp=ygUUdXBzIGNyYXNoIGxvdWlzdmlsbGU%3D
Looks like e-mail ate my paragraph breaks.
*BIG HUG*
I was wonderin’ ’bout you…
It does make it look like I’m making less sense than normal.
I just started Unfinished Takes today!
I first read it a long time ago when I was in high school.
I re-read it recently because I had just finished the History of Middle-Earth series. There were references to “Unfinished Tales” that I couldn’t remember.
Then I read “Unfinished Tales” to remind myself. Except, I forgot much of what was referenced. I didn’t go back through the History of Middle Earth books to find the references.
I like Tolkien but I really need a break.
I read that back in seventh grade.
Needs a revisit. I struggled with it then. Probably would make more since now.
That’s on me, I let this sit too long and then rushed it. CTRL C/V can do weird things going from email to WordPress, I usually spend a minute or to cleaning the post up but said “Fuck It” this time.
You might have started a new stream of consciousness trend…
Hey Hyp did you get my submission? If not I can resubmit it.
dbleagle, No I didn’t or I missed it but it’s not in any folder.
The Princess Bride is a fantastic book and better, perfect, film. William Goldman was remarkably good at his job. In addition to PB, he wrote Butch Cassidy + Sundance; adapted All the President’s Men; Marathon Man; and much more.
That’s a helluva range.
*takes notes*
Marathon Man is a great read, might just be the novel that made me realize that novels can be/are (usually) better than their movie adaptations.
The rule of thumb that I read is that one page of a script translates to one minute on the screen. So, a 2-hour movie is 120ish pages of script. You got to cut out a lot of a novel to get it down to a movie.
120 pages is more than a short story and less than a novel. This is in the novella territory. This is at least partially why Steven King’s collection of 4 novellas in Different Seasons turned into 1 decent and 2 excellent movies.
Wolf reintroduction…
Reminds me. I need to go clean some ARs.
Just finished reading The Long Goodbye
I picked up a Dashiell Hammett collection. Have read The Glass Key, The Dain Curse, and The Thin Man. Working on Red Harvest.
The only Tolkien book I ever read was The Hobbit. It was long ago, not sure if it was unabridged or not.
Listened to an unabridged version of Fellowship of the Ring last week. Spoiler alert – it’s really good.
Back to my military sci-fi for a breather, then I’ll do the Two Towers.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RSGCKHQ?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tkin
Controversial opinion…
The Tolkien books are painfully dull. I’ve never been able to drag myself through any of them.
Everyone who finishes The Silmarillion should get a medal of some sort.
My favorite Tolkien book is “Bored of the Rings” by the Harvard Lampoon.
I know how you feel. I couldn’t get past pg.27 in “Game of Thrones.”
THANK YOU!!! Loved the Jackson LOTR movies (The Hobbit not so much,) but was only able to slog my way through the first LOTR book after multiple viewings of the first movie. Tolkein puts the pain in “painstaking detail.”
the controversial opinion stuff was yesterday. you people are insane.
Same. The last time I tried to read Fellowship, I got to when Tom Bombadil showed up and lost interest. Nothing interesting was happening. A friend of mine who is a Tolkien fan(atic) told me that had I just gone a little further it was really going to get good.
The movies were great though.
Everyone who finishes The Silmarillion should get a medal of some sort.
I get multiple medals as I read it multiple times?
On the Jackson movies: Jackson created a Tolkien themed action movie. A remake analogous to JJ Abrams’ remakes of the original Star Trek movies, but unlike JJ Abrams’ remakes, Jackson’s remake is good.
Dang, I thought that would trigger nearly everyone here.
I was able to finish the Hobbit but whatever book 1 is…couldn’t do it. It just felt like he spent every page describing everything. I guess 1,000 pages in is when you might get some action.
It took me three tries to get through The Silmarillion. All three times it started off great, but the first two times it got set aside during the chapter in which there is not a single verb. The entire chapter is a description of landscapes. I consciously noticed this, slogged through it, and the stories picked back up interest-level-wise.
My ability to complete the Silmarillion was impeded by a printing error where a huge chunk (a fifth of the book?) was substituted for the equally sized chunk before it.
Each to their own, but you are all nuts. LOTR is the greatest novel ever written. I read it every year and continue to get new gems on each visit.
I just finished A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. [I had read the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky and I swapped that with my son for AFUtD.] Vinge explores the idea of non-universal physics with different zones and the key characteristic of faster-than-light travel in The Beyond (with less than speed of light in The Slowness, the Earth’s zone). Here’s the fun thing I thought about – we express time (and speed) all in terms of Sumerian base-60, an artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE. Isn’t that strange – that time is defined by such a primitive construct.
Ancient =/= primitive.
The scientific definition of a second was retro-fitted to the one defined as 1/86,400th of earth’s daily rotation.
That’s a terrible definition – the Earth’s rotational velocity is not constant, it is in fact slowing due to gravitational influences from the moon and the sun. A unit of time needs to be constant.
That’s exactly my point UCS. But what if time isn’t really a constant throughout the universe? We really can’t conceive of that, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
That was a fun take.
i really did not like the zones of thought thing
Mamdani wins.
Time to build a wall around NYC.
Bah, all 3 ballot questions passed here; new charter (with backdoor ranked choice voting & taxpayer funding of campaigns), double the mayoral term to 4 years and (thankfully nonbinding) BDS bullshit (we don’t even do business with Israel, so it’s divest from companies that do (allegedly)).
At least the least-worst candidate won the mayorship.
They can tell us that one by the end of the day, but anytime there might be a non-Democrat, it takes weeks.
lol Complete sweep by every horrible Dem/commie running.
Even the AG in Virginia who wanted Republicans to be murdered and to have their kids murdered in front of them wins…. that is rough.
All the money flooding into DC has ruined NoVa.
And yet, the AG still seems downright pleasant compared to Spanberger. VA elected the worst cunt in HR to be Governor.
Recent reads:
Poor Charlie’s Almanac – compilation of speeches and writings by Charlie Munger (Buffet’s partner at Berkshire Hathaway). This almost radicalized me and turned me full commie. Fuck that guy and his “hey let’s invest in a company until we gain control then squeeze every last penny out of the customers any way we can so the numbers in my account go up” bullshit.
Debunking Howard Zinn – Documents how Zinn’s People’s History is cherry-picked bullshit, much of it practically plagiarized from other commie historians.
Current reads:
107 Days by Kamala Harris – Yikes. Weird format, tries to be a day-by-day account, but skips some days, then some days that are documented nothing really happens, which often leads to a flashback of Kamala being awesome somewhere. Haven’t gotten to her numbers going down yet, but she’s definitely pissed at Joe’s team for not giving her assignments that would be public “wins”, not constantly telling everyone how awesome she is, and not aggressively defending her from every attack over the previous four years.
Pandora’s Star by Peter F. Hamilton (Audiobook) – Only three chapters in. Okay so far, but the narrator is bad at keeping his voice at the same volume, tends to drop it especially when people are talking. Somewhat annoying since I listen to audiobooks either in the car or at the gym where there’s a lot of background noise.
I remember liking that series. Needs a re-read cuz there was a lot going on.
Yeah, so far it’s a lot of apparently unrelated people and happenings, still waiting for it to get tied together.
Thanks for taking one for the team by reading a book ‘written’ by ‘Kamala.’ Like with De Niro and other aging celeb, the obit is written long before they’re dead, I wonder when they started brainstorming the non-apology-denial of her humiliating defeat, which was totes McObvs not her fault, cuz duh, she’s like, remarkable and stuff.
I was gonna say something similar. But real question…. who in their right mind reads a Kamala Harris book?
Thanks for taking one for the team
He didn’t have to do it. I don’t like everyone here but I don’t wish them to read a book by Harris.
It pisses me off every time I see a box or bag of See’s Candy (BH owned). Made in China because getting Made in USA paper goods is just too much. Such a easy win and yet they don’t do it.
107 Days by Kamala Harris
Speaking of deserving a medal for reading a particular book.
Sherrill easily wins in New Jersey. Says Jersey doesn’t need any kings, then in next breath promises an emergency order on day one forcing utilities to lower their prices.
I am going to LMFAO when the Dems don’t have their hatred of Orange Hitler to distract from their complete evil and incompetence anymore.
They always have a Hitler. Bob Dole was Dark and Evil. Bob Freaking Dole, one of the most affable guys you could meet.
And Mitt Romney? Really? The milquetoast boy scout? Yup. Racist. Misogynist. Literally Hitler.
Rand Paul was literally Hitler for a minute when he was gaining traction.
They have already started spinning up JD Vance is Hitler. (Shit works too. The wife read the book and went on and about how great it was. Her and her girlfriends all went to the movie opening weekend together. Couldn’t shut up about the dude. She is now convinced that he is literally Hitler. )
Can you trade your wife in for a better preforming model?
Which ever model he trades in for, will end up as Hitler. Er, I mean whatever his current wife is.
Cyto: And these are the people who insist they’re nurturing and “nice”, and that anyone who disagrees with them is “mean”.
Yes, there will always be another Hitler just like there was a series of Hitlers before Donald.
But he is uniquely literally worse than all those other Hitlers. I don’t remember every single candidate for every single office running against any of those other Hitlers the way they do against current Hitler.
Reading Camus’s The Fall, which is really dense, and backing it up with Graham Greene’s ‘Stambul Train.
The Fall is fascinating as it takes you through a mans building a case in his head to do anything, and excuse everything. You can look at it as an exploration of what it takes to create Vichy France, or, as someone pointed out to me, excusing Stalin when it became impossible to ignore his crimes. Camus himself isn’t guilty of these things, he acquitted himself well in WWII being part of the resistance, and broke with communism when Stalin was exposed. But other French intellectuals at that period did not, and that is what he is attacking in this book.
‘Stambol Train is a good spy thriller, pre-WWII. Nothing special other than the writing is better than most of the books coming out in this genre back in the early thirties.
I have to say, I have been picking up a number of books, reading a hundred or so pages, and setting it down, unenthused. Need to force myself to finish what I start. I don’t need to pick up the bad habits I had when I managed a bookstore and needed to be on top of the literature situation.
I have found that the 100 page point is when a novel becomes my world. Before that it can be a slog. So I always give it 100-120 pages.
The problem with this idea is the sunk cost fallacy kicks in. I read that stupid Dan Brown book on a recommendation and it sucked for the first 10 pages, but I have the 100 page rule. So I read on. 90 pages later…. it sucked. So I gave it another 20 pages. Guess what? They sucked too. But now I have a couple of days in it… so I soldier on. I hated every page. I kept thinking “they said it was good. It has to get better”. We’ll, I neglected to factor in that my friend might just be an idiot. I kept waiting. It kept sucking. Right up to the last page, which I rage-read, having endured the most mind-numbingly stupid plot twists and insipid reveals of the last chapter.
From hell’s heart, I spit at thee.
For me that was heinline’s Time Enough For Love. Terrible.
All of Heinline is like that. Just garbage.
He is an acquired taste.
All the post stroke stuff is absolutely garbage, I’ll second that.
Yay. Puppers has a cracked tooth. $400 for annual, and estimate for $1500-3k for dental extraction.
Thanks Donald/Joe/Donald!
Vet bills have gotten crazy expensive.
I blame the rise in pet health insurance.
That would make sense. Unfortunately. It’d easily double from our last dog (~7-10 years last major medical).
I’ve always avoided pet insurance because it seems like it’s more in the scheme of home warranty services than catastrophic insurance. Maybe I should give it a second look. Prepay at a discount.
That’s what we’re thinking of doing as well.
X Ray and an IV was $1300.
It’s less expensive to take your kid to the ER and pay cash.
In today’s world, pet insurance is a must. A single incident will recoup your premiums. We had a dog that had a healthy 12 year life, but that stupid abscess cost a mint.
NYC and NJ just reinforces my belief that carpetbaggers should be prohibited for life from holding office and voting should require multi year or multi decade residency.
Yep.
Democracy is tribal and emotional.
The carpetbaggers nearly won in my old home the next town over. The town itself has no real reason to exist any more, and the people of the carpetbaggers’ ilk only seem to want to shoot down any economic activity that might go on in the one business corridor.
That’s the lifetime locals that live in my hometown. They have run off billions of dollars of manufacturing over my life. Everything from a baseball bat manufacturing plant to a steel mill.
Yeah, the business area is historically quarries (back in the 19th century), with what’s left now being Icky Class stuff like poor people furniture showrooms and body shops, or worse, gravel producers.
Gravel producers?!
Now they have stepped into my realm and I am greatly offended.
National Divorce. Now.
I can’t believe how either Boars Head or Dietzl & Watson are considered premium brands. Bottom shelf garbage the lot of them. Oscar Meyer makes better lunch meats.
One of the Meyers of Oscar Meyer was a presenter at FreedomFest 2025. She talked about the dangers of digital ID.
Rip
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I expect Virginia to go pro illegals, troons, dei on day one. Abortion, gerrymandering, gun bans, tax increases to follow.
Can they codify killing political opponents’ kids via legislation or would an executive order be more appropriate? I’d hate to be a right winger needing justice in Virginia right now because the AG is a complete shitbag.
He can decline to prosecute those that kill his opponents.
Happy national donut day!
🍩😁🌤️💨
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrHy_TRudo
🎶🎶
I am a jelly donut …
Morning, Glibs.
mourning
How goes?
Cat is cuddling between my legs. I can hear the heat running. She is normally sitting on a register at this time.
Top o the morn to yeah.
Good morning, U, Roat, Sean, Stinky, GL(?), DEG, and Ted’S.!
…and 3door.
How goes?
OK, but the cat get annoyed when I lean across him to type. How are you?
Mornin’
Enough procrastinating, I’m off to the gym.
Why was i up at 2am DST?
Why?
I’m working on fixing my sleep schedule. It’s still not great. I took this coming monday off, so I have a four day weekend to look forward to. Hope I can get stuff done around the house.
Playing video games?
I wish UCS. Just woke up couldn’t get back to sleep.
Can I blame the beer I had? It’s been several weeks since I had one. Or maybe the coffee? I did have some around one pm, that may have gotten me. Got to bed by 10.
Why was i up at 2am DST?
It’s not daylight savings time any more.
Mornin!
Morning all.
Good morning all
Super busy day off for me today
It’s always DST at my place.
Huh, Mayor Mamdani: I knew it was likely but damn, it’s going to be funny when the new car smell wears off and NYC realizes they own a Fiat for the long term. For all his many faults a Giuliani type was needed and even a Bloomberg would’ve been better.
They can always blame kulaks and wreckers.
The hardcore deadenders will buy that or pretend to at least while the average voter who just wants improvement is going to be sorely disappointed that they’ve been sold rainbows and nonsense. Things are only going to get much worse there.
Abbott and DeSantis should immediately resume flights full of illegal immigrants to NYC. Surely Mamdami wouldn’t reject them or even complain, right?
Why bother? Just hand them over to ICE for deportation.
Weren’t the flights of not necessarily illegal immigrants who wanted to go north to sanctuary cities?
Mornin’ all.
Why do I expect that Mamdami will be bad for NYC but nowhere near as bad as predicted?
I see the three PA Democrat supreme court justices all won their retention votes.
Shocked.
How bad depends on how deep in the paint he’ll go actually trying to fulfill his pie in the sky campaign promises. If he’s smart or cynical enough to drop a lot of it it won’t be so bad although still not good.
He’ll have the same problem Boric did when he won in Chile – the system only lets you go so far (and that ain’t anywhere near where a leftist wants to be).
And the old bitch gets kicked out in 2 years anyway.
Another year, another exercise in futility in voting.
A lot of his fantasy promises won’t go anywhere without state approval. He can still do enormous amounts of damage, though. He is very pro-crime and he will undoubtedly reward all the pubsec wastrels with billions of tax dollars.
The real danger is if a commie replaces Hochul. I don’t know when she is up but it’s certainly possible.
Next year.
Damn cat just knocked over my coffee plant into a box of linked 50cal.
Now I have to take everything out of the box and vacuum it all out.
I’m trying to figure out if there was any autocorrect going on.
Would the caffeine make the gun faster but less accurate?
Cat is telling you not to keep your ammo near your coffee plant.
Note to self: Do not assault Threedoor.
I thought he was a boss fight who dropped Epic loot.
Let the cat do it for you.
I may sic a six toed bitie on you.
Semi epic loot.
You’ll get a stash of nice rifles but all the optics are not adjusted or attached.
Many of the Lego sets have been ravaged by children and are not complete.
Something’s wrong with me. I saw a headline about a crashed UPS plane and my first thought was about lost packages. I just blanked on the existence of the aircrew. (At the time I didn’t know it had also hit buildings on the ground)
And hearing foreign news reports pronouncing the place “Lewisville”.
Hearing? News reports are all text-based.
Proper native pronunciation is reserved for Spanish names.
Don’t feel too bad. I’m in logistics and a lot of our stuff goes through there. I was trying to figure out what we may have lost and what delays we could expect for everything else.
Looks bad.
Hit an industrial area, couple of junkyards, truck/trailer shops and an oil recycling facility.