Trina Letter - People Are Strange

Saturday, November 26, 2005

Hey, Navy:

The highlands to the west got their first serious snow of the season last night and the snowline itself dipped pretty far into the valley, but not onto the floor. Instead, we got rain which immediately froze to everything. Lucky it was the weekend because there was lots of black ice out there. It looks like it was ‘warm’ at RTC today and it’s still above freezing as I write this (9:15 PM PST). It looks like you’re going to enjoy 50 degree weather at the beginning of the week with some thunderstorms, then back into a below-freezing cold spell.

It was another quiet day in the Moore house. Lara went outside while the sun was shining and did not burst into flame. Danielle was showing off a public service announcement she created which is darn cute and has exceptionally high production values. She can tell you more about it. YM is watching Braveheart, or as she probably calls it, That Crazy Irishman Who Saved Scotland.

I did some schoolwork today, but more interesting (probably only to me), I checked out a pictorial history of Abraham Lincoln. The Civil War trivia is fascinating and some of the photographs are startling, such as the one of the soldier literally torn apart by artillery at Gettysburg. His chest cavity is open to the world and his left hand is…way over there, if you know what I mean. Brutal.

On a cheerier note, here’s some stupid people from the news. Makes me proud to be an American.

- Inmates to Process Moose Meat for Charity: Alaska inmates at a prison work farm are taking on a new assignment: butchering the meat of moose struck by trains each winter along 68 miles of track.

- Man Cuts in Line, Is Wrestled to Ground: Security guards wrestled a man to the ground in a Wal-Mart after he cut in line to get laptop computers that were on sale.

- Baltimore Losing Light Poles to Thieves: Baltimore city streets are getting darker because thieves, some disguised as utility crews, are stealing 30-foot light poles.

- Reno Man Accused of $200,000 Legos Theft: William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., was indicted by a grand jury, accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks from area Target stores.

- Drug Smuggler Crowned Miss Penitentiary: South America's latest beauty queen won't be campaigning abroad for world peace any time soon, unless, of course, she's granted early parole.

- Teacher Accused of Anti-Bush Quiz: A high school teacher is facing questions from administrators after giving a vocabulary quiz that included digs at President Bush and the extreme right.

- Bear Bites Hunter Who Shot It: A black bear bit and clawed a hunter who had just shot it four times in what authorities said appeared to be a first.

- Frozen Turkey Used to Break Windows of Burning Car: An elderly Illinois couple was hospitalized after being rescued from their burning car by a man who used his Thanksgiving turkey to break the windows.

- Woman Who Dumped Kittens Sentenced to Night in Woods: Snow and temperatures in the 20s are expected when a northeast Ohio woman begins a 15-day jail sentence by spending a night in the woods.

- Two 'Wives' Fight Over Sergeant's Remains: The final resting place for a retired sergeant may be determined by a judge as two women battle over which was his wife at the time of his death.

- Man Leads Police on Slow Lawnmower Case: Bad idea: fleeing from police in a stolen car. Terrible idea: fleeing in a stolen lawnmower. But that's what police say a "happy drunk" did, a decision that landed the suspect back in prison for violating his parole.

Try to call and write when you can. Thinking of you.

All my love,
Air Force