[I collect stories, experiences, and observations that don't particularly have anything to do with the regular focus of this blog. To shake up the pattern, I feel inclined to post about them whenever it seems enough have collected to put into a Non Sequitur post.]
Time for a Non Sequitur. Mostly because I gotta clear a bunch of bears off the sticky note board.
Being Prepared
I picked up a set of these LED bulbs to see me through the post-apocalypse dust storms.
"Aspiring" to Extra Legroom?
Speaking to their extra legroom option on flights:
Delta Air Lines vice president of brand experience Mauricio Parise calls Comfort+ seats, launched in their current form in 2015, “attainable aspirations.”
“Ultimately this is an opportunity to give chances for customers with disposable income and seeking a better experience to offer that to them without going all the way to first class,” Mr. Parise says.
I'm a tall man who hasn't fit in economy since 2005. For me, that change in experience is a shift from miserable to tolerable. As for "attainable aspirations?" Crikey, it's a damn lawn chair no matter where it's bolted to the floor south of first class.
Smarter Than The Average Bear
The bar has been raised: Black bear enters Connecticut home, raids snacks from kitchen
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A Connecticut man doing yard work at his home went inside for a drink and found a black bear snacking in his kitchen.
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The man went into his kitchen and found a black bear eating marshmallows and peanut butter crackers that had been left on a counter top.
Smarter Than The Average Bear - Unstoppable!
Bear scales barbed-wire fence at Air Force base in Florida
Aug. 12 (UPI) -- A bear was caught on camera scaling the barbed-wire security fence at a Florida Air Force Base -- and the bruin's climb took only 34 seconds.
Smarter Than The Average Bear - NOW with Politeness!
The bar has been raised again: Bear rings doorbell at South Carolina home.
July 27 (UPI) -- A South Carolina woman's security camera captured video of the moment a bear strolled onto her front porch and rang the doorbell in the middle of the night.
Wendy Watson said the doorbell camera at her Greenville County home started recording about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, triggered by the motion of a bear that wandered up to her front door.
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