Weekend Tomfoolery

My wife and daughter are currently in BC doing some Roller Derby stuff until Monday. That means it's just me and the pups at home. Mwahahahahaha! I'm gonna snort so much cocaine off hooker asses. Snort meaning sitting on the couch, cocaine meaning play video games and hooker asses meaning hooker breasts.

I'd like to think it'll be a good, relaxing weekend, but even if they were around I'd still be doing the same thing. I'm so lazy. I will likely try to take the dogs to the park and maybe work out my back. I think I have a bruised sternum from the seatbelt in my accident last week. It's mostly healed but I feel like I just need to move things around a bit since I've babied it all long enough.

Capone also really wants to go to the park. He's been begging but by the time I get home it's dark enough that I'll loose him and Sadie there. Some dogs had light up collars so that might be something to get. Or I could just take them for a walk on a leash but nuts to that. The park is so close and is less work for me!

I'll also have YouTube on in the background. I've recently found a channel that has a bunch of videos of sinkings on the great lakes. Pre-1970's it seemed to be a 50-50 chance that your ship would sink in the last November storm. They always had to go as late as possible to make money and all the ships were underpowered to make them more profitable. And the owners didn't give a fuck about their employees. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The thing that gets me is how unknown the number of lost ships is. Estimates vary between 6,000 and 25,000. That's a big difference. Probably depends on if you count recreational vessels as well but even the lower estimate is huge. If you haven't looked up the White Hurricane of 1913, it's a fucking wild storm. It was so nice late in the year they were commenting that winter forgot to come. A few days later, nineteen ships had sunk, nineteen were stranded and over 250 people were dead.

I always knew the lakes were dangerous, but watching this channel has really put some perspective on it. The Edmund Fitzgerald really isn't as special as popular culture makes it sound. It was just another ship in a long line of sinkings. Not even the first queen of the lakes to sink. Luckily, with slightly better treatment of crews and much better weather tracking, these things don't happen at the clip they used to. 

Now, if you'll excuse me. Some eccentric billionaire has agreed to take me on his experimental submarine to visit the Edmund Fitzgerald. I think it's made of paper mache!