Catching up

[Andybev01]

"Dang, that turned into a long post. :lol"

Never the less, fun and informative.

[Murfreesboro]

Yes, my kids are all aware of LinkedIn, though I wish my daughter would get more serious about using it.

Headless, what you describe reminds me of the age-old tug-of-war between freedom and security. We're being monitored 24/7 in part to keep us safe, but even that is double-edged. Safe from what? From terrorism, or perhaps from the political enemies of those in power? And the loss of privacy is a serious concern, obviously. I guess technologies are never an unadulterated good, because in themselves they have no moral value. We are the ones who invest them with moral value, by the way in which we choose to employ them.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

I've been watching a lot of movies about cruise ships lately, most of them are comedies and horror movies, and a interesting thing that I noticed about the horror movies is that the posters for them are very similar with their design. I put a picture below to show what I mean, the last movie is actually about a pirate ship, but I thought it looks good with the others.

While I'm on the subject of cruise ships, there are 2 classic shows from the 60s that had episodes about cruise ships, The Twilight Zone had a good episode called Passage on the Lady Anne, and if anyone remembers the show called The Time Tunnel, the first episode was about a certain famous cruise ship, both are decent episodes.

Also, I know that you guys have said that you don't get any email notifications from the forum, but I still do, and it's interesting that they always go to the spam folder, regardless of what they are about. Something else unusual is that if someone sends me a private message at 12pm, I won't get a email telling me until about 2 hours later, and it still goes to the spam folder, it's just something I wanted to bring up.

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[Murfreesboro]

Those posters really do resemble each other!

I remember The Time Tunnel. I loved that show. As a kid I never questioned how it was that everybody spoke English, no matter how far back they went. Did they ever provide an explanation for that?

If you like cruise ship movies have you ever watched The Poseidon Adventure, the grandaddy of all disaster films?

[Andybev01]

Classic disaster movie!

When the ship rolled over it made me a little seasick, and I grew up in a sailing family.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

It wasn't ever explained in The Time Tunnel, but both Doctor Who and Star Trek had a explanation for how everyone could understand each other.

Oh yeah, I've watched The Poseidon Adventure, it was a great movie, the remake was good as well.

[Andybev01]

My favorite maritime story:

https://youtu.be/dew4ZrTnMeE?feature=shared

Also, why don't we hear anything about happenings in the Bermuda Triangle?

[Murfreesboro]

I'll have to come back to that in a few days. My phone plan is out of data and is infuriating about loading stuff right now.

Are there really no movies about the Bermuda Traingle? There was an excellent X Files episode set there, I believe Season 6, which may be my favorite season of that show.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

There are a lot of movies, shows, and documentaries about the Bermuda Traingle, including a good show currently on the History channel called The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters. You might also like a show called Curse of the Bermuda Triangle that aired on the Science channel. Yeah, these people really weren't that creative when naming the shows.

[Andybev01]

I meant current news items.

You don't hear that a plane disappeared last week or that a ship that vanished years ago appeared in port with everyone on board but none have aged.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

If a lost ship suddenly appeared with passengers that hadn't aged, then you wouldn't hear about it because the Gov would cover it up. Shhhhh... they are monitoring this conversation right now, and they're already watching you.

Have you watched the show Manifest? You should.

[Murfreesboro]

Was Manifest the one where the plane disappeared, then reappeared maybe five years later? I did watch that for at least a season.

[Andybev01]

I watched a few episodes and it was okay.

[TheHeadlessHorseman]

It's been awhile, I hope that everybody here is doing well. What have you guys been up to?

There have been some interesting things happening for us lately, most notably is that last month my older sister's oldest kid just had her first baby, so that officially makes my mother a great grandmother, and my grandaunt is now a great great grandaunt! They named her Karoleen, and she is absolutely adorable! My family has a thing for K names, as there is probably about 30 members I know of in our family that have names that start with the letter K, my siblings and myself included.

We can't wait to meet her in person, but we won't be going to Florida until June to celebrate my grandaunt's hundredth birthday. That's just one of the many major things our family will be celebrating this year, as my mother will be turning 70, my older sister will be 50, and my wife and I are going to be celebrating our 15th anniversary.

In other news, we finally got everybody's schedule lined up and booked our cruise for this summer. We booked it back in December and gave it to the family for Christmas, my mother was very excited about the trip, but she also cried because she has always wanted to go on a cruise and she didn't think that she ever would, and when she found out that she will be spending her 70th birthday on the cruise she actually started screaming hysterically, it was very funny, as she scared some of the younger kids and her dogs.

The trip is going to be exhausting, as first we are going to have to fly to Italy, spend a few days there, and then board the ship for a week as we travel to Greece, and eventually Turkey where the cruise stops, and we will fly home from there. We will be leaving on July 1st, and board the cruise on the 5th which is Phoebe's birthday, my mother's birthday is on the 11th, and the cruise goes until the 12th. There will be 16 of us going, so we are definitely expecting some chaos.

Normally I wouldn't post a family picture, but this is just a beautiful picture. This is my grandaunt Millie holding the newest member of our family, Karoleen. Yup, I'm a granduncle now, and I'm looking forward to meeting her. As for my grandaunt, I absolutely love this woman, I have learned so much in life from her, and I can't wait to celebrate her birthday with her.

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[TheHeadlessHorseman]

I just became a Halloween Master, YAY!