Several months ago, maybe in February, a strange thing happened near my house. There were several police cars and an ambulance at the traffic light to the left of my house. The light itself was not working as usual, instead flashing yellow constantly. So that’s not too weird, maybe an accident. As I pull into my drive and notice that cars are being directed to turn around and go back the way they came. There are also several parked at the corner. I can’t tell if they are crushed up at all, or just went off the road, or what. So it is also garbage night and I go back out several times to get the garbage and recycles out. On my last trip out I notice this incredibly, huge-gigantic thing coming up the street from the corner with the busted light and it has a police-ambulance escort. It is riding on a wide load type truck, mostly covered, but it does appear to be made of metal, really enormous and shaped with rounded sides like a tank. But I can tell it’s not a tank. What it is?! By now Dan has joined me outside and we watch amazed as this thing rolls slowly by. It continues to the other corner to the right of my house and turns down that street. Eventually I can no longer see it. We never figured out what it was. We think the light at the corner to the left was hit by this thing as it tried to pass and police had to show up to help. I’m actually surprised it cleared the light at the other corner as neither light is that high up.
Star Trek Deep Space Nine
Dan and are watching it. So we get to this one disk and I swear from the episode titles we could be watching a bible study series. Here are the names of the episodes:
The Ascent
Rapture
The Light and the Dark
The Begotten
After the second episode, Dan points out, “Look their uniforms have changed. That’s after the movie where they try to ruin first contact.” (pause) “Except on Voyager where the uniforms stay the same, because they didn’t know about the sale at Macy’s on uniforms.”
A few minutes later, just to clarify, I guess, Dan says,
“You do know that they don’t have Macy’s in the delta quadrant, right?”
Yeah. Totally.