The first picture here is some of the suggestions for names and logos for our local professional minor league baseball team that started playing last year. These ideas were submitted by normal members of the community. Look at how bright and fun they are - and each idea celebrates some aspect of local culture. Literally any one of these would have been better than what the bureaucrats settled on.
The second picture shows what the bureaucrats settled on after spending a million dollars and doing tons of “research”. Look at how daggaum ugly and stupid the Tri-State Coal Cats logo is. If the people getting to make these decisions fell into a field of flowers, they’d land in the only spot with briars. I wish the Appalachian League of professional baseball would kick them out, make them fire the bureaucrats, and start over.
https://downtownhuntington.net/minor-league-baseball-returns-to-huntington-in-2024/
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
