Pinterest and CNN. Sorry about that.

Pinterest!
Now I get it, well, maybe.
I was talking to my wife today after not talking to her for a day or so because we were underway at sea, and we discussed what you may be imagining............ the outside lighting on our house.

And then I remembered a comment I received on a previous post in which I questioned the validity of Pinterest.
I was told it's basically pretty useless (that has been proven to be true up to this point ) but it is a good place to sometimes get ideas for your home, or whatever project you have going.

So, as my wife and I discussed the possible height of our soon to be new lights, and the various models, it hit me.

PINTEREST

So off I went to my new "idea" site. Who ever thought an "idea" site would catch on?

Well, I'll tell you this, I found a lot of ideas of what I DON'T want, but still, I can see where that site could come in handy in a pinch.

Pinterest? Yep, I'm all in.

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Ok, so I popped in to see what CNN was talking about today, and yes, you guessed it, Flight 370.

I know I know, I said I wouldn't watch anymore, but I couldn't help myself. 

I don't mean to make light of the tragedy that took place and the 370 lives that are presumed lost. I can't imagine how the family's of those doomed souls feel, considering everyones apparent ineptness  at finding a plane that somehow just disappeared out of the sky.

What I am making light of is this "Saturday Night live Skit" CNN calls it's coverage of this disaster.

I mean, seriously, can you be anymore over the top with your coverage?

Their never ending banner that runs 24/7 across the bottom of the screen which yells,

"BREAKING NEWS!! FLIGHT 370........."

Hey CNN. It's not BREAKING news anymore.

They now have a counter going, telling us the ESTIMATED BLACK BOX LIFE.

Last I checked it was 6 DAYS      2 HOURS.

Really??

It's like the Times Square countdown to the new year. The only thing missing on the CNN set are the party favors.

Just when I thought I'd seen everything that would make Walter Cronkite puke, their coverage switched from the studio to a guy standing in a little boat 10 miles at sea from Perth.

Was he in the search area, is that why he was in a little boat? Hell no. He was hundreds of miles from the search area.

So.....did they put him in a boat no where near the search area so as he was talking about the authorities searching the ocean for clues, we could get an idea of what the ocean looks like?

As they were wrapping up the segment, Wolf Blitzer ( I always think of Dash Riprock of Beverly hillbilly fame when I hear his name ) asked the reporter standing in the little boat hundreds of miles from the search zone, if he see's any junk in the water where he is at. I could tell the reporter just wanted to yell at Dash, I mean Wolf, "hell no I don't see anything in the water, I'M HUNDREDS OF MILES FROM THE SEARCH ZONE !

I'm giving up CNN for lent. I swear.

Pinterest sminterist

I'm sitting here in my room on the boat just about as frustrated as one can be, because I can not up load a photo to my blog. Oh, poor me.

I quickly got a grip on my mental state and reminded myself that it wasn't too many years ago that once we docked, I would sprint the length of the warf hoping to find a working pay phone so i could call home. With that came a bunch of other concerns, if I found a working pay phone, would my wife happen to be home when I called? You know what was the worst? The busy signal. For those of you who don't remember the busy signal, it was a repetitive beeping sound that you would hear if the person you were calling happened to be on the phone talking to someone else at the time you happened to call. That beeping sound would cut right to the bone. But after not being able to call home for say a week or so, finally getting to a phone, only to hear that busy signal? Now, that was frustrating.

So I talked myself off the ledge minutes ago, remembering that I talked to my wife 4 different times today, touched base with some friends on FB, and checked my checking account balance, all from my phone.

Ok, that great picture I was going to upload to this space right here will just have to wait.

On another note. Last night I signed up for Pinterest. I don't want to be left behind. I'm in. Me and Pinterest. So now I have a Pinterest page.....it's blank, but I have one.

Question.

What is Pinterest? What do you do with it? Do I "pin" other people's photos or recipes? Why would I do that? Do people pin me?

Two people are already following my Pinterest page. Imagine their disappointment when they realize my page is blank.

I tried to do a little research on Pinterest to get a handle on it, but, have I mentioned, my internet is really really slow?
So the frustration set in......it's just a vicious circle.