a light in the attic.

i'm a bit disappointed that the 6 year old who was supposedly "up at about 8000 feet in a massive helium-filled mylar balloon" was actually just "up in the attic". i mean, can you imagine telling that story to your grandkids?
"dude, grampa? THAT WAS YOU?!"
"why, yes, son! i just hopped in, cut the tether, and TOTALLY SLAYED THAT $#!@! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!"
okay, maybe it wouldn't go that way. my grandpa never spoke that way. course, he din't have such and epicky tale to tell. that said, the kid will still have quite a funny story to tell.
"grandpa! the CNN coverage lasted HOW LONG??"
"most of the day, i think. they had a "balloon curator" who was aptly named "gordon boring" and everything. helicopters, ground crews, all kinda people just millin about, watchin this shiny thing thinkin I WAS UP IN IT! there was probly seven figures in waste that day HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
i mean, when our government wastes a buncha money on nothing, i'm a bit pissed, but there was sposeta be some "credible" evidence--the 6 year old's brother "saw him get in the balloon"--and all the recovery efforts they made were with the expectation of finding a scared and possibly seriously injured 6 year old in the balloon, so i say, good on ya, got some practice chasing down some completely random, never-gonna-happen-again type of stuff. when the media spends money on helicopters, ground crews, "EXPERTS"; when they speculate about "what it's like in the balloon" and the "expert" says "i don't know" and they still broadcast it, i find it more to be a bit of "comeupagainst". and they said it was headed east from larimer county--way up north in CO, bordering on WY--and that the balloon was found "near colorado springs" which is due south of larimer county. there useta be these people called "fact checkers", but apparently they were downsized in the "great consumer bendover" of last fall, possibly replaced by people like me who "love to make shit up for free." the fact that the 6 year old was actually "in the attic" is pretty damn awesome.