Dream-Come-True Farm

I actually didn’t know about those free reports online, I’m admittedly no longer a very strong reader, especially of official reports - I’ve tried with the plane crash ones, but my eyes start glazing over. But it’s a great starting point for learning more, so thank you! Stuff about fires is really terrifying, especially hearing about crowd crushes. The YouTube channels Fascinating Horror and Plainly Difficult are my go-to for manmade disaster content (although they occasionally do natural disasters too). I find videos much easier to consume, especially if they’re long videos.

I’m really fascinated by forensics stuff, I used to be obsessed with Forensic Files and serial killer stuff, but eventually the weight of the human cruelty really got to me. It’s not at all like what the True Crime podcasters say - not a creepy guy jumping out of the bushes to kill a stranger. I mean, I guess once in a blue moon, that happens. Instead it’s always husbands killing wives, mothers killing children, or children killing their parents. People taking advantage of their loved ones for their own gain. It got to be too heavy, and I didn’t want to become the kind of person who thinks humanity is inherently evil or that you can’t trust other people.

With plane crashes and industrial disasters, it’s usually an accident - although often those accidents are caused by mismanagement and neglected maintenance, trying to save a dime. But through them I can learn about forensic investigation (usually of the mechanical kind, although human autopsies are also important in these cases) and the thrill of solving a mystery without knowing having to think about that kind of intentional cruelty and heartlessness that would lead a person to kill another.

Besides, it’s lead me to a broader love of planes. I never appreciated how amazing they are, until I learned when happens when they don’t work as intended. They’re still statistically the safest means of travel, every system has redundancies and it takes a string of errors, each more unlikely than the next, for one to crash. I look for planes in the sky now, I watch air traffic fly around in real time across the world on Flightradar24, I can fly a Cessna in Microsoft Flight Simulator (I’m still not great though), and I’m starting to collect model planes. All because I stumbled upon an episode of Seconds from Disaster (a great show albeit a bit overdramatic sometimes) about the crash of Swissair Flight 111 on YouTube one day. Of course my favorite show is Mayday: Air Disasters/Air Crash Investigations, it’s become the center of the vortex that is this special interest, haha.

Sorry for rambling, I’m having a horrible pain day and didn’t sleep last night so I’m really loopy, I bet this isn’t even coherent. An excuse to talk about my special interest made me feel a bit better though. I don’t have anyone IRL who wants to hear about it. I’m gonna watch Mayday until the Benadryl kicks in and maybe I can finally sleep.

That’s true. At least today, Pluto seemed much more chill, even when I reached down to pat the hens, he ran off instead of charging me like he did yesterday. Hopefully he learned his lesson! The same thing happened with my old man Jack, the first spring I had him he attacked me just once, I grabbed and carried him for a little while, and he never did it again. Let’s hope that’s the case for Pluto too!

To clarify, what triggered Pluto’s aggression yesterday was when I brought Pearl back into the coop after changing her foot bandaging, I went to put her down in the coop and that’s what pissed him off. So he was mad that I was holding/grabbing a hen, and just being protective. His heart’s in the right place.