We opened the skatepark that I wrote about last week. Pictured left to right above is city council member Ray Black, Mayor Jim Miller, council member Clark Bunch, council member Jim Treglown and the namesake of the park Joe Young. The mayor can be seen holding a giant pair of golden scissors, yes there really is such a thing. By the way, I thought everyone would holding onto the ribbon; it was only tied at one end just long enough to take the picture. The day was a qualified success, drawing a huge crowd that hung around all day. Joe’s dad grilled hamburgers and hotdogs and later smoked a few chickens. The skate park is the latest upgrade to our parks and rec center. If you don’t give kids something to do they will find something to do and you might not like it. We will know where the kids at the skatepark are, in a safe controlled environment. If you don’t plan it then you can’t control it. That’s the thought process behind building skateparks, ball fields, creating teams, opening the gym on weeknights… it’s why James Naismith invented basketball. When you invest in the community you get a better community. (The same principle applies to churches.)

Bible Gateway got the the cart ahead of the horse and announced Maundy Thursday a week early. Some people panicked, one poor church secretary didn’t think it was funny, but it was just a false start. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, Holy Week/Passion Week follows and next Sunday is Easter. Here is the 2015 article on Maundy Thursday that Bible Gateway was linking to but you might want to check out this timeline of the events of Holy Week. I never thought I would miss having chapel services five times a week and twice on Sunday but during Holy Week I kinda do.

I don’t follow golf but when Tiger Woods shows up in August just months after a terrible car accident led to discussions of amputating one leg, even I notice. After two rounds he is averaging one stroke over par (which one time in history was enough to win). Woods has five Masters titles. Only one player, Jack Nicklaus, has six. He won his sixth Masters tournament in 1983 at the age of 46. Tiger Woods is 46. Things that make you go hmmm…

Back in October of last year I wrote about Anita Harris of Illinois filing a class action lawsuit against Kellogg’s. The accusation is over the amount of strawberries in the strawberry Pop-tarts when there is actually as much pear and apple puree as there is strawberry. I’m glad there is real fruit in there at all to be honest but Harris claims that, ingredient labels aside, the big letters on the front of the package suggest lots of real strawberry in each pastry. Justice as well as common sense prevails as the case has been dismissed.

It’s been one year since this happened. The now Senator Warnock likes to tout his record as a Baptist church pastor but the man literally said “Christian or not… we are able to save ourselves.” Saving yourself is not a tenet of Christian faith. Joel Osteen has better theology.

It’s a little misleading to call them “the 9 kings of Europe” as there were others in Europe at the time not represented here. The nine kings pictured here are in London in 1910, gathered for the funeral of King Edward VII. On the brink of The Great War (WWI) four of these kings would be deposed and one assassinated. Standing, from left to right: King Haakon VII of Norway, Tsar Ferdinand of the Bulgarians, King Manuel II of Portugal and the Algarve, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, King George I of the Hellenes and King Albert I of the Belgians. Seated, from left to right: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, King George V of the United Kingdom, and King Frederick VIII of Denmark. Thank you Tuvia Pollack for sharing via Facebook.

Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous is a Netflix series that does for Jurassic World what The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch does for Star Wars. It’s a CGI series for kids/tweens that uses character names and backdrops from the Jurassic franchise. The episodes are serialized but they have already produced four seasons so plenty of content if you’re looking for something to binge.

How did I not know this? Yes I checked, yes all of this is true.

Tumbleweed is fun to watch and a quintessential feature of western ghost towns in movies, but it’s also an invasive species that does real harm. Click here for more.

Interstate numbers are designed with rhyme and reason, usually. Click here for an amusing video history lesson of how interstate highways got their numbers.

Nerd Alert – I held off on this bit for a week giving my friend Dudley in particular and presumably others a chance to catch up on Star Trek: Picard. A fan favorite of the original film series was Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home, affectionately known by many as the one with the whales. Kirk Thatcher is shown above as punk on the bus, a bit of comic relief in the film. He was already working on Star Trek 4 as an associate producer and told Leonard Nimoy, who was directing, that he wanted to play the punk. Nimoy thought about it for a few days as they continued to work side by side. When he was finally told he could do it, Thatcher bleached his hair, dyed it bright orange, Aqua-netted it into a mohawk and shaved the sides. He wrote “I hate you” specifically to play on the boombox during this scene. So yes, in the time traveling “save the past to save the future” season two of Picard fans will recognize him rocking out to “I still hate you.” Really nerdy Trekkies may have spotted a cameo homage to the character in Spiderman: Homecoming.