Three Things I Can't Find With Google
After starting this blog, I decided that I'd better update my Google account profile and make sure that everything was accurate. Like most profiles, it asks the basic "what are your likes?", "what are your dislikes?" and so on. One of the entries that you could fill in was "something you can't find with Google."
1. Amelia Earhart - My father's side of the family is from Atchison, Kansas, the hometown of Amelia Earhart. So, I grew up on stories about her escapades as a female aviator. To this day, her disappearance during her circumnavigational flight in 1937 has never been solved. I've always thought of her disappearance as one of the last great historical mysteries. Maybe with a new movie underway about her life, a new spark of interest will start and the mystery might one day be solved. Though, I'm content enough to leave this one unsolved since it adds such a great air to the whole story. She knew of the dangers and embraced them fully. I think in some ways this was the best way to end her legacy. "Please know I am quite aware of the hazards," she said. "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."
2. Clank - One of my all-time beloved game characters, Clank has always been the faithful side-kick, following Ratchet across the galaxies and venturing into dangerous scenarios. Yet when Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction came out in late 2007, Clank was shoved to the forefront of their adventures. As the mystery unfolded even more in Quest for Booty, Clank's disappearance has yet to be solved. With the next iteration, A Crack in Time, coming later this year it looks like we might finally be able to unravel the mystery and find our buddy Clank before it's too late.
3. Inverted Jenny - Another story from my father's side of the family. My grandmother before she died showed my father a stamp that she had been saving that could have possibly been worth around $100,000. That stamp was an Inverted Jenny, a rare misprinted stamp depicting an upside down bi-plane. My father asked her to give it to him so he could keep it in a safe place, but my grandmother was always so stubborn and wouldn't let it go. After she died, my grandfather, father, and aunt, scoured the entire house trying to find this one stamp. Unfortunately, they could not. Though, I'm not too bothered by losing the money (My father was and still is, lol), I'm more curious to know what happened to it. Some lucky person might have found it in a purse they bought at a garage sale and might not even know what it is.
