I walked in with the mail yesterday and jokingly told WifeGeeding one of my readers must have had enough of me and sent me a pipe bomb and showed her this red tube in the mail. She opened it up and inside was some sort of digital device with a strip that said “Remove to Activate”. I told her there’s no way I’m going to fall for that, but the mother of my children decided to remove that strip without even reading the paper inside the tube (which I imagined was a note made out of letters from magazine clippings). After removing the strip it beeped, which made me crap my pants (I might be exaggerating) and it displayed a series of red numbers which made me think was the amount of time we had to clear the house before it detonated. Turns out it’s some sort of promo for Direct Buy and they are telling us we may have won a Prius or something because the numbers on the digital device matched what we scratched off on the paper. I’m thinking everyone that got one of these in the mail also are winners.
If you think I’m a horrible person, I’m incline to agree with you. At the “Meet the Teacher” event at DaughterGeeding’s preschool I couldn’t help but start artificially judging kids and parents. It was like some sort of competitive force came over me, and I don’t want to be “that” parent.
There’s no telling what people thought of us as we sat up front and center during orientation. But then again, it was a good thing we did as the audio wasn’t working and seeing and hearing all the parents trying to control their young children would have been distracting all of us.
If it means anything, I was the only father in attendance. But then again, it was only preschool.
FamilyGeeding walked into Whataburger yesterday and out of nowhere DaughterGeeding asked, “Daddy, who started Whataburger?” Funny thing, but I actually knew it was Harmon Dobson in Corpus Christi, but then again, it’s posted on the wall. One day I’ll proudly tell her the story of Chicken-E.
BoyGeeding loves to try to walk in my shoes, DaughterGeeding did the same thing. I guess all toddlers give that a try, and I guess all parents of children that age have a hard time finding their shoes like me.
Cowboys/ATT Stadium has a new field and I noticed the field numbers appear a bit longer and skinnier.
From the Houston CBS station – 99 Ways Houston is Better than Dallas – I always had the impression that Dallas folks don’t really think or care about a rivalry but the Houston folks always try to make a big deal about it. If I were to compare it to anything, I always think of Dallas as New York and Houston as Boston.
Bill Murray was Letterman and was fantastic. His greatest moment on the show, in my opinion, was when Dave had the show out in Los Angeles for a week and for some reason had a shallow pool next to his desk. Dave introduced Murray who didn’t appear, Dave peeked around the curtain as if he was looking for him, and them Murray appears from the pool with a straw in his mouth. He said he’s been there for an hour just breathing through the straw, and for some reason, I believed him. Actually, I still kinda do, or would like to.
Bill Murray is so underrated. He's a comedic genius. Pretty sure I've seen every show he's done with Dave. Last night was greatness.
You nailed the whole Dallas/Houston rivalry. Dallas doesn't care, Houston is eat up with it. I once test drove a new pickup and the salesman mentioned he just moved here from Houston. I asked him "Did you get parole or serve your full sentence"? He failed to see the humor.
Bill Murray is so underrated. He's a comedic genius. Pretty sure I've seen every show he's done with Dave. Last night was greatness.
You nailed the whole Dallas/Houston rivalry. Dallas doesn't care, Houston is eat up with it. I once test drove a new pickup and the salesman mentioned he just moved here from Houston. I asked him "Did you get parole or serve your full sentence"? He failed to see the humor.
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