Bag of Randomness for Thursday, June 15, 2023

  • I had to go to the federal building in downtown Dallas yesterday to pick up a new badge for work. Lucky for me, I got a great parking spot and was in and out in less than 30 minutes. It’s always a bit eerie driving out of downtown going north as it’s the same route JFK took on that frightful day.
  • Twenty years ago yesterday, one week before I was going to get married, my best friend (and best man) died in a drowning accident. I hope I’ve honored his life with how I lived mine. With a failed marriage, I do feel I’ve let him down. I think I missed him most as I was going through my divorce. I’ll grant my ex one thing, I thought it was classy of her to want to name our first born after him. I’m just glad he had a unisex name, it would have been a shame to name our daughter Butch.
  • There’s a new alert in Texas –  House Bill 3556 allows law enforcement in Texas to send out localized alerts — known as an “Athena Alert” — within a 100-mile radius of where a child has gone missing and in adjacent counties.
  • You’ve heard of tiny homes. This East Dallas project will rent ‘micro’ apartmentsThe new rental community’s ‘micro-units’ start around 350 square feet in size in order to keep rent prices down.
  • Walgreens unveils Chicago store with only two aisles and most products kept out of sight
  • In this youth baseball league, fans who mistreat umpires are sentenced to do the job themselves
  • “When you want to arrive at your goal more than what you are doing, you become stressed.”
  • Man fakes death and turns up at his own funeral in TikTok stunt
    • David Baerten, 45, reportedly roped his wife and kids into the ruse, with one of his daughters posting online about her heartbreak at her father’s “passing.” As his wider family came together at his funeral to pay their respects, Baerten made a dramatic arrival in a helicopter—along with a camera crew—and set about comforting his distraught loved ones. “What I see in my family often hurts me,” Baerten said in defense of his unhinged actions. “I never get invited to anything. Nobody sees me. We all grew apart. I felt unappreciated. That’s why I wanted to give them a life lesson, and show them that you shouldn’t wait until someone is dead to meet up with them.” He also said that “only half” of his family bothered to turn up for his funeral.
  • Guy free-hands embellishments on door panel
    by u/purple-circle in BeAmazed

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