Few things are sadder than watching your well-disciplined dog walk out to the far end of the backyard during a big thunderstorm just to take a dump. He’s such a good boy and certainly deserves a treat. I saved him the dignity of not taking a photo.
Can someone out there kindly be proactive and keep Sen. Ted Cruz away from all things Dallas Stars and Dallas Mavericks related at the American Airlines Center until the start of July? He’s more than welcome to attend as many Astro games as he’d like.
My whole day yesterday seemed off, as if the time and date didn’t seem right. I guess part of the reason was that I didn’t have to work on Monday. What didn’t help was not realizing I was watching a newscast I thought was new but was recorded the previous day. After each segment, I simply thought not much had changed from yesterday. But since I blogged about Bill Walton’s death yesterday, it dawned on me I was watching an old newscast, or Walton died twice.
For the first time in a very long time, I didn’t use self-checkout at Wal-Mart because a cashier somehow became available. The cashier’s necklace caught my attention, so I asked her about it. Her answer was rather curt, telling me it was her name. She wasn’t wearing an employee badge or nametag, and the necklace appeared to face the wrong side, so I asked her for her name. All she told me was that it means “sand.” As in sand from the beach. I didn’t press her any further; I just said, “Ah, okay,” and moved on. She was probably having a bad day, but I’m still curious about the name.
Remember the Garfield car window toy craze of the ’80s? I recently found out it only happened because of a manufacturer’s mistake. Jim Davis, Garfield’s creator, told mental_floss in 2014:
He took a plush Garfield and attached Velcro to his paws, hoping people would be amused enough to hang him on their curtains. When he got the prototype back, the factory had made an error and placed suction cups on instead. Davis wasn’t too bothered; since they adhered well to glass, he assumed people might want to apply them to residential windows.
