- DOGE strikes again. For the second time this year, they eliminated my position, and I’m out of work. It definitely stinks, but I’m trying to look at it as another opportunity to build resilience. And you can’t really work on resilience without a little adversity, right?
- I get to drive to Mineral Wells this weekend. I think I’ve told y’all about my Aunt Bonnie. She’s a first cousin, but it confused me as a kid because she was so much older. So, I just stuck to calling her Aunt Bonnie. Her only child, Amy, is traveling from Arizona to bury her next to her father (Bonnie’s husband, David), who died of cancer in 1978. He’s part of the Hatfield family of Mineral Wells. If you are from MW, then you should know Richard Hatfield (the number one Ram fan) and the Gulf full-service gas station his parents owned. Amy is a few years younger than I, and other than my kids, she’s now literally the only family I have in this county.
From her home in Arizona, Amy has managed to plan and arrange all of her mother’s funeral by phone, coordinating with the city, cemetery, church, funeral home, and a restaurant so a small number of us can all have a little get-together. She has zero Mineral Wells contacts and felt burdened to do it all by herself.
Here’s a photo of Aunt Bonnie on her wedding day. My grandmother hand-sewed that dress, which family lore says is cursed. It looks like the wedding reception was held at my grandparents’ house, which my father designed. Simpler times back then.
- Concert Ticket Economics: The Shocking Amounts Fans Are Paying Per Live Song In 2025 – An eye-opening analysis by GigaCalculator reveals the eye-watering economics behind 2025’s biggest tours.
There’s a chart in the article, but here are some highlights:- Lana Del Rey leads as the priciest concert performer at $16.02 per song, while Charli XCX tops the per-minute cost at $3.55
- Oasis generates the most revenue per song at $858,024, with nightly earnings of $17.16 million across their reunion tour shows
- Budget-conscious fans get the best value from Ed Sheeran at just $0.91 per minute and Usher at $3.76 per song
- It is a common misconception that most global communication is accomplished via satellite. In fact, over 95 percent of international data and voice transfers are currently routed through the many fiber optic cables that crisscross the world’s seafloors
- ‘RUMP’: Customers upset with missing ‘T’ in Trump-branded watch that cost $640
Tim Petit paid $640 for a limited-edition Trump watch that is only one of 250 made. “I thought it was really nice. It was beautiful, and I knew it would be something that she’d like,” he said. Petit bought the watch after hearing an ad for it on the radio, featuring Trump himself.
- First look at Christian Bale and Nicholas Cage as Al Davis and John Madden in ‘MADDEN.’
- This was too funny for me not to post. But I know many of you are conservative in nature, so instead of displaying the Twitter video below, you will have to watch it here. There’s no nudity, but breasts are involved, and I think there’s one curse word.
- He just had to find an answer to his question.
— Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) May 14, 2025
