This arrived in my mail. I included a couple of bananas for scale.
An “action shot” I took of BoyGeeding at a chess tournament earlier this week. He’s an eighth-grader playing on the varsity team. He was bothered by his loss in his last match. I had to remind him that his opponent was almost a foot tall and literally had a beard. But in case you are wondering, he won the match in the photo below.
If there’s one thing I go way overboard on, it’s replacing the registration sticker on my car’s windshield. Decades ago, I’d struggle to scrape it off with nothing but a razor blade, but years later, I bought a special super-duper scraper. But glue residue is still left, and that’s unsightly, so I have to use a chemical like mineral spirits or acetone to remove it. That leaves one corner of the windshield clean, and I just can’t let that be, so I have to clean the inside of the windscreen, which means I also have to clean the outside. Now, it’s finally time to place the sticker on the inside of the windshield. Still, I can’t stand it if it’s even slightly crooked or placed too high or too low, so I make a painstaking effort to ensure it’s parallel and perpendicular using imaginary x- and y-axes.
The rest of the Cowboys’ season:
On a whim, I decided to watch The Great Escape for the first time. While I enjoyed the film, I really enjoyed reading the backstory and trivia behind it.
- Burl Ives’ “Holly Jolly Christmas” came in third, while Michael Bublé’s version ranked eighth.
- Brenda Lee’s “Jingle Bell Rock” ranked fifth, followed by Bobby Helms’ version.
- Jackson 5’s “Santa Claus is Coming To Town” was seventh, followed by Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree.”
- Wham!’s “Last Christmas” and Andy Williams’ “It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year” round out the local Top 10.
- José Feliciano’s “Feliz Navidad” is ranked third in Texas but didn’t make Dallas’ Top 10. It’s L.A.’s top holiday song, per iHeart Radio.
That last song is my kryptonite. For a year or two in college, I worked at Coach House Gifts in the Mall of Abilene, and that song seemed to play on repeat in our store nonstop.
Texas might get a new Interstate that could cut through East Texas and connect DFW to Amarillo, providing a more direct trade route between the Texas coast and the Panhandle.
Just an observation: You never hear the term “going postal” anymore.
The President changed the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and then named the United States Institute of Peace after him?
Zohran Mamdani and the Louvre make the list of most mispronounced words of 2025
But this is what got my attention:
In a pronunciation surprise of the year, actor Denzel Washington told late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that he was named after his father and their first names are actually pronounced DEN-zul. But, he said, that became confusing so his mother decided to pronounce her son’s name Den-ZELLE.
Texas pastor advises young, single, unmarried women to ‘lose 20 to 30 pounds’
The area is north of Austin.
Joel Webbon, senior pastor at Covenant Bible Church and founder of Righteous Response Ministries—which he founded to advance theonomy, or the modern imposition of divine law as portrayed in the Old Testament—offered advice for women who “want to be married but feel like they’re being passed over” on a Wednesday episode of the ministry’s “The Live Stream” show.
This song may be old to you, but it’s new to me, and I can’t get enough of it.
How a bald coach solved volleyball’s ponytail predicament
That story has a local “tie.”
full clip with inputs from nebraska, louisville and tcu players #whatstartsherechangestheworld https://t.co/rhqjvheR3p pic.twitter.com/k00DEJOhRj
— cardiac longhorns (@scorsesebdd) December 1, 2025
full clip with inputs from nebraska, louisville and tcu players #whatstartsherechangestheworld https://t.co/rhqjvheR3p pic.twitter.com/k00DEJOhRj
— cardiac longhorns (@scorsesebdd) December 1, 2025