Bag of Randomness

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  • There’s not telling what kind of night Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg had.  Heck, last night would have been the most opportune time for Affleck to show up as Batman.
  • Boston is one of the perennial baseball towns, I’m happy that got to win the World Series Cup at home.
  • If you are a 12-year-old in Boston you’ve seen the Red Sox win the World Series three times, the Patriots win three Super Bowls, the Celtics win one NBA Finals title, and the Bruins win a Stanley Cup.
  • Despite Dallas winning Super Bowls, an NBA Finals, a Stanley Cup, and an indoor soccer championship, not one of them was one here.
  • It was nice to see some former Rangers that lost in a World Series win one.
  • @petersagal – Speaking for all fellow #RedSox fans everywhere: and you thought we were unbearable before this…
  • Koji’s son was adorable during that post game interview.
  • Fox had a nice sendoff to Tim McCarver.
  • I heard a song played during an MLB promo that really caught my attention, and then I heard the same song on ‘Person of Interest’ this week.  It’s a song called ‘Intro’ by The XX. YouTube
  • I went in for my annual physical last month and when I mentioned my family’s history of heart disease the doctor recommended an additional blood test that would be sent to Cleveland Heart Lab and stated that it’s covered by most insurance.  Well, after numerous phone calls it turns out they are out of network and I’m being asked to cough up $800.  My plan now is to look up the CPT codes and see what the Medicare rates and negotiate from there, at least that’s what Consumer Reports once suggested.
  • For the first time in a long time I uploaded a video to my YouTube account, but Google forced me to agree to create a Google+ account, which I didn’t want to do.  So now I have a Google+ account I never plan on updating.
  • Denton is trying to lure Sriracha away from Southern California.  I’m not a fan of spicy, so I’ve never had the stuff.
  • Never did I think my profession would be mentioned so often in the news.
  • For Halloween a woman plans on handing out fat letters to kids she considers moderately obese.
  • ‘Sesame Street’ parody of ‘Homeland’ – Homelamb – YouTube
  • From this article, I learned how people commonly mistake a fedora from other dress hats, and that the broader the shoulders on a man, the broader the rim.
  • Rare pieces of Astrodome history being prepped for weekend ‘yard sale’
  • WWJD? A pastor driving around in a hearst to promote his new book about the death of christendom. – YouTube
  • Deep-fried Twinkie Burger
  • I don’t know much about car engines, but I learned a few things from this infograph.
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How I’ve Changed In The Last Eight Years

I use Picasa to manage my photos and it has a face recognition feature where it will organize and display only the face of the person in the photos.  As I was scrolling through pictures of my face I couldn’t help but noticed how much I’ve changed over the years.  Below is a picture of myself taken in October over the last eight years.  And for whatever reason you may wish, you can click to enlarge the collage.

When I started working at Southwest Airlines I was told that before I would know it, I’d gain a lot of weight without realizing it.  My Southwest years were 2007-2010 and those words unfortunately proved true.

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It’s also interesting to see how much has happened in those years.  I lost my mother, I became a father, I’ve changed jobs four times, and moved once.

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