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• Parenting is tough work, but nights like last night sure to make it rewarding.  DaughterGeeding was on cloud nine going door-to-door and I was so impressed with her manners despite the excitement of the night.  To be honest, I don’t know what she enjoyed most, getting candy or giving it out.  I never thought I could top Halloween as a child, but after experiencing it with my kids I know I’m wrong.
• My neighbor who happens to be a starting lineman for our local NFL team that mows his lawn shirtless got a real kick out of BoyGeeding’s costume, even though BoyGeeding was a little nervous around the big guy.  In case you are wondering, that’s his lady friend in the middle.
• I’m not sure what was more surprising, the number of houses that simply put a large bowl of candy out in front of their door, or all the kids I saw who politely took one piece.
• One kid came to the door last night wearing ear buds jamming to music.
• I made a post earlier this week about police cars that can shoot a GPS dart from their car to track the bad guys.  Here’s a Texas Monthly article about the Austin Police using it to aid in high speed chases.
• I don’t understand medical insurance billing at all.  Yesterday I mentioned how I owe about $800 for a blood test with an out of network lab and was going to try to negotiate a lower price after looking up the CPT codes for Medicare.  After calling the lab they told me that I made a payment about twenty days ago of $50 and that’s all I would be responsible for.  Not wanting to be surprised by a later high dollar bill, I told them that my insurance sent me an Explanation of Benefits just a few days ago with a date that is past the date I made the payment and i probably more up to date.  Their explanation . . . sometimes that happens and even though your insurance says they won’t cover that $800 amount, you are just responsible for that $50 and nothing more, we’ll waive the rest.  I’m just gonna cross my fingers now.  Well, not now because I’m typing, but after I’m done typing.
• If I was suave, I would tell WifeGeeding that I had to pay that $800 and surprise her with one heck of a Christmas present.
• The best decorated bank lobby for Halloween
• The best way to improve any Thomas Kincade painting is to add some Stars Wars flair to it.
• Dallas’ Paul Quinn College got rid of it’s football program and turned their football field into an organic farm whose produce is sold at Cowboys games.  Students get paid ten bucks an hour to work on it, and the goal posts are still up.
• The most interesting man in the world? – Man, 80, fights bear, falls off cliff – and survives
• Shawn Bradley doesn’t appear anywhere on this list getting dunked on? – The 14 Best Posterizations in Modern NBA History
• A spinoff of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ called ‘How I Met Your Father’?
• I Wonder If Sunday School Is Destroying Our Kids
• Can corporations pray? The next expansion of corporate ‘personhood’ – LA Times
• Evangelical minister: Church leaders who supported Obama should resign — especially the black ones
• The deficit fell 37% in 2013?
• In Photos: Dallas’ Most Beautiful Homes
• The Kerry Hotel in Shanghai created a million ball ball-pit, the largest ball-pit in the world.
• Here are some Halloween pics from last night if you are interested.

It turns out when the app sorts your pictures by face, you have the option to make a time-lapse like movie with your face displaying in the center.

This video is comprised of 750 pictures of me in 39 seconds.

• 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.

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.

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.