When I watch the news, BoyGeeding likes to get my attention by climbing on the chest we use as a table and stare at me with a smile. He’s such an attention whore.
We are cleaning out our garage and I took a load to the dump. For a dump, our’s sure has a lot of security.
The dump fascinates me for some reason.
One of the nursery workers at our church recently loss her full time job and she’s collecting scrap metal to get by. While cleaning the garage I found an old garage spring, copper fittings, and all other kind of metal stuff to give her.
Our local Target is taking the UT loss hard, all the burnt orange stuff was 30% off. There was no longhorn logo on the stuff, but there was quite a bit of burnt orange stuff on sale.
I have a friend whose wedding was scheduled on his birthday. I always thought that was selfish on his bride’s part, and it means she’ll walk all over you for the duration of your marriage.
A French gambling website made a humorous JFK assassination commercial. Folks around here tend to make jokes about it somewhat regularly, but I think it’s just a way of coping being the city that killed a president.
I think Woodrow Wilson is the only president to have his wife die during his presidency and to marry (or remarry) in the same presidency.
Suzy Kolber looked like she got a lot of work done.
Chris Berman doesn’t bug me like most folks. He’s doing the same stuff he’s always been doing, so he’s just being himself and doing what made him successful. It’s the people who don’t act like themselves trying to create shtick because they think that’s the cool thing to do that annoys me.
Those NFL.com commercials where the players having people on their shoulders bug me because it’s so friggin’ obvious some sort of appartus is being used to support those people. The players look so upright and unnatural it’s distracting.
As much as I can’t stand RGIII, I think he was just rusty last night since he wasn’t involved in any preseason games and didn’t have any real contact.
All it took was a name change. The Giants never lost in Cowboys Stadium but haven’t won in ATT Stadium.
Cowboys/ATT Stadium had a great night view with the roof open because of the giant glowing blue star on top of the Jerrytron. But last night they showed a view from the top and that star has been replaced with an ATT logo.
Per this article, that stadium uses more electricity than the entire country of Liberia.
I don’t think Al Michaels or Cris Collinsworth mentioned that Gov Christie was sitting next to Jerry Jones but mentioned how George Straight was in attendance.
Jerry’s damn grandson sill has to try to get into every camera shot.
The Cowboys were playing Billy Idol’s Mony Mony yesterday.What is this, 1987? They also played Bon Jovi’s Bad Medicine. What that because Gov Christie was in the house and that’s a NJ band?
I think the Giants played poor more than the Cowboys played well.
I did watch ‘Breaking Bad’ last night, but will hold off on any thoughts as I’m sure most of you were watching football and didn’t get a chance to view it.
I saw a new dentist office open in the neighborhood and I thought I’d give them a try. I really loved my old dentist, but since I no longer work in Dallas I just didn’t want to make the drive. The website showed a female dentist, which I prefer because of their smaller hands and tend to be more gentle, but I got some dude instead. They don’t have enough patients to hire a hygienist yet, so the dentist actually did all the cleaning. But they were a little unorganized as they couldn’t find any fluoride to give me after my cleaning. That reminds me of the time when a friend of mine told me he worked at the Arby’s in Abilene and they actually ran out of roast beef. The manager was let go shortly after that incident.
That new dentist told me that my insurance doesn’t pay for fluoride which I thought was strange. They ended up charging my $20 for it, but he did give me the option of not using any. But they did end up using some sort of special digital camera to take pictures inside my mouth and let me see the on the screen.
I may go back to my old dentist, even if it’s a bit far. My wife goes to another dentist in our neighborhood, but there’s something about the guy that seems shady.
I started a new testosterone medication and found that one side effect of testosterone medicine in general is sleep apnea I think my sleep apnea problems didn’t happen until I started testosterone medication several years ago.
I often see a car that says Asian Driving School in the area, and yes, Asians are usually driving, mostly Southern Asians.
There’s a horrific story of an eight-year-old Dallas boy playing tag and then getting shot in the face and running inside screaming to his mother with mouth just hanging off. But the shooter does remind me of Dallas born actor Glenn Morshower, which you may as a Secret Service agent in ’24’ or Landry’s father in ‘Friday Night Lights’.
This would be a hard challenge, kinda – Canadian Family Living Only Off 1986 Technology – I just wish the article would have stated why they chose 1986, all I can think is that it’s some kind of Back to the Future reference.
I saw that Hardin-Simmons received their largest gift in university history . . . $16 million. That figure is probably laughable compared to the gifts to universities most of you attended. For the heck of it, I looked up Baylor’s largest gift and it’s $35 million, SMU’s is $33 million. Actually, another source says Baylor’s largest gift is $200 million and the University of Texas’ is $245 million.
UAB 17 LSU 56, SHSU 28 TA&M 65, USM 13 Nebraska 56, SDSU 7 Ohio State 42, BUFF 13 Baylor 70, Oregon 59 UVA 10, TNTC 0 Wisconsin 48, E Kentucky 7 Louisville 44, SFA 13 Texas Tech 61 – With this number of blowouts there’s no way the quality of football is better in college than the pros, and the excitement of those games can’t last much longer than a quarter or a half. The only real blowout in the NFL this week was KC 28 Jacksonville 2.
The Longhorns fired their Defensive Coordinator Manny Diaz after losing to BYU. That will take a little pressure off Longhorn fans calling for Mack Brown’s head, but not much. But if the Longhorns get rid of Brown, I don’t know who they think they can get to replace him.
Brown may not be a great coach, but I his style. When Texas won their first Rose Bowl off a last second field goal the kicker was interviewed and asked what did Brown say to him before the kick. The kicker said, “You’re the luckiest man in all Texas tonight, you are about to win the Rose Bowl.” And then the next year when they won the National Championship at the Rose Bowl, he told his team who were barely in their 20’s, “Don’t let this be the best thing that ever happens in your life. Maybe it’ll be the best sports event, but don’t let it be the best thing. Make sure you’re a better father than this today. Make sure you’re a better husband than this today, because this goes away. It’s a game.” I love the attitude, I love the perspective, but yes, it would be nice to see more wins again.
I can’t figure out if Baylor has a very good football team, playing a powder-puff opponents, or something in between.
Did I both bash and praise college football. Yeah, OK, sure. I love football overall, I just prefer the pro game over the hypocracy of the NCAA.
@EricStangel: The Brent Musburger – Eminem fiasco would not have been half as fun if Twitter didn’t exist
ESPN had a great time-lapse of the storm that rolled through the BYU stadium, I’m hoping to find it to post it.
The Super Bowl in NY is bad enough, Bruno Mars as the halftime entertainment is unforgivable. If they wanted to bring in a younger female crowd, the could have went with a bigger act/star in Katy Perry.
This college football season marks 50 years since Roger Staubach won the Heisman.
The NFL ended last year with some awkwardness trying to figure out what to do to fill air time during the Superbowl blackout. Now they start the first game of the season with a a Ryan Seacrest introduction with cheerleaders dancing behind him, a video countdown comprised of former players ending with fireworks only to delay the game for an eon. It was so weird seeing all that energy built up only to tell everyone to go to chill mode.
I guess another way to put it . . . last game, not enough electricity, this one, too much. I have to give credit to Twitter for that one.
I had a friend say that if Denver kept Tebow the game would have started on time.
I wonder if both coaches gave a big start of the season motivational speech only to have the players go back and wait it out in the locker rooms.
Baltimore had a really cool video display in the harbor. It consisted of water sprayed into the air with video projected on to it.
NFL read-option quarterbacks like Russell WIlson, RGIII, and Colin Kaepernick can be hit like ball-carrying running backs, even if they don’t have the ball. That’s something to consider for all you fantasy guys out there. Meanwhile, non-mobile quarterback Peyton Manning threw seven touchdowns last night.
I gave Fox Sports Live a shot last night. It’s their version of Sports Center on the new Fox Sports 1 network. My biggest complaint is their screen has too much going on at one time, it’s total information overload.
Jason Witten’s wife sure is in a lot of commercials.
What’s the over/under of the Cowboys still playing “Sweet Home Alabama” at their home games this year?
Does Dallas have a fancy place where there are restroom attendants to hand out towels and stuff?
Apparently there’s some sort of rift between Baylor and their alumni association with a vote taking place this weekend. You have to be there in person to vote, so my mother-in-law will be on campus to cast her vote.
WifeGeeding has three different eye doctors for three different eye “things”. We visited one of them yesterday, and no doctor has better bed side manners than Dr. Gilliland. WifeGeeding has always had bad eye sight in her one functioning eye, but amazingly it has corrected itself to 20/20.
WifeGeeding says whenever she radio surfs in the car she finds that 102.9 plays Mumford and Son’s “I Will Wait”. I’ve also found that to be true, and DaugnterGeeding loves to sing it.
WifeGeeding has a friend who has a very large one-year-old girl. Her friend almost lost it when a cashier said, “Ain’t no one gonna mess with mess with her, she’s gonna be a BIG woman.”
For those of you that thought the RV parked at my Mexican neighbor’s was there to stay, you may be right. Here’s a picture of it. I just recently noticed that it has “Intruder” on the back of it, and if you look closely, you can see the large crack under the name and the foamed up vents.
Here’s a cool camera that will take a spherical picture of what’s around you instead of what’s just in front of you.
I posted a picture of a stapler in jello back in 2007 and linked back to the webpage. Last night I got an email stated that the photo was incorrectly credited and asked to update that post. Normally I’d just delete the post entirely but the guy was so nice about it that I did as he asked.
I’m not a Sarah Silverman fan, but she wrote a touching and funny tribute to her dog who recently had to be put down. I was able to totally relate to the limp head fall she references.
Arizona State is honoring Pat Tillman in a very cool way. I’ve always liked Sun Devil Stadium.
The NFL season starts today, all is well in the world. But my disappoint in the Cowboys won’t start until Sunday.
We did the Grapevine Mills Mall aquarium visit yesterday [pics]. On the ride home I asked DaughterGeeding what was her favorite part of the trip, and she said it was the carousel ride after eating in the food court.
I was hoping to get my Verizon Fios installed this week, bu the earliest install date I could get is next Friday. Honestly, I was expecting nothing more than a three or four day wait and anything more is a bit beyond reason unless there’s crazy demand.
Last night Herm Edwards says the easiest diet is to eat with your non-dominant hand.
I really wish I took my Spanish classes more seriously in high school. Well, I did get A’s, so I guess I mean I wish I would have been able to retain that use what I was taught.
One of my high school math teachers had a sign in her room that read “Success is not measured by the IQ but by the I do.” I thought it was a little cheesy then, and I still do today, but I think about that sign at least twice a week and it keeps me motivated during rough times. I should probably track her down and write her a letter about that sign.
When I was in the Evangelical church I would regularly hear people say, “Pray that it’s God’s will that . . .” I always thought that was strange because it’s like asking God to change His mind after he’s already has something in place or planned. Perhaps a more appropriate way to pray is that you become accepting of God’s will, that is, put the focus on yourself to change rather than God.
It’s interesting being in the Mainline church and hearing how people are unfamiliar with terms and phrases I heard all the time in the Evangelical church. One example would be the the Roman Road. Recently I talked about the phrase “I see Jesus in you” to a group of church members and that was the first any heard of the phrase, but most thought it would be a great and humbling comment.
A ‘King of the Hill’ last week had Hank and Bobby visiting their Methodist pastor and asked what Methodism was about, and the pastor summed it up by saying, “It’s a rejection of Calvinism.” That intrigued me and after a bit of research and I found out it’s basically true, even if it’s a gross simplification. Also, Adam Hamilton is doing a series over John Wesley and the the beginnings of the Methodist church. I’ve been quite intrigued by it and appreciate their thirst for education and being able to admit they don’t have all the answers, and can picture myself being part of a Methodist church one day. But I’m happy where I’m at now, and I doubt there’s any one branch of Christianity I’d be totally comfortable with.
I fear that evangelism today is not spreading the good news but selling fire insurance.
KDFW Fox4 has a story of a local 335-pound football player that is also a cheerleader.
Corby Davidson of The TICKET talked about his experience as a judge for the Texas State Fair food contest. I had no idea that legendary Cowboys play-by-play man Brad Schram did the announcing for the event. Man, they take that thing seriously.
