Yup, this blog has been running for eight years, and this is approximately the 1,035th Bag of Randomness. I think I’ll go for a full decade and then reevaluate from there.
Yesterday we took a brief tour of our local Blue Bell Ice Cream freezer. I think our tour guide said it was 20 degrees below zero, but it was hard to hear him over the cries of DaughterGeeding who didn’t enjoy the cold. The ‘coolest’ part is when you first walk in and see nothing but foggy frost and then looking up at three or four stories of ice cream, which I think he said was about a two weeks supply. I asked the busiest time of the year, and I think he said Thanksgiving and oddly, Mothers’ Day.
My mother would have turned 65 today.
As as kid I always wanted a Hard Rock Cafe shirt that displayed a city name under the logo. I finally got one when they went out of style.
Yesterday my Wise County blogging lawyer cyber-friend wrote about Mary Decker and Zola Budd, and I didn’t have a clue who they were. But while channel flipping I happened to catch the documentary he saw and it was pretty darn good. It appears that U.S. women athletes aren’t gracious in losing, she certainly wasn’t in her frustration, and of course our latest example. I’m surprised the latter didn’t get more heat for her bad attitude, but I guess that’s the norm nowadays.
As for the winner of the Decker/Budd race, I can’t shake the image of the blonde Romanian’s dark under arm hair that was displayed as she rose her arms in victory.
Remember when channel flipping before the digital TV and the channel guide? It was a fun little game to flip through 30 channels during a commercial break, and when you timed it just right, it was glorious.
When I think of greatest NFL coaches, Joe Gibbs ranks pretty darn high on my list. It’s one thing to win a multiple Super Bowls, but to wind three with three different quarterbacks says something. Who else has come close to doing something similar?
Something else I learned from my daughter recently . . . sometimes you just gotta let loose and dance.
The first time I got on a dance floor was in junior high and some bully tried to start a fight with me. I walked away and since then I’ve been reluctant to “let loose” and enjoy myself, always thinking that someone’s looking to make fun of me and start something. About four years later that bully died, I think of an overdose.
There was another bully in my childhood and teen years that I think attributed to my insecurity as he always threatened and made fun of me. He died when I was in college, and I think it was from stealing stuff at Wal-Mart and crashing into a telephone pole running from the cops.
If I’m to be honest, and this certainly isn’t virtuous, but a big part of me feels vindicated that I’m still alive with a lovely wife and two kids in a decent career while they are six feet under. Since I feel that way, I know I have a long way to go to being a decent human being.
What’s the over/under that Jerry Jones will still be alive when the Cowboys move to Frisco?
What’s the over/under that Jason Garrett will be the head coach when the Cowboys move to Frisco?
WifeGeeding has a way of breaking importing news to me despite me always being online. For instance, she informed me when Saddam Hussein was captured, Osama bin Laden was killed, and the death of Kidd Kraddick. So somtimes I’ll just tell her some really old news and try to make it sound important. Yesterday I told her Ronald Reagan died.
I can’t believe with all the turmoil surrounding Johnny Manziel that Texas Monthly will put him on the cover like he’s a superhero. And then watch, he’ll be back on the cover in four months as their Bum Steer winner, unless they think that’s too harsh for a college kid.
You can get tickets to ‘The Book of Mormon’ for as low as $25, if you are lucky.
Last week TCU got love on ‘Hard Knocks’ and this week SMU got some love. It was interesting to hear the coaches try to explain “playing possum” since the guy from northern Europe had no idea what it meant.
I had no idea Liev Schreiber was the voice of ‘Hard Knocks’ and a lot of other HBO films.
Lots of former Cowboys on the Bengals, and Terrance Newman said, “Chicks dig soccer players, and baseball players, and quarterbacks, in that order.”
My dad was born in Cincinnati and I hear that’s where a lot of Geedings originated. He told me many great stories of the city, and considering he graduated in 1941, I’m amazed his high school is still in use. I always wanted to make a pilgrimage there.
Dad had a funny story on how he ended up in Mineral Wells. His sister married a man in the Army and he was stationed in Fort Wolters in Mineral Wells. She convinced her parents to sell their house in Cincinnati, the only place my father knew as home, and move to Mineral Wells. Dad was in the Army and in Germany at the time. He got a telegram from his parents saying they moved to Mineral Wells, Texas, and the first words out of his mouth was, “Where the hell is Mineral Wells, Texas?”
Listening to civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis talk about his experience at the March on Washington in 1963 on ‘The Colbert Report’ was quite moving. Colbert wasn’t his goofy self, except when he asked if Lewis and MLK were at odds because Lewis’ speech (out of ten speaks, he was sixth and MLK was tenth and last) was about “waking up” and MLK was talking about dreaming. It was also interesting hearing talk about his experiences with JFK before and after the march.
I guess I just like living in the past, I prefer the Cowboys to stay at Valley Ranch and to play at Texas Stadium or the Cotton Bowl.
The Cowboys’ new domed practice field will be shared with Frisco ISD, making them the only school to utilize a dome for home football games. In my hometown of Mineral Wells, we had a dome for our basketball court, it was known as the Ramdome. It use to be tradition for the senior class to scale the dome one night and paint it with the numbers of their graduating year.
The City of Irving says they tried to persuade the Cowboys to stay, but their efforts sure were quiet when the Cowboys left Texas Stadium and they didn’t seem very vocal in trying to keep them at Valley Ranch.
I wonder if the Cowboys will have the furthest distance between practice facility and stadium than any other NFL franchise. GoogleMaps tracks the distance a little more than 42 miles.
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