Bag of Randomness

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  • This is the time of the year we all care how our lawn looks because of the rain, and then in late August most of us will just give up.
  • The Berenstain Bears mother really should update her outfit.  I’m sure if you ask Papa Bear, there’s a reason why there’s not a third cub in the mix.
  • There have been a couple of good comments about what it’s like coming home and hearing your kids come to the door.  I have to admit, that’s one thing you don’t get to experience when you work from home.
  • Two minor complaints about my Chromebook – I can’t view Slingbox nor can I access my network hard drive.
  • Holly Williams of CBS News has a new hair style, but I don’t think it’s for the better.
  • Amy Matthews of the DYI Network has gone from blonde to a redhead, and also not for the better.
  • All graduating seniors from West Rusk CISD will receive a full academic scholarship to East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, as long as they meet the proper requirements for admissions.
  • BBC News – 10 reasons why so many people are moving to Texas
  • There are seven suicides recorded in the Bible.
  • JC Penny sure did get a lot of free advertising with that Hitler tea pot, and now they are sold out of them.  The store will no longer allow you to buy it online, but you can still buy them at one of their locations.
  • Ever since last Sunday’s episode of ‘Mad Men’ there’s been a whole lot of talk about Megan Draper being compared to Sharon Tate and that she’s going to end up murdered.  Buzzfeed does the best of tying all the connections together, really well, actually.  But as we’ve seen before, ‘Mad Men’ likes to think we are on to something and then pulls the rug out from us.
  • Mad Men Mystery: All the Bob Benson Theories
  • Many generations from now people will look at the moon from outside their homes and see glowing cities.  That’s gonna be a beautiful sight.  I saw a rendering of what it would look like, basically just a full moon during sunset with bright specs of lights on it, like an image of Earth at night with city lights on, but I can no longer find it; however, it has since made my imagination gone wild.
  • Last week I finished my reading assignment from my pastor, Andy Stanley’s Deep and Wide.  If Stanley’s goal was to challenge me and create tension to engage me in the subject matter, he succeeded.  Sometimes I couldn’t decide if he was providing overly obvious suggestions, or if they were good reminders, and I often he felt like he came across as a the Christian version of Tony Robbins.  There were times that I liked what I read, and then there were times where it reminded me of why I ran away from the evangelical/Baptist church.  But I don’t think my pastor wanted us to read it and provide a review on Amazon, but  wanted us to challenge us as a church, create some constructive tension to engage our leadership team, and pull from it what we can to be better partners in ministry to spread the Good News.
  • For some reason I thought Michael Bloomberg has been mayor longer than Rick Perry has been governor, but Perry leads him by about a year.  Perry also signs his name by printing his first name, quite nicely I might add.  As for his last name, everything is  uppercase except for the “e” and the “y”.
  • I’ve caught the last two seasons of the ‘Next Food Network Star’ competition and really enjoyed them.  The next season starts this Sunday.
  • World’s Oldest and Most Complete Torah Scroll Found, Italian Professor Claims
  • FBI ran child porn site for two weeks in attempt to identify over 5,000 pedophiles
  • The worst picture you’ll ever see of Neil Diamond. 
  • The annual updated 100 Best Restaurants in Dallas list.
  • Here’s What The Miami Heat Big 3 Looked Like When Tim Duncan Won His First NBA Title
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Bag of Randomness

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  • One of the happiest feelings I get is when I pick up DaugterGeeding in the church nursery.  No one ever told her to come running about 40 yards away into my arms at full speed  yelling “Daddy” when she spots me walking down the hall.  It’s a genuine moment, and don’t think for a moment that I don’t realize that it won’t last.
  • I watched my nephew play a baseball game at the Texas Rangers Youth Ballpark that’s right outside of the real thing.  His team got a tour of Rangers Ballpark the day before, which must have been pretty cool for them.  The youth ballpark wasn’t as nice as I would expect.  Heck, the scoreboard didn’t even work (sounds like something you would find in my hometown when I was a kid).  I was a bit surprised that the grass between the stands and the baselines were artificial.
  • The number of stretched Hummer limos at Cowboys Stadium taking girls to the Taylor Swift concert was beyond crazy.  I have a feeling the line for the men’s restroom at that concert was pretty short.
  • When I attended by brother’s high school baseball games, I remember the concessions giving out a free snowcone for every homerun and foul ball retrieved.  I was all over that.
  • When Bob Dole made his comments this weekend, I think liberals nodded in agreement and conservatives shook their heads thinking the old man has gone senile.
  • Back in 2011, my favorite pastor as of late wrote a piece about the connection between God and the forces of nature after the tornado outbreak in April 2011.  I love his perspective on things, and he even addresses the “everything happens for a reason” assumption.  I thought it was worth sharing.
  • HBO did more to honor Memorial Day than the History channel.  History just had a Pawn Stars marathon when HBO showed Taking Chance in the afternoon.
  • This weekend a close friend went for his first bike ride of the year only to break the frame during his ride.  I’d think most frames carry some sort of warranty.
  • I’m about halfway through the new season of ‘Arrested Development’ and it’s greatness.  The cameos are off the wall, and I’m impressed with the screen writing, it’s so creative and I can’t believe how they are able to tie things together and come up with so much stuff.  But then again, it has been off for what, a seven years?
  • My insurance didn’t approve my sleep study center visit, but opted for an at home test.  For three days I wore a device, about the size of a mobile phone, on my arm an attachment to my finger and tubes that went around my chest and below my nose.  When I woke up, all I had to do was plug it in and the results were uploaded using the Verizon network.
  • We ate at Kenny’g Burger Joint in Frisco over the weekend.  That place was so family friendly it looked like you could only enter with a child in tow.  It was a good burger, the fries were so-so, but the onion rings were cut too wide, like almost two inches, and were too greasy.
  • I noticed a new Top Golf being build on 121 in The Colony.  That would be the closest one to GeedingManor.
  • Decaying biblical theme park complete with Bethlehem replica could be yours for just $350,000
  • What They Found In Lincoln’s Pockets the Night He Was Shot
  • ’80s Don Draper: The Music Video
  • ‘Mad Men’ thoughts:
    • There has to be some sort of parallel with the comparison of margarine (new, indestructible   and butter (fresh, traditional) and the relationship between Don/Betty and Peggy and Abe/Ted and Peggy and Don/Ted.
    • Roger is a lonely man – two divorces, his daughter doesn’t think much of him, he can’t see his grandchild, Joan keeps him at a distance from her and their child.
    • It was nice see Ducky again, and he gave Pete some great advice that he’ll ignore.
    • It was good to see Don lower his guard and actually sing with his son.
    • “She doesn’t know that loving you is the worst way to get to you.”
    • There’s something more to that Bob Benson.  I bet we find out he’s a spy, maybe for Ducky, or a murderer.
    • Earlier this season Don calls Sally after the Grandma Ida incident and says it’s his fault for leaving the door open.  This week we see Betty leaving the door open for Don.
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