DaughterGeeding had another softball game yesterday, and once again started at second base. She was able to field one out and got on base twice from walks.
I’m worried the ex might be up to something. She was exceptionally friendly and stood next to me at our son’s soccer game. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so cynical. But when she’s around, I feel like there’s this big elephant in the room. She doesn’t see it, but it is distracting the heck out of me, and I want to address it. But, if I do, then that will destroy what progress we’ve made working together as parents.
I was looking at some glasses recently and I saw something called “Asian Fit“. I had no idea what that was and had to look it up:
Asian fit eyewear has thicker nose bridges. This enables them to be fitted with thick nose mount pads specifically designed to lift the frames off of your cheekbones and allow them to rest comfortably higher on the nose.
The lenses are shorter and wider, preventing them from touching your eyelashes and keeping both the frames and lenses from hitting your cheeks.
The frame curvature is reduced to keep the frames from touching your temples, ensuring they stay straight and upright.
Think on this: What’s your long-term vision for your life, and how can you make it happen?
Try this: Hug someone you love today (your cat, dog, or even yourself are all excellent options!) and remind them how grateful you are that they exist.
I’m so proud of my old friend, Jesse. He’s the son of my pastor in Mineral Wells. He, himself, has been a pastor for over 20 years and now he’s serving the community of Weatherford as a police officer. The social media team of the police department recently did an interview with him.
7. Sort your anxieties into fiction and non-fiction
“I have anxiety, and when I first admitted to myself that I needed some tools to figure out how to live with it, I went to a cognitive behavioral therapist for a few sessions. She said, ‘Pretend you’re in a library. Now find the non-fiction section. Go there. Ignore the fiction section—you don’t need that one. Stay in non-fiction and start to list the things you know are true. It’s likely you’ll soon see that most of what’s causing you anxiety is stuff from the fiction section. But you’re not in that section, so stick with the facts!’ Something about visualizing a fiction and non-fiction sections resonated SO deeply with me. For starters, the concrete visualization exercise takes me to a more meditative place right away, which distracts me from the physical anxiety sensations I feel. And then, once I start sorting [my anxieties into] fact or fiction, I start to see that a lot of what I’m anxious about is conjecture.”
It’ll boast an ’80s cyberpunk atmosphere, with a disco ball DJ booth in the center and state-of-the-art sound systems. Skaters will skate on custom-made Ride On skates and be able to simultaneously enjoy craft cocktails and mocktails. Outside of the rink, amenities will include an arcade, lounge, restaurant, and bar.
It’s going to be interesting to see our society adjust to AI. How comfortable and how much will we trust it? For some reason, I’m comfortable with self-driving automobiles that use AI, but not when it comes to dental work. https://twitter.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1640854930561933318
I’d like to speak to Evangelicals.
If you are like me, you’ve spent most of your life being told that you have to vote Republican to be a good Christian.
I understand if your convictions prevent you from voting for a Democrat. But let me suggest something: 1/10
DaughterGeeding is having a fantastic week. I bet it’s one she’ll remember the rest of her night. Not only will she be attending the Taylor Swift concert in just three more days, but she had the best softball game of her life. Remember, she a seventh-grader who attends a small charter school, so she plays with and against high schoolers. Yesterday, very unexpectedly, the coach moved her from right field to starting at second base. You may recall she played last year, but she never got on base. Well, yesterday she not only got her first hit (ever) she even got an RBI. It was a solid hit, too. The ball went about 10-feet in the air and landed in that pocket between the short stop and left fielder. She also fielded exceptionally well. The ball was thrown to her several times for the last out of two innings and she threw a runner out. I’m just so happy for her. What a confidence builder. I don’t know why her mother couldn’t make the game, and wanted to provide her updates, but she doesn’t want that kind of relationship. But I’m happy I was there to see her very first hit and her first game playing infield.
BoyGeeding also had a soccer game yesterday. He had a good game, it was their first non-loss of the season. His team has been losing by five or more goals, but this game was tied one to one.
68% of people said virtual mental health appointments enabled them to seek therapy when they didn’t have the time or resources to meet in person.
I would like to open up more and talk about my personal mental health problems, but y’all know how my own blog was used against me in court. So, the most I can say is that after making some progress, I’ve had a setback. Of course, upcoming back surgery doesn’t help my confidence. It’s hard to go through something like this alone. I’m scared, to be honest. I think I’m most worried about the recovery aspect and the coordination of events, like getting to and from there and my possession schedule with the kids. The ex has told me not to ask her for any help, so there’s that stress as well.
Considering the Pope always wears white, I’m guess it’s the same for his underwear.
The nonprofit American Service based in Minneapolis, along with seven Ukrainian refugees, none who have been in the U.S. for longer than three months, gathered in a caravan Monday before hitting the road for the 2,000-mile roundtrip journey to help render aid.
The Texas Association of School Boards, an independent agency, said its mission is to “promote educational excellence for Texas schoolchildren through advocacy, visionary leadership, and high-quality services to school districts.” Not the way Harrison said conservative parents see it. “Their tax money is being weaponized against them, it’s being weaponized against their children, and it’s being weaponized against their values by funding an organization that is working to push dangerous woke ideology on school children across the state of Texas,” the Republican from Waxahachie told WFAA.
“Woke” is suck a trigger word and I bet most can’t even provide a definition.
Google has rolled out a new feature to their Pixel customers. When we call a business, our display will show the company’s phone tree options before they announced them.
Called “un-grading,” the idea is meant to ease the transition to higher education — especially for freshmen who are the first in their families to go to college or who weren’t well prepared for college-level work in high school and need more time to master it. But advocates say the most important reason to adopt un-grading is that students have become so preoccupied with grades, they aren’t actually learning.
FREEWAY FLIP: A car is sent flying through the air after being struck by a tyre that fell from a nearby truck in Los Angeles. Police said no major injuries were sustained in the incident. https://t.co/bA4iYuS9tPpic.twitter.com/zCFELFPNra
Around 48% of quick-service restaurants like Starbucks, Panera and McDonald’s now give customers the option to tip, according to data released this month from Toast, a restaurant management software company. That’s up from 38% in 2020.
People are tipping less in part because of inflation, experts say. They are also overwhelmed with the number of places that give them the option to tip with a card on an iPad, leading people to be less generous.
Tuesday night will be the best opportunity to see five planets lined up in the sky with the naked eye. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus should be visible even in areas with light pollution just after sunset—“kind of like pearls on a necklace,”
The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long. pic.twitter.com/9ACboXXoiz
