Bag of Randomness

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  • Good Friday should be renamed Holy Friday.  Actually, I think it is in certain parts of the globe.
  • I forgot to mention that while we were at the zoo, WifeGeeding was helping GirlGeeding use the restroom, and before placing GirlGeeding on the potty, WifeGeeding’s sunglasses went plop into the water.  They were retrieved, cleaned, wrapped up, and then brought home and soaked in bleach for several minutes, but she still wants new glasses.
  • I don’t follow college basketball closely, but it wasn’t until last night that I noticed the three-point line no longer touches the top of the key.
  • WifeGeeding is in East Texas with the kids for a funeral and to spend Good Friday with her family, so with my free time I started to do a little spring cleaning and came across an old box full of VHS tapes I kept.  For you youngsters out there, a VHS tape was what we used before Blu-rays and DVDs, and we put them in something called a VCR – a video set recorder.
  • All those VHS tapes weren’t labeled, surely I’m not the only person that didn’t label his tapes.  But before throwing them out, I wanted to see what was on them.  For instance, I know I recorded some of my old college speeches and such, so I actually busted a VCR.
  • So far I haven’t found anything remarkable except for the photo-video that was shown at our rehearsal dinner.  But so far I’ve found a ‘Inside the Actors Studio’ with Robin Williams, many episodes of ‘Ed’ and the ‘West Wing’, the first Cowboys appearance on ‘Hard Knocks’, interview with Monica Potter on ‘The Early Show’ on CBS, and the game in which Emmitt Smith broke the NFL rushing record.
  • Speaking of that game, I forgot Smith basically lost that rushing record on the very next play, so I guess he actually broke the record twice.
  • In the season finale of ‘The Walking Dead’ there will be 27 deaths.  Is there any irony that it will air on Easter, the day that Jesus rose from the dead?
  • Honda’s 2014 Odyssey Touring Elite minivan features in-car vacuum system [Hat-tip, the.LIFE Files]
  • Duggars consider adopting their 20th child
  • A $2.6M North Texas home with an active vineyard, an Irish pub and an indoor pool with waterfalls
  • Starving 4-Year-Old Boy Rescued From N.J. Apartment Ate Sugar to Survive
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Bag of Randomness

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  • We ended up going to the Dallas Zoo and don’t have any regrets.  It was our first visit, and it’s nothing like I’ve heard about what it was like in the past.  Nothing seemed run down and all the habitats look comfy and natural, there were certainly no concrete or steel jungle type stuff.  It did seem like some of the habitats made it hard for viewing, and I kind of felt for the kangaroos and emus as their habitat was close to the freeway and you could hear a lot of road noise.
  • Random kangaroo and emu fact – neither can walk backwards.
  • Crowds were pretty small, which helped make for a good experience, and the staff was much friendlier than I expected.  Oh, and the zoo was easy to find and get to, parking was super close.
  • Parking was $8, and of course food was expensive, but you can bring your own lunch.
  • DaughterGeeding was a brave little soul riding a pony and a camel, and then she was scared of feeding the giraffe until it licked her.
  • Before heading out I told DaughterGeeding that the monkeys might throw their poo, and the she turned to her mother and said, “Mommy, the monkeys might through their poo-poo, we should take some bathroom spray.”
  • There was a group of students from a Bush Elementary.  Their mascot happened to be the Patriots, which made me think I was in the middle of a ‘King of the Hill’ or some kind of Seth MacFarlane skit.
  • It would have been cool if we saw something like this while at the zoo.
  • Pictures of our day at the zoo are at the bottom of this post.  The first pic should be of GirlGeeding in front of the Dallas Zoo sign.  I thought it was odd for the zoo to allow the trees in front of the sign to grow so tall to cover up the actual sign.
  • I heard that when a guy greets a girl by using her name, as opposed to just saying hi or hello, that he likes her.  There may be some truth to that.
  • Déjà vu hit me twice yesterday.
  • I’ve noticed that the Supreme Court building is going through some kind of exterior renovation, and to cover up the work there’s basically a huge sheet with a real size picture of what the building should look like on the outside.  I’m not sure the reason for the sheet, but it seems like an expense that’s not needed.  Maybe they just want the symbolism of the building to remain in tact, it’s a safety precaution of some sort, or special chambers and passages are being built and it’s one way to cover the work.
  • I saw the mayor of Irving on the local news yesterday, and I think my Wise county blogging lawyer friend would say she’s a hey now, especially for mayor standards.  But she does fit a certain Texas stereotype.
  • Gov Good Hair likes to tout the line of a limited government and that government should stay out of our personal lives, but recruiting companies to come to Texas over the California airwaves seems counter intuitive to that message.
  • Nevada May Legalize Gambling on Federal Elections
  • I can’t remember if I mentioned the HBO ‘Real Sports’ interview of Mike Tyson and his new theater show in which he basically talks about his life.  The interviewer asked him what it’s like being a thespian and then joked with Tyson that that term had nothing to do with two women loving each other, and then Tyson replies saying the term ‘thespian’  is derived from Thespis, the world’s first credited actor.
  • There’s hope for our future with high schoolers like this – prom inside an ICU for sick girl
  • Arkansas man stages fake knife attack to impress on first date
  • The Weird 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel that Correctly Predicted the Current Day
  • Idaho teacher investigated for saying ‘vagina’ during biology lesson
  • Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court
  • Simulating Mars on Earth – The Big Picture
  • Google Glass will reportedly be manufactured in the US
  • Here’s a direct link to the zoo pictures for those of you using an iPad, otherwise you should see a slideshow below.
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