Bag of Randomness

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  • As I kid I always dreamed of having a White Christmas, but was told because of where we live, it would more than likely never happen.  Despite never experiencing a White Christmas in North Texas, it now has now happened twice in about three years.
  • In my son’s first year of life, he’s batting a thousand for experiencing a White Christmas.
  • I said this about three Christmases ago and will say it again, it’s so surreal to have a White Christmas and I’m sure the folks that live up north just don’t get our awe about such an occurrence.
  • Despite still feeling like crap (health wise), I can’t pass up a few minutes in the snow on a White Christmas.
  • I’m thankful I don’t have to travel on Christmas day.
  • If there’s one thing I learned about snow in North Texas, mothers will sacrifice the well being of their children for good pictures of them in the snow.
  • We attended one of the Christmas Eve candlelit services at our church and in each chair was a small advert promoting an upcoming Heaven/Hell series.  I understand the need to reach out to visitors and all, but I thought the timing was ill timed.
  • The local news didn’t go as ape as they usually do when we get snowy and icy weather, the only coverage was during regular air time.  I guess they wanted to spend Christmas with their families as well, and I guess that proves they over-react when it’s any other day but Christmas.
  • I thought weatherman Pete Delkus was beating his chest a bit with this tweet: I told all you naysayers. Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, White Death!!!! It’s here!
  • It probably doesn’t make any sense, but it feels weird watching Christmas movies on Christmas day, I just feel those movies are meant for preparing for the arrival of Christmas.
  • The Christmas tree always use to stay up at least past New Year’s Day, I’m not a believer of that anymore.
  • SMU finished it’s football season with a 7-6 record.  They only had a winning season because the last win was a bowl game.  Yup, there are too many bowl games.
  • Netflix had an outage on Christmas Eve, which affected my “Breaking Bad” watching.  I’m almost finished with season four and have the first half of season five ready to go.  That Skylar sure does gain a noticable amount of weight throughout the seasons.
  • Heart Disease in Military Shows Steep Drop Since Korean War
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Bag of Randomness

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  • Thanks to my ear/nose/throat/allergy doctor I’m on my forth round of antibiotics, albeit this one is in a different family of drugs.  I’m also scheduled to have a CT scan this week, that’s a first for me.  Yup, I’m frustrated being sick for so long and the pressure in my head and ears is annoying, but I’m trying to be grounded as I certainly am better off than a lot of other folks.
  • It’s hard to hear as of late, everything is muffled, and I keep hoping on gigantic yawn will pop my ears and all will be normal again.
  • During my exam, the doctor actually wore one of those round mirror things on his head.  For a second, I thought I was dreaming and was in the middle of an episode of “Mad Men” but I didn’t see Joan anywhere.
  • I was told by the doctor that even though they aren’t swollen, I have huge tonsils and that I must snore a lot.  It’s a good thing WifeGeeding is a heavy sleeper.
  • I traveled to East Texas over the weekend to spend what was my tenth Christmas with my in-laws.  My first Christmas with them was when I was still in fiance status.  On my way home Saturday evening I exited from SH 80 to 635 and was amazed at the Town East Mall traffic.  I’ve seen packed mall parking lots before, but I’ve never seen the kind of traffic jam that extended to the highway from people just trying to get to the mall.  Heck, I thought there was an accident on 635, but it was just people trying to get to the mall exit.
  • I’m now into season four of “Breaking Bad”.  When you watch a series on Netflix and finish an episode, there’s a countdown of when the next episode that will start streaming and it’s hard to pull away from.
  • AMC has something quite interesting going with the lead male and females in both “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad.”  Neither Don or Walt are good guys, but they are both great at what they do and you end up kind of rooting for them despite all their prolific lies, and both Betty and Skylar both cheat on their spouses and viewers tend to find them annoying or crazy.  I guess you can even break it down even further with the similarities with their first born children, Walt Jr and Sally, and how they are a bit rebellious and outspoken.
  • Before our little meet and great during our church service, the music director stated something to the effect that we need to take Christmas back from the merchants and that we should go ahead and now great one another by saying “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays.”  I didn’t think we needed to be reminded about the War on Christmas at church.
  • From the Harvard Business Review – Top-Performing CEO’s in the World
  • For a scientist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has some impressive dance skills.  YouTube
  • Star Trek Pancake Portraits
  • Here’s an interesting two minutes to watch about a man in Vietnam accepting his fate when a doctor tells him he can’t be operated on and must accept his fate.  I’ve cued the video for you so you can view the most important part.
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