Bag of Randomness for Friday, January 20, 2023

  • I feel like January has been a slow month.
  • I’m surprised how much DaughterGeeding has gotten into the Dallas Stars. She can name most of the players from memory and shows me funny TikTok videos of the team.
  • I never felt “validated” until I was in a romantic relationship, and that didn’t happen until I was around 26 years of age. I guess that comes from being picked and teased on a lot when I was a kid. So, when I got divorced, I sorta felt invalidated. A lot of my recovery is trying to prove to myself that I don’t need anyone to make me feel validated, that I, myself, is enough to just be.
  • I often confused two local cities, The Colony and Trophy Club, for each other. I did it yesterday.
  • I don’t respect San Francisco 49’ers coach Kyle Shannonian for one reason, the way he wears his cap with that flat brim which makes it look oversized for his head. It makes his head look big, as if it has it’s
  • Now I’m reminded about my favorite quotes about a big head, which comes from the Mike Myers’ film So I Married an Axe Murderer.
    • Would ya look at the size of that kid’s head! It’s a virtual planetoid and it has it’s own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick!
       I’m not kidding, that boy’s head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Now that was offside, wasn’t it? He’ll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.
  • With apps, streaming services, and a plethora of channels to choose from, kids nowadays don’t have a Bob Barker figure for when they stay home sick from school.
  • Often before a person announces a run for the presidency, they like to do things that subliminally encourages others to view them as presidential. I felt our governor was doing that with the pretend Secret Service agents at his inauguration. Usually, he just uses uniformed DPS officers for protection.
  • LiberallyLean mentioned Art Briles the other day, and that got me to thinking and comparing him to Dave Bliss. In my opinion, Bliss make the bigger mistake of the two, yet he was able to still become employable.
  • I can’t believe, okay, maybe I can, that so many conservatives fall for the debunked cat litter myth. Here’s the Snopes article of how it all got started.
  • Thief steals St. Michael statue from church, trips, and is injured by the angel’s sword
  • Texas Monthly – The Big Business Of Quinceañeras – The average quince now runs more than $20,000.
  • Food made of aborted fetuses needs clear labels, new Texas bill says – A Texas Republican proposed a bill in the state legislature calling for any food that contains “aborted human fetal tissue” to be clearly labeled, however according to one federal agency there is no need.
  • The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off – Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

 

 

 

 

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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, January 19, 2023

  • The Muppets had one heck of an iconic lineup.
  • If my memory serves me correct, it was not uncommon for my fellow high schoolers to display a rifle on a gun rack in their truck. This would be the early to mid 90’s.
  • Dipping was pretty common for those guys back then. I hated it when they emptied their dip in the water fountain.
  • I was so worried about being called a ball hog and loved Magic Johnson’s passing so much, I only shot the ball six times in junior high. If I had a do-over, I’d take more shots.
  • Per Snopes, in 1971, the Texas legislature unanimously passed a resolution honoring “Boston Strangler” Albert DeSalvo for his work in “population control.” Representative Tom Moore Jr. introduced the bill to prove that they pass legislation with no due diligence given to researching the issues beforehand.
  • Yesterday on LiberallyLean, he made a post about the Truck Yard coming to Alliance Town Center and thought the concept was odd. I’ve enjoyed taking my family to both the Deep(er) Ellum and The Colony Trophy Club locations. They are also a great first date place. One of my close friends was an investor. He’s from the Philadelphia area and was responsible for all locations having a proper cheesesteak. According to him, you don’t use provolone, you use white American cheese.  Here’s a photo BoyGeeding and DaughterGeeding playing each other on a giant chess board at the Trophy Club location. The venue starts to kick kids out starting at 9 PM.
  • Stephen Colbert to Adapt One of George R.R. Martin’s Favorite Books Into TV Series
  • Twitter auctioned off office supplies, including a pizza oven and neon bird sign
  • RNC loses complaint claiming Gmail spam filter is biased against Republicans
  • Police dog in Wyandotte accused of stealing fellow officer’s lunch – “Stealing is not only a crime, but it is morally wrong too,” the Wyandotte Police Department said in a Facebook post.
  • I thought all of the comments about the new King memorial in Boston were unfair, then I saw this.
    https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1615406297481977858

 

 

 

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, January 17, 2023

  • There’s no escaping the Burger King commercials which end with, “You Rule!” It doesn’t matter what I’m watching, but it’s going to be played and it’s killing me.
  • I don’t think I’ve eaten at a Burger King in over two decades.
  • DaughterGeeding was with her mother yesterday while BoyGeeding spent the day with me. We spent a good chunk of the day at an arcade. Along with video games, we played a lot of air hockey, skee-ball, and shuffleboard. We topped the day off with a DQ Blizzard.
  • BoyGeeding was determined to get a ball to land in the 100 point hole playing skee-ball. He joked we weren’t going to leave until he hits it. I watched him for a good while, and came close to pulling out my phone to check my email and see what’s the latest on Twitter. But, I told myself, even if the odds are small that he actually does get that 100 point hole, should he look over at me when he does it, how would he feel if he saw his dad on his phone rather than cheering him on. It’s one thing to tell him that he’s a priority and important to me, but it’s a whole other thing to show it. I’m a big believer that if you are going to talk the talk, you better be able to walk the walk. Eventually, he did make one of those wooden balls go through that 100 point hole. He immediately looked at me with an expression of joy and excitement, and that was way more important than anything on my phone.
  • A close friend sent me this.

    • By this definition, my ex and her family are child abusers, and I have no problem with this definition.
    • My faith teaches me to forgive. But I’ll be honest, I’m struggling with ever forgiving my ex and her family for how they denied any communication between me and my kids for four straight nights, and then only grant a five-minute monitored phone call on my son’s ninth birthday.  Maybe there’s a definition of forgiveness I’m not familiar with. It’s one thing to hurt me, but they intentionally hurt my children. And from a Christian perspective, I don’t understand how a mother can fund a divorce knowing there was zero counseling and thinking life for her grandkids in a broken family is better than in a united one. The one bright side, at least those toxic people are mostly out of my life.
    • Again, if you ever want to issue me a citation for public urination, you will find me in the act at my former mother-in-law’s grave an hour after burial.
  • Kabul’s mannequins hooded and masked under Taliban rules
  • Texas is Getting More Medical Cannabis Dispensaries as DPS Opens Application Process
  • ‘It’s disrespectful’ — Mark Cuban doesn’t like the latest Luka Doncic mural in Deep Ellum
  • Lauren Boebert Says ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ Shouldn’t Be on Committees
  • Taliban start buying blue ticks on Twitter
  • Dak Prescott’s naked bootleg touchdown last night reminded me of the time Peyton Manning did it against the Cowboys on a third and goal when he was playing for the Broncos. I remember thinking it was a genius call, no one would have thought Manning, a slow QB, to rush.
  • Speaking of Peyton Manning, last night on the telecast he said the biggest myth in football is “halftime adjustments.” He said never in his career did he made modifications at halftime. I find that hard to believe.

 

 

 

 

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