It was an honor and pleasure to watch TCU quarterback Max Duggan play on Saturday. Dez Bryant even thought so (language warning). It was a bone-headed move not to let him score in OT.
While I’m happy TCU is in the final four playoffs, there’s a part of me that thinks if you can’t win your conference championship, you shouldn’t be there. But it’s all a flawed system.
We put up the Christmas tree yesterday. When I bought that tree a handful of years ago, I thought my family would benefit from it for a long while. I had no idea the tree would outlive my family.
A friend I made in a divorce support group was having a hard time the other evening after his possession time ended. He’s been divorced for about six months longer than me and even has a new girlfriend. But there’s nothing like building a family and having someone choose to burn it all to the ground.
I binge watched Netflix’s Wednesday with DaughterGeeding. I’m usually not a fan of Tim Burton’s stuff, but I found it entertaining and clever. Maybe it was the putting up the tree, but I got this weird bit of a nostalgic feeling after watching the series with her. I can only describe it as that feeling I’d get post movie watching a rented VHS tape and that time you take to rewind immediately after. That’s when the lights would come on in the living room and Dad would go use the bathroom. It was my job to eject the tape and put it back in its case.
My former classmate made the NY Times. The church isn’t being transparent about his actions and I think something smells. What the article didn’t mention was how he put on social media how he spent time in a cabin as if he was on a paid retreat or vacation. But the reporter stuck the landing with the last sentence of the article.
I caught the 60 Minutes interview with French President Macron. He wore a black turtleneck, it was like watching a Bond villain. The interview started in the French equivalent of the Oval Office, where he showed off a copy of the Key to the Bastille. The kids and I saw the original displayed at Mount Vernon. They sold copies of it in the gift shop. I seriously wonder if the copy he had came from the gift shop. It was neat being able to identify something and know the history of something the correspondent did not know about. I think Macron is a smoker, at least he has the teeth of a smoker.
When the national anthem is played on television before a sporting event, I feel I need to treat it with some reverence and respect instead of just sitting there on the couch.
If I were an NFL player, I’d wear a shaded visor. It would be my way of hiding any potential tell my eyes may be giving away.
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For the last two, maybe three years, DaughterGeeding has presented her Christmas list via PowerPoint. She sends it us via e-mail. That’s a pretty effective way to keep divorced parents who don’t talk to each other in the loop.
FDR and Truman were only two years apart in age.
The last Democrat to nominate a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was Truman. Fred Vinson was the nominee.
My favorite blogger is on top of ransomware news, especially when it hits small towns or jurisdictions. I recently read that money spent on ransomware to get things back to normal are tax deductible.
Dallas has the two best players under the age of 25 in both the NBA and NFL.
As much as I would like to watch Bono’s event at the National Cathedral via a virtual ticket, I don’t like how you are forced to buy a copy of his book. The thing is, they don’t provide a bookless option of viewing the event. I can guarantee you the majority of the people tuning in already have a copy of the book and just want to see the performance. Gosh, I loved my visit to the National Cathedral. It could be my favorite building I ever visited. Well, next to the Baker Hotel.
I’m not buying the Bono book because I expect it will be gifted to me. But in the past, when I expected something as a gift, even hinting strongly towards it, I never receive it.
I’m guessing residents aren’t happy about this, and it will be the tallest in Texas. I want Austin to be like DC, that the capitol building view is unobstructed. – A supertall skyscraper is coming to Austin, Texas
“Combining Pepsi and milk has long been a secret hack among Pepsi fans,” said Todd Kaplan, Pepsi’s chief marketing officer, in a statement about the campaign.
Imagine this. Responding to the Jerry/Lebron developments @dak takes a moment. Pauses. Admits he doesn’t have all the answers. Refreshing. pic.twitter.com/7DpmyYMipq
When Christians tell me all the answers I need are in the Bible, I like to say that I’m not going to limit God to the Bible, God is bigger than just the Bible and will use other people and resources to teach, guide, and answer me.
There was a story years ago about Jimmy Johnson bullying Janis Joplin in high school (yes, they both attended the same high school). I thought he would address that in his book, but I’m almost finished with it and there’s no mention. In a 1992 Sports Illustrated interview, he claimed Joplin “never wore any panties,” adding “from what I understand.”
Regarding the Senate race in Georgia, Warnock hasn’t even stated where he stands on the vampires vs. werewolves debate.
Edit: I’ve been corrected (Thanks, Angie)
Like the Pennsylvania Senate race, the celebrity Republican has a state residence problem
I’ve always thought rushing the field after a football game was a stupid thing to do. I’m a prude when it comes to crowd control and orderly conduct.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) results show that 46.2 per cent of the population (27.5 million people) described themselves as ‘Christian’ in 2021. This marks a 13.1 percentage point decrease from 59.3 per cent (33.3 million people) in 2011. The census data also shows that every major religion increased over the ten-year period, except for Christianity.
Detractors of former TCU football head coach Gary Patterson are most likely giddy with how the team has performed. With the transfer portal and NIL deals, you can’t even say the turnaround was done with his players.
When Christians tell me all the answers I need are in the Bible, I like to say that I’m not going to limit God to the Bible, God is bigger than just the Bible and will use other people and resources to teach, guide, and answer me.
Jon Meacham has a new book out on Lincoln, and was interviewed on NPR. He said that Lincoln was serving in the House and was on the House floor when John Quincy Adams died. For those of you who may not know, Adams was served as president and then later served as a congressman.
If there was ever a tailored event for me to attend . . . The National Cathedral, Bono, Presidential Historian:
This could be a repost, but I love this story of Andre Agassi detecting a tell (an inadvertent behavior or mannerism that betrays a player’s true intention) Boris Becker had when they played each other. After losing to Becker in their first three matches, Agassi then won eight straight over Becker. Agassi revealed this to Becker in retirement over a beer.
“If he’s serving in the deuce court and he put his tongue in the middle of his lip, he was either serving up the middle or to the body. But if he put it to the side, he was going to serve out wide.”
“The hardest part wasn’t returning his serve — it was not letting him know that I knew this,” Agassi said. “I had to resist the temptation of reading his serve for the majority of the match and choose the moment when I was gonna use that information on a given point to execute a shot that would allow me to break the match open.”
I suppose hanging on to regret suggest we haven’t learned anything from it.
Something I miss about being a married parent is discussing what we were going to buy the kids for Christmas. The banter was fun. Some divorced couples have a relationship in which that can happen, but the boundaries set up in my situation prevents that joy. For the most part, I have to hope what I buy isn’t already bought by their mother or someone in her large family. Oddly, I try not to buy anything on their Christmas list thinking a former in-law will use it as a guide. It’s hard trying to make Christmas warm and rememberable when you dread the whole experience and doing what you can to merely survive the experience. Sheesh, it ain’t even December yet, lol.
