On this day, in 1999, was my very first day of work for Fidelity Investments. I consider it my first “real” job out of college. However, during college, I worker as a teller for the Abilene Teachers Federal Credit Union. I started part-time but after graduation I was a full-time employee. Tellers have it a lot easier now with coin and cash machines and programs doing the math and spitting out the correct change and disbursement. On my last day I was off by a penny, and you always had to search through your transactions to find your mistake. Most of the time, everyone else would dive in, in an effort to find the mistake faster so we all can go home.
When I was a part-time teller, one of the VPs called me to tell me about an open loan officer position. I was confused as to why he would call me about it but then he broke it down and said the job is basically mine if I wanted it. At the time, I was tired of Abilene, burnt out, and frustrated my career path as an Air Force officer wasn’t going to pan out, so I just wanted to get out and start all over. Nowadays, I often wonder what life would have looked like if I took the loan officer job and stayed in Abilene. Would my best friend still be alive? Would I have ended up dating Martha, who was head over heals for me? Would I have worked on a master’s degree at HSU? Would I still be in Abilene today? Should Jerry Jones the owner fire Jerry Jones the GM? So many questions, so many what-ifs.
Here’s a fun little time-waster you can do every day and compare your results with others – RankADay.com.
There’s a drawer I open every day. In the drawer are some wedding photos. They always get my attention. Yesterday when I opened the drawer, I decided that I don’t want to be reminded about divorce or the separated family. I was just planning on moving them, but oddly and instantly ripped them to shreds. It felt good, cathartic, really. And, it’s not like I don’t have a digital copy all of them. That moment reminded me of a small scene in Rocky IV. It will go unnoticed by most, but it’s a favorite of mine. In Apollo’s dressing room, hanging on the mirror, is a photo of his opponent, Drago, but someone drew devil horns and a tail on him. I think I know how I’m going to entertain myself with the other photos. (I’m kidding, but not kidding. Okay, I’m kidding about kidding but I’m not sure if I’m kidding about kidding, so I probably am not kidding.)
DaughterGeeidng left a book at my house. She asked her mother if they could swing by and pick it up. Her mother told her to ask me to bring it over since she’s always picking up or dropping off stuff for her and her brother. That’s mostly true, but it lacks content. My residence is literally in-between her house and the school she’s employed by. It’s literally on the way to and from her work, so it’s not like she’s going out of her way. I also feel sorry for my daughter for being put in that awkward situation. To me, that’s using your kid to communicate with your ex-spouse, and that’s a no-no taught in every co-parenting or parallel-parenting class.
A series of local and state laws, both newly adopted and soon to be in effect, will force companies to divulge what a job pays when posting an open position.
Disclosing a pay range lessens the likelihood implicit bias will creep into new salaries because it changes the need for negotiating salary, which typically works out unfavorably for women and people of color.
The very act of establishing a pay range for a position forces companies to evaluate their compensation practices and potentially fix disparities between existing employees. Finally, pay transparency for new roles would allow already-employed people to negotiate for better pay if they’re making less than others in similar positions. Relying on workers to identify and negotiate the difference is obviously imperfect, but it will certainly help.
A woman from Waco reached out to me using a dating app. She liked my profile and wants to get to know me better, and in her words, to “date with intent.” I told her I’m not much for long-distance relationships. But she said she really liked how I laid it all out there and thinks we can be compatible and said there’s no harm in at least getting to know each other better. Since then, we’ve been exchanging a lot of messages. I think she’s really cute and athletic. She holds an undergrad degree in Bible and two theological graduate degrees, and is about to start on a doctorate. She doesn’t teach at Baylor, but the university employs her and her daughter is a senior there. Normally, I swipe left on any woman with Baylor ties, because a certain someone and her family made me feel less of a person for not going there, but I’m being open-minded about this one.
Troy Aikman is the only analyst who will point out the advancement of football gloves all receivers now wear. It’s almost impossible not to catch a ball wearing them. They are performance-enhancing. Last week I watched a YouTube video about how they came to be. A Canadian football player was watching a punter practice and was amazed at how he was catching errant hiked balls one handed. In short, the punter was wearing gloves that glass and window workers use. Using that concept, he find a combination of rubber, silicon, and other substances which provides an unprecedented football grip. Next time you are in a sports store, check them and see what they feel like, you’ll know what I’m talking about. From talking to other parents, kids playing any variation of football won’t play without them. Some folks will argue that receivers have been using things like stick-em for years. These gloves are different, and unlike stick-em, legal because they don’t leave any residue on the ball. The likes of Steve Largent are no more. Mark my words, you’ll never see another receiver in the NFL go gloveless.
Mr. Corden’s wife ordered an egg yolk omelette with gruyere cheese and salad. A few minutes after they received the food, James called their server, M. K. and told her there was a little bit of egg white mixed with the egg yolk. M. K. informed the floor manager, G. The kitchen remade the dish but unfortunately sent it with home fries instead of salad. That’s when James Corden began yelling like crazy to the server: “You can’t do your job! You can’t do your job! Maybe I should go into the kitchen and cook the omelette myself!”
“The state Legislature passed a law in spring 2021 requiring the Texas Education Agency to give inkless in-home fingerprint and DNA identification cards to each public school system in Texas,” The Houston Chronicle reports. “The kits will be made available at each primary-level campus. The cards are intended to be kept by guardians who can give them to law enforcement in order to potentially help find missing or trafficked children.”
“Doing so disturbs sensitive and critical wildlife habitats that rely on the rocks for protection. This is even more serious during times of drought and low water levels just like we are experiencing here at the park. Wildlife are already isolated to specific areas of the river and streams when water levels drop, and the building of rock cairns destroys what habitats are left. This results in those wildlife species moving somewhere else causing a break in the ecosystem.”
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Unlike brands and stores that lock in their inventory six months to a year in advance, TJX and other off-price chains buy surplus merchandise to sell it right away. They also capitalize on orders that have been canceled or when companies manufacture too many items.
If you are a Texas resident and want a free condom package every 30 days, here you go – www.TexasWearsCondoms.com.
Former President Barack Obama chastised how Democrats can sometimes be a “buzzkill,” too often framing issues through the lens of identity politics that force people to feel as though they’re “walking on eggshells.” “Sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes,” he said on the podcast “Pod Save America.” He later added: “I think where we get into trouble sometimes is where we try to suggest that some groups are more—because they historically have been victimized more—that somehow they have a status that’s different than other people and we’re going around scolding folks if they don’t use exactly the right phrase.”
Nobody likes people they feel like they have to walk on eggshells with. I felt that way the majority of the time I spend with my older brother. I hated the feeling so much I told my wife at the time that if she ever felt she was walking on eggshells with me, to let me know, because I don’t want to be that person. But, instead of working through that problem together, she chose to internalize it and literally run away from the problem. The thing that puzzled me the most was wondering what else could I have done or said to prevent a separation? I guess nothing, especially since she wouldn’t go to a single counseling session together.
There’s a difference between giving up and letting go, but sometimes it’s hard to acknowledge or identify the difference.
“We all know he will lose, or let me put it this way: we all know he’s much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle. So why would we want to go with that? “He’s going to try to intimidate people out of the race as long as he can,” Ryan continued. “Whether he runs or not, I don’t really know if it matters … He’s not going to be the nominee, I don’t think.”The stuff he said about cycles is an interesting political insight that I’ve often been fascinated with. Running for office, especially the presidency, is all about timing and being at the right place at the right time.“There’s a handful of people that are going to run, because it’s the only cycle they can run in. They can’t wait until 2028,” he said. “They’ve got to go now, if they’re ever going to go. And they don’t want to die without ever trying.”
Remember this scene from the original Top Gun? Many said it’s impossible and they may be right.
But this is the closest to pulling it off in real life. I’m astonished at this, it’s remarkable.
Palo Pinto Mountains State Park will be the first new state park in North Texas in more than 20 years. The park has spent years in development and is expected to open to visitors in late 2023, the 100th year of the state parks system.
I never thought about it like this – Business is practically guaranteed: more than 2 million visitors show up to the fair each year, according to organizers. But getting a spot on the fair’s midway isn’t always so easy.
Misinformed Hawaiian politician – “My understanding, New York just passed a law where when you give birth, you have 29 days after giving birth to decide whether or not you want to infanticide that baby,”
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson is now a professional photographer, and often shoots at NFL games. If you are familiar with Johnson, you know his history of accidentally killing a bird with one of his pitches. I mention that because it’s incorporated in his website’s logo.
“My career as a Major League baseball pitcher has been well documented, but what is not as well known is my passion for photography, which began when I studied photojournalism at the University of Southern California from 1983-85. Baseball became my occupation for two decades but my love of photography never left. Following my 2010 retirement, I was able to focus my attention back to this passion.“
Troy Aikman is the only analyst who will point out the advancement of football gloves all receivers now wear. It’s almost impossible not to catch a ball wearing them. They are performance-enhancing. Last week I watched a YouTube video about how they came to be. A Canadian football player was watching a punter practice and was amazed at how he was catching errant hiked balls one handed. In short, the punter was wearing gloves that glass and window workers use. Using that concept, he find a combination of rubber, silicon, and other substances which provides an unprecedented football grip. Next time you are in a sports store, check them and see what they feel like, you’ll know what I’m talking about. From talking to other parents, kids playing any variation of football won’t play without them. Some folks will argue that receivers have been using things like stick-em for years. These gloves are different, and unlike stick-em, legal because they don’t leave any residue on the ball. The likes of Steve Largent are no more. Mark my words, you’ll never see another receiver in the NFL go gloveless.
