Bag of Randomness for Thursday, September 22, 2022

  • I attended my first church small group. I brought cookies and pumpkin scones to express my gratitude. They all welcomed me with open arms. The group filled with retired folks, and the joked how my age will bring the average age of the group down. One of them had a lot of questions about my mother and her Eastern faith. It was interesting talking about my mom for so long. It felt weird, and then I realized it’s been forever since I talked about or told stories about my mother. It was nice.
  • The group kept talking about my favorite pizza joint that I stopped there on the way home. I haven’t been since the separation. My ex taught the owner’s son and has always been extremely cordial with me, I was embarrassed to show up. But, he welcomed me with open arms and lent me some advice.
  • When someone tells me, “Aren’t you over that yet?” I think what I’m going through isn’t something to “get over”, it’s something to work through.
  • Family is not everything.
  • I’m going on my forth or fifth date with the same girl I had that five-hour dinner tonight. It’s pretty cool she wants to start a non-profit.
  • Boys and men experience more social isolation than girls and women, study finds
  • Several things still trigger me. I think trigger responses are about our bodies attempting to protect us from threats, not being weak.
  • Both took office when they where as old as dirt – Joe Biden’s approval rating is at the same level as Ronald Reagan’s in the run-up to the Republican president’s first midterm election.
  • “I have no patience with the extreme rightists who call everyone who disagrees with them a Communist, nor with the leftists who shout that the rest of us are all heartless money-grubbers.” – President Eisenhower
  • How about less “But didn’t you see the red flags?” And more “I see how hard you were trying to be loved.”
  • White House slams Ted Cruz for touting infrastructure project he voted against
  • If I understand this correctly, Joey Votto plays first base for the Cincinnati Reds, but is out for the season due to injury. Well, it appears he spent some time in the stands just being nice to the fans. That’s cool.
    • On Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park, Votto made his way through the crowd wearing a Larkin jersey during the first few innings to visit with fans and pose for photos. He was heard during the broadcast telling fans “thank you” a lot.

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Bag of Randomness for September 21, 2022

  • Who knew a photo of then Prince Charles with a beard standing next to Johnny Cash existed. It’s easy to see why he chooses to be clean shaven.
  • If you are one of those who know the conflict of being lonely and wanting people near, but also being tired and feeling like you don’t have enough in ya to do anything other than get by, just know you aren’t alone.
  • I’ve posted this before, but I’m posting it again as it seems timely. England has not had a king in a long time. To find someone who performed for the last King of England isn’t as hard as you think. Thirteen-year-old Julie Andrews sang for King George VI in 1948.
  • While watching the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth, it just got me to thinking about how funerals are viewed across the globe. As the Queen’s car traveled, people were throwing flowers at it. In the U.S., that could be seen as offensive. When I was in California for a cousin’s funeral, other cars would honk at us on the highway as we rode in a limousine. It was later explained to me that was a way of showing respect and empathy. When we watch funerals in the Middle East, you often see loud crowds of people carrying the coffin. In some cultures, it’s best to remain stoic, while in others they openly wail. Then you have customs. In Asia, white is often worn as a sign of mourning, while in the West black is the custom.
  • The wreath placed on Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin has flowers from her 1947 wedding
  • Not too long ago, viewers wouldn’t notice this detail because the service wouldn’t have been broadcasted in HD – Viewers left shocked after spider crawls across Queen’s coffin during funeral

    Wouldn’t it be neat if the spider was radioactive and it bit the Queen turning her into Spider-Zombie-Queen?
  • Don’t make someone else the hero of your survival story. After all you’ve been through, you deserve the credit.
  • Ana de Armas Visited Marilyn Monroe’s Grave Before ‘Blonde’ to Ask ‘Permission’ to Play Her
  • Don’t cook chicken in NyQuil: Dangerous social media challenge spurs warning
  • This was everywhere yesterday.

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, September 20, 2022

  • That’s a notary stamp on the desk in my church’s office. When I look at it, I see a golden bunny. And yes, that’s DaughterGeeding in the background.
  • James Bond no longer works for Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
  • In my ongoing effort to work on Keith 2.0, I did something totally out of my element on Saturday. I took the kids to a roller-derby match in North Richland Hills. It was a blast. They had a dj blasting music the whole time. It was also interesting people-watching, there was a lot of interesting self-expression, which I’m embracing. We had fun trying to figure out rules, gameplay, and scoring only by observation, but eventually asked a player for some help. I’d recommend it for a night out, tickets for adults are only eleven bucks.
  • I believe there were two roller-derby matches. The first was a junior league with a team from San Antonio. They surprisingly start the girls young, the players ranged from ages seven to seventeen. We decided to leave during the half-hour intermission which started at 9:00 PM, but I really wanted to stay to watch the more experienced older teams play.
  • The event was held at the NYTEX Sports Centre. Not only was a roller-derby being held, but we also got to watch Fort Worth’s minor league hockey team play and another league practice on two different rinks. What’s cool is there’s a Sicilian restaurant inside the complex which lets you view hockey action inside.
  • The roller-derby trophy cracked me up.
  • I took a photo with one of the players. I like how she altered her helmet to look cat-like. Almost everyone seemed down to earth.
  • Eli Manning goes undercover as a College Football walk-on

    https://youtu.be/Na2hOcx4uX8

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Bag of Randomness for Monday, September 19, 2022

  • I don’t really do mantras, but if I did, “acceptance” was my mantra for the weekend. It’s also the answer to many of my problems.
  • Huh, “bookkeeper” has 3 double letters in a row.
  • I was wondering how crazy it would be for a Supreme Court Justice to run for president. Then, I wondered if something so crazy was even mentioned in the Constitution. Turns out, it’s happened once before. Charles Evans Hughes was an associate justice of the Supreme Court (1910–1916), and 44th U.S. Secretary of State (1921–1925), as well as the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 1916 presidential election. He also served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941.
  • Kyler Murray had a phenomenal rushing touchdown yesterday, but there’s no way a QB scrambles that long without at least one of his lineman holding.
  • Dirty politics – A bus contractor hired by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to transport migrants to New York signed an agreement not talk to NY officials, complicating volunteer efforts to help
  • I usually try to avoid posting sensational political headlines, but this one came from a reputable paper, The Denver Post – Lauren Boebert is part of a dangerous religious movement that threatens democracy, experts say – “It’s time for us to position ourselves and rise up and take our place in Christ and influence this nation as we were called to do,” Boebert told a Woodland Park crowd in September
    • U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s pattern of pushing for a religious takeover of America, spreading falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election and warning of an impending judgment day amounts to Christian nationalism, religious, political and social experts say. Those ideals threaten the rights of non-Christian — and typically non-white — Americans but also endanger the foundation of the country’s democratic process, those experts say. The far-right Western Slope congresswoman represents a high-profile and incendiary voice in the movement, which is infiltrating virtually every level of American government and its judiciary.
  • ‘The Mandalorian’ season 3: everything you need to know – Mando is back with more daddy lessons for Grogu in the Disney+ sci-fi

  • https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1571569381104050176
  • https://twitter.com/MichaelWarbur17/status/1571134308156575746

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