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.
I think I enjoy reading biographies because I wish I was living a different life.
I took advantage of some Wal-Mart ‘Cyber Monday’ deals. There’s no need for my children’s presents to be delivered anytime soon, so I chose the cheapest option, which was free shipping. To my surprise, all my items were delivered to my doorstep before dinner. Wal-Mart delivered everything in less than seven hours of my order. Color me impressed.
Several times this year, I mentioned as I look back at things, I felt my ex was gaslighting me. “Gaslighting” is a word that’s not really a part of my vernacular. But my eyebrow raised when I saw this article yesterday – ‘Gaslighting’ is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022. I wonder if Merriam-Webster is going to put her profile pic next to the definition.
I called Aetna again about the neck brace they wouldn’t pay for. They told the provider it wasn’t “medically necessary” despite having neck surgery. The rep I spoke to stated the provider needed to provide documentation of the surgery performed. I told them that since they already paid for the surgery, they must already have all documentation. She thought that made sense, and after some back and forth, called the provider and conferenced all parties. I love it when they do that, everyone speaking to each other at the same time to get on the same page. In short, the provider sent me the bill in error.
To be honest, it was never great. It was very, very good. Taquitos were fun to get when it got late at night.
I found this tweet yesterday while reading my second favorite blog (hey, I’m all about some self love and ain’t gonna put myself #2), and doubted it was true. Being the investigative journalist that I am, I decided to test it out using “Shanghai” and then “Beijing”. Nothing suspicious or seedy came up in my results. Heck, the first result was a literally FU to the late Chairman Mao on Tiananmen Square.
That bullet point may get this blog banned in China. Which makes me think of actor Richard Gere who made Red Square, a film which negatively portrayed the Chinese government. At the time, many people predicted it was career suicide since China was becoming a major contributor to the film industry. Depending on how you look at it, that may have come true. He certainly hasn’t been in any notable films as of late.
I hope TCU goes undefeated.
I’m wrapping up the Jimmy Johnson book. He dedicates one very long chapter to not making family a priority in life, and the regret he lives with. Here I am thinking how much I’ve made family a priority in life, ever since a social studies class in junior high pointed out the average age of a white male and compared that to the age of my father. All I ever tried was to make family the priority, with how I spent my weekends (I rarely went out as a teen), to the college I chose (Abilene is only two hours away in case of an emergency and weekend visits once a month), to the jobs I selected (I wanted to be with my wife and kids more than anything). Yet, I lost all of them early – Dad, Mom, best friend, brother, sister, and the family unit I helped start. I pray I don’t lose a child. It all makes me wonder if I should have pursued money or put a career first, and focused less on family. Maybe I would have lost all those things, but at least I would have family. As of now, I have neither after putting family first. I guess I should have put myself first at times. There’s nothing like living with regret. I am the common denominator.
