A loyal reader was kind enough to inform me that Whataburger has come to their senses and put the grilled cheese sandwich back on their menu. Gas prices are dropping, the grilled cheese is back, maybe America is making a recovery.
On some sort of documentary, I discovered that the puppet Howdy Doody had 48 freckles, one to represent each state in the nation at the time.
I had a great session with my counselor yesterday regarding my PTSD. There’s something that could help my healing, but the ex would never agree to anything to help me in my recovery. But I can’t rely on anyone for my healing. That’s my own responsibility.
The only people I really feel like I can brag about my kids to who would actually give a damn are family. So many times I want to share something touching or insightful they said, or just something else I think they did that was remarkable. But, I ain’t got no family.
Let’s hope it holds up and we don’t have to sacrifice our first-world privileges –
Well, I’ll definitely will watch the Kennedy Center Honors this December on CBS.
"We consider America to be a home away from home and we are very grateful to the #KennedyCenterHonors for welcoming us into this great clan."—Irish rock band @U2 (Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.)
This line Milhouse said to Bart kept getting funnier the more I thought about it, “Trust me, Bart. It’s better to walk in on both parents instead of one of them.”
I really want to write about this new girl I’m smitten with, but fear I’m going to jinx it. She did answer the following question correctly: “Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark decide to play a game chess, using a Star Wars special edition chess set. Tony lets Bruce pick the colors. Does Bruce choose the dark side or the light side?”
I’ll just say one other thing about her, she can out-blog me. Seriously, she used to get paid to blog, she was a professional blogger. And her ex went to Baylor.
For therapeutic reasons, here’s a list of thing I wish my ex would have had the courage to say before she kidnapped our kids and darted off to her mother’s house:
Keith, our marriage is on the verge of breaking.
No, I don’t want to renew our vows because …”
We should start sleeping apart.
I know the rifle thing happened three months ago but I still have questions about it.
You told me if we saw a marriage counselor, he or she would just say exactly what you’ve been telling me. Well, let’s see if you’re right, let’s go see one.
I know you said you’re only joking, but what you say actually hurts me.
Raise your voice at me one more time and I’m divorcing you.
I’ve been unhappy for years and have been hiding it.
I don’t think I should be the one to tell my sister she was wrong about not texting ahead of time that she would be running late with the kids because she’s feeding them.
I’m sorry you feel that way, but this is how I feel about it and this is what I’m going to do.
No, it can’t wait until tomorrow.
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I’m sorry I posted nothing yesterday. I’m still feeling a lot of fatigue from COVID-19 and spent a lot of time with my kids. Not to mention, I had nothing of quality to add and didn’t want to waste your time.
I wonder what park attendance is like at Six Flags Over Texas. I can’t imagine anyone thinking about spending the afternoon there.
I let my hair grow out for about 10 days just to see what I’d look like and to see how badly I’m bald. It’s about what I thought, and the kids say they prefer me with a bald head anyway. So, I’m back to the “normal” me.
I had a check-up with my doctor yesterday. The nurse and I got into a conversation about anesthesia. He said he has a cousin that works at Texas Instruments, and he has a high level government security clearance. Anytime he’s administered anesthesia, which may lead a person to say things they normally wouldn’t or shouldn’t, an agent of some sorts, FBI he thought, has to be around in case he spills the beans.
I really miss doing DIY and home renovation stuff, and I really miss watching those types of shows and videos on YouTube. I avoid watching them now because they just make me yearn for a house to do my own stuff in and what was taken from me.
The Musers accidentally made a great climate change analogy yesterday, comparing it to the NBA. Saying we’ve had 110°F days in the past is like saying the NBA has always had extremely tall players because Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played in the league at its infancy. But, when you look at the average height of players, it starts off ~6’3 at the beginning of the league, and works its way up to 6’5 by the end of the 50s, and gradually rises to stay steady at 6’7.Aug 26, 2014. The rules of the game are the same in most instances, but it’s an entirely different game now because the variables have changed.
It’s hard to believe how much Whataburger has fallen downhill since that firm from Chicago bought it. I ordered curbside on Saturday, pulled into my spot, and my food was delivered without the drink I ordered. I asked the teen who brought it out if it came with a drink. He said it didn’t, so I showed him the receipt. He moped back in and it took about five minutes to get my drink. When he handed it to me, I said, “Thank you, I appreciate it.” He replied, “Well, uh, how about a tip man?”
My life is so much better when my kids are in my life. But I have to make sure that my kids aren’t entirely my life. Something can happen to them. I’ve unfortunately learned that the hard way. In a way, I’m searching for a reason to live. That’s one reason it annoys me to heck when someone is genuinely confessing they need help and are looking for a reason to live, people simply tell them to live for their kids or someone else. Well, what happens if the kids are tragically taken away from their life, then what do they have to live for? I’ve sacrificed happiness and worked a job that hasn’t brought me fulfillment for my family, but I need to find something for myself. It’s weird when you feel like your purpose in life was to take care of your family, then they get taken away, and you are left trying to figure out what is your actual purpose in life. I should eat a donut and ponder this for a while.
With all that said, I think I’m going to try what some folks call a side hustle, or a side business. Seriously, I think I’m just going to name the company BagOfNothing Inc. and modify this blog to house the company’s webpage.
This is news to me, but Jon Hamm is taking over the role of Fletch. He’s pretty good at comedy, so it will be interesting to see what he brings to the role. I wonder if this version of Fletch is still a Lakers fan.
Have you ever thought about how airport runway numbers are assigned? Me neither, but I recently found out they aren’t sequential, but based on compass bearings. So, runway 9 would be 90 degrees, runway 27 is 270 degrees. I have a feeling a handful of you said to yourself, “Yes, Geeding, that’s the kind of useless s— I come here for. Thanks!”
I’m about 80% over my COVID-19 symptoms, dealing mainly with some lingering chest congestion and fatigue issues.
I can’t recall if I mentioned this or not, and too lazy to look into my archives, but I recently fixed my car window and the solution was rather simple. This is totally a first-world problem. My driver-side window will auto-express down but stopped auto expressing up. It was weird, because when it first happened, I had to question myself if it was always like that or did I imagine it. I put off looking for an answer for weeks until one day I found the motivation waiting in a fast food drive thru. Basically, all I needed to do was reset it, and to do that, I just had to pull the switch up and hold it for three seconds after it reaches the top. Boom, fixed! Back in the day, before the information super-highway, someone would take it to a dealership and waste a lot of time and money for something so simple. It’s funny how such a convenience became so bothersome when taken away.
One day, I’m going to go on a rant about statues and how there are too many of them nowadays. No person still living in their twenties should have a statue made of him or her.
When I worked for Boston based Fidelity Investments and was told a lot of jobs from that area would be coming to Texas, because from a business standpoint, Texas workers are less expensive. My first thought was, are we the suckers for accepting to work for less money, does anyone else realize we can use this as a negotiating tactic or are we just going to accept being paid less?
