Bag of Randomness

  • I’ll be in Austin for almost all of next week so I thought I would take in a Longhorn men’s basketball game.  Too bad they’ll be playing at UCLA.
  • As a kid it was a bit of a tradition for the tree to stay up at least through New Year’s Day.  Now, I can’t wait to take it down and get things back to ‘normal’.
  • It will be great the day the kids will be able to pull the tree down from the attic on their own and put it up all by themselves.  But I don’t want to rush things.
  • I get nervous stepping on the wooden attic ladder steps.  I’m always sure to step on the outer edges for greater support, but I still fear it breaking . . . and then me breaking.
  • Newt in 2008 on the Individual Mandate
  • I watched the Kennedy Center Honors last night and then checked out the Neil Diamond Wikipedia page.  I didn’t know he attended NYU on a fencing scholarship, was a member of the NCAA men’s championship team, and sometimes fenced to warm up before concerts.
  • The Neil Diamond tribute performance ended with a stage of Red Sox fans singing “Sweet Caroline,” which I thought was a sweet touch.
  • I’m getting old, I forgot that event was hosted by Walter Cronkite from 1978 until 2002.  Since that time, it’s been hosted by Caroline.
  • I’m on an Indiana Jones kick and checked out the first episode of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.  In this first episode, he runs into Lawrence of Arabia.
  • I looked up the man that plays Ronald Reagan in the new Meryl Streep movie The Iron Lady, this appears to be his only acting gig.
  • I saw there is a big fund raiser for that blogging fashion model that walked into a plane propeller, and that kind of surprises me because it seems that she and her parents are well off.  I wonder if there would be so much concern if she wasn’t so attractive?
  • There are two big local murder/crime stories that have always peaked my interests.  One being Peggy Railey who what appears was put into a 25-year vegetative state by her husband who was lead pastor at First United Methodist Church Dallas who was having an affair.  The other is Darlie Routier who was sentence for murdering her kids, who sprayed silly string on their graves for a birthday celebration.
  • Twenty-five years in a vegetative state seems like torture, not just for the victim, but for the family that cares for her.
  • Too bad Jason Witten didn’t make the Pro Bowl, but I really thought Sean Lee should have made it. But I bet they end up making it, so many player pull out of it anyways.
  • I don’t think there’s a person in DFW that thinks the Cowboys will beat the Giants this weekend.
  • Another #firstworldproblem hit us yesterday – the package of toilet paper we bought for some reason doesn’t have perforated lines.
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And I thought the ‘one punch’ only worked in the movies

A clerk in North Carolina took matters into his own hands when a would-be robber brandished a gun and demanded money.

Derek Mothershead, 26, was already on high alert because the We Buy Gold store in Hendersonville had been recently robbed.

Instead of handing over the cash, Mothershead gave the alleged robber, 25-year-old Mostafa Kamel Hendi, a left hook that knocked him out cold.

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Robber Changes Mind After He Realizes He’s Robbing an NBA Player

Sixers coach Doug Collins gave the team off on Christmas Eve so his players could enjoy the holiday as they were scheduled to fly to Portland on Christmas Day and practice there later that night. It was on the team’s off day that guard Lou Williams found himself in a little bit of a mess.

While stopped in his car in Manayunk on Christmas Eve, Williams was approached by a man with a gun. The situation was deflated when the gunman recognized Williams and commended him for his work in the community. Williams said he treated the man to a meal at a local fast-food restaurant by giving him some money.

“A guy tried to rob me but decided not to because of whatever I do in the community,” said Williams before the game last night. “He’s a Lou Williams fan so he didn’t rob me.”

Williams said he was driving in his car when the man approached, knocked on the driver’s window and had a gun drawn.

“There’s crime everywhere,” said Williams. “I was debating whether to pull off or help the guy. The gun was already out. He did all the talking and we came up with a solution before I could really say much. I treated him to McDonald’s.”

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