Bag of Randomness for Friday, May 20, 2022

  • I attended my second physical therapy session yesterday. My therapist is from India and speaks with an accent. I have a feeling she’s experienced some racism and bigotry in her life. I find her extremely knowledgeable and friendly. An elderly Chinese woman walked in with her husband. Neither spoke English. My therapist volunteered to help her, as the other therapists seemed hesitant because of the language challenge. Then, I thought I was in the middle of a commercial. My therapist brought over her laptop and, using Google Translate was able to communicate with her. She identified her needs and even built up a bit of report with some compliments I could overhear. Smiles, laughter, and the look of compassion in someone’s eyes don’t need translation. In a bit of irony, I was thinking of all the times I’ve called customer service only to get someone who has an Indian accent, and here are two Asians who don’t understand each other who are taking the time to understand each other.
  • Last night we attended DaughterGeeding’s softball awards banquet. I always envisioned going to these things, she getting recognized, and me glancing at her mother, making eye contact and smiling, celebrating our daughter together, and then all driving home as a family. Instead, she sat across the table from me and I barely spoke or made eye contact with her, fearing she would take something the wrong way and file another lawsuit to keep the children away from me.
    • The banquet was held at a family owned Italian restaurant. Great food, extremely slow service. Towards the end of the long evening, the kids and I were ready to jet, but we still haven’t been given the bill. I hunted down a staff member to get our ticket, and to make things easier on everyone, I paid for my ex’s meal. She seemed upset once she found out and said she was sorry for not having money to give me for her meal. That’s odd, as we’ve been using Zelle to exchange funds for all sorts of reimbursements, so she didn’t need to give me cash. But she offered to pay the tip, and I took her up on it.
    • Only eight more years of this.
    • Yesterday I finished reading Boundaries Face to Face: How to Have That Difficult Conversation You’ve Been Avoiding. It took me about a full year to complete as it. Not because the text was too complex, but it made me think of my ex and all the bad stuff that happened. Supposedly, upon the urging of our daughter’s pediatrician, we’re going to have a mediated discussion with our pastor on how to be better divorced parents. My ex hates any time of confrontation and any form of criticism, fleeing at any possible appearance. Thanks to her parents and soft upbringing, she’s a coward. It’s one reason why she’s a kindergarten teacher. I thought the book would be helpful for her and our upcoming conversation, so I left it for her at her school with a short note. At dinner, as I expected, she didn’t even acknowledge or thanked me she received the book, which I know for certain she did.
    • While waiting for the server to return with my credit card, my ex was standing next to me for some reason. The restaurant was playing some very romantic music, and It’s Been a Long, Long Time started to play. The romantic in me wanted to grab my ex’s hand and slow dance in front of everyone. However, I refrained because I didn’t want to be arrested for assault. But man, I miss being romantic and trying to do things to make the love of my life tilt her head and smile. Thankfully, I now understand I deserve someone who would appreciate being treated that way.
  • It’s been about two weeks since I last made a post about how embarrassingly beat up BoyGeeding’s shoes are and wondering why his mother won’t buy him a new pair. There’s no excuse for why he’s still being forced to wear them, and it doesn’t matter that school is almost out for the summer. He deserves to be loved and taken care of better than what she’s currently doing. She doesn’t know how to prioritize, never did. I tell ya what, he’s getting a new pair this weekend.
  • The Aggie head football coach is acting like my ex-wife. – Texas A&M’s Jimbo Fisher responds to ‘narcissist’ Nick Saban: ‘We’re done’
    • Fisher said Saban has tried calling him since Saban’s comments went public but he’s not going to take the call. “We’re done,” Fisher said. “He shows you who he is.
    • Like my ex-wife, Fisher is a coward, refusing to even talk – on the phone, not even in person.  There’s no way I’d ever want my son playing for an immature whining imbecile like that.
  • Justin Thomas ‘blown away’ by high prices of beer and food at 2022 PGA Championship – When Thomas got wind of a report from Golfweek’s Steve DiMeglio, which said it will cost fans $18 for a beer and $16 for a salad at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he felt he had to say something.
  • Too bad it wasn’t another Kelsey who took a 95-mph baseball hit to the head. Here’s video of the at-bat, but you won’t see the actual impact.

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Bag of Randomness for Wednesday, May 18, 2022

  • It’s been a crappy week thus far.
  • Someone else thanked me for my service yesterday. I’ve never served, and I have facial hair, so I’m certainly not active.
  • From two different people, I was told how good the tacos, of all places, Dairy Queen, are. Both encouraged me to go on Tuesdays because they are only a dollar. I took them up on their offer and I don’t regret it. Now, I’d like to recommend for you to give the DQ Taco a try next Taco Tuesday. I think there’s better than Taco Bell or Taco Bueno’s. Of course, when it comes to fast food tacos, I’m partial to Jack In The Box, and I never want to know the ingredients or nutritional value of them.
  • I took the dogs to the vet yesterday to get some
  • vaccinations. I have no idea if Bill Gates is using nanobots to track the movements of my dog like he does with me and the Covid vaccination (Dear God, I hope you know I’m kidding). The employee at the window asked if the dogs would like a pup-cup. They’ve done this before, but I was surprised at the size she gave both of them.
  • I never really thought about it before until Craig Miller of The TICKET brought it up, but he wondered what the pitch throw count of a catcher might be. Everyone is focused on how many throws a pitcher makes, but no one really stops to consider the amount of time a catcher must throw a ball, especially for an entire game, unlike most pitchers who leave a little more than a third of a way through.
  • Texas teen who drove through a tornado is now the public face of TxDOT’s ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign
  • The new KTVT CBS11 anchor, Nicole Baker, is one fit looking individual.
  • Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000
  • Austin man builds home on top of his car, turns tragedy to positivity

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Bag of Randomness for Tuesday, May 17, 2022

  • Natalie Portman has been working out, and it shows.
  • I heard a segment on NPR that, on average; it takes married couples seven years to meet with a counselor about a particular issue.
  • When I got my car inspected the other day, the service attendant called me, “boss-man.” Normally, when someone refers to me as “boss” I don’t like it, especially when I’m not that boss. Yet, I found “boss-man” didn’t bother me in the least.
  • Something else that bothers me in customer service is anytime a worker or employee will respond to me with, “No problem.” I know they don’t mean to, but they should never put the customer in a situation in which they may think they are inconveniencing you or they did something wrong.
  • One little thing that bugs me about waitstaff who cleans off tables is when they spray a cleaning solution in the open air directly on the surface of the table. One of my worst bosses trained me long ago that doing so may cause particles to land on someone nearby and you are introducing a cleaning aroma when the customer should only smell the aroma of food. Instead, spray the cleaning solution directly into your washcloth to minimize the spreading of particles and smell.
  • The older I’ve gotten, I slowly saw the ridiculousness traditions are. Especially when they are labeled sacred. The world will continue to go around should something some ritual not take place. But, that’s not to say I don’t see the fun in them and the opportunity for them to create a bond. It’s just too many of us go ape shit over them and take them too seriously. The world didn’t implode when aTm and UT stopped playing football. Traditions came to mind when I saw the news Jen Psaki step down as the White House Press Secretary. There used to be a tradition of the person leaving the office pass down a flak jacket to the person who will be taking over. But that all stopped during the Trump administration because several people in that role never held a press conference and just stopped the tradition. The jacket has since gone missing. It is a little eery if you think about how the press room is named after James Brady, who was the victim of a gunshot wound after an assassination attempt on Reagan and suffered debilitating lifelong injuries.
  • From Feb-Aug of last year, I only got to see my children nine hours a week. I wasn’t able to give them a kiss goodnight for 137 nights. What was torturous was taking parenting classes and going home and not being able to immediately apply anything I learned. It also sucked not to discuss it with the other parent. There was a lot of fun and bonding in parenting together, at least for me.
  • I’m surprised Mr. Andrea Mitchell, Alan Greenspan, is still alive at 96. He’s looked 96 for the last three decades.
  • Thousands of Britain’s ‘fish and chip’ shops could close within a year. – The United Kingdom’s fish-and-chip shops are under severe strain as the prices of key ingredients — including cod and cooking oil — soar as a result of the Russian assault on Ukraine.
  • I was speaking to a friend yesterday. He’s been single for a while and is having an affair with a woman. The woman is okay with the affair, but he said she won’t put up with any kind of cursing.
  • I only watched five minutes of Amber Heard being cross-examined by Johnny Depp’s attorney. I’m no lawyer or PR wiz and probably have already used incorrect language or terminology, but her career is now ruined. She has so much in common with my ex, but Heard’s a nicer person because she doesn’t weaponize children. I don’t think Depp will win the case, but he will come away the winner in this.
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