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• Man, there are sure a lot of 2’s in today’s date – 02/22/2022
• Someone I never met told me yesterday that I was a good dude. I’m not sure of that person’s qualifications to make such a statement, but it was something I needed to hear.
• LBJ feared dying alone. I’ve read that in several places and saw it on a CNN special last night. I also fear the same. I’m glad I was by the bedside of both my parents. Otherwise, they may have died alone.
• Parenting was a lot more fun when it was only with the person I married. Now, I feel like I parent equally alongside her, her mother, and her lawyer.
• There’s no telling what companies like Twitter and Facebook do with your information. There’s no telling what Donald Trump’s new social media company will do with your information.
• I never thought something like Wordle would be a highlight of my day.
• Texas tops the nation in teens who give birth multiple times
  • While teenage birth rates have declined significantly across the country in recent decades, Texas remains above the national average, consistently ranking in the top 10 states. Out of all births in Texas, around 6% were teen births in 2019 and 2020. And a startling proportion of teenagers who gave birth in Texas in 2020 — more than 1 in 6 — already had at least one other child.
• Iranian prisoner dies of ‘joy’ after death penalty abolished
• Florida worker dies after being run over by street sweeper
• And to think I get upset at folks who don’t return their shopping cart – Boston man stabbed for not flushing toilet at MBTA station, police say
• Cute headline, but the visual is actually pretty under-whelming – Deaf dog saved from euthanasia drives around Daytona Speedway

https://twitter.com/just_awesome25/status/1495720272124596228

• I can’t recall the last time I used or even seen an iced tea spoon. Over the years, I’ve stopped putting any sugar or sweetener in my tea and haven’t had the need for one, but then again, I’d usually use my straw to stir it.
• The new season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is out. I like the show, but I think I really enjoyed watching it with my ex because it brought joy to me to see how she reacted to certain scenes. I’m debating on watching the new season. Anything I do, I want to do for myself as I work on Keith 2.0.
• Family movie nights with the kids are fun. But the new normal means there will only be three of us instead of what was the usual four. There’s still that element of “something’s missing” when we watch movies together. It’s all part of acceptance and yielding.
• A part of rebuilding and rediscovering myself is to figure out what are things that make me happy. So, I asked my kids, and they both quickly and at the same time said, “Hugs.” Then one of them added, “Hugs from us, specifically.”
• How on Earth did Texas not be the first state to institute this law? Tennessee bill would designate some gun owners as law enforcement.
• I’m sure everyone saw this story yesterday – Olympics – Cross-country skiing – Finn Remi suffers frozen penis in mass start race
  • Lindholm explained that he used a heat pack to try to thaw out his appendage once the race was over. “When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable,” he added.
• I never knew Michael Jordan shattered a backboard during a game until I saw a GIF of it yesterday. But it threw me off because he was wearing an orange jersey. Interestingly, it happened when he played for an Italian club, which I did not know he did.
  • The game was Jordan’s only appearance for Italian club Stefanel Trieste. Playing against Juve Caserta, Jordan scored 30 points for his one-night club. And he left the gym a bit of a mess: Late in the game, driving to the basket, Jordan broke the backboard with an impressive one-handed dunk. The glass shattered, showering players with glass. It was quite a scene.
• Speaking of Jordan, it surprised me how he specifically sought our very own Luka Doncic at yesterday’s All Star Game and gave him some love. If that’s not making it or achieving a high level expect, I don’t know what is.
• New NCAA baseball rule – The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Thursday approved allowing the use of one-way electronic communication devices for the purpose of calling pitches and plays. 
  • Examples of what could be implemented next season include teams being allowed to use an electronic display board from the dugout that shows a numerical code to call pitches and/or defensive plays. Teams also can use a one-way in-ear communication device that would be limited for use from the dugout to the catcher.
• There’s an Arkansas or East Texas joke in here somewhere – We’re sisters and our sons are brothers, cousins and twins
  
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• This guy is having a bad day.
  

Incredible pic.twitter.com/L1nxBTiSOD

— Science Club (@scienceClub01) February 20, 2022

The immaculate reception might honestly be a Top 5 play in sports history. This view of it is wild

(h/t @highlghtheaven) pic.twitter.com/hUCqp5rsTk

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) February 19, 2022

• You can’t get any more right-wing than that. She’s even showered in red. At least she put Jesus ahead of Guns. Though, I expect the order is different in her heart.
• Jamaica has a four-man bobsled team back at the Olympics for the first time in 24 years.
• I always thought certain fast-food establishment’s soft drinks tasted better than others. – The Real Reason McDonald’s Sprite Tastes Different
  • McDonald’s uses a high syrup-to-carbonated water ratio, which results in a sweeter and stronger version of the drink than can be had at other fast-food restaurants or that is found in cans and bottles. McDonald’s also uses high-end filtration systems to filter its water so that the Sprite concentrate isn’t just being mixed with sparkling water from the tap — it’s being mixed with bottled water-quality water, with no impurities that could affect the taste. The company claims to filter its water twice as much as its competitors.
• One thing I miss about parenting with a spouse is talking through stuff like all the current news about book banning. It would be great to know her thoughts and see where we are alike or differ. But, not only is she not having any of that kind of talk. Anything I say would eventually come back to haunt me, most likely misquoted and from her lawyer.
• Not that divorced parents compete with each other when it comes to gifting birthday presents, but it sure does feel good when your son tells you his two presents were the best of the bunch. What’s better is that both of them didn’t cost me more than eight bucks. Both of them were magic tricks. One, a pair of double-sided quarters and a trick deck of cards in which you can tell the card from the back. He had a blast performing tricks at school the next day.
• There’s going to be a three night Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln special this weekend on the History channel. Unfortunately, I’m a YouTube TV subscriber and the channel isn’t part of my package.
• Her eyes freak me out – Mom decapitates 6-year-old son and dog, claims the devil was speaking to her, police say
  
• I haven’t found one person who had a positive comment to say about this Nicole Kidman cover. One of my friends is certain the 54-year-old has had plastic surgery. I’m bad at being able to spot those things.
  
• This is some cool footage.

https://twitter.com/JoePompliano/status/1494112292010659840

• Cowboys paid $2.4 million to settle cheerleaders’ voyeurism allegations against senior team executive Richard Dalrymple
  • Each of the women received $399,523.27 after the incident. One of the cheerleaders alleged that she clearly saw Richard Dalrymple, the Cowboys’ longtime senior vice president for public relations and communications, standing behind a partial wall in their locker room with his iPhone extended toward them while they were changing their clothes, according to several people with knowledge of the events and letters later sent by attorneys for the cheerleaders to the team. Dalrymple gained entry to the back door of the cheerleaders’ locked dressing room by using a security key card.
  • Dalrymple also was accused by a lifelong Cowboys fan of taking “upskirt” photos of Charlotte Jones Anderson, a team senior vice president and the daughter of team owner Jerry Jones, in the Cowboys’ war room during the 2015 NFL draft, according to documents obtained by ESPN and interviews.
    • I thought something was up when Dalrymple left so unexpectedly and with little fanfare after so many years of dedicated service. If you are wondering just how important that man was to the organization, take into consideration when the NFL made the America’s Game edition for the last Cowboys Super Bowl victory. They chose only three people from the organization to provide commentary. It’s usually always players and coaches, but for some reason, Dalrymple, the PR guy, got one of those coveted spots.
    • For anyone wondering why Jerry wouldn’t fire him immediately for taking up skirt pictures of his daughter, you have to consider this man was responsible for burying and hiding every potential damaging thing about the organization since Jerry bought the team. He has so much on Jerry he could blackmail him for anything. And when businessmen make it big, they don’t care about the sin, they only care about loyalty.
• My ex refuses to be nice or do anything accommodating. Yesterday was our son’s 10th birthday. Our daughter was not well enough to go to school and stayed with me, and I picked the birthday boy up from school. My daughter and her mother no longer have a healthy relationship and see a counselor almost weekly. My house is on the way to the counselor’s office from either her apartment or place of employment. Normally, I drive the kids to the counselor and we exchange the kids there. But yesterday, our son requested we eat cookie cake at my house after their counseling session. So that the birthday boy could enjoy his day and wouldn’t have to ride along for his sister to be dropped off at the counseling session she and her mother were going to, I asked my ex if should could pick up our daughter at my house since it’s along the way. As expected, she said no and didn’t provide a reason.
• It was weird having my ex inside my house. The last time she came over, I caught her snooping around. I have no doubt she was making mental notes to tell her mother and sister how tacky of a place I live in.
• US approves new headlights that won’t blind oncoming drivers
  • The headlights, commonly used in Europe, have LED lamps that can focus beams on darkness such as the driver’s lane and areas along the roadside. They also lower the intensity of the light beams if there’s oncoming traffic. Camera sensors and computers help determine where the light should go.
• Drunk sisters take off clothes, fight at Disney World
• Cynthia Perkins: Teacher who fed students cupcakes laced with husband’s sperm gets 41 years in jail
  • A Louisiana teacher has been given 41 years of jail time after she pleaded guilty to several child sex crimes, including feeding cupcakes to students laced with her husband’s sperm. Cynthia Perkins was arrested along with her husband Dennis in October 2019 and slapped with 150 felony charges, including rape, child pornography, sexual battery of a child, and video voyeurism.
• I had no idea the man responsible for this was from my hometown of Mineral Wells – D Magazine – The Great Frisco Caper – How America’s fastest-growing city fueled its success with professional sports and a financing scheme so clever that the state of Texas had to make it illegal.
  • No other city of Frisco’s size is based in a top-five media market and is involved with all of the country’s five largest professional sports leagues, to say nothing of hosting the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) national championship game, an additional college football bowl game (the Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl), one of the country’s premier esports teams (Complexity), or the constant stream of youth sports. Up next is the PGA of America, which has built two 18-hole golf courses and is relocating its headquarters from Florida to create an enormous mixed-use development that includes a hotel and convention center.“Sports City USA” has become more than a marketing moniker. Frisco seized on a novel financing strategy to fuel a professional sports boom that helped drive and sustain a population explosion. It truly is a unique American experiment. And it all started with a God-fearing city manager who wasn’t afraid to make a big bet.
• Lolong was the largest crocodile in captivity. He was a saltwater crocodile measured at 6.17 m (20 ft 3 in), and weighed 1,075 kg (2,370 lb), making him one of the largest crocodiles ever measured from snout-to-tail. Hunted over a period of three weeks, it took around 100 people to bring him onto land.
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• This place is in Bellville. Here’s a straightforward review.
  Saw the sign, had to stop, curiosity killed the cat. Politics aside, I’d encourage anyone who loves a good burger and might happen to love where we live to enjoy one. Surprisingly diverse mix of clientele and all there for one reason I’d guess, is this place legit? The burger speaks for itself. It was not a Pro-Trump crowd is my guess but burger loving. Strongly recommend…