Bag of Randomness

  • That’s our silly attempt at trying to play fetch. He’s so dark you can hardly see the little guy.
  • Still no name yet for DogGeedingII.  Part of me wants to name him after something U2 related.  No, I don’t want to name him Bono.
  • Many thanks to Scot McKnight for posting DogGeedingII’s picture on his blog and trying to help us find a name.  If any of you Christians are looking for a good read, check out one of his books, you’ll be enlightened.
  • If impersonating Bono by lip-syncing songs to your baby daughter to make her smile is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
  • We lose and hour of sleep come this weekend.  As tough as that’s going to be, it will be worth it to have more daylight.
  • I wish my church put a bigger emphasis on Lent.  Our old church did that, and it was such a great experience of expectation and renewal.
  • Map of the Day: Preventing Students from Voting
  • Is this a dog playing in the snow or Chewbacca on Hoth?
  • Skeletor on a Battle Cat rug
  • Church Body Warns Against Wrong Reading of Biblical Texts on Women
  • A two-part series by McClatchy Newspapers examines public- and private-sector pension plans and delivers this conclusion: “There’s simply no evidence that state pensions are the current burden to public finances that their critics claim.” – Article
  • 17-year-old dies a victim of shaken baby syndrome
  • Grace
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Bag of Randomness

  • A few of you asked for pictures of DogGeedingII, so there they are.  He’s still trying to adjust to his new surrounds, as we are trying to adjust to him.  As dark as he is, it’s hard to take a good picture of him.
  • We still don’t have a name for him . . . any suggestions?  Of course I refer to him on this blog as DogGeedingII but that will just be his alias . . . he needs a real name.
  • I’m not sure what news story is going to get old the fastest – Charlie Sheet or the price of gas.
  • I don’t follow the NBA like I use to, but from what I understand, Miami has three super stars on their team and they were thought to be unbeatable.  That reminds me of the Houston Rockets when they had Olajuwon, Pippen, and Barkley.
  • I’m going to a home and garden show this weekend.  That sounds like a very adult thing to do, that is, I’m showing my age.
  • The point of the video game Pac-Man was to attract girls
  • In case you are searching for the meaning of an abbreviation – www.abbreviations.com
  • Flights get canceled in Buenos Aires and Cindi Lauper calms the crowd down by singing on the PA.
  • Limbaugh’s parent company still using actors to fake radio call-ins
  • In 1946 Disney made a cartoon about menstruation
  • Maybe the most radical people pray in front of the White House
  • There’s a new camera that will add makeup to your pictures.  That camera made me think of the Simpson’s episode where Homer invented a shotgun that applies makeup.
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Bag of Randomness

  • On Friday I got a very special package in the mail from my second cousin, who is pretty close to my age.  While planning a move and packing he ran across a Bible that belong to my grandfather.  For my longtime readers, you know that my dad had me late in life, so imagine this surprise.  I can’t find a copyright on the Bible, but someone transcribed a message to my grandfather saying that the Bible is presented to him for having perfect attendance in 1905.  That’s right, 1905!  My cousin was nice enough to send me a family heirloom that was over 100 years old.  On the back of it it had transcribed the names of my grandparents, their two children, and all of their date of births.
  • There’s also some interesting ‘old’ material placed int he Bible that I need to scan to show you how times have changed.
  • I started to think about the journey this Bible had to take to reach my hands.  It was given to my grandfather while he lived in Cincinnati.  He eventually moved to Texas with his wife where he died.  My grandmother had the Bible who then moved and died in California.  It was then passed down to my aunt and then down to her son, one of my first cousins.  After he died, my second cousin had the Bible in Las Vegas who was nice enough to mail it to me in Texas.
  • Yesterday a little after 4:00 PM, BabyGeeding’s godmother called and asked if we would like a  full bred Havanese.  WifeGeeding and I have been somewhat looking for another rescue dog as of late, but haven’t really found anything that we really connected with.  So we discussed this one over, and long story short, we decided to have a spontaneous adventure and drive to Abilene and back last night.  That’s right, there is now a DogGeedingII, and it appears that OtherDogGeeding is welcoming a new brother.
  • On the trip back home, I did think about DogGeeding quite a bit and was wondering if I was kind of backstabbing him in a weird sort of way.
  • On the way to Abilene I got to see a beautiful West Texas sunset that I use to take for granted.
  • Even though it was a very quick trip, WifeGeeding and I made sure to stop by and eat at my favorite BBQ joint.  BabyGeeding’s godmother was nice enough to pay for dinner, and funny enough I actually ran into the last girl I took out on a formal date.  The date was a Queen of Hearts formal.
  • OK, I’m tired.  That roadtrip wore me out.  I’m not as young as I use to be, but it was fun doing something like that in the spurt of a moment.
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