Bag of Randomness

  • I mowed the lawn, and the lawn won.  After mowing I just felt very ill, I’m thinking I wasn’t hydrated enough.
  • Hello three day weekend . . . it’s awfully nice to meet you, you should come by more often.
  • The third website I visit every morning is news.yahoo.com, I briefly check out their top stories, then click on the Comics link to read my four daily comics, and then it’s usually off to their Most Popular section.
  • Even though one of my readers was nice enough to remind me to renew the BagOfNothing.com domain, I still haven’t done so.  I have just a little over a month left.
  • My friend Andy has some intriguing thoughts about taxes that I think is worth your time reading.
  • Waffle stick maker?
  • I don’t know what to think about the Mike Snider sendoff . . . they kept show news segments that he ‘covered’ like the death of Princess Diana?  Yeah right, like he actually covered that story in any detail.
  • I need to clean my gas grill, the iron grates are a bit rusty.
  • I’m almost tempted to watch the first Twilight film just to see what all the hype is about.
  • Dude building a Delorean hovercraft – YouTube
  • I really don’t care where Lebron ends up.
  • I can’t remember the last time I climbed a tree.
  • A web browser for televisions
  • Researchers create functioning human lung on a microchip
  • Grace
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I think WifeGeeding is bored at home

Because she keeps emailing me pictures she’s been taking of BabyGeeding.

I thought a would share a few.

In this pic, it looks like she wants to be a Major League catcher as she’s sporting a call sign with her three fingers, in this case, it I think it’s a change up away from the plate.

The number on her chest indicates how many months old she is.  I think WifeGeeding is going to do this monthly.


I’m not sure what to think of this picture.  I may be laughing, or farting . . .most likely, both, all on a pink cloud of cotton candy.  Either way, I’m actually impressed WifeGeeding could take such a pic, and both of these aren’t edited or touched up.


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Oldest US postal worker retires in Calif. at 95

REDLANDS, Calif. – It wasn’t snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night that stopped Chester Arthur Reed from his appointed round. The mail handler just felt it was time to call it quits at age 95.

The fork lift operator retired Wednesday as the nation’s oldest postal worker, ending a career without taking a single sick day. It’s a feat he attributes to a healthy diet of watermelon, alkaline water and an onion sandwich with mayo every day.

“If everyone in the nation ate watermelons, they’d get rid of all the doctors,” Reed said.

Despite being partially deaf and walking with a stoop, Reed has worked for more years than many of his co-workers have been alive and has accrued 3,856 hours — nearly two years — of sick leave for not missing a shift in 37 years.

Reed has been a U.S. Postal Service mail handler and forklift operator since he was hired in 1973, making $4 an hour. He hit the $25-an-hour ceiling about 10 years ago.

Reed said he likes his job because “one, it’s a steady income and, two, they don’t hassle you.” But he also knows when to leave, reasoning: “The Bible says there’s a time for everything. Well, it’s time to retire, and that’s it.”

Reed worked the 2:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift and logged in more than 12 hours some days, his 55-year-old manager Mary Brunkhorst said. “We’d have to force him to go home, and he’d say there’s still work to do. It takes a special person to work to age 95. Our generation would not do that.”

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