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• Yesterday afternoon one of our neighbors rang out doorbell and alerted us a five foot snake crossed the street to our yard.  If there’s one thing for certain that I have in common with Indiana Jones . . . I don’t like snakes.
  
• I really wasn’t all that scared or nervous until I saw the thing.  I didn’t expect to see a pattern on its body and a really bright red tongue.
• You should have seen WifeGeeding, she’s very inquisitive in nature and got up close to it.  Her daddy would have just picked the thing up with his bare hands and probably bite its head off – he’s that much of a manly-man.  But thankfully I had my friend Bone over who was working on a Sunday school lesson over the Crusades and he pretty much, actually, he did all the work in killing the snake.  It was a bit crazy seeing that snake curl up in that s-shape and start to strike, it was pretty aggressive.
  
• My research tells me it was a harmless Texas Rat Snake.
• There’s one thing I noticed at SMU when I attended the Conan O’Brien show, that school has the best lawn anywhere in the world.  It was so pristine, no weeds or wear, dark full and lush.  It was just amazing.
• Yup, that school’s got some money.
• It was like a bigger fancier Hardin-Simmons.
• Fun game to play when you go to a typical Dallas event, when you see an older man and a younger woman – daughter or girlfriend?
• The auditorium in which the venue was at was old, in other words, sitting was very cramped and uncomfortable.
• Conan started the show with lots of local jokes.  He complimented the beauty of our women, how manly and tough the men are, our love for drinking, made reference and fun of some local things like Snuffers and Gloria Campos, the size of the state, and the wealth of University Park and Highland Park.
• I really could have done without all the singing.
• Dirk made an appearance, but we would have rather seemed him still in the playoffs.  I’m really surprised that local boy Chuck Norris didn’t make an appearance.
• Conan even had the inflatable bat from Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell tour just as an obscure prop.
• Here’s a slideshow I took of the Conan event.
• It’s been about a month now that we’ve been dealing with the oil disaster in the Gulf, and it seems like all attempts to remedy the situation deals with capturing the oil that is spewing, and not stopping the spewing.  I’m guessing they want to do this in order to process and sell the oil, but it seems like it all could have been taken care of long ago by simply focusing on plugging that thing up.
• When the mark plunged about a thousand points two weeks ago, it was blamed on a single trader who entered a trade incorrectly – I’m surprised we never learned that trader’s name.
• Poor ol’ DogGeeding, the guy is getting up there in years.  He was trying to walk down the stairs when he slipped and rolled down about half way down.  My heart broke, but he was OK, but he did seem embarrassed.
• And I think he was peeved at me for giving him a summer cut yesterday:
  
• You know when you are outside when it’s cold and you breath out of your mouth and it looks like steam?  I wonder if that’s the same thing for farts?
• My friend Andy is taking part of the Jailbreak Dash – I think that is something I would like to participate in sometime.
• If you are a fan of the Disney/Pixar movie UP then you will enjoy this engagement shoot.
• Last night, Rami Haddad of Michigan became the first Arab American and Muslim to win the Miss USA title.  First a Muslim president, now this.  Some people even believe she was funded by terrorists.
• People playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona and Mexico as the net, 1979
• This church music was so hot, someone needed to cool off.
• Everytime this dog hears the fart machine, she has to look at her butt.
• Jars of Clary wants to help Nashville with their song Flood.
• Woman indicted for assault with frozen dog
• Adobe’s new ad and Apple’s response – But yes, Adobe really does have an Apple ad
• A collection of things found in jail
• The Most Widely Read Magazine in the World
• Grace

I’m sorry for the late update, but I got pretty busy and then went to SMU to watch Conan (details to follow in a later post) but here’s the skinny . . .

All of a sudden in the late afternoon I received a call from security at the front desk informing me that a manager from my consulting firm is here to see me.  It was a bit shocking because I wasn’t expecting any visitors, much less from any management.  My first thought was that . . . those QA-terrorists got them on this too.

So I made my way down there but didn’t see anyone waiting for me in the lobby.  I talked to the front desk and told them my name and that I received a call that I had a visitor, and she asked the other security person where did that manager from the consulting firm go and out from behind the corner appears WifeGeeding who presents me with another card.

Well, I may be dense, but I know what’s happening now . . . a surprise baby show.

To be honest, throughout this whole ordeal I didn’t think it would end in a baby shower because WifeGeeding was at school and this was going to be her last week of teaching before taking the rest of the year off, so since she was taking the rest of the school year off I didn’t think she had the flexibility in her schedule to make a visit.  Well, I was wrong.

So we make our way up to my desk where my entire team and others were there to great us with food and gifts.  I’m not use to being the center of attention, and I tried to deflect the attention to WifeGeeding several times, but as uncomfortable as I was it was really cool.  As my dad once said, “You only tease the ones you love.”

You know, I think I have to chalk this event into one of my top ten happiest events in my life.  Stuff like this just really doesn’t happen to me, and being the insecure guy that I am, I rarely think people actually care about me, so all of this was just really touching and such a great blessing.  And I was later forwarded all the emails that were sent in plotting this event, and it was quite extensive and elaborate.  It’s hard to believe that people would actually go through all that trouble just for me, and there’s nothing like feeling loved and accepted by your peers.  Well, most of them. 😉

And now that Stef’s kids have been released by the QA-terrorists, it’s a happy ending for all.

I haven’t even had a chance to visit Stef yet to get any details when another card arrived.

But when I did visit Stef, turn out she left one of the cards on my desk when I was away.

Because I consider her an ally I thought I could pry some information out of her, but her response was:

They have my kids.

They have terms.

Their eyes are everywhere.

Poor Stef, she’s been brainwashed.  The QA-Terrorists are winning.

It’s time to pull some George W. Bush Doctrine and start to fight them “over there.”

Developing . . .

Not even my lunch buddy is safe from these QA-terrorists.  He’s been infiltrated and was instructed to provide me with another card.

And when I got back to my desk, yet another card . . .

So now it appears I need talk to Stef.  I fear that I have also lost her to the Dark Side.

If I don’t make it through the day, tell DogGeeding that I love him.

Oh, and WifeGeeding.

And I guess BabyGeeding when she gets here.