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I wonder if there’s going to be a population boom nine months from now.

I’ll be honest. As for me and my health, I’m more concerned with my allergies and sinuses than I am with COVID-19. But it would be my luck that I’d catch the virus while working from home.

KFC pauses finger lickin’ ads amid coronavirus panic and 150 complaints

7 Lessons from Singapore’s Churches for When the Coronavirus Reaches Yours – Advice from Christians in the “Antioch of Asia” on how your congregation can survive—and thrive—amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

I watched The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. He did the show without an audience. just like all the other shows. It reminded me of the time David Letterman did a show without an audience because of a massive blizzard. I recall Denzel Washington being his guest, but can’t recall if he was the only guest.

UK News – Student suspended from school for selling ‘squirts’ of hand sanitizer to classmates

Coronavirus Burial Pits In Iran So Vast They’re Visible From Space

At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 80 miles south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as Feb. 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches — their lengths totaling 100 yards — were visible at the site from space.

Next week is spring break for my wife and kids. Maybe it was a good thing I didn’t buy tickets to fly to Boston and walk the Freedom Trail after all. Boston has a forecast high of 37-degrees on Monday and a 40% chance of rain on Tuesday. It has been interesting tracking roundtrip nonstop fights and seeing them drop from over $400 to around $150. Also, we are having new floors installed next week so it’s not like we can go anyways.

A neighbor asked for help with something on his MacBook the other day. Again, anything Apple-related is foreign to me, it’s like trying to write with my left hand and I don’t know how you people do it. Luckily, it was something rather simple and it was fixed in no time. But then he started to complain about Spectrum, his internet and cable provider, and how he has to take the afternoon off the next day to be home for a service call. His first complaint was that the DVR wouldn’t power on. I asked if I could take a look and I basically detangled the wires and unplugged and replugged everything. It powered on. Now that I got that working, he asked if I could get the remote to work, stating he was so upset at it the other day he threw it across the room and put a dent in the wall. The poor guy is going through a lot, losing his wife to cancer not long ago, running his own business, and being a single parent. As I was handed the remote, his lawn service needed to show him outside. Something he said earlier lead me to believe he was using the wrong remote. His bedroom door was open and I could see a second remote on his dresser. I nabbed it but it didn’t work; however, the light on the remote wasn’t working when I pressed buttons so I switched the batteries out and it worked just fine. My neighbor came back amazed at my technical brilliance. He then asked why the sound doesn’t come through his speaker bar, and well, I helped with that too, basically changing some inputs and programming his remote to work with both his TV and soundbar. I haven’t seen anyone so grateful in a long time and he couldn’t wait to cancel his service call.

I may have had the strangest fifteen-minutes of my life, and I bet I shared that moment with millions of others. Former Gov. Sarah Palin was unmasked as a masked singer and sang “Baby Got Back” on national TV, President Trump banned travel from most of Europe, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson revealed they had COVID-19, and the NBA season got postponed.

Right before 9/11, all the local news stations had their own branded helicopters to report on traffic and other things. But after 9/11, they were grounded and proved to be too costly. Soon, technology advanced, like GPS and traffic cameras, and it’s like it never happened. I presented that train of thought because I’m wondering in what ways will COVID-19 trigger a change that becomes the norm. For instance, Super BaD Radio spoke about how the NBA started to restrict reporters from the locker rooms as a way to prevent contamination. They said players have been wanting this for a while, and once things get better, they will decide they’ll continue this policy.

As much as I don’t care for Sarah Palin, I like what she did and wholehearted support her in this endeavor.  If anyone is upset at her appearing hypocritical because of conservative values and the song she sang, I say, “Dude, lighten up.”

“But it’s all about fun. It’s unity. This is all good. This is something that our country needs right now too.”

Experts Say You Shouldn’t Make Homemade Hand Sanitizer – They’re not as effective as you think.

For example, a popular recipe circulating online suggests using 2/3 cups of either 99 percent rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol) or ethanol (ethyl alcohol or alcohol) as the main antimicrobial active ingredient, resulting in roughly 66 percent active content in the final product. However, there is a nuance in the FDA’s rule governing the hand sanitizer product category regarding the different actives recommended as being safe and effective, Aral says.

The rule states that the minimum recommended level for isopropyl alcohol is 70 percent in the final product as opposed to the minimum of 60 percent for ethyl alcohol. So if you use isopropyl alcohol at the recommended 2/3 cup level in the recipe, the active level would fall short of the recommended 70 percent, Aral notes. If ethanol is used instead, the recipe should theoretically meet the minimum of 60 percent required by the FDA rule.

Somehow, the screen on WifeGeeding’s MacBook Air cracked. I suspect her habit of keeping it on the floor around children who run around without looking where they step to be the cause, but I digress. For the heck of it, I thought I’d try to repair it myself. I found a replacement screen online for $75 and the screwdriver set on Amazon was like six bucks, and I utilized a YouTube video which made it look simple. To my surprise, it actually was, and I think I did it in under 45-minutes. I’m guessing I saved at least $150 on this project.

Leading Texas School Board Candidate Wants to Teach Pole Dancing, Conspiracy Theories – Despite his history of sexist, racist tweets and conspiracy-laden rants, more than 54,000 Republican voters propelled Robert Morrow into a runoff for a seat on the State Board of Education. GOP leaders are terrified he might actually win.

Coronavirus Conference Gets Canceled Because of Coronavirus

The Council on Foreign Relations has canceled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the infection itself. CFR has also canceled other in-person conferences that were scheduled from March 11 to April 3, including roundtables in New York and Washington and national events around the U.S.

Vietnam veteran is ready to go to war with the City of Dallas over his support of President Trump

Dalas Van Syckle’s flag featuring President Trump and the phrase “Keep America First” first provoked the ire of the city about four months ago when he raised it. “I’m sure I hurt somebody’s feelings that came by and was a Democrat and didn’t like my flag,” said the 67-year-old, who has now received multiple citations.

A spokesperson for the city said they consider it both a campaign sign and a code enforcement violation. Van Syckle disagrees. “My argument is it’s not a political sign. It’s a sign that supports my country and my president.”

But a city ordinance does exist stating political signs cannot rise than 8 feet above the ground. The city sent Van Syckle a warning in January about that. After three warnings, code enforcement sent VanSickle a citation.

Last Friday was the BoyGeeding’s first baseball practice of the season. I’m helping out as an assistant coach. I introduced myself as Coach Keith but I think one player thought I said “I’m Coach K” because he asked, “I can just call you Coach Krzyzewski?” Not bad for a seven-year-old.

The head coach of the team is the pastor of my church. He didn’t ask me to help out but through an odd series it worked out that way. I’m hesitant to do such things for several reasons – my back doesn’t make it easy, I’m impatient with kids, I never played the sport, and with similar situations, relationships get damaged. Here’s to hoping I’ll use this as an opportunity to improve upon these things and not allow them to drag me down or come true. It helps simply being an older adult, you learn not to take things so seriously and understand that sometimes things fall apart so it’s all about winging it.

If you’ve read this blog, you know that I will jovially gripe about how my last name (Geeding) is often misspelled. The most common misspelling is when someone adds an “r” to it making it “Greeding”. It used to tick me off because “greed” is such a negative word and to insinuate me with it was insulting. Well, DaughterGeeding recently had to experience this curse. She won an award and her last name was spelled “Greeding”. To make matters worse, instead of her first name being displayed on the award it was her mother’s first name.

I think the 2021 Ford Broncho Sport looks like a muscled up Mini Cooper.

Roger Staubach has 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Yesterday on the new BaD Radio, he mentioned that Jerry Jones gets a bad wrap on how he fired Tom Landry. I wholeheartedly agree. Jones didn’t fire him by phone call, he did it in person, even traveling down to Austin where Landry was at to do so. Jones went out of his way to be respectful.

Political junkies used to be in love with Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, but the outcome of the last presidential election tarnished his prognostication a bit. To be fair, he works in probability and not prediction and the public often confuses this. If you are into this sort of thing, you should check out Rachel Bitecofer. Here’s a great article about her and a snippet.

Bitecofer, a 42-year-old professor at Christopher Newport University in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, was little known in the extremely online, extremely male-dominated world of political forecasting until November 2018. That’s when she nailed almost to the number the nature and size of the Democrats’ win in the House, even as other forecasters went wobbly in the race’s final days. Not only that, but she put out her forecast back in July, and then stuck by it while polling shifted throughout the summer and fall.

And today her model tells her the Democrats are a near lock for the presidency in 2020, and are likely to gain House seats and have a decent shot at retaking the Senate. If she’s right, we are now in a post-economy, post-incumbency, post record-while-in-office era of politics. Her analysis, as Bitecofer puts it with characteristic immodesty, amounts to nothing less than “flipping giant paradigms of electoral theory upside down.”

Bitecofer’s theory, when you boil it down, is that modern American elections are rarely shaped by voters changing their minds, but rather by shifts in who decides to vote in the first place. To her critics, she’s an extreme apostle of the old saw that “turnout explains everything,” taking a long victory lap after getting lucky one time. She sees things slightly differently: That the last few elections show that American politics really has changed, and other experts have been slow to process what it means.

Sex Before Marriage Is Now Legal in Virginia – Fornication was considered a Class 4 misdemeanor with a fine of up to $250.

Legendary pitmaster Aaron Franklin is now selling BBQ pits. They weigh about 600-pounds and can fit about three briskets. It comes with a double-walled firebox, a single cooking grate, a water pan shelf. Like going to his restaurant, you’re gonna have to wait as there’s a long waitlist. They will cost you $2,950 each.

Random Coronavirus tidbits from this article – Everything you need to know about the coronavirus

• The WHO named the illness caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 — “co” and “vi” for coronavirus, “d” for disease, and “19” for the year when the disease emerged.
• Around 80 percent of confirmed cases are mild. That’s 80 percent of the cases that we know about.
• About 5 percent of cases are critical, and it appears around half of the people with critical cases of the illness die from it.
• There aren’t any proven treatments for COVID-19, but there are dozens of studies underway to try and find some. One leading candidate is remdesivir, an antiviral medication originally developed to treat Ebola.

Here’s What A Photo Flyby Of A Carrier Group Looks Like From The Helicopter Taking The Pics – Not only can you see the formation blast past, but you can also hear it too!

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