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• WifeGeeding’s siblings and their spouses have this pleasant little custom or tradition in which everyone will send a birthday card with five bucks (per individual) or a gift card to whoever is celebrating a birthday. One couple was nice enough to send me an Apple gift card; however, it’s telling how well they really must know me as I don’t own a single Apple product. Well, I do still have my special edition U2 iPod which I bought in October of 2004. I think it still works but will have to find the cords to see if it will charge.
• WifeGeeding likes to claim I’m a tough person to buy a present for, yet there have been certain things I’ve told her I always wanted consistently for over a decade. One of which is a model of a PV-1 Ventura, the plane my father was a gunner in when he was in the Navy during WWII. Finally, she delivered on Friday. Beggars can’t be choosers, I suppose, but personally I wanted one that I didn’t have to assemble and paint. Somewhat surprising, I found a YouTube video of someone putting together and painting the same model so at least I have a guide. I’m pretty impressed with the detail this person puts into it, like sanding certain edges away and painting detail. Upon further research, I found something pretty darn interesting, the Orlando Sanford International Airport will be opening a new terminal next year and inside it will be a restored PV-1 Ventura. It looks like the plane was placed inside and they are building the terminal around it, sorta. Hmmmm, I might have talked myself into taking the kids back to Disney World, even though Orlando Sanford is not the ideal airport to land in for that kind of trip.
• Baptism by fire, but like my mother, she’s also a tad under five-feet tall – The 26-Year-Old Defense Attorney Whose First Two Clients Were El Chapo and Jeffrey Epstein
• I’ve been watching HISTORY’s series The Food That Built America. C.W. Post, the cereal magnate, built a town in West Texas named Post, “a model community and grand social experiment.” Post committed suicide and his 27-year-old daughter, Marjorie Merriweather Post, was the benefactor of his cereal empire and fortune. She was responsible for building Mar-a-Lago, which is now owned by President Trump.
• It would have been nice if Rachel Held Evans was still alive to tweet about this – Catholic School in Nashville bans “Harry Potter” series, citing risk of “conjuring evil spirits”
• Here’s a fun interactive chart to visualize college return on investment. I have my undergraduate alma matta highlighted below. The place I went to for graduate school is on the same x-axis but slightly to the right. So, my undergrad school ranks 1, 373 and my graduate school ranks 1,338. I should have made better decisions when I was a yoot.  One thing is for sure, there’s no beating the military academies (furthest and highest left).
  
• What it’s like to eject out of a military jet
• I wish this map went just a bit more up north to include Frisco and a tad more west to include Las Colinas and Valley Ranch.
  Judgemental Map of Dallas 
  

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• My first three CDs, which I purchased all at the time time, were Wilson Phillips’ self-titled debut album, Bell Biv DeVoe’s debut album Poison, and Amy Grant’s Heart in Motion.
• BoyGeeding had his first baseball practice of the season yesterday. The last time he played organized ball was two years ago in a Tball league. The boy is okay, but a little rusty, he could use some help from Tom Emanski and “Atlanta Braves superstar Fred McGriff”, whose instructional series is now available in its entirety on YouTube. I’m sure SportsCenter fan of the ’90s can quote the commercial from heart.
  
• This was a pretty compelling read and the photos are something else – The Sarcophagus: Photographing the Most Radioactive Places in Chernobyl
  • I was taking advantage of the fact that in July of this year the French contractor transferred the Arch to its owner, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and so I sought permission to enter and photograph this gigantic structure.
• When Americans Dined (and Dated) in Cemeteries
  • But 150 years ago, parks were still a privilege for the upper-class in America, if they even existed at all. So folks flocked to the next best thing: the cemetery.
• I watched Meatloaf’s epic music video I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That) recently with BoyGeeding in the room. He watched the whole thing without saying a word, and as soon as it finished he said, “Dad, I think I know what he means when he says ‘that’. I think he’s telling her he won’t go to jail for her.”
  • • • In case you are wondering what “that” actually it, well, it depends on the preceding lyric.
        • Each verse mentions two things that the man would do for love, followed by one thing that he will not do. The title phrase repetition reasserts that he “won’t do that.” Each mention of “that” is a reference to the particular promise that he made earlier in the same verse. The four things he says he will never do are:
          • “forget the way you feel right now”
          • “forgive myself if we don’t go all the way tonight”
          • “do it better than I do it with you”
          • “stop dreaming of you every night of my life”

          At the song’s conclusion, the woman predicts two things that he will do: “You’ll see that it’s time to move on”, and “You’ll be screwing around.” To both of these, the male emphatically responds, “I won’t do that!”

      • The vocals don’t begin until the one minute and fifty seconds of the song.
• Surely, surely this will bring a smile to your face.
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• The plural of “cul-de-sac” is “culs-de-sac“.
• Anytime I see a riding lawnmower, I immediately think of the 1987 Patrick Dempsey classic Can’t Buy Me Love. To my surprise, his costar died in 2015.
• “Uncopyrightable” is the longest word in the English language that doesn’t repeat a letter.
• Charolette teen registered people to vote as they waited in Popeyes line for new chicken sandwich
  • On Saturday, the Meyers Park rising senior said he proudly registered 16 people to vote. Ledbetter himself is not even old enough to vote but said he wanted to push for others to get involved in local politics.
• Michael J. Fox‘s Middle Name is Andrew.
• Montana men get writing assignment for false military claims
  • Before they can be eligible for parole, Pinski ordered both men to hand write the names of all 6,756 Americans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan; write out the obituaries of the 40 Montanans killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and send hand-written letters of apology to several veterans groups identifying themselves as having lied about military service to receive help and possibly a lesser sentence through a Veterans Court.
• Elvis only made 17 major television appearances in his career and only one commercial endorsement. He was only 19 and the commercial was for it was for Southern Maid Donuts, a place he loved. His compensation was simply a box of glazed donuts. All of this is stated on the company’s website, and to my surprise, three are located near me. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed them before.
• One heck of a Slip ‘N Slide
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