T. Boone Pickens died yesterday. Ross Perot died a few months ago. I wonder how many other Dallas billionaires will die this year.
Yesterday I kept seeing the misleading fact that T. Boone Pickens was the first baby born in Oklahoma via Caesarean section. In actuality, he was the first in the history of the Holdenville hospital.
I haven’t seen Donald Rumsfeld in a while but he attended a 9/11 memorial event yesterday. He’s 87 and is supposed to age, he’s human, but I was still surprised at how much he’s aged since I’ve last seen him.
Yesterday, my kindergarten-teaching wife spoke to her class about September 11, 2001. One student asked, “What color was the hijacker?”
How the heck is this kid okay? That backpack had to absorb most of the energy and he was probably able to get up so quickly because of a shot of adrenaline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62iPFic5yZo
My high school pep-rally assemblies were never this cool or epic.
The 1984 film Splash was on television last night. WifeGeeding claims not only has she never seen it, but she’s never heard about it. Sometimes, I think she’s had the most unfortunate pop-culture youth experience of anyone born in the late Seventies.
The man was conscious, alert, talking with deputies and in good spirits before he was taken by Seguin EMS to San Antonio Military Medical Center, the sergeant said.
This is perfect for the student who is trying to gauge the minimal amount he or she needs to write, no more stopping and having to manually select the feature – Google Docs now displays the word count as you type
I was introduced to someone yesterday whose first name is “Heinz”. In case you are wondering, he’s not German or European, he’s Asian.
The teenager didn’t pick out the swimsuit — her school chose it and issued it to her. But even though all the girls on her team were dressed identically, she was the only one cited for a uniform violation.
It wasn’t the first time the girl had been made to feel that her curvy figure was problematic: Last year, a parent took a photo of her backside and shared it with other parents to demonstrate that girls on the team were wearing inappropriate swimwear. (District officials said Monday that Dimond High School’s assistant principal “indicated to the parent who took the photographs that it was not permissible for him to take pictures of others’ children and that he should stop immediately.”)
The New Yorker – The Perils of Semi-Legal Poker – By exploiting a legal loophole, two friends tried to build gambling businesses in Texas. They were dealt very different hands.
WifeGeeding helped with a funeral which was held at our church on Sunday during the Cowboys game. I’m not sure I’ve heard of a funeral being scheduled on a Sunday before. And in these parts, certainly not during the NFL season. I guess it was the only time which would accommodate family and friends.
Do you need to hear some words of affirmation from Alex Trebek? Sure you do.
While watching A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV last night I learned that the show aired the same day the Beatle’s Abbey Road was released.
In a copy of the filing seen by the Anchorage Daily News, Todd Palin cited the reason for the divorce as the “incompatibility of temperament between the parties such that they find it impossible to live together as husband and wife.”
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