WifeGeeding’s uncle by marriage lives out in East Texas and had a heart attack. He appears to be recovering well but it took three calls to 911 before they picked up.
One of WifeGeeding’s coworkers referees high school football games. Apparently, yesterday was draft day. High school football coaches draft what referee crews they want at particular games. I really can’t find much about it, but here’s how a Houston area chapter did theirs.
Two details I forgot to add about the Sony Trinitron I recently removed from GeedingManor. It still worked, WifeGeeding just didn’t’ want it around any longer. And, I bought it at Incredible Universe, which should ring a bell for some of you longtime local folks.
When I turned seventeen, my father surprised me with a new Mac and printer. That means I’ve had this box for 27-years. I used that box to help me move to a dorm, various apartments, back to my childhood home, and to my current home. I recycled it yesterday. It was a nice and sturdy moving box, thicker than most ordinary cardboard boxes.
The best moving boxes were old computer monitor boxes. They were huge, sturdy, and had handles on the side which made picking them up and transporting a bit easier. This Gateway box is similar to what I’m talking about, I still have an old Compaq box in the attic in case I ever need it.
Yesterday evening I saw news footage of former Vice-President Joe Biden walking to his vehicle with a Fuzzy’s Taco Shop in the background. Immediately I wondered why he was in the area but after a little research discovered that Fuzzy’s has locations in Iowa. Man, that franchise has grown quickly. All I ever get there is the breakfast tacos.
Senator Kennedy (R-LA) and Mr. Haney from ‘Green Acres’ could be kin. Speaking of ‘Green Acres’, I found it out it streams on AmazonPrime, it just might be time for me to introduce my kids to it.
Not that I don’t already write a lot of odd things, but I felt a personal connection with ‘Green Acres’. Oliver Wendall Douglas was a big city man who moved to a small rural town with a wife from another country who had a thick accent. My father grew up in the big city and moved to a small rural town with a wife from another country with a thick accent. All the townsfolks only referred to Oliver as Mr. Douglas, all of my hometown only referred to my father as Mr. Geeding. Like Oliver, my father had to climb up a telephone pole just outside the house to make phone calls. Okay, that last part isn’t true. However, and I never put this together until now, but Oliver Douglas’ wife on the show is named Lisa Douglas. My younger sister is named Lisa and she married a man with the last name of Douglas.
For better or worst, I’m going to pull back the curtain a little bit, and doubt I’ll ever provide any detail on the matter, but I’m estranged from both my siblings. I often tell WifeGeeding she had no idea how lucky she is in that she doesn’t have to deal with any in-laws other than the very rare visit a cousin is in town.
Little Black Backpack came on the radio the other day. I haven’t heard that fun little song in forever. WifeGeeding had no idea what it was but was surprised, almost astonished, at how well I knew the lyrics and even incorporated hand motions. It’s kind of hard not to when you get to this part of the chorus “Don’t want to tango with you,
I’d rather tangle with him, I think I’m gonna bash his head in.” I can’t find a decent version of it on YouTube.
This ‘Game of Thrones’ behind the scenes photo is funny if you are a fan of the show.
First World Problem I experienced yesterday – ordered a Coke with my to-go meal and when I got home I discovered it was a Diet Coke. I detest diet drinks, they leave a weird aftertaste.
I think it’s absolutely amazing photographs exists of veterans who have fought in the Revolutionary War. I got wind of this from an old tweet from historian Micheal Beschloss about Captain George Fishley, one of longest surviving American veterans of the Revolutionary War who posed for this photo in uniform shortly before death in 1850.
Here are more pics of other veterans of the Revolutionary War. I thought the mini-biography of Jonathan Smith was quite interesting – After the war he became a Baptist minister. He was married three times and had eleven children.
The dome wasn’t painted, it’s was a huge piece of fabric. This does remind me of a tradition in my hometown of Mineral Wells. Believe it or not, our high school had a dome roof over the basketball court (The Ram Dome, and yes, the ram was our mascot) and seniors (12-graders, not the elderly) would sometimes paint it with the year in which they were graduating. I was able to find a few old pics. I never said it was a nice dome, nor did I state the seniors did a decent job of painting.
After all, Wagner says the show was directed and shot like a cinematic experience that could be viewed in a movie theater, even though it’s predominantly streamed at compressed quality to screens of all shapes and sizes.
This specific part makes me want to research Soviet battle techniques as I’m not familiar with this bit of history. The closest thing I could find was this scene from a movie about Soviets attacking German trenches. Battle of Moscow, maybe?
On the Night King’s signal, the undead breach the fire-trench the Soviet way: with their bodies. Only upon initiation of a successful breach do the defenders attempt to suppress the force. By then it is too late, and the assault force strikes the walls.
Wagner himself also said HBO’s compression of the episode, to help smooth over the streaming process for millions of viewers with varying connection speeds, is another contributor.
Old, but new to me (I think), and better than I expected – A Song of Vanilla Ice and Fire
I need to read up on my history, I never knew Nixon’s Attorney General (or any AG in our nation’s history), the head of the Department of Justice, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, was jailed. He served 19-months in prison. He died in 1988 and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, based on his World War II Naval service and his cabinet post of Attorney General. I wonder if that ruffled any feathers with veterans, and I freely admit, I don’t know when any veteran or former cabinet official loses the right to a burial with full military honors.
Nixon’s Attorney General, John Mitchell, was convicted and went to prison for perjury, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. pic.twitter.com/d9Z3pV9qoQ
For the record, and I want to be very clear and put things to rest. I am not a half-whit, I am half-white. Get it right, people.
When I first moved to DFW and moved into my own apartment, my first “big” purchase was the largest television I could find, a 35-inch Sony Trinitron (CRT, not HD). I finally got rid of the thing last weekend by taking it to Best Buy for recycling. They charged me $25 because it was over 25-inches. WifeGeeding has been begging me to get rid of it for years, but I was hesitant since it was upstairs and didn’t want to go through the hassle of transporting the awkward 139-pound behemoth. However, I felt up to the challenge after watching the latest Avengers movie. I’m an oddity in that I like the challenge of moving such objects with no help, usually when no one else is around. This was the first time I did such a thing after my spinal fusion surgery, but I managed and conquered the task. A hand truck (dolly) and a couple of straps greatly aided.
To my fellow TICKET listeners, I’m what you call a little slow. It never dawned on me that George DiGianni and the golf show which followed on Saturday mornings were nothing more than paid ads. I always thought The TICKET paid them, but in actuality, they were paying the radio station for air time.
Regarding the NFL Draft, I always wondered why the first handful of teams in the first round took so long to make their pick. I found out why in yesterday in Peter King’s weekly article. The NFL asks teams to not turn in their selection until at least five minutes of their 10-minute first-round time limit had passed, so the league could do the TV-presentation stuff and not get the picks all backed up.
Poet Sara Holbrook, who often writes humorous verse for kids, had some harsh words for the Texas Education Agency after she discovered she couldn’t answer questions about poems on the its standardized tests — poems she herself wrote.
No apologies, but this is going to be Game of Thrones heavy.
I have no idea how Ghost survived that last episode of Game of Thrones. But I support the theory he bit off the femur of a Wright, retreated to the forest, and just gnawed at it for the whole battle – just a happy dog with a bone. We know he’s alive because he’s spotted in the preview for next week’s episode.
When it first came out, my friends and I use to quote Bedazzled quite a bit, in particular, the post-game basketball interview after major sporting events. That’s why I got a kick out of this version of the quote referring to the most recent Game of Thrones episode.
Social media, in particular, Twitter, is great for things like Game of Thrones. Not that it should be used or checked during the episode, but to check out the immediate global reaction and feel a part of one large friendly community.
I could never watch a television show in this kind of setting, I need it to be quite so I can hear all the dialog and any hooting or hollering would grind my gears. Yet, watching the reaction of this crowd brought a smile to my face.https://twitter.com/NameIsKoushiK/status/1122813948460277760?s=09
The moment all Baylor fans have been waiting for. Hey, it’s an honor HSU will never get.
It was an entertainingly emotional weekend for me. It all started on Thursday night watching Hamilton. The play does an extraordinary job in the scene Hamilton loses his son. It pulls on your heartstrings. In particular, you start to realize the beat of the song is actually his heartbeat, then all other accompanying music fades until eventually, it’s only the heartbeat and then it stops. On Friday I watched Avengers: End Game (more on that later) and then there was last night’s ‘Game of Thrones’, but personally no deaths last night were major or suprising to me. When I was in high school and college, I never understood how people could become emotionally attached to storytelling and cry. Now, as an adult with a certain degree of life experience and obtaining some perspective, well, I’m tearing up while eating my humble pie.
I actually watched Endgame twice. Once with a friend and once with the family. I really wanted to watch it the first time fully invested without the interruption of taking a child to the restroom or answering questions. I’m glad I did it this way, and in some ways, it was even better watching it the second time with my family – I like to see their reactions to certain scenes. Yet, I’m surprised I cried more the second time since I knew what was coming. As I said, I like to find commonalities with the characters, especially when it comes to adversity, and once I do I get emotionally invested and connect, I feel as if I’m pulled into the story. It was one of those cries in which you either want to blow your nose or make a take a deep breath in with your nose (which just might release an onslaught of tears), but the theater was so quiet during those scenes I did all I could do to hold it in because I didn’t want my wife and kids to look over.
Yeah, I have a lot of thoughts about Endgame, but if you aren’t interested in them I have included other typical BoN fodder after them.
Spoiler heavy Endgame thoughts:
WifeGeeding noticed Black Widow was wearing a silver arrow necklace from Tiffany’s, I bought her one last Christmas.
If you have issues with losing loved ones and wishing you could have just one more conversation with them, this is the movie for you. Need to cry on your mom’s shoulder? Thor has you covered. Wish you could spend some time with your dad and show tell him you love him without actually saying you love him? Tony has you covered. How about wanting to dance or reconnect with the love of your life? Cap has you taken care of.
I didn’t catch it the first time, but I absolutely loved it when Falcon said, “on your left” when everyone comes back for the final battle, just like Cap said to him at the beginning and end of Winter Soldier. It’s the little things, that small attention to detail, which totally makes it great. It would have been neat if he said it again when he approached Cap when he was sitting on the bench.
I had a decent chuckle when Hope called Steve Rogers “Cap” after chiding Scott for doing so in Antman and The Wasp.
I thought Cap, Bruce, and Tony should have visited Wakanda and take advantage of their advanced technology to work on their machine.
I felt the movie used Carol Danvers just the right amount in just about the perfect way.
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Peter gave Tony a hug with Tony stating, “It’s not a hug, I’m just opening the door. We aren’t there yet”. After Peter comes back with the rest of The Vanished, Tony gives Peter a hug, which I guess means there are definitely there now.
I expected a Coulson appearance and was surprised it didn’t happen.
Drax actually wore a shirt for Tony’s funeral, but he was so still I almost didn’t notice him.
I thought Pepper could have said something a bit more poignant other than, “We’ll be okay.”
I bet Cap stealing the Pym particles inside Shield is probably why Hank accuses Howard Stark of stealing the particles in the Eighties at the start of the first Ant-Man movie.
Seeing Cap returning the Soul Stone would have been interesting, talking to Red Skull and all.
I swear they used my body for Thor.
The Asgardians chasing Rocket called him a rabbit was a nice touch. I guess all rabbits look like raccoons on Asgard.
Jarvis was the same actor as the one in ‘Agent Carter’.
I like the evolution of Tony’s Iron Man suits Tony’s suits, he has learned from every failure. There was the icing problem in his first movie. In Iron Man 2, Whiplash electrocuted the suit and damaged it. Then in the first Avengers film, Thor hit him with lightning and it was running on 400% power. Now, then in this film, Tony built something into his suit specifically to take Thor’s lightning blast and use it without damaging anything. He incorporated nanotechnology so Ant-Man could get inside, melee weapons and shields for hand to hand combat with Cap in Civil War, and a parachute for Peter Parker’s new suit because of what happened to Rhodes when his suit failed.
Here’s the one part of the article I chose to try to encourage you to take the time to read this story, “My memory, hand and tongue don’t work like I wish,” Ms. Park (age 75) said. “But I am going to learn to write before I die.”
A man named Lukas Bates ran today’s London Marathon in a Big Ben costume. He somehow finished in 3 hours & 54 minutes (faster than a nine minute per mile average for 26.2 miles) pic.twitter.com/H8vDvg9Npq
