That’s BoyGeeding about to get two cavities filled while watching some sort of Lego cartoon on a television mounted on the ceiling.
The downstairs heating unit at GeedingManor died. Luckily, the defective part was covered by the manufacturer’s 10-year warranty which will expire this August. All I had to pay was a $59 labor charge, I was told the parts would have cost over $1,500.
The “Opportunity” rover on Mars appears to be dead. Its mission and landing were amazing and straight out of science fiction, sending back data for 15 years when it was only expected to do so for 90 days. In all, it traveled 28 miles on the Martian surface. To put into perspective how much time has passed and how much we’ve advanced in technology, when it landed on January 25, 2004, Facebook would not be created until a month later and YouTube would not get its first video upload for more than a year.
Push to include contractor back pay in funding deal hits GOP roadblock – I had hoped my fellow federal contractors would receive some back pay from the government shutdown but that doesn’t appear to work out. Maybe a compromise could be worked out, that they at least get a quarter or half of the pay they missed out on.
I have zero problems with this and it will be a perk future presidents will use, and it’s reported he paid for it himself. However, it does remind me of a bit of golf-related presidential trivia about the floor of the Oval Office.
The original floor was made of cork. However, Dwight Eisenhower was an avid golfer and destroyed the floor with his golf spikes. Lyndon Johnson had the cork floor covered in the mid-1960s with wood-grain linoleum.
And a bit more on Ike and those golf spikes – He frequently carried a club in the Oval Office, taking swings while dictating to his secretary. Many afternoons, he would grab his wedge, 8-iron and putter and retreat to the South Lawn for some practice. “I remember that he would be sitting at his desk when the last visitor went out the door.” said David Eisenhower, the president’s nephew. “He would slowly put on his golf cleats and his cap, take off his coat and wander into the backyard to putt.”Eisenhower’s successor, John F. Kennedy, was astonished to find many spike marks in the floor of the Oval Office, leading from the desk to the double doors that opened to the green.
The Los Angeles Times decided to do a french fry power ranking. There are bad french fries, but I don’t think there’s an ultimate fry. Some days I want them crispy, other days saltier, and on others, I may want them thin or thick. I was surprised the West Coast paper rated In-N-Out fries so low. They certainly aren’t the best, but you can request them “well-done” which makes them a bit better.
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“Bono” the Havanese has won the toy group at the Westminster Dog Show. The Havanese is the national dog of Cuba and the breed has never won Best In Show but gets a chance to tonight at Madison Square Garden. DogGeedingII is a Havanese and was a gift from DaughterGeeding’s godmother. I can’t help but root for Bono tonight.
Like everyone else, we watched the documentary Abbducted in Plain Sight airing on Netflix and our jaws dropped at everything like everyone else. After a third of the way in you can’t believe you hit peak craziness only to find there’s much more to go.
“At some point in every story, I wanted my reader to think, ‘I didn’t know that.’ If I accomplished that, I succeeded as a writer that day.”
That’s from Rick Gosselin’s last column as a regular columnist for the Dallas Morning News. That about sums what I try to do with this blog.
Things I did not know about Joe Namath (from yesterday’s Peter King article):
He threw 47 more interceptions than touchdowns.
He Namath was the first man ever to throw for 4,000 yards in a season—he did it in 1967, in a 14-game season, and no quarterback did it again till after the league moved to a 16-game season 11 years later.
Red Cashion is dead. NFL fans of the Nineties should easily remember the NFL referee for his charismatic first down calls. He seemed to ref a lot of Cowboys games and was so popular John Madden had him do voice work for his video game.
The Houston Chronicle and The San Antonio Express-News are running a three-piece investigation series on sexual misconduct in the Southern Baptist churches, examining federal and state court databases, prison records and official documents from more than 20 states and by searching sex offender registries nationwide. The last past comes out today.
Marina Amaral is a digital colorist living in Brazil. She restores and colorizes black and white photographs and a good follow on Twitter. This photo she does of Abraham Lincoln is a bit haunting and too lifelike.
I may have stated this before, but, anytime I hear someone say, “Here we are . . .” I start to sing in my head, ” . . . face to face, a couple of Silver Spoons.“
WifeGeeding has a friend who recently gave birth to twins, one vaginally and one by cesarean. Recovery for just one type of delivery is hard enough. Heck, mothering just one child after birth is hard enough.
I was surprised to see professional football on CBS Saturday night, and it was actually entertaining. It was one of the inaugural games for the new AAF – Alliance of American Football. This was nowhere on my radar, though I have heard of the XFL making a comeback. For a sport I keep hearing is dangerous and on the decline in terms of participants in youth leagues (at least to ‘HBO Real Sports’), it sure does seem widely popular.
This AAF might have a chance at succeeding.
It knows its place and doesn’t want to take down the NFL. The league allows its players to accept call-ups to the NFL and vice versa.
It beat the XFL to market and will have games not only broadcast after the NFL season on CBS, but games will also be televised on the NFL Network.
With the exception of the Salt Lake City team, all ten teams are located in the southern part of the U.S.
Franchises get dibs on players who went to colleges nearby.
There are no extra points, teams have to go for two after a touchdown.
There are no kickoffs. Teams start possession on their own 25-yard line. Onside kicks are replaced by one fourth-and-12 play on the team’s own 28-yard line.
Overtime is similar to the college game except each team gets the ball on the 10-yard line and aren’t allowed to kick field goals.
The officiating crew includes a ninth referee who sits in the booth and constantly reviews game action. That ref has the power to make calls or overturn penalties and the audience gets to listen in on the decision making.
According to former sports reporter Darren Rovell, the top paid strength coaches in college are:
1. Chris Doyle, Iowa, $725K
2. Micky Marotti, Ohio State, $675K
3. Craig Fitzgerald, Tennessee, $625K
4. Joey Batson, Clemson, $600K
5. Scott Cochran, Alabama, $585K
Retired Texas Rangers great Micheal Young went on a playful Twitter rant about his dislike for the Kevin Costner flick For Love of the Game. He also let it be known his hotel alias was “Micheal Corleone”.
‘CBS Sunday Morning’ had a segment on loneliness and one man who decided on his own not to speak to another human for 17-years, though he said he had about four slipups during that time. For instance, he stated he bumped into someone at the grocery store and said, “Excuse me.” I remember the late, great Larry Hagman used to do something similar, not speaking a word for one day, either weekly or monthly. The story also stated that those who are most engaged in social media tend to be the most lonely.
That person who went 17-years not speaking also had this to say:
“I climbed a mountain, and at this bottom of this mountain I was lonely. And on the way up, I found that, ‘No, you’re not lonely. You’re just alone.’ It just turned into solitude. And solitude was something that you craved, you wanted, you looked for.”
I used to speak about and encourage solitude to my closest friends. I’d support my reasoning stating that even Superman had a Fortress of Solitude, and despite all his powers, he too needed to get away from it all, unplug, and get to know himself. But then I’d follow that up with scripture – Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God.”
The Dallas Stars are doing a cool thing which I don’t think gets enough publicity. They had a two-game road trip and the players brought along their mothers so they can experience a bit of what life is like as a professional hockey player. They had a similar event with their fathers before.
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced her presidential bid to an outdoor crowd in Minneapolis. Here’s a picture of her at the start and end of her speech.
This looks mighty peaceful. Just looking at it I can hear the skates scrape the ice and feel the cold wind hit my face with that feeling I’m about to take flight.
