Bag of Randomness

  • The weekend started off with WifeGeeding and I taking advantage of Ruth’s Chris Summer Celebration special.  For $89 bucks, you get a three course meal for two.  Not the best of deals, but a pretty good one for this kind of place.
  • They actually had bison on the menu. I was tempted, but I wanted to stick to the special.
  • I blogged about it before, and I’ll mention it again, but all men’s rooms should have the Anti Splash guards like the ones at Ruth’s Chris.
  • I want to highly recommend to anyone needing to solve a computer issue to contact Data Doctors.  The external hard drive I was using to store pictures  and other important docs crashed and I thought some of my most precious and irreplaceable memories were lost.  This was something I blogged about a while ago but just got around to solving.  Usually it would cost me about $300 for them to extract the files from the hard drive and burn them to a DVD.  Instead the rep recommended I buy a $30 device at another store to solve my problem – and it worked!
  • SisterGeeding finally made it to NYC.
  • I was contacted by the lovely and talented author Margaret Feinberg.  She just finished a new book and was wondering if we wanted to read and blog about it.  You will soon see posts from WifeGeeding as she reads The Sacred Echo.
  • Steve Kroft is probably the weakest reporter at 60 Minutes, but he seems like a nice guy.
  • I admit I’m disappointed in Obama not wanting to partake in any town hall debates.
  • I’ve been watching the Generation Kill miniseries on HBO and find it very intriguing.  It’s great watching something that really isn’t political and give you a fair representation of what life is like there as a soldier.
  • I can’t imagine what it must like to be a soldier and have to make the decision of enemy or non-enemy in a split second.
  • I’m a bit surprised at how the soldiers interact with their officers.
  • I remember being at a church service several years back when I was church-hopping and was given a post card to write to a soldier.  Since it was a spurt of the moment kind of thing, I wrote something pretty generic.  Now that I think about it and after watching this series, I think I would simply tell the soldier to write me back and tell me what he needs and I would send it to him . . . or her.
  • I saw some special over the weekend on the two Olympic buildings in China.  I was surprised that the government hired design architechs from outside the country.
  • Preseason football is on and I’m happy.  I love seeing (and tracking) people trying to make the team.
  • Hard Knocks premires on Aug 6.  I was disappointed with the last version with the Cowboys, but this year should be much better with a better cast of “characters” and a bunch of crazy story lines going into the season.
  • Heard a song on the radio I haven’t heard in years . . . Meatloaf’s “I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won’t Do That.”  It was my first iTunes purchase in months.
  • North Texas summers are hot.  Duh.
  • I find the Brett Favre saga intertaining since I have no vested interest in the situation, but do find it funny how the Packers just reversed their decision on whether or not he can compete for the starting position.
  • I also watched Iron Eagle this weekend.  When I watched that movie for the first time as an 11 year old, it was one of the coolest movies in the history of ever.  Now, I just realized how silly it is.
  • I think starting today I’m going to schedule two posts to appear at noon just to help your day go by.
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Bag of Randomness

  • Last night was a really busy night, so as far as blogging goes, this is all you are going to get today.
  • It really irks me when I hold a door open for a girl and I get no acknowledgment of thanks whatsoever.
  • There’s a big Brett Farve fan in Dallas.  I snapped this picture on I35 heading home.

    In case you can’t read it, it says “Farve ’08”
  • I had a college roommate that proudly displayed all of his Transformers in our room.
  • It’s hard to eat right.
  • When I was in high school I visited a friends house.  He lived on a dairy farm, and I helped him with his chores one day.  That was the first and only time I castrated a bull.
  • That Transformers roommate use to tell me, “Once you milked a bull, you have a friend for life.
  • I heard an author on television state that Republicans tend to live far apart from others and Democrats tend to live in more populous areas.  That kind of makes sense if you look at the electoral map.
  • ExxonMobile is based probably less than ten miles from my house yet I have never met anyone that works there.
  • WifeGeeding made mention that she wants to watch season one of the X-Files.  I was a big fan back in the day.  My favorite episode was “Bad Blood.”
  • My 17 mile commute to Love Field everyday is probably one of the busiest commutes in the nation and I find it a little shocking that I really don’t see any Obama or McCain bumper stickers as of late.
  • Speaking of bumper stickers, I really like the one Barry posted on his blog.
  • I wonder if the election is going to get nasty.
  • There’s a magazine rack in the men’s restroom at work.
  • I think I might start posting random pictures from work everyday, there’s a lot of interesting stuff.
  • I’m always impressed with the show Modern Marvels.  They can take a mundane topic like “water” and make it fascinating.
  • I never thought in my lifetime I would see the FDIC have to save a bank.
  • I have never watched an episode of the Andy Griffith Show or Lavern and Shirley, but I always watched the introductions to those shows.
  • I’m not use to the new lights we installed in the bathroom.  Every time I turn them on I get blinded because I’m use to the dim lights we had previously.
  • I wonder who will pick their running mate first.  I bet it’s McCain to stir up some buzz.
  • I like to say the word onomatopoeia.
  • In college I use to DJ some of our school’s dances.  Actually, since it was a Baptist school, they had to be held off campus and were called foot-functions.  From my understanding, dancing is now allowed on campus.
  • I’ve used the same two pillows all my life.  I’m trying to find a replacement, but I’m not having any luck.
  • My two closest friends at work are an Aggie and a Sooner.  Both think they are going to win the Big 12.  I’m betting on the maroon team . . . . from the north.
  • Another college roommate of mine is currently a manager at a car rental facility in San Antonio.  He mentions every time Barry Switzer comes to town he rents the cheapest car.
  • I think Ted Koppel should be the next host of Meet The Press.  From my understanding, he still lives in DC.
  • I recall an old cartoon posted on a professor’s office wall  (in Abilene Hall for those of you in the know) that read, “The clashing of opinions is the sound of democracy.”  That has always stuck with me.
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Preacher Arrested in Church After Wife Found in Freezer

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) _ A judge denied bond for a small-time south Alabama evangelist charged with killing his wife and mother of eight whose body had been in a home freezer for at least three years.

Anthony Hopkins returned to jail Thursday after a brief hearing in a Mobile County court. He made no comment.

Assistant District Attorney Ashley Rich says 36-year-old Arletha Hopkins was killed in 2004. Authorities are investigating the cause.

Rich says the 37-year-old Hopkins had told his wife’s relatives in Georgia that she didn’t want contact with them. No one reported her disappearance to police.

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His name is Anthony Hopkins?

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