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.
Ancestry.com sent me an email stating my ethnicity estimate has updated from the DNA test I sent them in October 2017. I’m exactly half-Asia, but still not sure if it’s the left or right half. I’m now less Irish, but I still love U2. And, I’m still not as German as Prussian as I thought I’d be, a long while ago I heard that’s where us Geeding folk originated.
We have better tools for telling regions apart, especially closely related regions like Ireland and Great Britain. We also have 16,000 reference samples now instead of 3,000, which helps screen out less-likely regions.
Even though that above image shows the percentage change, here’s the original results.
While watching the State of the Union the other night, I wondered when the carpet in the House Chamber was last replaced, which was back in 2014. The article provided an interesting tidbit of how bad the carpet and chamber smelled when chewing tobacco was popular and spittoons were plentiful.
As the House of Representatives blog recalls, the condition of the carpets became so gross as a result that Charles Dickens called the House “the headquarters of tobacco-tinctured saliva”…and an 1895 report on the sanitary conditions of the Capitol complained about the spittoons that “would not be tolerated in the barroom of a mining camp.” The report also characterized ventilation on the House floor as “the straining of air through shafts coated with carpet lint, and charged with the vilest of vile matter from the throats and lungs of over 400 people”, a condition the author, George Washington Shell, said posed a real problem. As he noted, “the danger to the life of those who breathe that air can not be overestimated”.
The madness in Virginia politics and old yearbook photos won’t stop. It’s amazing how long all of it has taken to surface, but image what politicians of the future will have to battle with all their social media history. Maybe the mountains of data teens willingly post will be too much to search through, but then again, AI will probably narrow that down right fast. But then again, perhaps deep fakes and created content will be indistinguishable from anything authentic.
I guess we’ll be seeing bluebonnets in about a month, maybe I’ll plan a road trip to the Hill Country.
My favorite cereal is Cap’n Crunch’s Peanut Butter Crunch. However, it was recalled back in November due to a potential presence of salmonella. I haven’t been able to find it on shelves since and I’m going through withdrawals. The company did answer my tweet asking for an ETA, but they didn’t provide an ETA. In the meanwhile, I’ve supplemented my cereal intake with Honey Combs and Golden Grahams.
I’ve only had milk with my cereal once in my life. It happened a Saturday morning during a ‘Super Friends’ commercial break in which I saw some kid do it, it may have been Mikey. I simply have never been a fan of milk, even as a child. I thought it was weird drinking any bodily fluids, but my taste buds reasoned ice cream was perfectly fine.
I never thought about it before, but it appears a lot of folks use Easy-Off oven cleaner to remove paint, decals, window tint, and other stuff.
Is it unmasculine to sit with one foot tucked under the other leg? I do this often and probably causes poor spinal alignment. Usually, it’s the right foot tucked under the left thigh. This all came about after looking up Cal Ripken Jr. stats and landing on November 2009 post on a quilting message board.
For you readers out of state, a lot of us Texans have been running our air conditioning units this week.
Those Virginia state Democrats need to get this S together. Sheesh.
I’ve really enjoyed watching the ESPN ’30 for 30′ on Deion Sanders, but still haven’t finished it. It’s always neat to look back on things with double the life experience and realize how my initial perceptions were mostly emotionally based and how I tried to discount his feat of playing two professional games in two different sports in a 24-hour period. So far, the coolest thing, which I never put together, was the time he was a Yankee and they played against the Royals and Bo Jackson. Both combined for four home runs. Bo hit three out of the park. Deion scored on an inside-the-park-homerun, which was almost stopped by a diving Bo Jackson who separated his left shoulder on the play. That’s so neat, how those two two-sport athletes were connected on such an amazing play.
With former Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Wade Wilson passing away last week and this Deion Sanders ’30 for 30′, I’m reminded of a piece of advice Wilson gave Chan Gaily, at least I think it was Gaily. I can’t recall the player, he could have been on the roster or someone the team was thinking about getting, but the Cowboys were considering having him play both offense and defense, but Wilson said it wasn’t until Deion started to play receiver more often that the toe problems and injury started. At the time, I thought it was pretty insightful of Wilson.
I also forgot how good Deion was in that 92 World Series. He had a team-high eight hits with 15 at-bats, a Series-high .533 batting average, and five steals on five attempts.
As a 9-year-old, she throttled the competition in an almost all-boys tackle league, scoring 35 touchdowns, amassing almost 2,000 rushing yards on 232 carries and, just to round out her game, making 65 tackles. She’s since worked with her father to help create an all-girls tackle league. At last year’s Super Bowl, she won the NFL’s first “Game Changer” award, honoring people who seek to move football forward.
Cookie Monster did a Reddit Ask Me Anything yesterday to promote a chance to eat cookies with him and Oscar the Grouch in an effort to raise money for charity. I donated in hopes of winning, it’s always been a dream to interact with Muppets. I thought this was his most creative and funny answer to a question.
Shepherd’s pie is back in season at Costco. However, it no longer comes in a rectangle container but in an actual pie container and with real pie crust.
The only two pies I’ve ever eaten is shepherd’s and chocolate. I’ve never been fond of fruit, and as such, never been tempted to try apple, cherry, blueberry or any related pie. I’m not a fan of sweet potatoes or pumpkins, so I have no reason to try those pies. I do like pecans, but the look and smell of pecan pie is unappealing to me. At this stage of life, I have no desire to try them or add another item to an already unhealthy diet.
To answer your Book of Mormon questions – if you are easily offended, don’t even consider going. I have a high tolerance for this sort of stuff and it entertains me. The play is clever and inventive, anything crude or vulgar is done for more than simple shock value. It’s not for everyone, and it was funny seeing a small number of septuagenarians and octogenarians. They either had no idea what they were getting themselves into or very chill.
I read that President Trump spent five hours rehearsing and editing his speech. He’s well known for not doing a lot of preparatory work, and he considers it one of his strengths, so I’m not sure if I’m surprised by that number.
I saw Buzz Aldrin was at the State of the Union last night, it looked he wore his necktie short to compensate for the president’s typical long ties.
I can’t find it a GIF or video of it right now, but there was a real ‘House of Cards’ moment when the camera feed showed the back of the president who then turned around and looked at the camera with a head nod. Well, he was actually looking at VP Pence, but it was just like a scene with the president breaking the fourth wall.
In case you didn’t know, last night’s designated survivor was Energy Secretary and former Gov of Texas, Rick Perry.
The timing of this photograph cracked me up.
President Trump has a drinking problem.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) is brought a custodian who works in the Russell Senate Office building to the State of the Union address Tuesday night as his guest.
My old DVR used to tell me when a show or movie was originally aired or released, which I miss. My new DVR will tell me if a show or movie is airing for the first time but not that other piece of fun detail. First world problem, yo.
I enjoy listening to “The Takeout”, a podcast hosted by CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Major Garrett. It’s mostly casual political talk recorded over a meal at a Washington, D.C. restaurant. Recently, his guest was Dr. Barry Black, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, and I thought it was worth a link. Whether or not you believe such a position is warranted, I think he’s an interesting and accomplished man:
He’s the first African American and the first Seventh-day Adventist to hold the office.
He served for over 27 years in the United States Navy Chaplain Corps, rising to the rank of rear admiral (upper half) and ending his career as the chief of chaplains of the United States Navy.
He earned three separate Master of Arts degrees in divinity, counseling, and management. Black also holds two earned doctorates: a Doctorate of Ministry and a Ph.D. in psychology.
He attended a lot of schools – He is an alumnus of Oakwood University, Andrews University, North Carolina Central University, Eastern Baptist Seminary, now known as Palmer Theological Seminary, Salve Regina University, and the United States International University, now known as Alliant International University.
Black is a vegetarian. He has said, “that is not something that is a test of fellowship in my church. I’m a vegetarian because I grew up that way and I believe it’s a – it’s a rather healthy lifestyle.”
Deadspin has a new article on Baylor – How Baylor Happened. I didn’t read it and have no idea if there is any new information, but the article does look lengthy so I’m guessing there’s something new. Maybe it’s because their former head football coach and major league asshole is interviewing for a new job to bring him back into college football. I think the former Baylor AD left for Liberty, I’m sure they’ll take him without blinking.
Cosmopolitan has an article about author Joshua Harris and his old book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, standard reading for any evangelical youth or college kid in the late Nineties, as I was one of the many.
This is Prosecco. She doesn’t mind bath time as long as you hold her steady. Likes to let the water run over her feets. 14/10 I love her so much pic.twitter.com/WfbR5ohmhq
