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• Most living room ceiling fans are about 55-inches. Our 55-inch fan just hasn’t provided enough air flow for our living room with a 12-foot ceiling, so I just installed a 70-inch fan and I couldn’t have been happier.
• I fixed one of BoyGeeding’s toys and playfully asked him, “Who’s the best?” thinking he would say, “You are, Dad.” But no. Instead, he said, “Well, God and Jesus, but you’re a great dad.”
• The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem opened yesterday and I don’t really have any opinions about it other than I don’t like First Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress basking in the spotlight.
  • Slate.com – How Robert Jeffress became one of the most influential Trump supporters in Christendom.
• Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy
• The latest episode of CBS’s ‘Maden Secretary’ referenced that a character was from Plano, Texas of all places.
• When I was a kid watching all the Christopher Reeves Superman movies I always wondered why they chose such an unattractive Lois Lane. Yeah, that sounds harsh, but I was a pretty judgemental kid.
• Glad to see him advance in his career, I loved that show – ‘Harvey Birdman’ Is Coming Back 
  • On Monday, Adult Swim announced that it will revive Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law for a brand-new, one-off special called Harvey Birdman: Attorney General.
• Texas Monthly – The Texanist: Why Don’t Texas Houses Have Basements? – A Yankee in exile misses the old days of playing air hockey and breathing in musty odors.
• Breaking Down Seinfeld
• These weather reporters are dressed pretty provocatively, so you may not want to check out this GIF, but it’s interesting how they are synchronized.
• Jacksonville, TX 7-Eleven blasts opera music to discourage panhandling
• Indian college cut women’s sleeves before exam to prevent cheating
• Google Drive’s new plans bring family sharing and more options
  • There’s now a family sharing option similar to services like iCloud, for starters — up to six family members can share a plan, each with their own private storage areas. 
  • Google has added a new 200GB plan for $3 per month, and the 2TB plan is down to $10 per month from the earlier $20. Existing tiers are still hanging around and range from 100GB for $2 per month to a hefty 30TB for $300 per month.

• For a reading accomplishment, DaughterGeeding received a free ice cream coupon at Braum’s. It made me laugh they were promoting how much protein is in their milkshakes.
• I bought WifeGeeding a customized travel mug for Mother’s Day. She had it for about two hours before losing it at church. Maybe it’s just her polite way of telling me she didn’t like it.
• DaughterGeeding’s class has a bunch of silkworms and each kid gets to take them home for a bit, and we hosted them this weekend. When she brought them home on Friday there was not one cacoon, but as of last night, at least eight of them made one. And to my surprise, they are a bit loud when they are eating.
  
• The silkworms will eventually turn into a moth. Oh, and these silkworms are domesticated: “Domestic silkmoths are closely dependent on humans for reproduction, as a result of millennia of selective breeding. Wild silkmoths are different from their domestic cousins as they have not been selectively bred; they are not as commercially viable in the production of silk.”
• I finished Amazon’s ‘All or Nothing: The Dallas Cowboys’. I know there is no such thing as a player/coach like Tom Landry used to have, but Sean Lee is most certainly a player/coach. You should see the way he runs meetings, go over game tape, and the respect he gets from his teammates. I like Jon Hamm’s voice in commercials but I didn’t like him as the narrator.
• It was another weekend of proclaiming I was going to get a lot of things marked off my to-do list only for me to barely make a dent in it.
• Our church is in the very early stages of looking for a new pastor since our pastor will retire next year. I might be getting the terminology wrong, but the pastor nomination committee consists of one male and six females.
• Caged tiger among live animals on display at Miami-Dade prom
  • It was a “Welcome To The Jungle” theme. In addition to the tiger, they had a lemur, two macaws, and an African fennec fox.
• Texas woman who ran over cheating husband released from prison
• The May 16 Texas Rangers game will only be available to watch on Facebook, you won’t be able to view it on television, the MLB app, or any other way.
• BMW’s wireless car charging pad arrives this summer
• GQ – How to Become a U2 Fan – Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Bono.
  • U2 is one of the biggest bands in the world, but self-identifying as a U2 fan is another thing entirely. As a self-identified U2 fan, I can tell you: You get shit on. Constantly.
• May your Monday be as fearless as this young man.

• I’ve never known my father to play the guitar yet I found a picture of him playing a guitar. He said he used to sing lead for a band on riverboats on the Ohio River and played the clarinet in high school, but other than that I never knew him to be musically inclined. Hmm, now that I look at the picture again, there’s a small chance that might not be my dad and I’ve mistaken him because his head is tilted down. Either way, I found some space to fill up today’s post. Win/Win.
• My back is still getting better, not very rapidly, but it’s getting better and so is my attitude.
• WifeGeeding, a preschool director, received an email from a mother about her child’s bathroom issues. The parent recently moved from another non-English speaking country. The email used the word “shit” probably a half a dozen times. We’re thinking she used a translation app that didn’t translate all that well.
• Man, this final season of FX’s ‘The American’s’ is just great. Everything is coming together, and last night’s episode was solid and gritty. That parking garage scene was tense, and I loved how they decided just to use silence instead of trying to find the right song or score to aid the storytelling.
• As much as I may not like President Trump’s personality, morals, or politics, one thing is for certain, I won’t underestimate the guy. That may be his greatest strength, people think he will automatically fail, and that’s how he won primaries, the nomination, and the Electoral College.
• I don’t watch the Fox4 morning show, but it will now start a half-hour earlier, 4:00 AM. I’m curious to know how the morning staff first reacted to that and when such a change in working hours happen, how is that handled in terms of pay and salary.
• Bouncy Castles For Weddings
• Robert Downey, Jr.’s Original ‘Iron Man’ Suit Stolen, Valued at $325,000
• If you are a lawyer operating a blog out of Wise County don’t read the rest of this bullet point because it will be nails on a chalkboard for you… If you a looking for a Father’s Day present for the local BBQ lover in your life, the Birthright BBQ Fest will be held on that day. It’s a chance for the folks who never get a chance to travel to Austin to try Franklin’s, and local great Cattleack will also be there.
  • Beer comes from Four Corners Brewing Co. Other pitmasters expected at Birthright, according to the website, are Brent Reaves of Smokey John’s BBQ in Dallas; Patrick Feges of Feges BBQ in Houston; Evan LeRoy of LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue in Austin; and Elliott Moss of Buxton Hall in Asheville, North Carolina.
• DallasNews.com – A look at employee drug tests: What Texas companies are finding
• Sears is working with Amazon to deliver and install car tires

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