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• Fifteen years ago today, WifeGeeding and I were married. Tonight, the stage version of The Lion King will be performed at the Music Hall At Fair Park and WifeGeeding will be in attendance with a group of her teacher friends. I’ll be home watching the kids.
• I’m sure glad over the past fifteen years I haven’t lost any hair or gained any weight. Heck, I can still fit into WifeGeeding’s dress.
• Rehearsal dinner was the night before and to this day I regret how I flubbed my extemporaneousness speech telling each family member and friend what they mean to me. I wanted to tell my brother there was no person I wanted to be like or thought was cooler than him. Instead, I froze, then muttered something about how we always butted heads. I could tell it bothered him, so much so, he brought it up in a conversation as he drove me to my bachelor party and asked me what I meant by it. My bachelor party was simple, we went to the local Main Event to bowl and play some pool. Not one person drank a drop of alcohol that night.
• I’ve mentioned many times that my best man died one week prior to the wedding, and instead of “replacing” him I just reserved the spot for him. The photographer  FianceGeeding and her family hired was very strong with the English language. I remember trying to be politely indirect with him when he was taking pre-ceremony pictures asking where was the best man. I didn’t want to make the guy feel bad for asking, he was simply trying to do his job and record memories. I don’t think he ever quite understood the situation despite being more direct, I think he thought the best man was simply late and then decided not to show up. Man, fifteen years. The days are long but the years are fast. It is true.
• For many people, their wedding day was the best day of their life. I can’t claim that, I was still grieving the death of my best man whose funeral I attended just three days earlier, and it was the week of the five-year anniversary of my father’s death, so I was missing him.
• WifeGeeding and I still live in the same ZIP code. Actually, we’ve only resided in two places since we’ve been married. Our apartment is just 1.1 miles from GeedingManor.
• I think WifeGeeding’s favorite memory of our honeymoon night was getting locked out of our hotel room at the Grand Floridian in our bathrobes while trying to find the ice machine. I promise that’s not a euphemism for anything.
• I’ve eaten at McDonald’s more than I’d like to admit. My go-to meal used to be the Quarter Pounder with Cheese with the occasional Big Mac or order of McNuggets. Now, it’s usually the Double Cheeseburger.
• Washington pastor hailed as a hero recalls taking down Walmart gunman
• You Can Now Buy a $4,200 Bicycle From Harley-Davidson
• The logistics of reuniting illegal immigrant parents and their children will be a nightmare, there’s no telling the mistakes which will be made. I bet it’s not fiscally conservative either.
• Oh, Fox News…
  
• White House to recommend combining Education, Labor Departments

"Go ahead and plan your wedding for a Saturday in the fall. I'm sure no one will mind," said no Southerner. Ever. pic.twitter.com/XL9W2LKVAG

— It's a Southern Thing (@southernthing) June 20, 2018

• For the last ten days or so the muscle beneath my right eye has been twitching so I thought I’d do some research. Most likely it’s a combination of staring at computer monitors too long during work and when I blog before bedtime and stress. More entertaining though is I found eye twitching can be a superstitious thing depending on the eye and if it’s the top or bottom muscle. So my future may hold:
  • Happy events await.
  • Disaster may befall.
  • Someone far away will visit.
  • A missed blogger will return.
  • An arrival of a stranger.
  • Birth of a child.
• WifeGeeding’s father and brother caught another alligator and have now reached their bag limit.
• I graduated college in 1999 with about $37,000 in student loan debt and a lot of ignorance. For a good hour, I considered joining the U.S. Border Patrol because they offered the best student loan payoff plan at the time. I thought, how hard can that be, nothing happens at the border? I’m sure I would have been miserable with the heavy workload, depressed at what I saw, and killed by a cartel member.
• I think the last president to most recently operate a weedeater would have to be either Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush.
• The last burial at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial was in 2005 until this week. Both Pieper twin brothers died together on D-Day but only one body was retrieved and identified. The remains of the other brother were recently positively identified and now the twin brothers are reunited in burial.
• I don’t deal well with crowds or people invading my personal space, or when I think people are close to intruding my personal space, so this picture freaks me out a bit.
  
• What are the odds President Trump sends Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the border to direct any of those new tent cities housing teenage boys who illegally entered the United States with their parents?
• Trump Jr. pulls out of fundraiser for George P. Bush due to immigration criticism
• This article reminds me of this classic ‘Simpson’s’ moment, I always loved the lawyer’s reference to his case against The Neverending Story – All-you-can-eat restaurant closes after customers eat too much
• Four ‘Star Trek’ series are in the works from ‘Discovery’ showrunner –
  Including shows about Starfleet and Khan, plus an animated series.
• General Electric gets booted from the Dow – For the first time in 110 years, General Electric will not be a member of the elite Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Peter Mayhew, the original actor who was in the suit to portray Chewbacca, posted this nice Star Wars alumni photo. Carrie Fisher’s daughter is on the far left. Mayhew is on the back row and second from the left. He’s seated and everyone else is standing, yet his as tall as them.