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• Even though WifeGeeding can’t see out of one eye, she always cleans both lenses of her glasses.
• WifeGeeding will hang wrinkled shirts back in the closet and will iron them as she wants to wear them. I don’t put shirts back into the closet unless they are ironed first.
• I helped a neighbor yesterday transfer a lot of pictures from a very old computer. She spent hours trying to get her old computer to work. The issue was actually pretty easy to resolve. There was nothing wrong with her computer, it was her monitor that was on the fritz. I let her borrow one of mine and she was finished transferring pictures in no time.
• I saw a lot of reports stating Croatia is the second smallest country to make a World Cup final. It annoys me when articles state such claims and don’t list what who the smallest country is to make a World Cup final. In case you are wondering, Uruguay is the smallest country to do it, they won the 1930 and 1950 World Cup finals.
• The news reports and footage of the plane crash and rescue in Alaska reminded me of an old television show I used to love to watch in syndication, ‘Northern Exposure’. Maggie O’Connel piloted a similar plane to and from Cicely.
• The news footage of Kay Bailey Hutchison sitting next to President Trump at the NATA summit was interesting. One could easily see on her face she regrets ever working for this administration. I need to see a clip of her reaction set to ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ music. I’ll give the president credit, he campaigned on standing up to NATO and for them to contribute more and he followed through. According to White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, Chief of Staff John Kelly looked upset because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese.
  
• I’m not sure if this will make sense, but I have no problem when someone is reasonably picky about something.
• At the bottom of this article is a “Report A Typo” option. I’ve never seen anything like that.
• Flying Passenger Trains Could Be Coming Your Way
  • With Akka’s futuristic concept, passengers would board a train-like tube at a neighborhood station and have their retinas scanned for security during the ride to the airport. Wings would then be attached to the pod for take-off.
• Miami man with no arms charged with stabbing Chicago tourist
  • Miami Beach police say 46-year-old Jonathan Crenshaw held a pair of scissors with his feet and stabbed 22-year-old Cesar Coronado just after midnight Tuesday. The Miami Herald reports that Crenshaw is a popular fixture in the area, known for painting on canvases along a trendy spot in South Beach.
• Peter King’s NFL column returns next week with a new name and a new home
• The ancient library where the books are under lock and key – Inside a specially built, temperature controlled room at Hereford Cathedral, hundreds of medieval manuscripts sit chained to their shelves, exactly as they did centuries ago.
• These guys are fast.

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• There’s a lot of money when it comes to fracking – Worthless Just Two Years Ago, West Texas Sand Now Brings in Billions
• Houston Chronicle – These are the 50 greatest Texas movies ever. Ever.
• I had no idea that there was any sort of legend behind a shooting star on a Tootsie Pop wrapper.
  •  It has been rumored that local convenience stores used to give a free Tootsie Pop to anyone who brought in a wrapper containing the image of the shooting star. Unfortunately, we do not know how this rumor started and Tootsie Roll Industries has never actually honored this promotion. In fact, the shooting star appears on 1 in every 4 to 6 Tootsie Pop wrappers, just as frequent as the other images appear. However, we do believe the star is a sign of good luck to come.
• The New York Times has an article about the twentieth anniversary of the tragedy in Jasper, TX
  • Sheriff Rowles, 73, thinks about the crime that for a while, at least to the outside world, defined Jasper. He sees things this way: What happened on an old country road is a permanent scar that time is finally healing. “Do we ever get over something like that? No,” he said. “And we shouldn’t. But it finally doesn’t come up in conversations every day any more.”
  • “They killed him because he was black,” Sheriff Rowles, who is white, said plainly, nodding his head to emphasize this truth was not negotiable. “This was the first time I heard the words ‘hate crime.’”
• The Washington Post – What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education — sometimes with more than 90 percent accuracy
  
• The AtlanticThe Epic Battle Between Breast Milk and Infant-Formula Companies –
• I’ve never been a fan of the comic, his humor makes me uncomfortable.
  • Dick Cheney autographs a waterboard at request of Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Sarah Palin says she was duped into interview with Sacha Baron Cohen
    • The Daily Mail reports that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee said she unknowingly participated in an interview for what turned out to be Cohen’s just-announced satirical series, “Who is America?”
• A lot of drama at the Mesquite, Texas Sears. Anger and cursing warning.

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• That’s a picture of WifeGeeding’s parents. I think it’s a lovely picture. Last week marked 50 years of marriage. Their children threw a nice party for them on Sunday afternoon and I think eighty-percent of the population of Lindale, TX showed up. There are certain things about small-town life you simply can’t replicate in the big city. Sometimes I really miss that about my hometown and I’m sad my kids won’t experience it like both of their parents.
• I tweeted last week I wasn’t blogging for a bit because WifeGeeding had me working on a family project. Well, it was one of those video slideshows set to music for WifeGeeding’s parent’s 50th-anniversary shindig. Their whole family watched it together the night before and it was played on a projector in a loop for the party.  If you are interested in watching it and seeing pictures of a family you’ve only heard about, here you go. I felt I did more than a halfway decent job. Those projects can become addicting and consume you. One of WifeGeeding’s older sisters was a dead ringer for Sandra Bullock back in the day. On a few occasions, strangers have stopped her and ask for an autograph or picture. I always thought WifeGeeding had a Marissa Tomei appeal to her.
• You may recall we’ve been having trouble with our SUV. Since we didn’t trust it enough to make the trip to East Texas with the family, WifeGeeding and the kids took the DART light rail system and Amtrak. They loved it. The nearest DART station from GeedingManor is four miles away and the Amtrak station closest to WifeGeeding’s parent’s house is less than ten miles. They left in the middle of last week but I stayed at home to work.
• WifeGeeding and I bought her mother’s SUV. I risked driving our ailing SUV to East Texas. Her father is nice enough to try to sell it for us and we drove our newly owned SUV back. It’s a Buick and I’m ecstatic. Buicks are very popular on the Geeding side of the family.
• When the wife and kids were away I bought a basketball goal. I decided to assemble it indoors instead of outside. It was cooler and I could do it at night with good lighting. The kids loved this new indoor court, it was better than the one hanging on a closet door. It was nice of WifeGeeding to allow us to keep it inside a few days.
  
• Yesterday I had an allergy scratch test and the results were compared to the same one performed on me three years ago. The good news is that treatment has made me less reactive to many allergens. However, the person who performed the exam stated she was surprised at my results because she’s never seen anyone like me before. Patients sometimes develop a new allergy to a few things, but she never seen someone develop so many new allergies like me.
• This Thursday, July 12 – Build-a-Bear announces amazing one-day, ‘Pay-Your-Age Day’ deal
  • Parents of infants must pay at least one dollar for their child’s choice of animal and adults will not be counted as “a day over 29.” Customers also have an option of buying an unstuffed toy and come back at a later date to stuff it, which would be a great way to avoid crowds.
• Southwest Airlines will stop serving peanuts in August
  • When I worked there as a contractor in their technology department you could easily find bags of peanuts to snack on.
• Documentary series can be fun to watch, but sometimes the genre gets a bit tiresome. For instance, the showcasing of a particular decade has been done so often there should be a documentary about documentaries about decades. Last night I caught an episode on A&E named ‘Cultureshock: The Rise of Trash TV’. I’ve never really been interested in the likes of Jenny Jones, Maury Povich, Jerry Springer, or Geraldo Rivera, but the show was interesting and took me down memory lane recalling how popular they were to my friends in college. I’m curious to know if the special included ‘The Morton Downey Jr. Show’ which was pretty popular when I was in high school. I do recall confusing Morton Downey Jr. and Robert Downey Jr. often.
• Also on last night, The Outsiders. I might actually like the movie better than I did the book. I’m shocked it wasn’t required reading for WifeGeeding when she was in school.
• Stay gold, Ponyboy…Stay gold.