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• I’ve referenced this before, but I often wonder how the news gets or chooses a picture a person who is profiled in a story. A lot of those pictures are terrible. And then I got to thinking, the most recent picture of me on social media or this blog is of me holding an axe, and that could possibly be used. There’s no telling what a person would infer about me if that’s the only photo they’ve seen of me.
• I’m so glad I saw Avengers: Infinity War because spoilers of all varieties are dropping all over social media.
• Fitbit partners with Google to send health data to doctors
• I may have mentioned this already, but recently BoyGeeding was walking in line behind his teacher and all the other students trailed far behind. His teacher looked down at him and said, “BoyGeeding, I just can’t save them, can, I?” And he replied, “Of course not, Ms. Teacher, only God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit can do that.”
• I’ve been watching Amazon’s ‘All or Nothing: The Dallas Cowboys’ and those Jason Garrett motivational speeches get old. He’s a lot like President Trump in that he repeats himself a lot to drive home a point. I also think Zeke is being coddled too much. I knew he had a lot of “stuff” going on off the field, but oversleeping and not looking at your position coach when he’s talking to you is simply unprofessional.
• Falwell: By Liberty University’s definition, it’s still the largest Christian university
• Rolling Stone – U2’s Stage Director Breaks Down the Band’s New Experience + Innocence Tour
• The Last Slave – In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston sought to publish the story of Cudjo Lewis, the final slave-ship survivor. Instead it languished in a vault. Until now.
• Vice – This Is What Happens When You Eat Nothing but Bugs for a Week – For seven days, I only ate grasshoppers, worms, and tarantulas. It was absolutely awful.
• What’s in This?: Mountain Dew – All 13 ingredients in this gamer sustainer, explained (yep, even erythorbic acid)
• As Craig Miller would say, this article is from Outside magazine, not to be confused with OutTraining Makes Runners More Efficient, but Not Cyclists magazine, which I also subscribe to –
• I’ve never seen a cat make a more impressive entrance
  

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• This past weekend my buddies from high school and college spent time together to select a recipient of a scholarship named in his honor. Our social activity was axe throwing. It probably wasn’t the smartest thing to do after back surgery, but it was fun. I was fine for about the first eight throws, but the hardest part was bending over to pick up any axes which didn’t stick to the board.
• Here’s something a bit wheels-off about the axe throwing facility, it’s BYOB. A bunch of frat boys and older folks brought in a few cases of cheap beer. Furthermore, people are throwing axes directly behind us. We had a fear those folks would accidentally lose the grip of their axe as they were winding back. Safety was definitely stressed by the staff, but I’m not exactly trusting of alcohol and sharp deadly objects being launched in the air.
• Two of my friends are pastors, one has been a pastor outside the city limits of Mineral Wells for fifteen or so years and could write a book about some of the uncommon requests he gets. For instance, an older woman once called and said, “Would you come over and shoot my dog? My husband is out of town and it got hit by a car and I just can’t do it myself.”
• To avoid any spoilers I took the family to see Avengers: Infinity War and we loved it. No spoilers from me, I promise. It was a long movie, two-hours, and forty-minutes. But unlike the last Star Wars movie, I didn’t think they forced any new characters on us and every scene served a purpose to the plot, unlike the casino scenes.
• I usually avoid the theaters and crowds in general, but every now then I’ll find a film I really want to see because I’m a sucker for how the audience will react and when they will spontaneously applaud. What a compliment to the makers of the film. Not one person was connected to the creation of the film yet the audience still feels the need to applaud, and it happened about three times.
• I was offered an opportunity to go to this year’s Army/Navy game but had to turn it down because I’ve sacrificed a good amount of paid time off from work because of my surgery. Bum deal, it would have been cool.
• I think it’s very heroic looking, and I like that it’s done in black and white – Carrie Fisher “Slave Leia” unused promotional photo. 1982
• One week ago today, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron planted an oak tree on the White House lawn. The tree is now gone. The gifted tree originated from the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood in Belleau, France, in which U.S., French, and other allied troops fought the Germans during WWI. Some speculate the tree will be back in October when it has a better chance of surviving.
• I had no idea North Korea has their own time zone, they decided to be a half-hour ahead of South Korea and Japan, but have recently said they plan on going back to the same time zone as the rest of the area. I know the bigger and more hopeful news is that North Korea is going to let U.N. and U.S. nuclear inspectors in, but that timezone thing stuck out.
• The Atlantic – North Korea’s Secret Christians – South Koreans are proselytizing in the adamantly atheist country using thousands of illicit radios smuggled over the border.

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