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• I think I made an enemy and a friend yesterday morning after I dropped the kids off at school. I was at a stoplight and saw the car in front of me bump the SUV in front of it. The girl driving the silver Pontiac convertible was on her phone and it looked like she thought the light turned green. The SUV immediately put on her blinker as well as the car that hit it. However, when the light turned green, only the SUV pulled into the adjacent parking lot. I pulled in after the SUV and gave the driver the license plate of the car that bumped her and she was extremely grateful. If I had a dashcam, I would have certainly given her the video.
• I’d like to have a dashcam, but I don’t want it to be visible and don’t want to fiddle with wires, installation, and hooking up a power source. If I could find something like that for under $120, I’d probably pull the trigger.
• One of the best allergy tips I ever received is to wash your hair before bedtime, otherwise, all the pollen and other allergens collected in your hair are going to be smeared on your pillow where you’ll breathe it in all night.
• I caught a little bit of Bryant Gumble’s interview with Derek Jeter. The Yankee great claims to have not swung a bat since his last game back in 2014.
• Another segment on HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ was on the Nebraska college bowling team. You’d be surprised at their workouts, which includes lifting weights and working out in the football team’s facilities.
• George H.W. Bush’s book-themed socks gifted by young man with Down syndrome
• ‘The CBS Evening News’ had an interesting segment on China’s social ranking system which reminded me of the Bryce Dallas Howard episode of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’. They use video cameras and AI to “score” people.
  • He recently tried to book a flight but was told he couldn’t because he was on the list of untrustworthy people. “I can’t buy property, my child can’t go to a private school.”
• Starplex has changed names again but everyone will still call it Starplex.
• The 65th anniversary Corvette is a performance beast for data nerds
• A bit more on that U2 augmented part of their upcoming tour. From my understanding, it will only be utilized for the first song.
  
• As People magazine would ask, who wore it better? The First Lady’s outfit yesterday resembled one Michelle Pfeiffer wore in Scarface. Personly, I thought she looked sharp and elegant.
  
  
• I thought she also looked elegant and chic in this photo.
  
• And finally, I love how the hat made a surprise appearance at the end of the White House live feed of the joint press conference.

THE HAT pic.twitter.com/wNsrjSed2T

— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) April 24, 2018

• It wasn’t until I was in my thirties that despite randomly singing the song from time to time, there isn’t any ocean front property in Arizona.
• The kids were unusually quiet on the drive to school yesterday. When I mentioned that to them, DaughterGeeding said, “I think we just have a case of the Mondays.” I guess I must have said that to them a time or two.
• This summer will mark the twentieth anniversary of my father’s death. In two years, I will have lived longer without him in my life than I had with him.
• There have always been jokes about fathers being overly protective of their daughters, especially when it comes to prom night. Heck, my buddies and I have joked about me cleaning a gun the first time a boy takes DaughterGeeding on a date. Recently, former NFL kicker Jay Feely’s daughter went on a prom date and he posed for a picture with the couple holding a gun and it upset a lot of people. At first, I thought people were being too sensitive about it and should lighten up. But then two thoughts entered my mind. One, there’s been a lot of school shootings as of late. So, even though it’s an old tired joke and I’m sure he meant no ill intent, it might have been a bit insensitive on his part. Also, I thought what if it was my son in that picture who was taking his daughter to prom. Even if it were a joke, I think I’d feel uncomfortable at the smallest implication my son would be shot.
• Our local Costco got new shopping carts, 300 of them. Yup, that’s the kind of exciting news you get reading this blog.
• No word if there are any hidden vaults – Al Capone’s Palm Island Compound Is For Sale
• GIF – Feeding a bee sugar water
• I received an email from U2 yesterday about the start of their new tour next week confirming augmented reality.
  • The tour opens in Tulsa next week and as of now you can download the U2 AR eXPERIENCE App which promises a new kind of experience at a U2 show. #U2eiTour will see a specially curated AR scene-setter—triggered by the 100-foot-long LED wall running the length of the arena floor—herald the band’s arrival on stage.
• A parrot will announce one of the Buccaneers’ NFL draft picks
• After 14 hours of surgery, a veteran of the US Armed Forces has a new, transplanted penis and scrotum – The procedure took 11 surgeons 14 hours to complete
• Pretty nifty roofing machine

Roofers Have a New Weapon (stapler and cutter)