I donated an old Hardin-Simmons alumni t-shirt a few months ago and yesterday I saw a laborer working at a nearby house wearing it. I could tell it was my shirt because of a certain bleach stain. He said hello to me as I walked by and asked him about the shirt, not leading on that I ever owned it. He said he never heard of the school before so he looked it up and then proceeded to tell me more about the university, its history, and sports teams that I ever knew.
Google says 20 percent of searches conducted on smartphones these days are done by voice.
Regarding the book I’m reading about the relationships amongst presidents, I’m reading about Ford and Reagan’s rocky relationship. I knew President Ford offered Governor Reagan the chance to run as his VP and four years later Reagan offered then former President Ford the spot. But I didn’t know that Reagan tried to sweeten the deal by offering Ford a chance to serve as both VP and Secretary of Defense.
Random quote from Ford while campaigning for Reagan, “Elder statesmen are supposed to sit quietly and smile wisely from the sidelines. I’ve never been much for sitting and I never spent much time on the sidelines. This country means too much to me to comfortably park on the bench. So, when you field the team for Governor Reagan, count me in.”
Republicans have taken to calling Donnelly “Mexico Joe” over a report last month that his family’s arts and crafts company, Stewart Superior Corp., manufactures some of its products in Mexico. Donnelly announced shortly after the report that he was selling his stock in the company.
I suffer a bit of anxiety when I see someone I know while grocery shopping and do my best to avoid them. It’s not because I dislike the person, but I feel like I’m forced into small talk, which I feel is full of false sincerity. I just want to complete my task and go home.
When purchasing with cash I always feel rushed putting my change away, especially putting bills in my wallet. I prefer all my paper currency to be in a certain order all facing the same way.
When I go to a friend or neighbor’s house and ring the doorbell and they don’t answer, I don’t know the adequate amount of time I should wait and leave. I’m also not sure when is the proper amount of time to ring the doorbell again, and always bothered when I can’t tell if the doorbell rang and should follow it up with a knock. I’m also somewhat annoyed when someone knocks on my door instead of ringing the doorbell.
Even when I’m really sick and call in, I always feel a bit guilty.
CBS11 now uses a drone with a camera attached to it and has named it Drone Force 11.
Bell admitted to WFAA that he and his friend William Caston, 18, went to the downtown Omni Hotel Sunday morning, temporarily blinded a valet by spraying him or her with a fire extinguisher, then grabbed the keys to a $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan and raced away down South Lamar. “I mean come on now, it’s a Lamborghini. Everybody want one of those. And plus I needed money. So I was gonna sell it,” Bell said. “I had a chop shop already lined up. Dude said he was gonna give me over 10-bandz [$10,000] for the car. So it was already in line.”
I really didn’t know much about Jameis Winston other than his play on the football field, but from watching this season of ‘Hard Knocks’, he’s more committed to his profession and a better leader than I thought.
I’ve had my hearing checked and my ears are functioning as they should, but I often feel I need people to repeat themselves. However, I just can’t bear to ask anyone to repeat themselves because it feels too darn awkward.
Maybe not so coincidentally, during that last season of the series there was an episode titled “Murder Among Friends,” where a TV producer is killed in her office after planning to get rid of a member of the cast of a fictional television show called Buds. Complete with its coffee shop setting and snarky repartee, Buds was a not-so-subtle stab at Friends, coming at a time when Murder, She Wrote was placed right against the hip ratings juggernaut. Putting the murder mystery aside for a moment, Fletcher takes plenty of jabs at Buds throughout, literally rolling her eyes at the thought of six twentysomethings becoming a hit because they sat around talking about their sexuality in every episode.
If you are all caught up on ‘Game of Thrones’ and enjoy semi-dark humor, here’s a meme for you.
