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• Today is my sainted mother’s birthday, she would have been entering the last year of her sixties.
• Another medical billing gripe: Children’sHealth robocalled me stating I have a late payment, which surprised me since I’ve paid every bill they’ve sent me. Later that day, I got a statement in the mail which indicated it was the second notification. It’s very important to me to pay bills on time, so I called in. The representative told me a statement was never sent out in the first place, but a “first statement” would be sent out later this week. Props to the representative for simply saying it was an error on their end and apologizing I received a phone call and late statement.
• For the first time since taking the oath, President Trump will stayed the night at Trump Tower. In all seriousness, I’m sure he really misses the place, he’s lived there for a very long time. In a way, I bet he’s longed for it and it’s become a part of him. I’ve read several Secret Service books and they all state if a president were to stay the night in a building, it would be one of the lower level floors, nothing higher than what a firetruck ladder could reach in case there was an emergency. Trump’s residence is on floors 66 through 68, so I wonder how he worked that out. And to be a bit macabre, he’s a sitting target if there were to be another 9/11 attack or even if a Cessna with flammables or explosives were to hit it.
• The Tank Traps, Fake Towns And Secret Tunnels Of The Korean Borderlands
• The book I’m reading had a bit of a bizarre story about the time former President Nixon was in a California hospital to get several blood clots removed from his leg in 1974. President Ford just entered the hospital to pay him a visit, but the last person leaving Nixon’s hospital room accidentally let the door shut behind and it automatically locked. Nixon was a prisoner of sorts, locked in the hospital room all by himself, too sick to get up. A maintenance man finally was able to get in the room ten minutes later with the use of a hacksaw and then Presiden Ford was finally able to visit.
• ESPN – Baylor avoided random drug testing, according to book
  • The drug policy makes it one of the few major collegiate programs not to randomly drug-test its student-athletes, according to the book.

Jimmy takes a moment at the start of the show to address the events in #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/gCvv1OM8gq

— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) August 15, 2017

• During the children’s church part of the worship service at our church, our pastor asked, “Am I old?”. DaughterGeeding was the first to respond and said, “Well, it depends on what you are comparing yourself to.”
• I don’t like to travel, but I’d love to travel to an area in the path of the upcoming total eclipse. I also think it would be cool to conceive a child during the eclipse.
• I’m annoyed when I see outlet and light switch covers with paint on them. It shows whoever painted the room was too lazy to remove them which requires minimal effort. Such is the case with the previous owner of GeedingManor. After all these years, I finally removed the covers and clean the paint off and now have a little more peace of mind.
• Something from  the subreddit Today I Learned which caught my attention:
  • TIL that the refrain “when one door closes, another opens” is actually an Alexander Graham Bell quote which he followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
• My kind of humor – “Set your wifi password to 2444666668888888 . . .
  So when someone ask tell them it’s 12345678”
  • “One two, three fours, five sixes, seven eights”
• I don’t even care about the Ezekial Elliot suspension, it’s been a bit liberating trying to separate myself from sports fandom. As I’ve said, I don’t like how it’s blurred my bias and prioritized things in my life. But I’m afraid things may change once the season starts.
• I’ve posted the picture at the top of this post before. Here’s some background on the 1992 photo if you are interested:
  • From 2013
    • Captivating Klan rally photo gets new life via social media
    • Trooper, photographer reflect on iconic photo
  • From 2014
    • A KKK child and a black State Trooper meet each other, 1992
      • “I didn’t even see the kid. I was just looking down to see what was bumping on my shield. And when I looked down, there was this little kid in a Klan uniform. He saw his reflection in the riot shield. He was tracing his outline. The child was oblivious to what was going on around him”.
• Random quote from the book I’m reading:
  • The most precious commodity of the United States of America is leader the gold bullion in Fort Knox Northern launch codes in its ballistic missiles. It is the time of the commander-in-chief colon there is only so much of it, and how its is spent shapes pretty much everything else.
• After Harry Truman died in 1972, this Purple Heart was found in his desk drawer. Letter worth the read: (Photo/WWR)
  • Nursery Rd
    New Canaan
    Conn.Mr. TrumanAs you have been directly responsible for the loss of our son’s life in Korea, you might just as well keep this emblem on display in your trophy room, as a memory of one of your historic deeds.

    Our major regret at this time is that your daughter was not there to receive the same treatment as our son received in Korea.

    Singed

    William Banning

• Another picture of the Oval Office being renovated. They should have contracted with one of the thousand home renovation shows to do this for free.
  
• He Can Hit a Golf Ball 445 Yards. Can He Become a Golfer?
• This would certainly get my attention more than those skinny flappy parking lot blow up attractions.