Bag of Randomness for Monday, August 14, 2018

  • 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:
  • 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:
  • 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.

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New York High school football player killed after log falls on head during practice

Joshua Mileto, 16, of Farmingville, was participating in a strength and conditioning camp at the school at 177 Granny Rd., police said. Five athletes were performing a drill carrying a log overhead — with Mileto somewhere in the middle — when “the log fell and struck” him, police said.

Police said it’s not known at this point why the log was dropped and whether wet grass or the weight of the log — which police couldn’t immediately provide — were factors.

The log-carrying drill was designed to build teamwork in Navy SEALS training, said Bob O’Malley, president of the New York State Athletic Trainers Association. “I’ve never seen that drill in an athletic setting,” O’Malley said.

Photographs taken in the aftermath of the incident showed two solid-wood logs resembling telephone poles lying on the field, each about 10 feet long.

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