The steroid epidural and physical therapy hasn’t really helped lessen my back pain, but the doc wants to do another steroid epidural. The physical therapy has been more challenging than I thought. The stretches and exercises I do daily take just under an hour to complete.
I love the respect the smoking BBQ community has for one another.
I met someone whose last name is “Dilda”. I’m sure that’s often misspelled and mispronounced, and here I was thinking “Greeding” was annoying and insulting.
I keep forgetting to post this and a reader was kind enough to send the story to me, but a rundown “haunted” house in my hometown of Mineral Wells is for sale for $125,000. And in case you were wondering, that’s not my childhood home, I grew up on the southside.
“Texas law now will be your strength and your sword and your shield,” Abbott said, invoking Bible verse as he addressed the 11 a.m. service at Grace Church. “You will be shielded by any effort by any other government official in any other part of the state of Texas from having subpoenas to try to pry into what you’re doing here in your churches.”
Billy Murray will be playing in the celebrity pro-am at Colonial today and Tony Romo will make his CBS Sports debut at the event on Sunday.
CBS11 had a good segment on local road rage yesterday and stated two of three areas are near me, I35 in Lewisville and 121/114 in Grapevine. The number one cause of road rage . . . merging traffic. I guess I’ve never thought about it before, but that makes sense.
U2 was on Kimmel last night. It was basically a U2 centered show, almost similar to the Conan show about a decade ago.
Longtime fans would appreciate him bringing up The Dalton Brothers. Back in 19878 Los Lobos was supposed to open up for them but couldn’t for some reason. For kicks, the band decided to open up for themselves but in disguise as a country western band and made up songs on the whim.
Kimmel opening jokes from what I remember:
You remember U2, those jerks that tried to give us a free album a couple of years ago.
We need to get Adam and Larry some nicknames because it’s really not fair.
I went to see U2 at the Rose Bowl on Sunday night. It was an incredible show, Bono fed the entire stadium with a single loaf of bread.
Their first performance was pretty neat with choir members hidden throughout the audience and then chiming in to contribute.
A friendly neighbor called me close to 10:00 PM to tell me a stranger has been pacing in front of GeedingManor for more than two hours. But more important to me, he told he his wife’s cancer returned and I could tell he needed to talk. She’s out of state on business and called him with the news.
I wonder what kind of security measures or screening goes on across the pond, at least compared to what we do in the U.S.
The morning show on The TICKET had former President George W. Bush as a guest yesterday. I know the man is laid back and many have commented about how down to Earth he is, but I was surprised at how loquacious he was in the sense the hosts didn’t really need to ask any questions, he just went from one story and one thought to another without really being prompted. It was funny hearing him mention Bono and the Dalai Lama in the same sentence, hearing him playfully goof up Bono’s name, and referring to the other simply as “Dalai”. Bush stated he wouldn’t be at the concert and one of the hosts playfully invited him stating he had an extra ticket, and he replied he’d just call up Bono if he wanted to go.
Bush also eloquently stated (seriously) how presidential candidates, including himself, will state positions during a campaign and then due to current events will have to change course. As an armchair political pundit, things would have gone a lot more smoothly if his administration communicated the same thing. But hey, hindsight is 20/20. And one more thing, he said that presidential candidates don’t get the gravity or understand the perspective of things until they actually become president and will often find themselves going back on campaign rhetoric. That’s a pretty common assertion, but as the son of a president, I would have thought he’d have a better expectation than others. But then again, most folks, no matter how well coached or counseled, don’t “get it” until they actually experience things themselves. It’s like the great philosopher Michael Gerard Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
Final thought on the Notre Dame graduates walking out on Vice President Pence – I liken it to people who get bad restaurant waitstaff service and leaving a penny as a tip. They want to show they aren’t too cheap to tip but also want to send a message they were upset. I’m not defending or justifying either action, I just think they are related or similar.
Per Peter King’s MMQB, it sounds like the NFL is going to lighten up on touchdown celebrations. The league should have never penalized any celebrating to begin with.
The first step in getting a customized football helmet, which will set you back $1,750.
I like that I was able to “discover” Cattleack before “everyone else”. The owner is a real salt of the earth kind of guy and it’s neat following them on Twitter since he posts about this cooking experiments. His wife, who runs the register, is as tenderhearted as they come, and she’ll give you a free beer as you wait in line. But I’d like to know their backstory. The location is horrible and they used to only be open on Thursdays, so I’m curious to know what they do for income being open for only two days a week. Now they will sometimes open on Saturdays and thankfully expanded their space.
