During the second half of the NCAA championship game on Monday night, I looked over at OtherDogGeeding and he appeared to be having a stroke. His eyes were twitching and so was his head. I placed him from the couch to the floor and he started to convulse and contort his body violently. I told WifeGeeding this is it and to say goodbye. I then drove him to the vet ER and as I rushed him inside I tripped on the curb and we both hit the ground hard. I picked him up, limped inside, and told the staff he was seizing which looked evident. They quickly took him from me, asked me two, maybe three questions, and rushed him to the back. The staff took me to a waiting room and gave me some water and had me answer a few more questions, but since we were already patients, most were already on record. About 45-minutes later a staff member came back to talk to me. I already accepted it was time to let him go, didn’t want him to suffer, and was ready to tell them I was ready to put down. However, I was gently informed he didn’t have a seizure but his eardrum ruptured which caused severe vertigo and dizziness and he was in a state of shock. Being almost entirely blind just added to it. We took him in for an ear infection almost two weeks ago but the infection got worst and caused the eardrum to rupture. It was a freaky event, and both WifeGeeding and I thought it was certainly a seizure. I’m not sure how much longer we have with him, but as for now, OtherDogGeeding had only one thing to say to death, “Not today.”
My one-eyed-wife has an odd infection in the eye socket which does not contain a human eye and had to see her blepharoplasty surgeon.
Every guy who has watched sports at one time or another wanted to broadcast a game.
Tony Romo will be taking over for Phil Simms as the number one color analyst for the CBS’s coverage of the NFL. Phil Simms set a very low bar and our national nightmare is now over. As for Romo, I have no idea how he’ll do, I’m just happy I no longer have to listen to Phil Simms.
Romo has zero experience in this field and got this position on charisma and reputation, a little bit like President Trump. But at least Trump was vetted through the election process.
There’s only one scenario in which I can see Tony Romo returning to the field, and I’m surprised no one has mentioned it. Cam Newton recently had surgery on a partially torn rotator cuff and may not be ready for the start of training camp. I wouldn’t be surprised if Newton doesn’t recovery well or reinjures it and Carolina giving Romo a call.
To my surprise, the very in shape host of the ‘Biggest Loser’, Bob Harper, had a heart attack and was in a coma for two days. Genetics is unavoidable.
Last night’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ started with an announcement that it would be a special two-part episode and could be sensitive to children (the dangers of hitchhiking). DaughterGeeding asked me what that was about and I told her that parents should watch this episode because it could be scary or sad and kids may have lots of questions. She retorts, “Dad, I’ve read about King George, the Battle of Trenton, and I know how babies are born. I’m not scared of anything.”
I’ll fully admit I don’t often read press briefings from the Secretary of State, but I got a kick out of how short and to the point this one released yesterday was.
It’s happening at Woodrow Wilson High in east Dallas. If you live nearby, it’s one of a handful of IRS approved locations for free tax preparations. The DISD campus has partnered with the Internal Revenue Service for three years to prepare at least 100 returns annually for any taxpayer earning $54,000 or less.
WifeGeeding’s 100-year-old grandmother died in the wee small hours of Monday morning. She was one of eight children. Three of her siblings are still alive, she was the oldest of the surviving children. She was born inside her family’s house, and the house and land had since been sold and is now a cemetery. The family’s plot is where the house once stood. When she dies, she will be buried basically in the spot she was born. I’ll call that the East Texas Circle of Life.
They hope to have the funeral on Wednesday but interestingly enough the funeral home is booked solid.
Because I lost my both my parents at a relatively early age, I’m amazed that my father-in-law still at his mother at age seventy-nine.
A local church held an electronics recycling event as a fundraiser. The amount of relief I had dropping off a plethora of cables, power chargers, old Tivo units, computers (I kept the hard drives), video game consoles, and the like was almost thrilling. They also accepted old CDs, and it was great just to unload almost all in my collection.
For any of you who have also hiked up Guadalupe Peak, you might enjoy this piece from “The Smithsonian” – When Texas Was at the Bottom of the Sea – A hike to the “top of Texas,” the world’s most famous fossil reef, leads to a new sense of the sublime
I’m not sure if anyone else has really noticed, but before championship games, there’s footage of players on a runway of sorts or doing some other fashionable antics. I miss the days when players or the teams were simply introduced and didn’t have to partake in some choreographed film session.
“It’s straight up. Every penny that the president received from the first quarter,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer told journalists at a White House press briefing Monday.
This chimp threw some poop and it hit grandmother in a scooter.
I posted a Navy boot camp picture of my father not too long ago and someone commented that the Navy retired the flat hat back in April 1963. I just thought I’d follow up and show that I still have that hat. Here it is along with the 1940 Bluejackets Manual and flight log. I also posted a some pages of the flight log. It’s kinda crazy for me to think that one of those flights happened 72 years ago today. Dad was a gunner in the PV-1 Ventura. After the war, he joined the Ohio National Guard and then went into the Army for the Korean War.
That was my attempt at pulling an April Fool’s joke on WifeGeeding. The concept isn’t all that original, but she got a kick out of it.
DaughterGeeding’s soccer coach told the team he’d take the first three suggestions for a mascot and they’d vote on them. Their choices were Star Wars, cheetahs, and fighters. Surprisingly, cheetahs won.
We wanted to eat at Hutchin’s BBQ in Frisco and needed to buy DaughterGeeding soccer shoes, so we stopped at Soccer City, what I assumed to be a mom and pop shop in their downtown area. Not only was the service exceptional, but I they have a beginner soccer package we took advantage of in which you get shoes, shin guards, and a ball for $35.
BoyGeeding played a decent amount at first base at his first tee-ball game of the season.
UCF’s lazy river — part of $25 million in athletic upgrades UCF plans on its sprawling Orlando campus — is the latest innovation in the college athletics facilities arms race, a nationwide competition between many of the country’s largest universities to build the best, most luxurious facilities as recruiting tools. At UCF, like at many other schools, this arms race is subsidized by students, through mandatory athletics fees tacked onto tuition bills. For its proposed “athletics village,”
UCF is taking an idea originally hatched at Clemson University and adding a wrinkle. Clemson’s $55 million football-only facility, which just finished construction, features a “players’ village” with sand volleyball, laser tag and mini golf. But the new home of Tigers football does not have a lazy river.
Partially owned by Jones along with the Steinbrenner family and other companies, Legends will sell the suites and sponsorships for the Raiders’ new Las Vegas stadium, and is already selling them for the Rams and Chargers’ stadiums. Legends also was a big reason the 49ers sold out the suites and sponsorship deals for Levi’s Stadium. Al Guido, who is the president of the 49ers, is a former executive in Jones’ Legends company.
Jones, in some ways, has pulled the NFL’s version of a Jedi mind trick. Other teams are using him to run big parts of their business, and he, in turn, has gained a significant influence on the finances of those teams, according to league officials familiar with the matter.
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