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• I received my new Google Pixel phone yesterday. During setup, it required me to be on Wi-Fi, but then it wouldn’t reconnect and did about a gigabyte worth of updates via data. I know my Wi-Fi or internet connection was still working because I was on my Chromebook. Thankfully, they have some great customer service – there was no phone tree, I didn’t even have to press 1 for English. It rang twice and a human answered.
• Reddit user adamsaxton took this great picture above a foggy Dallas.
  
• Mall Santas, be warned: Santa-bashing preacher planning DFW visit
• Where will you find an experienced, reliable Santa Claus? LinkedIn of course
• Since Charlie Gibson left the anchor desk, I’ve felt the ABC News telecast has shifted tabloid. On Tuesday, instead of leading with Trump’s selection of Tillerman as his Secretary of State, they chose to lead with Trump’s meeting with Kanye. It’s like Peter Jennings was never there.
• 25 total pics – Austin mansion that was home to UT football coach Charlie Strong on the sales block – The five-bedroom, 7.5-bath Mediterranean-style estate is privately listed for $4.995 million.
  
• Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh recently visited some recruits in Aledo.
• I’m reminded of Meatloaf’s character, Bob, in Fight Club Men To Sue Over Drug That Made Them Grow Breasts–
• Interesting old ’60 Minutes’ segment –
  • 60 Minutes was there when a Japanese naval crew toured the site, taking the standard sightseeing tour of Pearl Harbor. They listened as the tour guide explained the 19 direct Japanese hits against U.S. battleships, the specially adapted pins on the Japanese torpedoes, and the 2,000-pound bomb that sank the USS Arizona.
• I try not to think, so I guess that’s why I don’t run – Running as the Thinking Person’s Sport
  • The study, published this month in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that the brains of competitive distance runners had different connections in areas known to aid in sophisticated cognition than the brains of healthy but sedentary people. The discovery suggests that there is more to running than mindlessly placing one foot in front of another.
• Since October, 99 Dallas cops have quit or retired. Chief Brown time that exit well. While in Fort Worth – Star Wars stormtrooper keeps misfiring in FWPD recruitment video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvHhPGl8_W4

• Fifteen years ago yesterday I met who would become WifeGeeding. I’m not going to bore you with the details, but in short, we met at a Mavs game and I saved the ticket stub, because, you know, I’m a romantic. We were engaged seven months later. Seven years later DaughterGeeding came into our lives. It’s been fun, but it’s been hard, marriage is challenging, but that’s what builds substance, and that’s what makes it worth it. It’s not perfect, and no one should be tricked into thinking it should be.
• I may have mentioned this before, but if she dies before me, I’m going to give all the prosthetic eyes she’s used over the years to our kids for the sole purpose of being able to say, “They have their mother’s eyes.”
  • Yes, she’s had more than one glass eye. As you age, your face structure will change, and you’ll need a better fitting prosthetic to fit in that ocular cavity.
• I’m one of those who will check account balances and transactions several times a day for peace of mind. Yesterday I found another unauthorized transaction, but this one was at my favorite BBQ place, Hutchin’s. The bank rep stated the transaction was done a little after 8:00 PM the evening prior but at that time, I would have finished tucking the kids into bed. So that’s now two unauthorized charges in two different accounts within ten days.
• For you local folks job hunting, I hear ExxonMobil in Irving will have an open position soon.
• Since upgrading my DirecTV equipment, I’ve noticed greater detail in people. For instance, Rex Tillerson has a massive amount of nose hair only coming out of his left nostril, and I can see the sunspots on Scott Pelley and Anderson Cooper’s forehead they are trying to cover up with makeup.
• Something I never thought about before, but yesterday I learned the plural of “court-martial” is “courts-martial”, not “court-martials”.
• I know of two indoor skydiving facilities in the area, but Stockholm now has one for wingsuit flying (YouTube).
• I was looking at this DIY shower install on Imgur and these tile spacers stood out, I’ve never seen them that large.
• Imgur – Confusing perspective
• Prominent Baylor donors project $223 million price tag for sexual assault scandal
• Woman Shares Her Journey From Fitness Competitor to Cancer Fighter: ‘I’m Learning to Love Myself Again’
  
• Random bits of trivia from Alan Thicke’s Wikipedia page:
  • He started dating actress Kristy Swanson when she was 17 years old in 1986 and got engaged to her two years later when he was 42.
  • As a theme song composer, he collaborated with his first wife for such sitcoms as  ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ and ‘The Facts of Life’. He also wrote a number of TV game show themes such as the original theme to Wheel of Fortune.

• Sploid – Repairing a $30,000 Tire Is an Insanely Complicated and Satisfying Experience
• FiveThirtyEight – The Most-Edited Wikipedia Pages Over The Last 15 Years 
• MentalFloss – The Perfect Crime May Be Possible in Yellowstone Park
  • The Sixth Amendment instructs that a federal jury must be assembled from both the district and state in which the crime was committed. In order for that to work for that particular area of Yellowstone, there would have to be residents—and there aren’t.
• Fayetteville, NC news – Man charged with 2 counts of rape and attempting to steal 1 penny
• Inside Nike’s Quest for the Impossible: a Two-Hour Marathon
• It feels weird posting this story considering we just took a picture with Santa – Terminally Ill 5-Year-Old Gets His Last Christmas Wish Before Dying in Santa’s Arms
• Bluetooth-connected, heated insoles