It was one busy weekend which left me little time to do anything else, so it’s a tiny Bag of Randomness today. But I’ll leave you with this one picture of me with the kids from our cousin’s wedding. I’m certain it will be displayed at my funeral, it’s got that feel to it.
That Troy Aikman episode of the NFL Network’s ‘A Football Life’ was much better than I expected, mainly because they showed footage of how much he had to play bad cop after Jimmy Johnson left. Here’s footage I have never seen before of him on the sidelines going off, and I mean going off, on how the head coach and players aren’t doing anything to be held accountable or disciplined. The video should be cued to start the moment he goes on his tirade. I couldn’t embed it because the NFL chose not to allow this video to be embedded.
I’ll be in an outdoor wedding in Azle tomorrow. With the current forecast, it looks like it’s going to be an indoor wedding.
Bob Sturm of The TICKET stated that Dallas has had a team of each major sporting league since 1994. The only time all teams will make the playoffs in a season will be this year, as the Mavs, Stars, Rangers were already in the playoffs and the Cowboys are prone to make the playoffs. The only year all four teams didn’t make the playoffs was 2013.
Dez Bryant catching a deep ball and making it just to the goal line setting Ezekiel Elliott for a touchdown run reminded me a lot of how Michael Irvin would do the same for Emmitt Smith.
Troy Aikman is the focus on the latest NFL Network’s ‘A Football Life’ which airs tonight. That one is immediately followed by the Roger Staubach episode. Speaking of Captain America, this was how he was watching the game last night.
Since my concussion, I’ve had a continuous headache which usually mild but at other times hurts so bad I have to lay down.
A friend recently ate at a local establishment and a couple of servicemen in uniform sat nearby. He discretely spoke to his waiter and bought their lunch. When they discovered their meal was paid one of them gleefully comment that leaves more money to buy booze this weekend.
Our current and future president had a parent who was born overseas, Obama’s father was born in Kenya and Trump’s mother was born in Scotland. That hasn’t happened since Hoover (Canadian mother) and Wilson (English mother).
A lot of times, television shows will throw in product placement and not make it look so obvious, but last night, ‘Modern Family’ did it twice with Google Home and it was forced.
I check all our financial accounts daily just to make sure nothing fishy is going on. Yesterday, I discovered two Amazon transactions on our credit card that weren’t in our Amazon order history. Being the holiday season, I double checked with WifeGeeding to be sure it wasn’t some sort of present for me, and she hasn’t been on Amazon for a while. So I had to call to dispute the transactions. I also have credit and fraud protection monitoring, but they didn’t pick it up the transactions.
The US will finish with 20 space rocket launches. China will finish in second with 19 and Russia in third with 18. Since the late 1960s Russia has been an undisputed leader in annual launch rates – launching about 100 rockets per year at its prime. Since 1957, Russia has launched over 3,000 rockets – roughly twice as many as the U.S.
WifeGeeding and a bunch of lady friends are attending a women’s church event tonight in which HGTV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ furniture maker Clint Harp and his wife will be the featured speakers. WifeGeeding and Harp were neighbors in an apartment complex in Waco and she took him to a sorority formal. I’m comfortable with her going, but I’d be lying if I said I was 100% completely comfortable. I sadly admit I have some embarrassing flaws, and admit I get easily jealous and have trust issues.
Jann S. Wennerof Rolling Stone had her fourth interviwed scheduled with President Obama the day after the election. But the the results being a surprise, she thought the interview would be called off. And now we have her last interview with Obama, the morning after the election – The Day After: Obama on His Legacy, Trump’s Win and the Path Forward
Waco-based KWTX said regent Dr. Ron Wilson spent Tuesday at a meeting members of Baylor’s faculty and staff where he, other regents, and interim Baylor President David Garland took questions that had been submitted in advance. Afterward, he told KWTX why nothing was released beyond a 13-page “findings of fact” that included almost no facts.
“Pepper Hamilton is an oral report so the process of writing would take four to six months. Also with the personal nature of the information so much of it would be redacted. Plus, the cost would be a factor,” Wilson said.
By only taking questions submitted by advance, they really wanted to control the conversation.
I can somewhat understand time being a factor, but cost?
And whatever added cost a written report would create probably doesn’t compare to the settlements Baylor is paying out to ex-coach Art Briles as well as the women who reported they were gang-raped by football players under Briles’s and the regents’s watch.
