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• One thing we’ve noticed about driving an electrical car, it’s so quiet, pedestrians can’t hear it and you have to be very careful in parking lots and residential streets.
• I wonder if I’ll ever be heavily interested in a network drama again. There’s only a few I watch, but they aren’t “can’t miss” like some on cable and HBO. I will say the networks are decent with sitcoms.
• WifeGeeding is flying to El Paso today to visit her best friend who recently gave birth to her second child. It’s just me and the kids for a few days. WifeGeeding and her bestie have been besties since elementary school, I believe. She’s been working for the FBI for a little over a decade if my math is correct. When she worked in DC, she had this great story of starting her day at the J. Edgar Hoover Building, then the Pentagon, and then the White House. She admitted that wasn’t a typical day.
• I feel like I see a commercial for a country music special every two weeks, which makes wonder when do the artists have time to tour.
• If Trump TV becomes a reality, I’m certain Sean Hannity will be their feature personality, other than Donald, obviously. I’m sure Newt will end up there as well, but I don’t think Palin will.
• I can’t see Hank Hill voting for either presidential candidate.
• How Woody Harrelson’s LBJ Stacks Up Against the Many Other Portrayals of the Famous Texan.
  • I think the first time I was introduced to LBJ was watching the Randy Quaid version.
• ‘Family Feud’ in Dallas on Dec. 3 and 4
• Part of me wonders if this man just tricked a bunch of women to parade around his house wearing yoga pants, it’s like one of those reverse psychology tricks Bugs Bunny would pull – A Man Told Women Not To Wear Yoga Pants, So They Paraded Outside His House
• ‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ Guy Endorses Recreational Marijuana
• Mercedes-Benz unveils first pickup truck concept
• Identity crisis, third time a charm? – The Google Cast app is now called ‘Google Home’
  14 – Chromecast -> Google Cast -> Google Home
• Patient Zero in AIDS crisis was misidentified, study says, rewriting early history of virus – The work, detailed in a study released Wednesday, discounts the long-held notion that a French-Canadian flight attendant, whose story was highlighted in the seminal book “And the Band Played On,” brought the virus to the United States.
• The New York Times – How to Run Across the Country Faster Than Anyone – It takes more than training to complete a transcontinental run. You need a crew and the belief that you’re part of something greater than yourself.
• IBM should really bring back these commercials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE2iL8QPoh4

• Hi, I’m Keith, remember me? Let’s see if I remember how to do this.
• I’ve got a bad case of bronchitis right now, and I’m blogging after taking some Tussionex for a bad cough and an Ambien. I’ve been coughing so much that every time I do so, my head starts to ache. However, I look at illness as an opportunity to really appreciate the times when I’m in good health.
• Long story short, I bought a new laptop. Slightly longer story – the new part worked but then I broke something else, bought a new laptop but had to return it because one pixel wasn’t working.
• I was watching ‘Elementary’ the other night and they referenced Steve Winwood, which got me on a bit of a Steve Winwood kick. But it got me to thinking if Beavis and Butthead ever laughed at his name. That made me remember a math teacher in high school who only referred to that cartoon as “Beavis and that other guy.” When I was a student in his trigonometry class, he was near retirement. He never married, neither did his sister, and they both lived together in the house they grew up in.
• I spoke with my friend, Jimi, recently. He told me a story of buying Chapstick at a convenience store. Upon entering the store he asked the employee with special needs (or whatever the politically correct term is) if she could help him find the Chapstick. Her reply was an enthusiastic, “You bet I can!” and joyfully led the way. He went on to shed some light on how much happiness that brought her, to be able to help someone, yet for so many, it’s hard to find the tiniest amount of happiness in anything we do. I always appreciate Jimi’s ability to find the gems in everyday life.
• Jimi and I were in the same communications class in college. Our first exam was being returned and I proudly showed him the “97” I made and told him, “Beat that!” About five seconds later he was handed his paper and he showed me his grade of “99”.  In that same class, we had to give an oral speech. Jimi is known for being the center of attention, but as he tried to give his speech, he froze and started to cry and then left the room.
• Too often I’ve made the mistake of how much I want out of an experience instead of actually experiencing it.
• After watching movies I like to go to IMDB and read the trivia. Recently I watched Captain America: Civil War and ran across this gem:
  • During the airport fight scene a truck has the Bluth family logo. It is the same “stair car” (portable staircase for an airplane) that was the subject of many running jokes in the sitcom Arrested Development (2003). The Russo Brothers, the directors of Captain America: Civil War, also directed the pilot for and many other episodes of Arrested Development.
• Crazy how the Cleveland Cavaliers rose their championship banner last night and the Cleveland Indians were playing in game one of the 2016 World Series.
• You use to never see, or at least I’ve never noticed, a college football player play for more than one university. I know Troy Aikman did it, but the circumstance was different. This year, I can name three quarterbacks who have started for a different school – the TCU QB played for aTm, the Sooner QB played for Texas Tech, and the aTm QB played for Oklahoma.
• I’ve received multiple community reports that the starting cornerback (the one who played for the state university in Louisiana) for our local professional football franchise lives in the neighborhood. However, I can not confirm if he mows his lawn shirtless.
• Speaking of minor celebrities, WifeGeeding was shopping at our local Wal-Mart when a small crowd of folks was taking pictures with a cast member of Lifetime reality show Little Women: LA. WifeGeeding didn’t have a clue who she was, but it appears she just moved to the area.
• In BoyGeeding’s first two soccer games, he didn’t even touch the ball, not even by accident. He has since scored two goals. His old man never scored a single goal in his youth.
• Daughter Receives Father’s Message in a Bottle 56 years After He Put It Out to Sea
• Maybe he was a free agent –  The coach of a Providence, Rhode Island, youth football team is fired and his team kicked out of its league after he put a young man believed to be at least 18 years old into a game against 13 and 14 year old children.
• It took a total of nine light bulbs, but two dudes were able to change a light bulb using two drones.
• I tried one of those Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets recently and was surprised at how “real” everything felt. Once I took the headset off, it was as if I woke from a dream and suddenly transported elsewhere. Now I have an idea how Dr. Sam Beckett felt, but then again, I knew where I was heading.
• I’m almost finished with making BoyGeeding’s Halloween costume. The sword is forged from Valyrian foam.