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• I came close to pulling the trigger on some new living room furniture but decided to go home and sleep on it. While home I noticed the AC wasn’t working. The repair cost $1,500. No new furniture for the Geedings.
• Wikileaks releasing all those emails which forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign as chairwoman of the DNC only confirmed what everyone knew all along. Heck, SNL even did a skit on it. I just don’t know why it took Wikileaks so long to release them, they ranged from January through May. Also, her hair has always bothered me, it’s like she’s stuck in the early 90’s or something.
• At first, this picture looked fake, but I think it’s pretty neat in that unusual angle sort of sense. Source: WBUR
  
• SisterGeeding’s corgi made the front page of Imgur the other day. Here’s the post if you are interested.
• Interactive Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
• Astrophysicist, Wine Lover, Foodie: The Neil deGrasse Tyson You Didn’t Know
• The 100 highest-paid CEOs in Dallas-Fort Worth
  • As long-time readers know, I have a fascination with Howard Hughes, but had no idea the Howard Hughes Corporation was based in Dallas until I looked at that article.
• Park Place closing its Maserati dealership in Fort Worth
  • The dealership only sold 55 new vehicles in 2015, according to The Freeman Auto Report. The report does not include the sales of used vehicles.
  • I’m curious if the average dealership, the ones who sell for the manufacturer, sell a new car every day they are opened. I know nothing about the biz.
• YouTube – Sherlock: Trailer | first look at series 4 – BBC One
  • It’s got a very James Bond sort of feel to it, and looks too well produced for a television show.
• In other Benedict Cumberbatch news – YouTube – Doctor Strange Official Trailer 2
• This Justice League trailer makes me all giddy inside – YouTube – Justice League Special Comic-Con Footage
• The Woman Woman trailer is equally exciting – YouTube – WONDER WOMAN Comic-Con Trailer
• This woman, who lives near Vernon, TX, killed a six-foot water moccasin in her house. But she has a plan to keep any more snakes from getting in, “Burdette said she has filled the hole behind her dishwasher with Brillo pads and hopes that solves her problem with snakes getting inside her home.”
  
• @ChronBrianSmith – Column: Gang-rape survivor Brenda Tracy enters ‘lions’ den’ by telling her story at #Baylor http://www.houstonchronicle.com @HoustonChron #NCAA
• Boise foothills fire caused by pooping cyclist
• Hemingway wins Florida Hemingway lookalike contest
  • Dave Hemingway is first Hemingway to win Hemingway lookalike title
• I love this GIF – US Runner Kendra Harrison Sets World Record, Understandably Freaks Out
  • The time she saw after the official time posted was 0.3 seconds slower than the actual record time she’d ran, so that’s why you see the expression of joyful shock on her face.
  • The joy on the other runners’ faces is a treat, it’s neat seeing competitors sharing a moment of joy together.
  • Get this, Harrison is literally the fastest woman on the planet in her event, and she’s not going to the Olympics.
    

• I can’t believe Trump didn’t make one comment about Big XII expansion.
• After his speech, I was expecting “I Am A Real American” to start playing from the speakers.
• Ivanka Trump came off as very polished and poised. That has to be a very neat moment for both father and daughter to share. Politics aside, they should be proud of each other.
• I expected Donald Trump to have a grander entrance, at least have the house lights cut.
• After some reflection, I think Ted Cruz’s lack of an endorsement of Trump would have been more sincere (that’s not the right word I’m looking for) if he would have refused to make a pledge to endorse the eventual nominee.
• I thought Trump played it smooth when the crowd started to chant “Lock her up, lock her up” and he simply responded by saying “Let’s defeat her in November.” It showed he actually has some restraint. And even though his LGBTQ line (“As a Republican, it’s so nice to hear you cheering for what I just said.”) might come off as disingenuous, that was a significant moment for the Republican party.
• The first Trump -Clinton debate is 66 days away – September 26 at Wright State University.
• A perfect score for a cardiac calcium score screening is zero, and thankfully that was the score presented to me after my test yesterday. I’m also thankful that my heart isn’t enlarged because that was actually a concern, for various reasons, going into it. However, they did raise an eyebrow that my resting heart rate during the screening was 90 beats per minute. Throughout the day it’s usually around 82, which is still high. High blood pressure appears to be the culprit and they gave me advice on how to control it, although you know that’s something I’ve been working on. While they didn’t recommend it, they said a cardio stress test should be considered to see how hard my heart is working. I may end up doing that before the end of the year. If anything, I’ve been “enjoying” being proactive about my health, give me further peace of mind and knowledge about the best way to prevent heart disease, and I just kinda want to see what it’s like.
• I’ve always had bad feet. I seriously cannot remember, and this goes back to when I was a child, the last time I went to bed without my feet aching in some form or fashion. You name the shoe or arch support, and I’ve tried it, and visits to a couple of podiatrists haven’t helped. I’m envious of runners.
• For the longest time, I’d confuse podiatrists and proctologists.
• Dallas Morning News interactive – Tour Jerry Jones’ Valley Ranch office‏
• Dallas Morning News – It’s been 40 years since a member of the Bush political dynasty didn’t attend a Republican National Convention.
• The ‘selfie war’ by EMS paramedics: ‘Sick, juvenile game‘
  • SHALIMAR — Two Okaloosa County EMS paramedics face multiple felony charges after an investigation revealed they used their personal cellphones to record and photograph patients inside ambulances as part of a “selfie war” competition.

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