Saturday morning got off to a bad start. A little before 6:30 AM we were awakened by very loud banging sounds, as if someone was throwing a bunch of bricks into the back of a large metal disposal truck a few at a time. It turns out my neighbor who is about to move to California, hired a disposal company to remove a large number of bricks from his backyard, and the workers were tossing a few bricks at a time into their large metal disposal truck. The thought of walking over with my shotgun and informing them they were making an obscene amount of noise at an ungodly hour went through my mind. Actually, I did walk over there with a very unpleasant look on my face and received several apologies, and they made it up to me by hauling off some junk I’ve been wanting to get rid of.
At BoyGeeding’s tee-ball game, he hit the ball and ran to first base. The next batter hit the ball towards first base. BoyGeeding, despite being the baserunner, fielded the ball, threw it to home, and then ran to second base.
On top of paying my plumber about $3,000 for the slab leak repair on Friday, I unexpectedly had to fork out another grand to my auto mechanic for some repairs. Man, last week was an expensive week.
For Mother’s Day, I took WifeGeeding and the kids out for a nice breakfast and then surprised them with a trip to King Spa and Sauna, a Korean-inspired bathhouse. The main reason I chose this place was because it has a large indoor swimming facility. While I swam and played with the kids, I scheduled a massage for WifeGeeding and gave her a chance to check out the numerous sauna, steam rooms, and other amenities. The goal was to give WifeGeeding a combination of both relaxation and family time.
The restaurant I took the family to gave all mothers a carnation, WifeGeeding’s least favorite flower. She actually despises them and asked that if she dies before me, that I do all I can in my power to make sure not a one of them appears at her funeral. We wondered how many non-mothers were given a carnation and if any awkwardness occurred.
However, her favorite flower is the tulip, which gives me reason to post this story – BBC – Culture – Tulip mania: The flowers that cost more than houses
WifeGeeding is a frequent user of local Wal-Mart’s curbside grocery service. When she used it yesterday, she got a Mother’s Day card signed by all the folks in the department, which she really appreciated. You don’t think of a Wal-Mart doing that sort of thing, usually, they get beat up for lack of service or professionalism and their customers are poked fun of, so I wanted to point out something nice.
In all serious, I heard the loudest thunder in my life last night.
NY Times – What Makes Texas Texas – People in this rapidly changing state believe their way of life is under attack, and they are making a kind of last stand by simply being Texan.
The most expensive house on the market in Texas is in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas – The house at 5950 Deloache Ave currently listed on the market for $28,500,000 has its own lake. The 15,254 square-foot house also has a spa, a billiard room and a library. In all, four bedrooms, six full bathrooms and five half bathrooms fit in the house that sits on an 8.99 acre lot.
The article states that in this picture, George W. Bush is standing next to Michelle Obama. At that angle, it doesn’t look like the former president (though I believe it is), but he does look much more like his father at that angle. There’s another picture of the former president in the article in which he looks very much like himself.
The U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps perform during the opening ceremony in colonial style or Revolutionary War uniforms. Maybe irony isn’t the right word, but with Prince Harry at the games that he founded, I wonder if he thinks about his late relative King George and the events with the colonies when he sees such an image.
WifeGeeding and I got invited to the Rangers game tonight. We’ll be sitting a few rows up from behind home plate with my cousin and his fiance, so there’s no telling if I’ll post anything tomorrow morning.
Yup, that tiny hole is gonna cost me around three grand. Others have had it worst, much worst, and in worst places.
On the plus side of having a leaky slab repaired, I got to use a jackhammer for the first time in my life.
We had to go without hot water last night but I decided to shower anyway for several reasons. I never took a cold shower before and thought it would be humbling to go without an everyday modern luxury, though I’m sure those without hot or warm water use other means. Also, I heard cold showers help increase metabolism, and now I can certainly understand why.
The murdered Midlothian mother that was a fitness instructor took a more bizarre turn yesterday when it was revealed by the police that she “was allegedly having marital and financial struggles at the time of her death and had been involved in an intimate relationship “external to the marriage.” The public will be branding her husband guilty if it hasn’t already.
There’s just something about seeing an overly bearded David Letterman that gets my attention. Here he is with the First Couple last yesterday.
SpiroCall measures lung health over any phone — no app necessary – Users call a 1-800 number and, when prompted, simply exhale hard, emptying their lungs of air. This sound is analyzed at a central location and the necessary statistics are returned to the phone in the form of a text. That’s really all there is to it.
@wacotrib – Former #Baylor tennis player is lone suspect in alleged 2015 sexual assault. Is 6th BU athlete accused since 2012: http://bit.ly/1T1tF7c
South Carolina news – Tow Truck Driver Says He Thinks God Told Him Not To Help Disabled Sanders Supporter – “Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and he just said get in the truck and leave,” said Ken Shupe of Shupee Max Towing in Traveler’s Rest, S.C. “And when I got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, because I felt like I finally drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed.”
Have you ever needed to convert all caps text to lower case or something like title case or vice versa? If so, convertcase.net may come in handy.
Boring Conference sells out – London’s annual Boring Conference has sold out, with this year’s speakers set to give talks on East German pedestrian crossing signals, paper bags, lamp posts, toilet roll quality control codes and bricks.
First, there were wearables. Now, there are swallowables – The innovation at the heart of it is an FDA-approved ingestible sensor housed in pills, designed to help patients adhere to the medications their doctors prescribe. Except the sensor isn’t powered by a battery, it’s powered by the gut of the patient swallowing it, using technology discovered two centuries ago.
Regarding my wound from stabbing my hand, as it heals, you can tell it was a Phillips head screwdriver.
Yesterday morning I made mention of CBS11 meteorologist Lisa Villegas’s Instagram account, and local media critic, Ed Bark, did the same yesterday afternoon.
Speaking of CBS11, their sports reporter was out at the new Cowboys training facility where Roger Staubach and Drew Pearson had their footprints enshrined in concrete. They’ll be placed 50-years part to honor the “Hail Mary” catch. It was also stated, and as I Cowboys fan I thought this was kind of cool, that the “first catch” at the facility was saved for those two legends yesterday.
@matthewjdowd – Amazing that Trump cleared the field and is GOP nominee faster than Hillary was able to lock the Dem nomination. Amazing.
WHAT’S TRUE: Three politicians (Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, and Dennis Hastert) served or nearly served as Speakers of the House during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton; all three men experienced public sex scandals of varying severity.
WHAT’S UNDETERMINED: Whether Gingrich’s 2007 admission of an affair during the 1998-1999 impeachment qualifies as a sex scandal.
