I tend to easily build up a lot of vacation days and oftentimes I’m forced to take time off at the end of the year because I haven’t taken enough time off. Usually, I try to take time off to spend time with the family, but this time, I decided to take the rest of the week off just to have some time to myself and get some things done around the house, the kind of stuff I keep telling myself I’ll get to but never do.
I’m not sure how many kids do this, but for her bedtime snack, DaughterGeeding asked for steamed broccoli.
Wired – Widening Highways Never Fixes Traffic. But Darnit, It Did in Texas – Highway 161 in DFW – In a true fairy tale of a transportation project, Texas spent a measly $4.25 million widening a highway and, in defiance of conventional wisdom among transportation planners, doubled the speed of rush hour traffic on a notoriously congested highway in Dallas.
I had no idea this was a thing – Pastoral Medicine Credentials Raise Questions In Texas – You’ve probably heard of the credentials M.D. and R.N., and maybe N.P. The people using those letters are doctors, registered nurses and nurse practitioners. But what about PSC.D or D.PSc? Those letters refer to someone who practices pastoral medicine — or “Bible-based” health care. It’s a relatively new title being used by some alternative health practitioners. The Texas-based Pastoral Medical Association gives out “pastoral provider licenses” in all 50 states and 30 countries.
Sad Prince fact I learned on Reddit yesterday – Prince used the heartbeat of his unborn son as part of the percussion in one track on the ‘Emancipation’ album. By the time the album was released, his son had died of a congenital birth defect.
Skip Bayless is leaving ESPN, too bad he’s not leaving Earth.
Surprise bonus – The 2,000 full-time employees of the yogurt company Chobani were handed quite the surprise on Tuesday: an ownership stake that could make some of them millionaires.
How To Design A Wearable For LeBron James – So James doesn’t wear an Apple Watch, a Nike FuelBand, or a Fitbit. He wears a Whoop. Mostly, it’s a breathable knit fabric band, attached by aluminum clasps to a Chiclet-sized gadget that can measure an athlete’s heart rate, accelerometry, skin conductivity, and temperature up to 100 times per second. With that data, Whoop can determine not just the usual things such as step count and calories burned, but how much an athlete has strained himself during a session, and how he’ll perform the next day.
WifeGeeding told me one of her friends had breast augmentation surgery, and I jokingly asked if that was her way of hinting that was something she wanted for herself. I also jokingly said there’s probably a Groupon for it, and then I decided to research that claim, and sure enough, you can get a Groupon for such a thing. Nothing says “Happy Mother’s Day” more than a Groupon for breast augmentation. Note: There’s a thousand dollar difference between the saline and silicone options.
It dawned on me recently that I will let my perception of the past shape the person I am or want to become. It’s like I let the past become more powerful than what is and what can be.
‘Saturday Night Live’ Will Cut Ads by 30% Next Season – It will do this by removing two commercial breaks per episode, giving viewers more content, said Linda Yaccarino, chairman-advertising sales and client partnerships, NBC Universal. And for advertisers, NBC will also be offering a limited opportunity to partner with “SNL” to create original branded content. These native pods will only occur six times a year, Ms. Yaccarino said.
Since more than a handful Texas lawyers read this blog – Nearly one-fourth of Texas law grads are unemployed or underemployed – Just a decade ago, earning a law degree was the sure fire way to a guaranteed job and a six-figure income. Not so much anymore. Despite paying as much as $200,000 for their legal education, nearly one-fourth of the 2,072 Texas law school graduates of 2015 are unemployed or underemployed, according to new data compiled by The Texas Lawbook. Statistics show that less than two-thirds of law school graduates in Texas from 2015 have full-time jobs as lawyers 10 months after graduating. About 12 percent of graduates are employed full-time in non-lawyer professional positions.
