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This is just a set of picture from the last time WifeGeeding had a new ocular prosthetic made back in October 2012. I never used the picture gallery option of this website before, so I thought I’d give it a crack.

Here’s the video of when she revealed her prosthetic eye to DaughterGeeding. She recently took it out for BoyGeeding, and the moment is recorded, but he really wasn’t impressed.

• I’ve been surprised at the kind of homework our kindergarten daughter brings home, last night, she had math word problems. Here’s a sample.
• Mrs. Liberally Lean stated iconic Texas football coach Chuck Curtis died.  As the TCU starting quarterback he lead the school to a Southwest Conference championship and Cotton Bowl victory and then a drafted by the NY Giants which had Lombardi and Landry as assistant coaches. He became the athletic director my sophomore year and there was a lot of hype in town regarding his arrival.  I still remember his first speech to parents and he was certainly motivational. He stated how he wanted to start a winning tradition in Mineral Wells and call Austin at one minute after midnight to get the all clear to be the first on the field in Texas to start two-a-days. Yup, he wanted to practice at midnight and parents loved the idea of “First to practice to win first place in state”, or whatever the tagline was. Actually, I don’t think midnight practice ever happened. The coach he hired went through two, maybe three, winless seasons. That coach is now the athletic director at Abilene High. Curtis looked like a true Texan, and sounded what you’d imagine a Texas high school coach would sound like. Whenever something good happened on the field, in his booming voice, he’d yell, “Huhhhhhhhhh” with some kind of fist pump. One of my closest friends and I still yell that back and forth to each other today.
• Star Telegram – Gold depository could soon be on its way to Texas – Plans for such a depository, where Texans could store their gold and precious metals, have been in the works since state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, asked lawmakers to create the facility last year. Storage fees will be charged, perhaps generating revenue for the state. For instance, Texas pays about $1 million a year to store its gold in New York, and that revenue instead could come to Texas, state officials have said.
• Google Express, and online shopping delivery service is coming to the Texas – Google isn’t building its own fulfillment center. The Internet company will be using existing brick-and-mortar stores to deliver groceries and general merchandise to you. Google Express is heading to the Dallas area and throughout Texas in partnerships with Costco, Walgreens, Barnes & Noble and Whole Foods Market. The service begins on June 1, and Google Express plans to cover the whole state.
• Amazon Prime Launches One-Hour Restaurant Delivery in Dallas – I’ve got a friend that lives in Far Upper North Dallas who I’m sure will take advantage of this. Here’s a complete list of participating restaurants here.
• Brazoria County, TX News – Father speaks of son, who was found decapitated – As if this isn’t grim enough, the head still has not been found.
• Bloomberg – People Openly Sell Votes for $20 in the Dominican Republic
• Bloomberg – Inside the Murdoch Makeover of National Geographic
• Dallas Morning News digital readers will set limit on free articles – Less than two years after shutting down a short-lived paid website, The Dallas Morning News plans to again start charging digital readers for access to online content.
• Google’s Echo competitor will reportedly be called Google Home – Unveiled tomorrow (today), released in the fall
• This is really cool looking, it starts off meh and then it’s better – GIF – Time lapse of Neptune and it’s orbiting moons taken by Hubble – And here’s NASA details.

• That picture has been floating around recently with the caption “Sears Roebuck Catalogue Assembly Line 1942.” Man, that would not be a fun job.
• The demise of Sears is nigh and no one will be surprised when the news finally drops. It’s crazy how massive and dominant Sears was. Heck, you could order everything from sewing machines, clothes, and sporting goods to cars, houses, and livestock. Hey, http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/a20859/sears-sold-70000-homes-from-their-catalog-are-you-living-in-one/those houses were no joke. And in the Nineties, Sears was well positioned to be what Amazon.com is now, and more. They had world’s largest and most successful mail ordering businesses, their own online computer service (Prodigy) which was a joint venture with IBM, and their own credit card (Discover, the only credit card accepted at Sears for almost a decade). All the pieces we in place, no one had the foresight to put them together. To take it a step further, and this is from memory regarding a paper I wrote in grad school, so feel free to fact-check me on this, but also at that time Sears had insurance company Allstate, financial investment firm Dean Witter, and real estate broker Coldwell Banker. With their IBM partnership and early web presence, as well as strong footing in all these areas, I’m amazed they are where they are today.
• My grandmother made a wedding dress for her daughter, Eyelene (Yup, that’ how she spelled it, not Eileen). Her husband died in an accident that left her widowed with young children. Eyelene’s daughter, Bonnie, wore that same dress at her wedding, and her husband died from cancer, leaving her widowed with a young child. That child didn’t wear that dress at either of her weddings but it’s in storage.
• In all seriousness, my Aunt Eyelene had a leg removed because of cancer. As I young child, I would often hear all variations of the joke, “What do you call a woman with one leg? Eileen”. I was never offended by the joke but wondered how did they know my aunt that lived in California, a woman I’ve never seen in person.
• Aunt Eyelene died at the age of 62 on August 2, 1989 – my father’s 66th birthday. I was a 13-year-old and it was the first time I saw my father cry. It happened during a car ride back from the barbershop as his voice cracked when he stated he was the only one alive from his family.
• I remember helping Dad with the dishes once and he told me how Eyelene and he used to do the dishes together, but would often make the excuse she had to use the bathroom and never came back to help finish the dishes. Dad said he knew what she was up to but didn’t care, he just wanted to get the job done without their mother and father yelling.
• I wonder what kind of brother and sister stories our kids will pass down.
• CNN – Doctors perform first U.S. penis transplant – The picture accompanying the article looks like the patient is giving a thumbs up with a half smirk – not that I can blame the guy. However, this line from the article stood out the most, “…while sexual function is a goal, reproduction is not, because of a concern surrounding the ethical issues of who the potential father may be.”  The article further states that such a surgery was performed in South Africa in December 2014, and with this line, I wonder if there’s any question to who the father is, “Doctors waited three months to declare the surgery a success, once his urinary and reproductive functions were restored. In June, the man had impregnated his girlfriend.“
• Shia LaBeouf to Play Volatile Tennis Player John McEnroe
• For any of you David Letterman fans, this Friday will mark the one-year anniversary of his last show. There’s a good Tumbler site that I follow and it has an interview with former Letterman writer Bill Scheft on what it’s like one year later.
• Dallas Morning News – Baylor regents heard but haven’t seen report on campus rapes – Baylor University has yet to receive a detailed written report on campus sexual assaults, even as it announced last week that its board of regents had been briefed on its contents.
• Dirk Nowitzki got a shoutout on SNL
• London Underground says ‘too much sunshine’ to blame for Tube delays – Bright sunshine beaming onto CCTV monitors, which are used to give a clear view of the platform before pulling away, is blocking drivers’ line of sight, according to staff.
• BBC News – Toby Jones to star as Sherlock villain
• Custodian picks up degree from college he cleaned for almost a decade – Vaudreuill, 54, graduated with a mechanical engineering degree from the same place where he’s cleaned and emptied the trash for the past eight years. His mortar board read: “Old dog has new tricks.”
• Twitter will reportedly stop counting photos and links in 140-character limit