DaughterGeeding went to the dentist yesterday for a cleaning. There isn’t a kid in America that could have been more excited or happy.
I was surprised with UPS package this week which ended up being a Skupt body fat measuring device that you pair with your smartphone. After searching through my emails, it turns out I participated in a crowdfunding event about fifteen-months ago and totally forgot about it, but the device is pretty darn cool. Here’s a review from the Patriots website of all places.
It looks like the latest Christian trend for Good Friday is for parents to draw a red dot on their children’s hands and feet, in recognition or remembrance of the wounds caused by the nails that hung Jesus on the cross, with their name written over the dot. Examples are here and here. Those posts are from last year, but I hear more and more Christian parents are adopting the trend. I’m sad to say that over the years I’ve become a cynic and feel these acts are more of an attention getting device rather than a sincere act to honor their faith.
I actually read it for the article – Playboy has an intensive interview with former Vice President Darth Dick Cheney that ranges from politics, his church experience and faith, dad issues, and other interesting stuff. Here’s a tidbit about his thoughts on Bush 43 and his parents, which for some reason, stuck out to because I never picked up on it before – “You know, we always talked about how 43 was a lot more like his mother in terms of personality and so forth, with a quick wit and a sharp tongue on occasion.”
Some of my best memories of junior high was in woodshop class, especially when using the lathe.
Jimmy Kimmel is doing is show from Austin this week and last night he and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was doing a lot of whisky shots, and Kimmel started to slur words without acting. To prove it was real whisky he had a volunteer come up from the audience and once he saw the young lady was wearing braces, he had to ask her age. I sure hope she was of age like she said she was. Over on Letterman, Will Ferrell was dressed in an impressive leprechaun costume. I think he did something similar for Conan, but in speedos.
There’s a local commercial for a housing development in the McKinney and Frisco area from MainVue Homes. Their houses are modern and European looking, as if IKEA and Williams and Sonoma mated. In the commercial, the bottom of the screen says “from the $500’s to the $700’s” while the voice-over states “for the price of an ordinary home”. If ordinary homes cost that much, GeedingManor is in the slums.
I took the kids’ baby crib apart as well as the stair gate and stored them in the attic yesterday. It was a bit of a sad moment, knowing they just darted through these early stages and feeling like I haven’t really taken in the full experience.
Color played a major role in ‘Breaking Bad’ and if you are wondering how it’s used in ‘Better Call Saul’, check this out. Basically, red bad, blue good. Also, here’s the creators discussing how they came up with the show open.
Alaska is the only state in which you can type using only one row of the keyboard.
Sometimes I wish I just carried a carton of eggs to throw at cars that upset me, and I would have thrown some at the BMW that parked over the white line directly in front of the Chipotle entrance yesterday. Seriously, that owner didn’t make a mistake at bad parking, she deliberately took two spaces, and they were the two closest to the entrance.
Speaking of Chipotle and eggs, I made an omelette with my leftover Chipotle bowl and it was gosh darn good.
$21,500 will buy you a life-sized 9.8 foot Ironman Hulkbuster statue.
By clicking on the month and day of your birth, you can find your guardian angel. My angel’s name is Leuviah – This angel helps you attain the grace of God and acts on memory and intelligence.