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• One day I’m going to write about my trip to Vegas to see U2. For now, I’ll just tell you the stairs are the steepest you’ll find in the U.S. A lot of fans suffered vertigo just trying to get to our seats. One day, somebody is going to fall and the injury will be on the news, but you heard it from me first. In the meantime, check out some of this great drone footage.
  

  See you in 2024… #U2UVSPHERE pic.twitter.com/AgjmeGPUcI

  — U2 (@U2) December 17, 2023

• I forgot about Bono’s bicycle accident in Central Park which required surgery to fix his arm. In this photo, you can definitely see the scar.
  https://twitter.com/MaryMadonna6/status/1736694061556228256
• I should probably be watching more Dallas Mavericks games. It seems every night they play and I get on Twitter there’s a lot of buzz of how well Luka is playing.
• Here’s something I’ve been pondering, chasing happiness brings more unhappiness, while accepting life as it is, provides serenity.
• Even though a penalty ruined this play, I thought this analysis of it was quite interesting. Watch the center, then pay attention to the nose guard right in front of him. Before the snap, you see the nose tackle to the left of the center. But, when the center puts his head down to get ready to long snap, the nose guard shifts to the right of the center. When the ball is hiked, the center blocks to his right because that’s where he last saw the nose guard. The nose guard now has a clear path to the punter.
  

  The move Sam made was actually brilliant. The long snapper puts his head down and never looks up so Sam moves from the LS left to his right. At the snap, the LS blocks air to the left – no idea that Sam switched sides.

  Too bad how it ended though. pic.twitter.com/XrrH0MkbD1

  — LordDylly (@DyllyLord) December 18, 2023

• I haven’t heard the saying “Sheep and cattle just don’t mix” in a long time. For the heck of it, I looked it up. I’m sure Gary Larson wasn’t the first to say it.
  • “Sheep and cattle just don’t mix” is a line from the Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson. However, sheep and cattle can have biological needs that fit well together. In fact, some say that grazing sheep and cattle together can increase production from a pasture.
  • Cows and sheep have different malfunctions for eating grass. Sheep chew grass low to the ground. Cows use their tongues to pull grass up. The sheep cope with short grass but the cows need long grass. Sheep can go in the field after cows.
• Video –Texas woman finds opossum in Christmas tree – A woman in Texas found an opossum lounging in her Christmas tree and the animal can be seen peaking its head out. She says she found the animal after hearing a sneeze from the tree.
• Parenting advice YouTuber Ruby Franke pleads guilty to 4 counts of child abuse
• Wow, a Bucees gingerbread house.
  

  Our gingerbread house takes the cake this National Gingerbread Day! Deanna with the Tax Office really topped herself this year with her Gingerbread @bucees. You can see her creation at the tax office location in Georgetown, 904 S. Main St. pic.twitter.com/4TYiM9mhpx

  — Williamson County (@wilcotxgov) December 12, 2023

• I’m a sucker when it comes to anything space related. Heck, I can even name several astronauts, and I bet most Americans can’t even name one. Mike Massimino is one of my favorites. Now, I’ve read and heard stuff about pooping in space before, but Mike goes into some interesting detail in this interview. But what I don’t understand is why is there a “back door” camera in the practice facility and not in the one up in space.
  

  Former NASA astronaut @Astro_Mike doesn't have much info on UFOs, but he does know how to poop in space. pic.twitter.com/E7XceZkVRq

  — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 17, 2023

• https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1736706672272318763

• One day I’m going to write about my trip to Vegas to see U2. Saturday was their last concert at the Sphere for this year. U2fandom went wild because at one point Bono decided to don a vest, which was nostalgic for some.
  
• If there was ever a good time for something to go wrong with the Sphere’s LED walls, I guess it would be the last show of the year. I’m curious how they fixed that thing. My guess is that everything is accessible from the back so the audience will never see a worker, or that it was a software and not a hardware issue.
  
• The Tennessee Titans wearing throwback Houston Oilers unis at home (along with Oilers written in both endzones and logo midfield) against the Houston Texans after stealing their team is a pretty aggressive move. But, Houston won the game, and playfully I think that means they get the rights back to all the Oilers stuff.
• Texas high school football stuff:

More people care about the Duncanville Panthers than the Carolina Panthers #txhsfb pic.twitter.com/fSbFcnYp2y

— Texas Football Life (@txfblife) December 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/CollegeSportsO/status/1736565006286610620

https://twitter.com/txfblife/status/1736226530886398053

I remember the rinky-dinky shed all my high school coaches shared, so my jaw dropped when I saw the room just for the freshmen staff.

https://twitter.com/txfblife/status/1736526669551374762

• My church usually selects a family with young children to walk down the center aisle to light an Advent candle, with a child usually doing the honor. This week it was a couple without any children who celebrated their 50th anniversary earlier this year. I thought that was sweet.
• You have no idea the level of respect I have for this woman.
  
• This has been a fun story to follow. Two Aggies fell in love, got married, and had a baby boy. Somehow, their son becomes a Texas Longhorn fan, the worst thing that a parent of an Aggie can imagine. When the final four football teams were announced for the playoffs, their parents filmed their son’s joyous reaction when Texas was mentioned and the clip went viral. One of the big wigs at Texas sends the kids, and as a joke, the parents, Longhorn gear. All in good fun, Aggie Mom and Dad wore the gear and took a funny family photo with their son. You can even see the father’s Aggie ring. I applaud these parents, who don’t take their school loyalty too seriously (unlike other families I know).
  https://twitter.com/BBankheadMD/status/1736151250587042093
• Speaking of the Longhorns, their women’s volleyball team their second straight national title yesterday.
• Former North Texas youth pastor faces child porn charges, police say
  • I’m surprised the article doesn’t mention either the church or denomination he was associated with.
• Of course, it’s U2. But I loved how she sang it on the last Letterman show before Christmas each year and how it grew into something bigger each year, and U2 performed it for the first time live in 35 years. – Darlene Love Reveals Her Favorite Cover of ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’: It’s Totally Different’
  • “I have a connection with U2 and the song because U2 wanted me to do all the background parts, not me and some people,” she tells podcast host Brian Teta, The View’s executive producer and showrunner. “I did all the background parts. We went in and we did the song.”

    “It has a special meaning to me because it’s totally different from what everybody else did,” adds Love, 82. “It was U2’s ‘Baby (Christmas Please Come Home).’ That’s what made it so great.”

• I like the drone footage, and the part where the round ceiling looks like your inside a cube – Watch U2 perform ‘The Fly’ at Las Vegas Sphere in mind-bending official video
  
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqIUj5KsGs

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Never give up!
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) December 17, 2023

Alligators survive frozen lakes by leaving their nose out to continue breathing and being in a type of dormancy state called brumation
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) December 16, 2023

And you get to see the band for a split second.

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• One day I’m going to get around to writing about my trip to Las Vegas to see U2 at the Sphere.
• U2’s Bono lands huge career audiobook award honor for memoir
• Forbes – U2 May Be At The Beginning Of A Career Renaissance
• I bet it was a very difficult decision to postpone the game or not. In the end, the game was played. His team lost, and I bet his teammates’ heads were never fully in the game to begin with.
  • Georgia high school football player found dead day before state championship game
  • Unfortunately for Manchester, the game didn’t go the way they wanted. Bowdon held them off to win their second straight state championship with a score of 28 to 27.

https://twitter.com/madfl3a/status/1732907995674120566

• Former Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett to open Caffe Lucca, a Dallas restaurant – NFL quarterback Babe Laufenberg is part of the all-star restaurant team
  • They’re naming the restaurant Caffe Lucca after Laufenberg’s son Luke Laufenberg, who died in 2019 from a rare form of blood cancer.
    • I remember how emotional Garrett got speaking at his press conference after the death of Laufenberg’s son. The man has been accused of acting like a robot, but in this instance, he was definitely human.
    • And for my fellow listeners of The Ticket, hopefully they will serve some blueberries.
• Texas Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn avoid questions about Kate Cox abortion case – Both Republican senators, who are fierce anti-abortion advocates, declined to comment on their state Supreme Court’s decision to deny Cox an abortion despite a fatal fetal diagnosis.
• I haven’t thought about him in a long time. While I don’t know much about the legal system, I did like how he tried to right some wrongs. But man, 56 is young. I’m curious to know what the cause of death was. I’m sure LiberallyLean will provide some valuable insight.
  • Craig Watkins, former Dallas County District Attorney, dies at 56 – He was the first Black DA for Dallas County and helped restore the faith in the justice system by freeing wrongfully imprisoned inmates. 
• The NRA and the ACLU are teaming up – The NRA has a surprising defender in its free speech case before the Supreme Court
• Willis, Texas high school basketball player beat up coach after being benched for poor sportsmanship, officials say
• Convicted Parker Kohl’s thieves argued for lesser charge because items were on sale
• Retail giant Costco to buy Dallas office tower for $14M
• Local Prestonwood Baptist goes viral again for extravagant Christmas service – This time the flying drummers have lights on them.

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  — Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (@costplusdrugs) December 8, 2023