Bag of Randomness

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  • I felt my first earthquake yesterday while in my upstairs office around 3:00 PM, but WifeGeeding didn’t notice anything as she was downstairs with the kiddos.  I didn’t feel any of the FIVE that happened later on.
  • About a week ago I mentioned that order a pair of size 4 jeans from eBay (for the wife, not for me) but when they arrived they were actually a size 4S, as in small.  I contacted the seller but never got a response after five days.  After that time period, eBay provides an option to investigate and they ended up crediting my PayPal account for the cost of the item as well as shipping.  Yesterday I decided to leave an honest but negative review of the transaction and the seller contacted me.  He said he never saw that I contacted him, noticed I got a full refund and stated that wasn’t fair, and thought I should return the jeans to him.
  • I watched ‘Marvel’s Agent Carter’ last night and liked how they portrayed Howard Stark as Howard Hughes, especially when he was testifying in front of Congress.  The show had a good theatrical feel to it.
  • I think most men find a female with an English accent a turn on, but oddly I like it more when a woman with an English accent speaks with an American accent.
  • I wasn’t too impressed with CBS11’s “investigative reporting” yesterday.   Back in 2012 a female Kennedale teacher was sentenced to five years in prison for having group sex with her students.  That’s inexcusable.  Her husband has stayed by her side, as they have kids and he’s committed, and now he’s deployed overseas.  She’s currently at home on parole with her children, but it doesn’t seem his deployment has anything to do with the parole, and she wasn’t required to register as a sex offender.  CBS11, in a bit of gonzo journalism, filmed their reporter from the street going to her home and confronting the former teacher when she answered the door asking about her parole.  I don’t condone what the former teacher did, but she paid the price and did the time until the legal system let her out.  It seems like CBS11 is directing their anger of the early parole at the wrong subject.  I might be wrong, but I’m guessing that former teacher is just trying to put the past behind her and move on, fearful what her kids might find out about what she did when their friends taunt them from what they are told or find online, and the last thing she wanted was to be on the local news for abiding by the system.
  • Why are bagpipes a part of funerals, especially firefighter and police funerals? –   Of course it relates back to Irish roots, had no idea that Scottish bagpipes are actually used.  Why?  They’re louder.
  • There’s nothing like getting your new found luck flushed down the toilet – New Mexico Lottery tells man his $500,000 winning ticket was a ‘misprint’
  • In other New Mexico news – Woman smuggles gun into jail in her vagina
  • I always get a kick that Colin Powell always gets a vote for Speaker of the House, actually, I think something like that would be cool.  Many aren’t aware that one does not have to be in Congress to be Speaker.
  • If you need a time-waste – You can now play nearly 2,400 MS-DOS video games for free in your browser – It seems I’ve lost some of my Pitfall skills but lost none of my Joe Montana Football skills.
  • Farmer forced to offload aggressive Nazi-bred ‘super cows’
  • I wonder how many governors, in particular “modern” ones, have been sent to jail – Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell Gets 2 Years In Prison
  • This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURCIA!
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Imprisoned by a lie; set free by the truth

A man spent 39-years in prison (the longest sentence for a wrongful conviction in U.S history) because a 12-year-old boy told a lie.  That boy is now a 52-year-old man and finally told the truth, and then asked forgiveness for the man he put away.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • Man, it felt good back back into the swing of things after vacation, and it helped that all of the TICKET crew were back on the air.
  • I’ve got me a sinus infection and the good doctor gave me a shot and some meds.  I didn’t think it would be a sinus infection because I can easily breath through my nose, but the doc said because of my sinus surgery, that should never be an issue.  As I look back, that surgery is one of the best things that have ever happened to me.
  • I had to drop off our GMC SUV at the dealership and as a loaner they gave me a brand new GMC Texas Edition extended cab truck with a lot of bells and whistles.  It’s gonna be hard to give that thing back.
  • Barry over at LiberallyLean.com thinks I’ve been making husbands look bad as of late.  Well, when you aren’t an always in physically shape attorney that takes your wife to tropical getaways and helps her children with complex building/physics projects, you have to make up for it in other ways.  I hope Mrs LL knows how good she had it.  The most exotic place I took WifeGeeding last year was probably Six Flags.
  • People complain when oil prices are high, people complain when oil prices are low.
  • Here’s a free copy of the latest Texas Almanac.
  • Fox keeps showing commercials for their new show ‘Empire’ and I crack up at the boardroom they are using because there’s an NBA style basketball backboard/goal in it.  I didn’t notice it until probably the 15th time the commercial aired.  Somewhat related, I also crack up at the latest Rob Lowe DirecTV commercial where he’s a “meathead”.  I didn’t notice it until the first few times, but in the last scene there’s a shelf full of protein powder in the background as he’s getting in the tanning bed.
  • I watched my first Mavericks game of the year and saw Dirk hit that three in OT and become number seven on the all time scoring list.  This city doesn’t know how lucky we are to have him, and I don’t know why I don’t watch more Mavs games, and I do miss Bob Ortegal.  I guess it’s because Fox Sports Southwest isn’t on my radar.  Radar, btw, is my favorite palindrone.
  • This Is The Video CNN Will Play When The World Ends
  • Part of the script from last night’s Fox4 News
  • Girl Scouts Release Three New Cookies, Including Two Gluten-Free Flavors
  • Today’s dose of ‘MURICA!
  • David Oyelowo is a black British actor that plays MLK in the movie Selma and he was on Letterman last night.  He stated that in the U.S., what we call pants, they call trousers.  And what we call underwear, they call pants.  While in wardrobe for Selma he was quite confused when asked to take his pants off because they didn’t fit right.
  • I had no idea that until the new ‘Late Late Show’ starts, that Drew Cary was going to guest host.  It was actually a nice surprise last night.
  • @NotKennyRogers – Love is patient, love is kind, love has absolutely nothing to do with competing against 20 other women for the affection of a dolt on ABC.
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Baby Plays With Python

A 13ft burmese python slithers over a baby in footage which is the stuff of nightmares for most parents – but for snake handler Jamie Guarino it’s simply a show of affection from a beloved family pet. Jamie, 34, filmed daughter Alyssa, then 14-months old with his ten-year-old pet snake Nay-Nay. Jamie wants to educate people about snakes, which he says can be loving pets despite their bad reputation.

 

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