When the Cowboys don’t play on a Sunday it totally throws the first of my week off.
We’re the type that will watch our favorite shows when they air, but wait about fifteen minutes as the DVR records them so we can fast forward all the commercials. So a “first world problem” smacked us upside the head last night when ‘The Walking Dead’ didn’t record per our season pass. I checked our settings and priority lists and I was able to conclude it had to be a bug on their end. All I had to do was check Twitter to see if anyone else was having the same problem, and sure enough ‘Walking Dead’ DirecTV customers were more than voicing their frustrations.
But man, it was worth catching the beginning of ‘The Walking Dead’, but I should have seen that coming.
Speaking of first world DVR problems, you’d think by now they could figure out a way to record a show that starts at a later time due to a football game running past its allotted time.
SNL sure is lacking energy this year, but Jim Carrey doing that Matthew McConaughey Lincoln commercial bit throughout the whole show was great.
I always felt Jim Carrey is one of those that is happy on the outside but terribly depressed on the inside.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas is going on a campaign offensive with their ’60 Minutes’ interview and new commercials. In that ’60 Minutes’ interview the nurses said when administrators talked to them that everyone volunteered to pitch in, from doctors to janitorial staff. Part of me wants to believe that, but I’m skeptical that “everyone”, especially the janitorial staff, had such a gung-ho attitude.
’60 Minutes’ also had a piece on Foo Fighter’s founder Dave Grohl’s HBO series on the musical history and influence certain cities have. Grohl stated before this project he was surprise to find out how much of an influence the church has had on so many musicians. I do like it when musicians really honor their craft by researching things such as this.
The church that operates DaughterGeeding’s preschool held a Trunk or Treat event last night. That’s where people decorate their trunks and hand out candy. One costume stood out, a black boy wearing a Dirk Nowitzki jersey with a shaggy blonde wig.
I was surprised to find out that Herschel Walker only had two one-thousand-yard seasons in the NFL and only made the Pro Bowl twice. My childhood memories are tainted to believe he had much better stats in the NFL.
An Atlanta church defaulted in its $10 million loan. I talked to a bank VP once and he told me he prefers not to do business with a church when they to build a bigger building. He doesn’t like to take the risk in lending money to a church because if they default it’s hard to sell church property and a lot of times the lender looks like a bad guy.
I’ve caught segments of Graham Norton interviewing people, and he just has this great ability to make his guests put their guard down and laugh. U2 was on his show recently and the interview made it feel like they were in the living room with me not as celebrities, but ordinary folk.
‘The Daily Show’ will be filming from Austin this week, so it should be an interesting and entertaining week. When Kimmel filmed in Austin he had Gov Perry on as a guest, so I wonder if he’ll make his way to Stewart’s desk.
I never heard of Clamato until I watched ‘Last Week Tonight’ last night. At first I thought it was a joke along the lines of Tomacco.
I found out an old college friend had a major accomplishment and I decided to send him a handwritten note about how proud I am of him. I’m trying to get better at doing things like this.
There’s a townhome in Highland Park that has its front yard decorated like an Ebola contamination scene. Even though it’s not that creative of an idea, I think it’s funny in an immature way. But if did this and a family member of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan approached me about it, I’d feel like an ass.
Former SNL cast member Casey Wilson’s last sitcom, ‘Happy Endings’, was based in Chicago. Her latest sitcom, ‘Marry Me’, is also base in Chicago. Both sitcoms are very similar
When Rick Perry runs for president, I wonder if his opponents will try to say he didn’t handle the Ebola situation well.
A 17-year-old senior at Kilgore High School with leukemia isn’t expected to live much longer, but the school was nice enough to hold an early graduation for her.
Things I didn’t know about Del Frisco’s before reading this article: (1.) It was founded in Louisville, KY (2.) Its original Dallas location is where Bob’s Steak and Chop House now stands on Lemmon Ave.
I had no idea the Sacramento Kings use to be the Kansas City Kings.
All missions start and end from Kansas City. So if they need to bomb an area in Libya or Iraq, they fly continuously from KC and back, of course with midair refueling. Pilots have stories of flying a bombing mission and coming back home to see their child’s sporting event. Families are notified when the pilot is no longer in combat danger and on the way back home.
There are a total of 20 of them, the only one not based in KC is at Edwards AFB.
Pilots describe the cockpit as feeling like they are inside a minivan. There are two seats up front and a flat elevated area in the back with a toilet and microwave.
They have a two person crew. On long missions one pilot is encouraged to slept, though adrenaline usually keeps that from happening. One of the original pilots bout a folding lawn chair from Wal-Mart for a little under nine bucks and used that to sleep on.
The special made me look up the Stealth Fighter (F-117 Nighthawk). I don’t really pay attention to these sort of things, so I was surprised to find they are no longer in service, retired in 2008. The F-22 Raptor has taken its place.
