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• This is how Jerry Jones plans to control the Cowboys from beyond the grave.
• I’ve noticed new vehicles have fancy long-winding LED lights. Some of them make me think of Knight Rider, though that car had a red chasing light in the front center. These new vehicles have lights that accent the head and tail lights. Anyway, all that to say it’s a lot easier to spot new vehicles on the road.
• right before the start of season opener of the NFL season, my son came in and wanted to play a board game. Time with my boy is more important than any football game. Then, he wanted to get ice cream, and well, that was hard to turn down.
• I continue to be in favor of pronouns used in the workplace. I thought Chee Chee was a male, like the golfer, Chee Chee Rodriguez. Nope, female. Pronouns would have saved me from some embarassment.

• NEW at #ATTStadium: Meet Jerry Jones – An Interactive Experience. Ask @dallascowboys' Owner Jerry Jones questions and get his responses generated by AI technology for a unique, interactive experience.

  Learn More ➡️ https://t.co/JZYtOdLgj1 pic.twitter.com/b6V9AbZ8wj

  — AT&T Stadium (@ATTStadium) September 7, 2023

• That time Clint Eastwood was pranked by Mr. Ed.
  

• As a treat, I feed BunnyGeeding (actual name Buno, after Bono) baby carrots straight from the fridge. I wonder if it bothers him they are chilled and not room temperature.
• When I was in the hospital, I wondered if my dogs slept in my bedroom where we all usually sleep or did they just slept in the living room and by the front door waiting for me to come home.
• Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August
• How the heck? – ‘Dinner plate sized’ device found inside woman’s abdomen 18 months after cesarean birth
  • An Alexis retractor, or AWR, which can measure 17 centimeters (6 inches) in diameter, was left inside the mother’s body following the birth of her baby at Auckland City Hospital in 2020.The woman suffered months of chronic pain and went for several checkups to find out what was wrong, including X-rays that showed no sign of the device. The pain got so severe that she visited the hospital’s emergency department and the device was discovered on an abdominal CT scan and removed immediately in 2021.
• New North Texas water show the only one of its kind in North America –  The free show uses the same type of equipment as the water show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
  • “This is the same exact equipment, everything as the Bellagio, just about one-fourth the size,” Jensen said. But Jensen says it is just as captivating.
• Gen Z women are ditching pads, tampons and embracing ‘free bleeding’ in latest trend
  • The trend is called “free bleeding”, which means that you don’t wear anything to absorb the blood when you are menstruating. To be even clearer, it is about not using anything to block your period flow.
• I guess I’m somewhat normal, I just never knew it had a name – What is the ‘call of the void’?
  • This feeling — which tends to be brief, entirely out of character and often involves thoughts of leaping from a high place or driving headfirst into an oncoming vehicle — is more widespread than you might think. In fact, it’s so common, the French have a term for it: l’appel du vide. In English, this translates to “the call of the void.”
• Football coach who won Supreme Court case for right to pray on the field resigns after one game
• I had no idea they were close friends – When Jimmy Buffett and Bono almost had their plane shot down

• It was fun opening up the comments on my birthday. There were some unique user names I hadn’t thought about in a long while that brought an immediate smile to my face. I’m talking about you Bizarro Big Tex and Ricardo Perry.
• Many warm things were written, and I’m grateful for them all, but this one really touched me: “I root for you every day.” I’ve always wanted to be rooted for. I never really felt it from my ex. She was rooting for me, but it felt more like she was fulfilling a role other than rooting for me personally.
• I feel my back is healing moderately well. But, I’m on the fourth day of a severely pulled left hamstring. It’s the same leg I had problems with that resulted in my most recent back surgery. I don’t think the pulled hamstring and back surgery recovery are related.
• Most of you know I’m a big fan of late-night talk shows. Of course, the writer’s strike has hampered my enjoyment. But here’s something kinda neat, five of the late-night hosts have teamed up to do a podcast.
  • Episode one of “Strike Force Five” hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver is here. All proceeds go to support their out of work staffs during the strike.
• It’s funny how I can root for TCU in the last game of the previous season and then root against them in their first game of the new season. It’s mainly because they have a Briles on the coaching staff.
• One thing that is going under reported regarding Deion Sanders change your Colorado is his assistant coaches. For instance, former Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator and former head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. Mike Zimmer is part of the staff. His offensive coordinator was formerly a college football head coach.  Coach Prime is doing a good job of controlling the media’s attention.
• I may have not been a Parrothead or attended a single Jimmy Buffett concert, but I did enjoy his laid-back music. Heck, some of his music has helped me post-divorce. I thought it ironic that he once got called for a technical foul at a Miami Heat game. Things about him I didn’t know until his death over the holiday weekend:
  • He attended Auburn.
  • “Margaritaville” was written about a drink Buffett discovered at Lung’s Cocina del Sur restaurant at 2700 W. Anderson Lane, Ste 101, in Austin.
  • I didn’t expect Sir Paul McCartney to write something so touching about Buffett on Twitter.
• Less: “Everything happens for a reason.”More: “The cruelty you endured will never make sense because it was senseless.”

  You’re not obligated to find a positive twist or make it make sense. There is peace in calling it what it is.

• Ok the guy who committed fan interference on Sunday Night Baseball is actually kinda awesome pic.twitter.com/RPJifC4UjI

  — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 4, 2023

• Something I’ll surely visit in December when I’m in Vegas for their concert.
  

  U2 have also announced Zoo Station, a two floor exhibit at the Venetian, which neighbours the Sphere. More here: https://t.co/ZfexoNviof pic.twitter.com/8ePfKnsnqo

  — U2Songs.com (@u2songs) August 30, 2023

I so wanted to blog today and respond to all the love and kindness that many of you gave me. But I think I must have bitten off more than I can chew. Other than when I was in the hospital, I haven’t taken any time off of work. And since I have no accrued sick time, I’m trying to make up the hours I’ve missed by working longer days. It’s my first new job in 12 years and I feel the need to make it good impression. But even working from home, it can still be challenging. I have aches and pains come and go with a few muscle spasms in between, and when they spazz, they hurt.