Bag of Randomness

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  • WifeGeeding and the kids have been gone for four days, so GeedingManor has been Frozen Song Singing, Crying, and Pee-Pee Accident free for four days.  But gosh darn it, I miss ’em.
  • Jury duty didn’t even last 15-minutes as the trail was canceled, neither of the parties showed up, not even the lawyers.  Heck, we didn’t even get our ten bucks, but we did get an early start to a three-day weekend, which basically made it a four-day weekend.
  • I did catch a typo in the jury handbook.  Those sort of things annoy me.  Last week I got an alumni newsletter that had a typo in the third sentence.
  • If you think I’m a hypocrite for being annoyed by typos when this blog is full or grammar, spelling, and typo errors, well, there’s a big difference between what I provide for free as a hobby and what people publish professionally.
  • While watching the latest episode of ‘Rectify’ this line just kind of stood out, “Obesity is the only thing that is thriving in this economy‏.”
  • The one major plot hole in ‘Games of Thrones’ that kills me in the first season is that no one, not even King Robert himself, was able to piece together that the prince wasn’t his son.  I’d love to create a parody version in which the prince is black.
  • I checked out the new Potato Flats at Trinity Groves.  It’s basically Chiptole for flattened baked potatoes and sweet potatoes.  It has some potential, but I was disappointed they didn’t have everything offered on the menu.  I took a decent picture of Large Marge (the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge) and downtown Dallas from outside the place with my camera phone.
  • I’ve got a friend that took his bike (the one without a motor) in to get fixed on Saturday so he could ride this weekend, but since they couldn’t get it back to him until Monday, he just bought another bike.
  • I hear there’s a Chicken Express in Ellis County that prints Bible verses on their receipts.
  • WifeGeeding’s FBI friend is visiting from D.C.  Her husband is one of the many lawyers working on the AT&T and DirecTV merger.  If I understand correctly, his firm directly bills the client for more than $100,000 daily.
  • Over the weekend Twitter informed me of my sixth anniversary, I had no idea I’ve been doing it for over four years.
  • Random Conspiracy Theory – Facebook was created by the NSA and people voluntarily give up their personal information.
  • It can be a hairy situation – An Arizona State University professor gave extra credit to females who didn’t shave from the neck down and to males who did shave from the neck down.
  • A lot of last night’s ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ focused upon the Cabbage Patch Kids craze and a hurricane that hit the DFW hard in 1983.  I the hurricane had to be either Alicia, Barry, or Tico.  It was probably Tico.
  • Craig Miller of The TICKET completed a full Ironman.
  • I’d like to buy a used smoker and try to smoke my own brisket and beef ribs, even though I really don’t have any idea of how to properly do such a thing.
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Bag of Randomness

  • I hear it’s a thing to now consider any veterans suffering from PTSD when popping fireworks, at least according to Reddit.  The thought of that never crossed my mind.
  • My father never allowed me to pop fireworks for two reasons 1) it’s just money going up in smoke 2) too damn dangerous.
  • When my father told me spending money on fireworks was just “money going up in smoke” I didn’t have to courage to ask him, “Why is it okay for you to smoke cigarettes?”  Thankfully he quite when I was about in the second grade, but I do remember that thought going through my mind.
  • I have municipal jury duty today, which is a first.  The only other time I had jury duty was for Denton County about seven years ago.  Of course, when I think of jury duty, I think of this 30 Rock bit.
  • I’m really starting to get into ‘Game of Thrones’.  What really helped was checking out some of the Wiki sites to get a better understanding of who was related to who and who understanding character relationships.  But when you do that sort of thing, you gotta be careful or you’ll step into some spoilers, so I mainly stuck to the episode recaps.
  • I usually fall asleep between 12:30-1:45 AM and wake at 7:00 AM.
  • In high school when the English teacher asked us to do a fictional or creative writing assignment, I always used my classmates as characters, and most of the time the teacher would read it aloud or have me read it.  Over time, I was expected to use my classmates as characters and the pressure to make it fun and creative became stressful.
  • Here’s an article about former POW Sgt Bowe Bergdahl’s  “reintegration process” into society.  The process seems to protect the former POW and take things very, very slowly.  It makes me want to research how POW’s from Vietnam, like John McCain, were “reintegrated”, if at all.  I’m also curious to know what McCain thing about this process, not if he agrees with how we got him back or whether Bergdahl is any sort of traitor; but as a former POW himself, what does he think of this program of reintergration.
  • A pretty cool baseball bat bench.
  • A Ranking of Texas Whiskeys Under $40
  • Omaha City Council unanimously OKs liquor license for shooting range
  • Rolling Stone – Lone Star Crazy: How Right-Wing Extremists Took Over Texas
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