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  • In the picture above, I like how the those two pictures almost perfectly align.
  • All my facial hair is now gone.  Well, except for the eyebrows.  However, I did sport a handle bar mustache and regular mustache for a bit.  And like every male when shaving off a beard/goatee/mustache, you always have to do the Hitler stache, even if it’s just for a minute, before shaving it entirely off
  • Our postman was off by a house in his mail sorting, so everyone on our street had our neighbor’s mail in their mailbox.
  • My dad’s niece and her husband are driving from San Diego to Corpus Christi and then to DFW in a dually with a camper in tow.  There’s a graduation in Corpus and they just want to visit us.  I tend to think of her more as my father’s niece as oppose to my first cousin because she’s over sixty years of age.  As a kid, I always called her my aunt because her being so much older than me never computed as a kid.  If you read all of that without any confusion, congratulations.
  • Every house should have one of these under the bathroom sink just in case.
  • An Urban Meyer quote that has stuck with me recently, “‘If what you want is different than what you have, then you need to change what you are doing.’
  • I didn’t do any fact checking, but the guys on the radio said that in the last 36 years, only 9 NBA franchises have won championships.
  • Nice to see the Longhorns can still beat the Aggies.
  • There’s no way the Los Angeles area will be getting an NFL franchise anytime soon if the lower level NBA team in town sold for $2 billion.
  • Even the NRA isn’t happy with those Open Carry Texas folks, going as far as saying their behavior is weird.
  • For you fellow TICKET fans, I’m surprised that TC actually got a job back at the station considering what he said about head man Jeff Catlin on It’s Just Banter – TC sounded like a man that wanted to burn some bridges on his way out.  I also had some ‘inside’ info (if you can even call it that) that a lot of folks seemed happy that he actually left.  I guess the people at the mothership are pretty forgiving.
  • Wheelchair-bound High School Student Walks Across The Stage: ‘I Want To Make My Dad Proud’
  • I have a feeling we’ll see a trend of Republicans making gains in the midterms and the Democrats making gains in the national or whatever they are called elections for a couple decades.
  • Utah begins denying liquor permits, plans Oktoberfest beer ban for first time in 40 years
  • I’ve never eaten nor do I have the desire to try chicken salad or egg salad.
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Bag of Randomness

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  • DaughterGeeding turned four years old on Saturday.  She had a Cinderella/Disney themed party and what you see above is a somewhat regal family.  BoyGeeding was a the rebel prince wearing what he damn well pleased.  A slideshow of her birthday is at the bottom of this post.
  • Our gift to DaughterGeeding was a bicycle with training wheels.  When she first got on the bike I thought she was scared of falling because she was apprehensive to move, but she just told me she was looking out for rolly pollies because she didn’t want to run over them.
  • Now that she’s four, she no longer stays in the church nursery and was totally pumped to go to “big church”.
  • The cast of ‘The Wonder Years’ recently reunited and posed for a few photos.
  • I grew up in a house with an oven that was set up high, like on top of the countertop, but the house I live in now has the over near the ground.  Even though I’ve lived with this lower level oven for about eight years, I can never remember that when I first open it, I need to wait for all the hot air to escape so it doesn’t all hit my face.  With an above counter top oven, you never had to worry about that.
  • The Roger Sterling sale of the Clippers for $2 billion made me think of when Howard Hughes was forced by a U.S. federal court to sell his shares of TWA, which netted him $547 million back in 1966.  I was curious what that would be worth in today’s dollars and who made more money from a forced sale, Sterling or Hughes.  To find the answer I punched in the TWA sale in the inflation calculator and Hughes is the victor, in today’s dollar he would have made $4.002 billion.
  • CNN/Howard Hughes Rant:  This CNN article made the following absurd statement about Elon Musk, “The storied entrepreneur — who also founded the Tesla car company and is thought by some to be the inspiration for Tony Stark, or ‘Iron Man’“.  Iron Man’s first appearance was back in 1963, Musk wasn’t born until 1971.  Not to mention, Stan Lee, the creator of Iron Man, has often stated that Tony Stark is based on Howard Hughes.  CNN, get your shit together.
  • Google has released something called the Google Video Quality Report that will tell you which Internet service provider in your area can sustain an HD YouTube video feed and which ones may only let you watch standard definition 360p video without buffering.  Only two companies for residential customers reach Google’s standards in my area, Verizon and some company I never heard of, Grande Communications.  Of all the ways Google decided to explain this, they use a YouTube video that showcases a series of tubes.  My apologies to the late Senator Ted Stevens.
  • Per the bride, the infant was fine because he was ‘covered by Christ’ – Bride under fire for fastening newborn daughter into the TRAIN of her wedding dress as she walked down the aisle
  • Per this map, Texas A&M is the largest employer of Texas.

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