Small Sack of Randomness

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  • DaughterGeeding’s pre-school teacher broke both of her feet in a bizarre empty swimming pool accident.
  • I’m tempted to check out the Dallas Comic-Con this weekend, but tickets are a bit expensive.  If you are a fan of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’, a lot of the cast will be there.  I think I would enjoy seeing all the costumes the most.
  • I have a small gripe about last night’s ‘Big Bang Theory’ – Sheldon is violating the roommate agreement if he leaves.
  • Roommates bought a couch at the Salvation Army and later found $41,000 in it, but they were nice enough to track down the owner and give the cash back.  The owner was nice enough to give the roomies a grand.
  • Dallas’ 25 Greatest Inventions
  • 31-year-old sophomore at E. Texas high school arrested
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Bag of Randomness

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  • Sometimes I really miss riding in a school bus, everything from the smell, to sitting up high, skin sticking to the green vinyl, squeezing the window tabs together to lower and raise them, and just being a kid.
  • I know a female named “Stancy” and a male named “Jathan” and I’ve always wondered the background of their names; like, are they a combination of “Stacy” and “Nancy” and “Jason” and “Nathan” or something else.
  • ‘The Americans’ and ‘Homeland’ both have the older rebellious yet suspicious daughter and inept younger son in common.
  • When I’ve been around WifeGeeding’s lady friends as of late I often hear them complimenting her on how well her bottom looks lately.  I’m not sure how to take that, like are they wanting me to say something?  And I’m not sure how she should take it, as if it wasn’t that great to begin with?
  • I guess the only real gripe I have about Texas regarding politics and taxes and how I’m directly affected is the number of toll roads that continue to pop-up everywhere.  If I remember correctly, I-20 or I-30 around Fort Worth coming from Mineral Wells use to be a toll, and once the funds were recouped, tolls were no longer taken.  Nowadays, tolls seem like a permanent fixture.  Random Dallas North Tollway fact courtesy of Wikipedia – The Dallas North Tollway was the first toll road in the United States to implement Electronic Toll Collection technology, with the introduction of the TollTag in 1989.
  • I still hold on to the belief that tolls are a kind of double taxation and should be a tax write off.
  • Yes, I work from home and I’m not even sure why I’m griping about tolls.
  • Per this article, Texas has been the best state of business for the last ten years followed by Florida, Tennessee, and North Carolina.  California, New York and Illinois rank among the worst three states.  Is there any sort of list or category for states that are best for employees?  If so, I wonder how it would compare.  When I worked for a place that moved a lot of their business from the East Coast to Texas because they could pay Texas employees less, I kinda felt cheated, but I also know cost of living is a big factor.
  • I think a fun job would be to create challenge courses for the show ‘Survivor’.
  • It’s going to be a three day weekend for me.  The wife and kids are going to grandma and grandpa’s and my best friends from high school and college are staying over.  This is the weekend are we meeting to choose a scholarship winner to honor a late friend, and we are all forever grateful to his mother for allowing us to be a part of this.  Things kick off with a Rangers game, I believe Yu Darvish will be starting.
  • Barbara Walters ‘retires’ this week (we all know she’s got a handful of specials left in her).  She was the main guest on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ when I was in the audience back in 1998.  The second guest was Maria Pitillo, who I made long, weird eye contact with, and she was promoting the remake of Godzilla.  And now we have another Godzilla movie about to hit theaters.  Also that week, I saw the Twins play the Yankees in the Bronx, and if I’m not mistaken, that LiberallyLean.com guy was also at that game.  Sitting behind me was a family of four all wearing University of Texas at Arlington hats.  I struck up a conversation with them and they’ve been living in NYC for over a decade, but really loved that school.
  • I wonder if Hugh Downs will make an appearance to help sent off Barbara.
  • I had no idea they were ever a flower – GIF – the growth of a strawberry
  • And now, I finally know the difference: Opossum vs. Possum – The term possum covers about 70 species of marsupials native to Australia and surrounding islands. Opossum covers over 100 species of marsupials living in the Western Hemisphere. Opossums are often referred to colloquially as possums (or ‘possums), but in scientific contexts, possum and opossum refer to different groups of animals.
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Impressive Mother-Son Wedding Dance

Perhaps that title is a tad misleading, I don’t want to imply that a mother and son got married, but that a mother and her son danced at a wedding.

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