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• Mavs win! Stars win! Rangers win! Jerry Jones steps down!  OK, that last one is false, but a man can dream.
• I may need to watch more Mavs and Stars as they can give me something the Cowboys can’t, a playoff win.
• Super Bowl winning quarterback Russell Wilson is filing for divorce.  I knew the marriage wouldn’t last the first time I saw her, the day Wilson was drafted.  Seriously, just watch this clip and look at the blonde girl on the left side of the screen and tell me that’s not the face of a psycho, especially at the 21-second mark.  Granted, I have no idea why they are getting a divorce, but since I’m a guy I’m just going to side with Team Russell.
• There was a time when people were making fun of Kevin Durant because he couldn’t bench 185 pounds at the NBA combine.  Yet I kept on thinking, why does bench press matter for an NBA player?  You can totally screw a players shot up focusing on the bench press.  Well, I guess he’s having the last laugh.
• DaughterGeeding can’t make it through Frozen without crying or being scared but she’s able to watch The Avengers without a problem.  I’ll never understand females, young or not-so-young.
• I sure hope no one comes to GeedingManor and shines a black light anywhere because there’s bodily fluids all over the place.  BoyGeeding has started potty training and it’s a wee bit more challenging than it was with GirlGeeding.
• While watching ‘The Americans’ last night I thought there was a ‘True Detective’ Russ Cole sighting.  But something else did get my attention, a teenage-girl gave the church she’s been recently visiting $600 and the church didn’t consider informing the parents.  That amount of money doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but I plugged that figure into the inflation calculator and that comes to $1469 today. I’m thinking if my teen gave a church that amount of money, that the church would contact me to make sure I was aware of such a contribution before accepting it.
• Now that’s what you call a concealed weapon.
• You can now take a luxury bus ride from Dallas to Austin for $100 one-way.  The company mentions the three hour drive is the same as a flight once you factor in parking and security, and there’s a conference room, comfy leather chairs, Wi-Fi, satellite radio, television, refreshments, and a steward in a bus that only holds 16.  I have feeling that company isn’t for a high-speed rail system in Texas.
• The Dumb Way We Board Airplanes Remains Impervious to Good Data
• Fort Worth Is The Country’s Least Funny City
• I keep hearing reports that our lieutenant governor is about to go postal about some land along the Red River but I don’t understand the details.
• I just discovered Ninite.  It’s a place where you can download a lot of common applications all in one swoop.
• Christianity Today: The Real Problem With Female Masturbation
• Yeah, I know the ‘Recent Comments’ on the sidebar isn’t working.  I don’t know how to fix it and haven’t had the time to do any research.
• New Yorkers Protest Long Shadows Cast By New Skyscrapers
• Woman Goes From Waitressing to Nursing School — With a Generous Customer’s Help
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I don’t get it, a lot of folks say we look alike, but I just don’t see it.

This shall be the last post about the Great Wall of Geeding.  Below are some before and after pictures and one final timelapse video of the sod being laid down.

The first and second “Before” pictures are from when we moved into GeedingManor back in January of 2005, that’s why there’s a gray fence.  All other before pictures were taken this year.

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• During my sabbatical there was really one one time I really wanted to blog and that was over David Letterman’s retirement announcement.  I basically wanted to express that his announcement was no surprise and the reason it hit straight to the heart for a lot of folks wasn’t because there was sadness over a successful, wealthy, famous person who was not going to be on late night for our enjoyment, but it’s really just another sign a part of our youth will be gone and all we’ll have left are the memories.  I was then going to tie that in with Kidd Kraddick’s surprise death.  A lot of local people my age grew up with Kraddick and then drifted away after our mid-twenties, and that’s similar to folks who were Dave fanatics but no longer watch. We don’t know these people, but they forever connect us to a time in our life when we had no worries and the road of life looked endless.  Now, that connection is lost and that road looks much shorter and even wasn’t as smooth as we imagined.
• Letterman’s Top Ten yesterday focused on that story that Jesus may have had a wife and the top ten things you may have heard at his wedding.  The ones that cracked me up the most were:
  • 10. “On his wedding day you’d think he’d shave.”
  • 9. “I didn’t know Jesus was so religious.”
  • 7. “Who invited Judas?”
  • 3. “This wine tastes watery.”
• To that list, I would have probably added “I hope she took out a life insurance policy.”  But that also makes me wonder if the policy would still be valid if someone rose from the dead three days later and then disappears after 40 more days with no body to be found.
• My afternoon at The TICKET’s Mothership got moved to Monday since the Hardline has a lot of remotes this week.  For five bucks, I could take DART rail which would take 41 minutes.  Driving would take me about 25 minutes with light traffic, but I’d have to pay for parking.  I just might give DART a try.  In terms of having a user friendly website, I’d have to give DART a D.
• I didn’t know Craig Sager was first treated in Dallas and sent to the hospital by the Mav’s physician regarding his soon-to-be leukemia diagnosis.
• Man, ‘Fargo’ on FX is just darn good, and Dallas and Baylor folks should be proud of the work the lead actress is doing.
• I’ve been upset over the performance of my laptop and after a lot of research and weighing options, an upgrade to Windows 8 would be best. And then I remember that I’m still listed as an adjunct professor for a university based out in East Texas and I get discounted software.  The upgrade only cost me $20, the download took less than ten minutes, and if I didn’t forget about leaving a SD card in the built in flash drive the install would have finished in about a half hour.  Surprisingly Windows 8 takes up less room than Windows 7 and my laptop is much more efficient.
• I made mention yesterday that I was contacting people that have meant a lot to me but I haven’t reached out to in over five years.  The latest person was a colonel and base commander at Dyess AFB when I was a college student.  For my leadership studies minor, we had to do two interns, one associated with our major and another that had nothing to do with our major.  I attended church with the colonel and “somewhat” dated his daughter and he arranged an internship for me. To this day the only office I had with my name on it was the one he arranged for me.  When I finished my internship I wanted to actually become an Air Force officer, but I couldn’t qualify. My exposure at the base helped me bond with my father who was in the Navy and Army for 28 years like we never had before.  Of all the cool military stuff I got to experience with the colonel, what I remember most his a certain act of grace.  DadGeeding was dying, was pretty much in a coma, and I was his only visitor at the time all tired and stress.  I thought I was hallucinating when I saw the colonel walk through the hospital room door – he was kind enough to drive from Abilene to Mineral Wells just to check on me.  I’m glad I called him and told him how much that meant to me, how I admired him, and thanked him one last time for saying the final prayer at my father’s funeral before he was lowered in the ground.
• There was a tweet that made me think a lot yesterday.  It basically said that when I hear ten years ago I’m thinking the 90’s, not 2004.
• My grandmother died on this day back in 1986, I think I was the only one that liked her, candy can cloud a child’s judgement.
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