And Now The Weather--No Wait!

Many people say that my daughter Julie is related to me. When they say this they are meaning that she is very much like me. It seems that I tend to do things a lot like her. Or more precisely, she does things like me many times. We can be watching TV and hear someone say something that is less than intelligent and both of us will often comment about it at the same time.

Last night we were watching the local news on KWTX-DTV, the local CBS affiliate. When the broadcast begins each evening the anchor does their teases for the news, weather, and sports before going to their first news story. One of the teases they announce each evening is their signature "No Wait Weather". Last night Julie commented, "Why do they call it "No Wait Weather" and then make you wait before they do it?

Along those same lines this same station tends to have a difficult time with some of their broadcasts. There are many times that we are watching the local news on this same station and will see captions misspelled or the pictures running have nothing to do with the story being presented.

And now for something completely different. We were watching some episodes of "How Do They Do It?" yesterday that I had recorded on the DVR. In one episode the show was telling about how solid rocket boosters are tested. Because the test facility is in Utah the story was describing the wide open countryside and during the description they were showing a rancher with an extremely long handle bar mustache riding on horseback. Good! A later episode was explaining how silicon chips were made at Texas Instruments at a plant in Texas. As a lead in to all things being big in Texas they showed a close up of the very same above mentioned rancher and his handle bar mustache. Or maybe it was his twin brother, or perhaps sister!

Nah!!!

Probably just never thought someone would notice.
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More Texas Flag Fun

I was going through some old pictures the other day. I came across some pictures I took in De Leon, TX in 2003. At that time we lived in De Leon and I worked for the school district. The district served as the fiscal agent for the Special Services Co-op that oversaw all special education functions for Deleon, Comanche, Gustine, and Rising Star ISD's. The main office for the co-op was in a storefront in downtown De Leon.

De Leon is a small town and the downtown merchants were always decorating their store front windows for various holidays and other local happenings. I was driving through town around the 4th of July and I noticed something a little off (no offense meant) at the Special Services Co-op.

Now, for those of you who do not know what "Special Services" are in the education world, we are talking about the services for students that meet Federal guidelines for additional educational services due to physical or educational needs.

So any way, I'm driving through town and this is what I see:

How about a closeup.

That's right. The Texas flag was painted upside down, on the Special Services office window. these are the people that we entrusted our children to. Notice though that the star is painted correctly. Only the red and white colors are switched.

In all fairness to the co-op, they did not do the painting. They hired the job out. But it was amazing that no one noticed it and got it corrected.

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Here We Go Again!!

I was watching the American Idol Dallas auditions again last night with Julie. During the short piece on Kayla Hatfield something caught my eye. See if it catches yours. It happens approximately 11 seconds into the video.

That's right. The Texas flag is upside down on the windmill vane. Kayla is from Campbell, Texas so I imagine this is on their farm nearby.

Thanks AdelaideCate007 for the YouTube video. Visit her website Daytime Confidential.

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A Souper Candle????

Chris and I went shopping earlier today. We stopped in at the Dollar General in Hewitt. I was looking at candles. It's kind of fun to smell them and see how close the scent is to what they describe. I came across a candle I've never seen nor smelled. It was a Campbell's Tomato Soup Candle that sells for $2. I don't mind seeing it again. But I don't want to smell it again. EVER! It is supposed to smell like tomato soup. Chris said if she wanted to to smell tomato soup she would just take a can out and make it. Then she could have it for lunch. At least you can eat the soup, you can't eat the candle. If you don't believe me the picture of the candle is below. Don't try to smell it though. I couldn't find the right html or javascript to make it come through.

I wonder if they will ever make a Chicken Noodle Soup candle?

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Milestone For The Blog

The Blog has reached a milestone this evening. The Blog has had its first international visitor. The Blog is barely one week old. A few days ago I installed a FEEDJIT widget on the site. This widget tracks the location by city of the visitors to the Blog. This evening we had a visitor from London, England. Left click the map on the upper portion of the left sidebar and see where the other visitors are from. Just think, visitors from far and wide; from Riesel, Texas to London, England are viewing and reading the Blog.

Isn't technology wonderful?


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