The Week In Review

For a short week, it lasted a long time.

• On the radio today, an ad for a lake lot development in East Texas, trying to liquidate some repo lots - the announcer had the most awful New York (Bronx or Brooklyn, I'm not sure which) pronunciation.  Wonder how that works with the target audience.
• Carpetbagger.
• To me it was like fingernails on a blackboard.
• Or listening to Dew karaoke.
• I understand the Baker Hotel restoration is in 'off-again' phase.
• First world problem - the 'horror' of getting a bad tip from a restaurant customer.  Sure, this may be boorish behavior, but 'gross' and 'appalling'?  Gimme a break.
• The point of equilibrium between Dallas based KLUV-FM and Amarillo's Jack-FM signals is near Bellevue.
• Anyone remember that there used to be a herd of camels somewhere along 287 in that area?  I saw a 'high fence' ranch west of Bellevue - though I can't imagine that the camels would be considered exotic game.  No one wants to display a camel head in their trophy room, but the feet are regularly exhibited, and sometimes suitable for mounting.

• I had thought that since the ranch was near Vashti, Texas, that maybe they were some leftover Pakistani camels, until I learned the name was from an early postmaster in that area, and that historically, Vashti is the wife of King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther.
• Another one of my great theories down the drain.

• On one of the interweb 'news' sites the other night I read of a young woman who was feeling glum because she was considered a sl*t for having slept with 75 men from the time she was 18 until she was 22. 
• I suppose she could console herself by instead using the term 'extremely accessible'?
• Looks like I get to replace my kitchen disposer this weekend - it's seemingly sprung a leak that occurs when the dishwasher drains into the appliance.  Luckily, I had a Rubbermaid plastic tote under the sink with cleaning supplies that caught the water.
• Seen last weekend:

• I'm down with that.
• Daughter last weekend asked if she could get her ears pierced: "Mom says I have to get your permission before she'll let me get them pierced."
• I used the phrase "as old as dirt" the other day - my colleague one-upped me with a term I'd not heard before "old enough to remember when the Dead Sea first got sick".
• Not sure why Weatherford is building/has built a loop around the north side of town.  Not criticizing, just don't understand it.
• Seen 'tween Vashti and Crafton:

Heck, feels like I done died an' went to Kintucky...