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Zaditor--The Cure for Itching Eyes in Texas

WFAA Weatherman Pete Delkus keeps tweeting to North Texas–If you’re allergic to grass, the pollen is high right now–but you already knew that.

Zaditor, the cure for itching eyes in Texas.

And indeed, one of my daughters has been having a horrible time of it for about two months now and I’ve been skating past–until the past three weeks.  I got outside, get in the car and drive maybe a mile or two and I find I’ve got tears running out of the corners of my eyes. But I’m not crying. And then my eyes are red. And burning.  And then I’m cursing the name of Pete Delkus.  Okay, it’s really not his fault.

So this morning I was talking to my mom, a nurse, who after I told her what the problem was said, go get some Zaditor. It’s over-the-counter and it has antihistamine in it. The other thing she said was it’s expensive.

So I was almost to Walmart today and found my way to the eye drop section and there it was for about $11. Next to it was the Walmart Equate brand for $8 maybe.  I bought the Equate version.

WOW!

So you’re only supposed to use it twice a day but already after one dose, it’s been like, well, when it isn’t grass pollen time in Texas.

This has worked today better than Sudafed, better than Clariton D, better than Visine.

So here’s the pitch. Try Zaditor or the Equate version.  Zaditor, if you’d contact me and send me some samples I’d love to give your product a run, too, knowing it’s the same thing basically. And hey, while you’re here, on the Zaditor Website you can get a coupon for the wonder drug for $1 off retail price. Every bit counts in this day and age and truly, I would have liked to have gotten the brand name, but seriously,  Zaditor feels like it’s the genuine cure for itching eyes in Texas. Really, I suppose it’d work in a state that’s not Texas, too, but hey, few other states do grass pollen like Texas… Ye haw….

And thanks, mom.

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Cowboy Mouth At Wildflower Festival 2013–Disconnected

Tonight was a great night to be in Richardson, Texas as the Wildflower Festival with NOLA band Cowboy Mouth playing on the Metro PCS stage. The show was great–save for a continual microphone issue for the lead guitar player which set their timing back and ultimately meant they didn’t play my favorite Cowboy Mouth song, Disconnected.

But did my daughters Chandler, 16, and Reagan, 13, and I have a great time!

From watching several weeks of YouTube videos of Cowboy Mouth, I knew the “sweet spot” to stand and watch the show and catch flying drumsticks was on the right/center side of the stage. And lo and behold, Reagan and Chandler watched another 10 feet to the right of me and guess what. Reagan got a Fred LeBlanc drumstick.

Cowboy Mouth Fred LeBlanc autographed drumstick.

Because Wylie ISD Communications Director Ian Halperin was up front taking his usual great pics, after the show I was able to gather up a collection of red spoons thrown at the stage for the band’s perennial favorite Everybody Loves Jill.

So Cowboy Mouth began pretty much at 7:30 p.m. sharp. The show was high energy. Great stuff. It’s 11:46 p.m. and my ears are going to be still ringing in the morning. But as they tried to do a couple of songs with the lead guitarist singing, like Everybody Loves Jill, they twice had to start over because his mic kept shorting out. That slowed things down and put them over on time.

And so the show ended.  It ended WITHOUT them playing Disconnected, the one song I have played religiously over the past six or seven years. I felt cheated. While I was talking to Ian, Reagan kept tugging on my arm and saying she was hungry. And so, after having spent $60 to get three of us in for the night, and having spent $11 on a super corndog and a cup of lemonade, and after learning that I was then driving them from Dallas after taking DART from Galatyn Park to Mockingbird all the way to their mother’s for the night, we decided that was it for the night. No Spin Doctors for me. Plus, since Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong was big before even Chandler was born, I didn’t get much interest in sticking around to hear it.

And so we walked out. Reagan with her Fred LeBlanc drumstick. Reagan wanting some pizza. And me repeating, I can’t believe they didn’t play Disconnected.

And so as we walked past the fencing back toward back stage of the Metro PCS stage toward the DART rail station, there stood Fred LeBlanc on the cell phone. He’d already changed clothes. And as we got toward him (he’d hung up the phone) I asked if he had a Sharpie so he could autograph Reagan’s drumstick. He was impressed that she’d gotten one. And out came the Sharpie.

As he was signing Reagan’s drumstick I asked “Why no Disconnected?!” He looked up and said, “Well, you heard we had some technical difficulties. We just ran out of time.”

I got some good questions in.

How long have you been at this?  “Twenty-three years.”

Are you thinking about … any time soon?  “Hell no! We just signed a new recording contract.”

Fred-LeBlanc at Wildflower Festival 2013 with Chandler and Reagan Claxton.

How old’s your son that you mentioned? “A year and a half.” Do you get to see him much?  “Oh yes.”

Where are you off to next? “Austin! Short weekend.” (Yes, I’ve been thinking about going down for the show tomorrow so I can see them maybe do Disconnected!)

Then he was kind enough to do a picture with Reagan and Chandler. And of course, he gave Reagan her autographed drumstick.

How about all that? So if they’d played Disconnected, we probably wouldn’t have been as draggy to get out of there. Might not have stayed behind and talked with Ian. And might have missed as special a part of the evening as seeing the entire show–Meeting the voice and man behind it all.  Funny how things work out sometimes, isn’t it?

During the show, Fred pointed out they’ve played Wildflower Festival more than any other band. He kept talking about being back next year. Hopefully Disconnected won’t be at the end of the play list –better yet, maybe they could start off and then close with it just to keep things in the universe in balance.

There are two more days and nights left of Wildflower 2013. We also left before Charlie Daniels played tonight.  But my guess is he just finished playing and that drive to drop off the girls wore me out…..

The Morning After Tornadoes 2013 in North Texas

May 16, 2013 sunrise, DFW.

This photo is of sunrise, May 16, 2013. We had an estimated 10 tornadoes in the DFW area last night. There was lots of death, destruction and fear.  Lots of rain, too.

I have often told my kids that rays shining down like in this photo are God’s fingers and he’s reaching down to care for us, and using the same system to take good people up to Heaven. Not exactly scriptural, but it’s helped them understand his awesome power.

Today North Texas is recovering from horrific storms that happened here last night.

It’s also seven years ago today I got married to Kari.  That was as symbolic a life changing event as what some around here experienced in the storms last night–eventual near loss of most everything–home, car, dog, time with kids, you name it–over time it all got sucked away.

But through it all, God has protected me and helped me grow and be stronger than I ever was before.

God is GREAT!

We often forget how great God can be as we go about our daily walk. Sometimes we get to thinking we can do it all without anyone or worse, without him. And often we have to seek out someone to blame for things they didn’t even cause. I could spend a lot of time doing that about the past seven years if I were of a weaker mind.  I could find chemicals to numb the pain. I could engage in bad habits. But instead, I’ve drawn closer in my walk with God–the only safe haven in a storm.

My prayers this morning are for the families who lost so much last night in the storms here, and for families everywhere that feel like they have been ripped apart by a storm in life.

It’s never a pleasant experience and it hurts like the Devil, who most likely is up to it anyways.

Please remember my “former” step-children in your prayers today. (Their mom has become an addict of a terrible drug and they’ve not seen her in almost a year and a half now.) They, like many of the houses in North Texas, have been scattered over the area as well and placed in new homes, with new opportunities and challenges no one, and I mean no one, could have expected.

And of course, remember the families whose homes were leveled last night and for the anxiety these storms produced here and around the world, literally, as people with loved ones here watched helplessly as things unfolded.

Then look again at the glory in the photo above. God is still in control and His fingers are reaching down to us all.  The question is, are we reaching back …..

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Facebook We Have A Problem–SNAZUed Once Again

There is a blog post coming about changes in my life that have been able to happen because of Facebook. But this is going to be a post about how Facebook is messing with me and not for good reason.

Image via CrunchBase

You see, eight weeks ago today I made a major break thru in reconnecting with many of my old classmates from Atwater, CA who I went to school with from seventh to the end of ninth grade at Mitchell Senior Elementary School and Atwater High School.

Through one connection, I’ve connected with about 15 people now who I knew at an earlier point in my life who because of the United States Air Force, I had to leave behind at age 15, presumably never to see again, or only to see if we were sent back to California. (We were stationed there thru my dad a total of four times before Castle AFB was BRACed in the 1990s. I lived there in 1969, 1972 and from 1978-81.)

So I found yesterday after getting hate mail from Facebook that I have been blocked from sending any new friend requests for the next seven days. (Six now.) Now for my amended military term–SNAZUed–Situation Normal, All Zucked Up.

I found that one can go up to the funky looking lock and piece of paper looking icon at the top right of Facebook and pull down to Who Can See My Stuff and then down to Activity Log and then down to MORE to expand the menu and then to Friends and you can see who all you’ve sent friend requests to that either have been approved or are still pending.

How to find friend requests. Start here.

At most, I found four that were still pending.  John Blitch who used to date Donna Minge in 7th and 8th grade and who most guys in school thought was a bad ass because hell, he was “going with Donna Minge,” Dawn Fuller, who I had in multiple classes throughout my three years there, Diana who was rumored to have had a crush on me in the day and maybe another person or two who had not yet okayed a request.

So what they HEY Facebook? I can tell you great stories about each of them. Like how Diana was going to sit next to me one day outside the Social Studies class and supposedly was going to ask me to an upcoming dance at AHS.  And on….

What’s the point in being able to make a friend request if you’re going to jack someone up for doing it?

I saw a notation from Facebook that said you might in the future also send a message to a potential friend BEFORE sending the friend request.  Okay. Well, I’ve pretty much done that, too, save with John Blitch and Dawn Fuller. Is that really a heinous enough infraction to shut me down for a week?  Seriously?  No, that’s actually Zucked up, if you ask me.

Facebook, I have a great story to write about how my reconnection has evolved. I’ve really been wanting to share the story of what a great thing that has happened because of what Mark Zuckerberg did through the creation of Facebook that couldn’t have happened any other way.  It’s going to have to wait a little longer though, but being told I can’t send friend requests to people for a week when I know every single one of them really is Zucked up.

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HIMYM Mother Revelation Anti-Climactic?

I started writing this based on the Yahoo! review and the YouTube video of the revelation of the Mother on CBS’s long-running show, How I Met Your Mother.

How I met your mother

After watching the actual show, I think the show was just where it needed to be, wound with the threads and twists that have made it fun to watch for so very long. But kids, let me tell you about what I was thinking from reading this review from Yahoo!

BEFORE WATCHING THE SHOW I WROTE THIS

Much of my life has changed as Ted‘s (Josh Radner) has stayed the same over the past seven/eight years of the How I Met Your Mother saga on CBS.  I’ve finalized a divorce and then found someone, gotten married, found out what I should have long before I got involved, had my life ripped apart, my heart broken (literally with a heart attack supported by both marriages) and now I find myself on level footing for what likely is the first time in my life. And here we still have “Ted being Ted,” but after Monday night’s season finale, we now know who “Mother” is going to be through the revelation of the YELLOW umbrella, the boots, the train ticket purchase, etc. It’s all coming together and frankly, I’m maybe wishing I didn’t know.

And let’s be honest here. The writers at HIMYM had a lot to overcome when they revealed her.  After all, we’ve been treated to the joys of Drumroll please, clearly one of the best romance episodes ever made for TV in 23 minutes or less, to the reintroduction of Victoria and then her passing from the show and Ted’s life once and for all.

Finally introducing Mom was/is a tall act to follow and I guess I’m just wishing there had been more to it.

AFTER ACTUALLY WATCHING THE SHOW AND NOT RELYING ON THE BAD, SHALLOW WRITERS AT YAHOO!

Yes, still much of my life has changed, but so has Ted’s. He’s done a lot of growing up in the past seven or eight years and his decision to flee New York after fixing up his house and coming to the conclusion that “she” isn’t in New York, but maybe Chicago, is spot on Ted. With the agony he anticipates feeling seeing Robin married to Barney, (that’s still weird to watch knowing Barney’s real life sexual orientation), Ted thinks it will be too hard to be around it all. Trust me, I’ve been in that situation before. It’s not a fun place.

But kids, let’s get back to last night’s show.

Each person in the show is headed in a new direction; one they don’t realize. Yeah, I know. That’s how life is. We make a plan, we think we’re going to live it out and then something happens that dramatically alters every plan we had. Makes you wonder if Robin and Barney really are going to get married. I believe there was an episode last year that says they didn’t.  Or did they?

We now know that Lilly thinks she’s moving to Italy though won’t entirely be surprised when she’s not. Marshall thought he was going to Italy but is now going to be a judge. Ted thinks he’s headed to Chicago and the girl “with cute boots that we can share cos they’ll fit me” is buying a train ticket to Farhampton.

In reading the Yahoo! version and then watching the clip, I was sad to see that we finally have an answer to the question that’s been there for so very long. After watching the show, well, there was a certain magic in how she was revealed because the set up of the discussion between Ted and Lilly, who always has been so good at pulling “do you like him/her or not” out of people.  It wasn’t a Drum roll moment, no, but it still was enough to say, “next season, we’re going to finally get a lot of answers and no matter how many we get, we’re still going to be hanging on wishing there was going to be more.”

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AT&T Smart Limits Acting Stupidly

I have made no secret about it before but I absolutely HATE the AT&T website. I have built and used my share of websites over the years and theirs has got to be the worst.

But the problem I have with them right now is that their Smart Limits function, which I pay $4.99 a month for, has a glitch in it.

AT&T Smart Limits

THE EX-FACTOR

Yes, even though I have kids by my ex wife, I do not like to talk to her. I don’t want to talk to her. I don’t want to get text messages from her. I don’t want to get calls from her.

And so, I pay to have her phone number blocked. Her husband’s phone number is blocked, too, because in spite of the fact that he has zero need nor business to talk to me, after several years he’s still not been smart enough to figure that minor point out.

And so, I pay to have him blocked, too.

MY DAUGHTERS

I also have teenage daughters, twins who are 13. Let’s just say that 13-year-old girls like to talk on the phone. Well, they like to eat up data, too, but let’s just stick to the calls and texting. One month, one of them had 8,000 text messages. I had 5,000 because of Twitter. And the other twin had somewhere around 3,500.

THEORETICALLY, with AT&T Smart Limits, I can have their phones turn off at a certain hour of the night, 10 p.m and turn back on at 6:30 a.m. That way they don’t get bombarded by texts all night and they get something called SLEEP.

One can set up a list of ALLOWED Calls per user. One can also set up a list of BLOCKED Calls per user.

THE PROBLEM

The twins have their phone limits activated and I have a list of BLOCKED numbers. No where in their list of blocked numbers is their muther’s nor step-father’s phone numbers. No, they’re on MY list of Blocked Calls.  But guess what?  Yeah, the twins can’t call their muther nor step-father because I have them blocked on my user list.

I’ve talked with AT&T about this and been told “that shouldn’t be happening.” No, it shouldn’t but guess what. It is. It does and it has been for a very long time.

I’d love to work with AT&T to resolve their issues, maybe sit in on a focus group or 20 about the functionality of their Website and it’s navigation. I HATE using their website.

And as I say all this, I want to emphasize that as a service provider, I’m all AT&T.

Heck, I should get a discount for the wireless, home, DSL, U-Verse, Mi-Fi, and iPad services. But to get them all switched on to one account would cost a small fortune, but that’s another blog post all together….

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I have a repeated hacker from IP Address 94.242.237.108 who is trying to gain access to this blog.

According to the protection system in place, it says the attack keeps coming from IP address 94.242.237.108.

Obviously, I’m not sure if the IP address is masked or not, but a message to the ones who are behind it.  IP address look up says the jerks are from Luxembourg.

Dear sirs or madams, be warned.  In America we have lots of guns and like to use them so it is very probable that your last thought likely will be “What is that red dot on my heart, or on my forehead or in my eyes.  Wow! That laser is brig….”

If you don’t have the WordPress Limit Login Attempts Plugin, I highly recommend it.

The plugin is simple to install and set up. If someone is trying to get into your WordPress site, it will lock it out for up to 24 hours or so after X number of failed attempts.  This one group has tried about 40 different ways on multiple occasions to get into this site.  How many times have they tried to get into your WordPress site?

For the present time, it’s doing its job…. A contract hiring is in the works…

IP address attack from 94.242.237.108

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Living in The Shadows of Disasters–From A Texas Coffee Shop

The week of April 15, 2013 will long burn in the  psyche of the American fabric as a week of living in the shadows of disasters.

The crowd at The Steak Angus on Thursday, April 17, 2013.

It’s Thursday, finally, and so many horrific events have happened in the past week here in North Texas and around the nation. The mood this morning while sitting at The Steak Angus seems changed. Yes, Thursdays usually are their slow mornings, but this morning feels different.

When I came in this morning, a table sat in a window seat corner with The Dallas Morning News spread out aimlessly on the floor around the booth. The table was disheveled and uncleaned.

The atmosphere was somber.  Dan Godwin‘s unusually calming, tempered words from KDFW FOX-4 TV were echoing across the room as he continued to describe the carnage being discovered as a result of the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion from last night.

Patrons sat, mostly facing the flat screens on the walls above almost as though in shock still of all that’s transpired locally and nationally the past week.

The Carnage of the Week

Mixed also in the news today is new information about the Kaufman County DA, his wife, and assistant DA’s murders, which took place less than 30 miles from where I now sit.

The concussion from the West, Texas fertilizer plant, some 80 miles away, caused a noted pressure change in the patio and front door of the apartment last night.

Fifteen minutes later, my daughter Haley witnessed an evil person in Hunt County aim for our Sheltie, McKenzie, as he had become want to chase cars. They hit him. Haley, 13, saw it.  McKenzie rolled over, got up and started toward her and then collapsed to move no more.  The car sped off.

Monday, of course, was the Boston Marathon bombing attack. The memory of photos of people being wheeled to help with just a long bone extending out of their thighs and nothing else, no foot, no knee, no calf… all of that permanently burnt into the rods and cones of my mind’s eye.

Yesterday on Twitter became a lone bright spot in the week when Twitter users took CNN and John King to task for reporting in error that an arrest had been made in the case.

And then there was the whole deal about the idiot from Mississippi who allegedly sent threat letters to Dem President Obama and GOP Sen. Wicker. Bi-partisan targeted terrorism seems to be the theme of the week.

What’s Next?

I’ve learned over the past few years that’s never a good question to ask oneself.

Worth noting, and one of the first thoughts that came to mind about the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion was the fact that tomorrow, Friday, April 19, is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombings.  The prime ingredient in that explosion?  Fertilizer. It sounds like a fire started at the plant before the explosion, so I’m no longer concerned about that, but the worry of what nut might be planning something for tomorrow is ever there.

And I think that’s what I’m seeing as I scan the restaurant right now.  Eyes remain focused in blank stares at the TV set as bumper-to-bumper programing remains the norm here in North Texas.

I made mention to a close friend this morning that the Devil roams the earth like a lion seeking out the lambs of our Lord, waiting to strike.  It’s been a good week for the lion, and a bad one for sheep, save for the fact that our Lord now holds so many people closer to his heart and regardless of political affiliations, more people are calling on the Lord this Thursday than they were at the beginning of the work week.

You’d think the evil one would have realized such an inverse relationship by now and have figured out the more he seeks to pull us away from God in times of disaster, ultimately, the closer we get.

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The Meaning of ‘Terrorism‘

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, we again see the hesitancy to label the event as terrorism. What does this word mean?

Amateur photo of the #bostonmarathon explosion from a bystander http://flic.kr/p/ebAQQr http://twitpic.com/cjn6ha

During his hastily delivered, straight from cue-card statement Monday from the White House gaggle room, the president never used the word. It was like Benghazi waiting to happen all over again.

Later last night, Fox News was running a story saying the White House was believing the bombings in Boston were terrorism, but what does this word really mean?  Why the hesitancy?

If you jump over to Wikipedia you’ll see that since 1994, the United Nations General Assembly has repeatedly condemned terrorist acts using the following political description of terrorism:

“Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.”^[23]

But what does this word mean in a societal context here in America?  Wiki says there have been studies that have found as many as 100 different definitions of the word.

Is there actually a racial aspect to the application of the word?

It almost feels like we can’t apply the term unless someone with dark brown skin and a towel wrapped around their head is celebrating in a video that they caused harm to infidels we can’t use the term.  In the application of Benghazi, we pretty much had all those conditions met and yet there was foot-dragging and parsing from the White House about if that was, wasn’t and when did he say it, and on and on and on.

I understand there are legal implications involved, but ultimately, regardless of whether someone detonates two devices in a high-traffic public place, or 10 of them, whether or not they are from an Arab land, Northern Ireland, wear a towel around their heads, or drive a big yellow truck in the Heart of America in front of a federal court house, if they meant to cause harm, to kill innocent people in large numbers, to cause chaos, and in yesterday’s case, to scare the hell out of anyone ever running a race again anywhere in America that pretty much makes it terrorism to me.

Shouldn’t that qualify? If you went and asked the family members of the three who have died and the hundreds hurt, do you think the nationality of whomever is responsible is going to matter to them?

Thoughts?

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Mad Men Season 6 Apostrophe Lesson–It’s the ’60s not 60′s

Mad Men (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mad Men starts in just a few short hours and already I’m about to SCREAM about one of my biggest punctuation pet peeves–the use of the apostrophe in referencing the time period of the show, the 1960s.  Notice I didn’t write the 1960′s.

You know why? ‘Cos it’s a plural.  There’s no possessive going on there.

The same thing goes for saying it’s a show about the ‘60s.  Notice where the apostrophe goes–in FRONT of the 60, not between 60 and the S.

Seriously.

If you were going to say that Mad Men was a show about Advertising Agencies, you wouldn’t write Agency’s, now would you?

So then why in the HELL do you insist on putting an apostrophe at the end of ’60s?

If you were writing about Don Draper‘s actions, then you’d use it.

If you were talking about the women he’s consumed you wouldn’t write women’s, right?

So why on earth do you continue to punish the ’60s with one?

If you’re going to write about the 1960s, or the ’60s, please do it right.

And while we’re at it, if you work in an advertising firm would you please inform your copy writers that housing section prices don’t start in the $200,000′s.  They start in the $200,000s or whatever price point your client dictates. Just get the apostrophe right.  Please. You’re driving me crazy’s. (Sic)

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