Political Affiliation Poll

This just knocked me off my hammock

Vacation view from yesterday. I'd be looking at it now if it wasn't raining like nobody's business.

Residence Poll

Gender Poll

Age Poll

Random Tues...........Uh Oh

(The Homestead's Sidewalk On Friday)

Folks, we've got some good news/bad news depending on your point of view. I'm off this week. Yep. Vacation. And for the first time in years, I think I seriously need it.

But I might be able to post a few random notes (they tell me the lobby has wifi) but I make no promises.

However, I am proud to announce that it is ..............(drumroll)............. Poll Week.

If this thing works correctly, then every day you should see three to four polls that will allow you to vote and/or see the results. It's basically a "who are you/what you believe" type of thing, but I really am interested in the response.

As for my typical "Best Of" posts during vacation .......meh.

Random Fourth Of July Thoughts

Your Wimbledon 2011 Champion. And She's Got Her Green Card! Go America! Edit: I'm officially losing it. I even watched the match. Watched her second place trophy presentation. Two days later I think she won? I'm officially senile.

• Jarhead was covering a fire yesterday in Granbury (so did WFAA)
• And he posted a pretty good random mugshot out of Denton.
• Hmmmm. He's doing all these blog posts over the Fourth of July weekend when he thought I wasn't looking? The guy is starting his own Blog Revolution over there. 
• Wow: Four motorcycle deaths near Canton. Completely innocent motorcycle deaths.
• I can't sleep in if my life depended on it.
• Tried to explain what the 4th was about to the Fourth Grader To Be In The House. Hope I didn't screw that up. (But justifying a revolution isn't particularly easy.)
• Just looked up and saw a bunch of Elvis impersonators on mini-bikes on TV at the Arlington Independence Day Parade. (Question mark forming over my head.) 
• Now my brain just hears, "We're the Flying Elvises! Utah chapter!"
• Fireworks overrated? Twenty minutes should be the absolute maximum. (And is that the one area where there has been actually no improvement in design over the last thirty years?)
• Everyone sure seemed grumpy on here on Friday.
• Been having this thought lately: If there are places I'd like to visit, I'd better get on it. 
• I almost bought a camouflage print bathing suit yesterday and then decided that I'd have buyer's remorse before I got out of the parking lot. 
• I use Google as a quick spellchecker (it'll suggest alternative spellings) a lot. I wonder if "spellchecker" is "spell-checker" or "spell checker."
• Texas will have a new law on 9/1 that makes family pets covered by a Protective Order obtained by a  real live human. It includes threatening an animal. Really. 
• Sounds like lots of people were griping about the Runaway Bay fireworks. I'm surprised Runaway Bay even does it. 
• No Hal Jay dogging today. But I just saw that Fox 4's Lauren Przybyl doesn't know who Tommy Lee is. 

Pet Him? Name Him "Free"?

Hey kid!!! You just made Jimmy Houston roll over in his grave if he were dead. Get that fish on the cutting board ASAP! It's not gonna fry itself!

And, daddy: You might want to rethink filming the kid's first deer kill. I'm guessing you aren't going to want to remember that.

Let Me Acknowledge Again

I Always Acknowledge Holidays

I Don't Even Know If It's True

The New Miss Texas

Story.

Trivia: Last year she finished third as Miss White Settlement with the talent of playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on the piano. Kind of hard to win with that combination.

To Quote The Prosecutor From The Movie "JFK"

"I find [their] story simply not believable."

(Unless by "available" DPS means "troopers that don't otherwise have the day off.")

If The "No Pictures" Policy Riled Up Animal Lovers, How About This?????

Check out this shocking photo on the cover of the Bridgeport Index.

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over

I'm Issuing A North Texas Relationship Warning Based On This Morning's News

Random Friday Morning Thoughts

• My haircut gal (seems like a new one every time) asked if I wanted a product that was on sale for $29 to help with my thinning hair. Hey! Don't mention my thinning hair and don't try to practice witchcraft on me. 
• Almost motorcycle carnage! Fifteen to twenty speed style bikers ran up on a Harley last night in Carrollton causing four to go to the hospital. No deaths. Edit: One death
• We are into being landlords for one week and the air conditioning unit has a major malfunction. Ugh. But I totally expected something like this. 
• Last month was the third hottest in DFW history. I believe it. (Global warming debate in three, two . . . . )
• The Associated Press has an iPhone app that sends out breaking news alerts. It sent one at 1:00 a.m. last night announcing the NBA lockout taking effect. That's the lockout that had been announced ten hours earlier.
• When I see the Casey Anthony party pics my first reaction is: Kind of hot.
• I changed the color of active links on here to red the other day. Ok? Edit: I've changed the color of followed links to blue.
• Random mascot. (Thanks, Michelle.)
• The "no picture" policy of the Wise County Animal Shelter caused the Sheriff to receive an email yesterday from a lady in Durban, South Africa. 
• There is no way this is true: A lady drowns in a public pool near Boston on Sunday, the pool is open on Monday with swimmers, and the body is finally noticed in that pool on Tuesday. The first blog to post this story started off with: "Am I on planet Earth?"
• I've had an impromptu runway fashion show and a cheerleading competition break out in my house this week. Am I on planet Earth?
• "Hey, now." And I do mean, "Hey, now."
• It's Vampire Weekend (aka "No Refusal Weekend") in Wise County and in most counties around the state. It's kind of hard to explain, but that really means "We're going to get a warrant this weekend for your blood even though we could get a warrant for your blood on any weekend we wanted to."
• If you are really into the John Wiley Price story and the mystery that surrounds it, Dallas Observer reporter Robert Wilonsky said this morning to remember the words "shakedown" and "inland port" which was summarized by WFAA in a story in 2009 here.
• Baylor had its best football season in years so the school is selling season tickets based upon the temperature in Waco on July 4th? And that will make them cheaper than the currently cheap rate of $23 a game?