I've Been Curious About This Poll

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