Thursday miscellanea #236

• I thought it would be fun to grow my hair out a bit.  I let it get as long as it’s been in probably five years, and then decided no, I’m a buzz-cut guy.  Know why, more than any other reason?  Because it got to be mid-May, and I remembered that having hair is hot.
• From one of the best defensive stars ever at Alabama, to unanimous All-American, to NFL starter, to complete bust in less than four years.  Really, Rolando McClain?  Wow.  How disappointing.
• When I was putting up a shovel on Sunday, I noticed a smooth egg sac in a spider web in the corner of the shed.  Hmmm. A little survey revealed at least five black widows around the shed perimeter, three of them guarding egg sacs.  I’m going to see about some photos tomorrow or Saturday, and then they’ll be mercilessly shop-vaced.  Live and let live and all that, but I’m not sharing space that belongs to me and that I want to use with dangerous arachnids.
• I read today about a company that rents you disabled people who pretend they’re part of your family to enable you to jump to the front of the line at Disney World.  Opinion is varied.  Some people decry the abuse of the system, while others say it’s a great way for the disabled to make good money.  Notably absent from any reaction I saw is that you shouldn’t do it because it’s LYING!
• I missed Texas chili at Anaheim Chili this week because I was at a school function on Tuesday.  Went today, and ordered my very first non-chili item ever:  the grilled cheese with roasted peppers.  It was tasty enough, but I wished I’d gotten a cup of red, a cup of green, and a cup of black bean instead.  (I did have a cup of red with my grilled cheese.)
• When he hasn’t seen me all day, Aaron still runs to me with a big smile on his face and leaps into my arms.  I love that.  It’s so awesome.  And I get teary thinking about how soon he’s going to be too cool for it.
• Dick Trickle committed suicide today.  He was 71.  RIP.

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