{"id":124,"date":"2009-09-14T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/09\/14\/091409_randomthursday\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T20:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:02:41","slug":"091409_randomthursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/14\/091409_randomthursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thursday &#8211; The Monday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts while marveling at the human train wreck that is Kanye West.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a variety of reasons, I watched the second half of the Dallas\/Tampa Bay football game yesterday, which is not my usual way of passing a Sunday afternoon. Dallas won the game by a comfortable margin, but the game was closer than the score indicated thanks to a defense that did little more than take up space on the field until Tampa Bay&#8217;s offsense made mistakes. I think the Cowboys&#8217; season could be a roller coaster affair, with their offense scoring at will while their defense allows the other team to do the same.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">The subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Kilt-Wearing-Blacksmith-Brings-Unique-Style-to-Tiny-Texas-Town-59124877.html\">this recent report<\/a> is Cliff Yeary, aka the kilt-wearing one-eyed blacksmith from Fort Stockton, my hometown. Cliff&#8217;s dad was one of my Sunday School teachers, his brother a high school classmate, and his sister a former co-worker. His parents still live a couple of blocks from my parents. So, it&#8217;s fun to see how Cliff&#8217;s <a title=\"Visit his website\" href=\"http:\/\/cliffyeary.com\/\">talent for working metal<\/a> has played out. To say he&#8217;s led an interesting life is a bit of an understatement.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">Speaking of football, did you happen to catch the score of the Stephen F. Austin\/Texas College game Saturday? SFA won 92-0.&nbsp; The game was relatively close going into the 4th quarter, with SFA nursing a 78 point lead; fortunately, they got two insurance touchdowns to seal the victory and allow their coaching staff a sigh of relief. Seriously, though, the time of possession stat was even more amazing than the score. It may have been a misprint, but the stats showed that SFA had the ball for a tad more than 14 minutes out of the 60 minute game. That equates to scoring more than <i>6 points per minute<\/i>, which has to be some kind of record at any level of competition save high school 6 man football. (At least the latter has a &#8220;mercy rule.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 1.25em;\">From the &#8220;I think I&#8217;m flattered but I&#8217;ll pass just the same&#8221; department. Over the past couple of weeks or so I&#8217;ve been contacted by both sides of an upcoming local political campaign to do the candidates&#8217; websites. I stopped doing campaign websites a few years ago, and I clearly state that on my own site, so it was easy to turn down both campaigns. In a community like Midland where everybody pretty much knows everybody else, there&#8217;s very little upside to taking sides in a political campaign where there&#8217;s not a gnat&#8217;s breath of difference between the two candidates anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few random thoughts while marveling at the human train wreck that is Kanye West. For a variety of reasons, I watched the second half of the Dallas\/Tampa Bay football game yesterday, which is not my usual way of passing a Sunday afternoon. Dallas won the game by a comfortable margin, but the game was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/14\/091409_randomthursday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Random Thursday &#8211; The Monday Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8754,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/8754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}