Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Scattershooting / Oh, How Things Just Stop Working
It's time once again for some more Scattershooting for the masses. We go here, there, and, seemingly, everywhere while we do it, so if you've completed your Christmas returns (as you may not have liked what Santy brung ya), then let us proceed with what I'd call my year-end edition.
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More shenanigans involving things in apartments that become as human as the people who use them. At least, it sure seems that way. Yesterday, my air-conditioning goes out. Problem was really a bad fuse. So the fuse had to be replaced, and the problem, thus, solved. Now, another problem has arisen. Want to know what it is this time? It's the microwave. That's right. My microwave is not working at all. Timer, icons, light, vent, all of them. Out like a......, well, you know. I'll have to call maintenance yet again and get them after it.
With apartment dwellings, it just seems like a battle between go and stop. One minute everything works great, and then the next, a few things don't. I still dream about that Spanish villa for a house. Money (actually, lack thereof) is the reason for its elusiveness. While dreaming won't keep things from falling apart, let's just hope that, once the microwave is fixed, that something else doesn't fall apart, being that it will be New Year's weekend.
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We've had another passing in the entertainment industry, and you'd swear that she'd go on forever. She happens to be none other than Rose Marie. You remember her from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Hollywood Squares", but she was on numerous shows through the years and was dearly beloved by so many viewers. Her career in entertainment spanned a whopping nine decades! Rose Marie died at her home this afternoon (at this writing) at the age of 94. I cannot put into words how much we will miss her on television.
Rest in peace, Rose Marie. Thanks for so many great TV memories.
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Planning to get a new car anytime soon? Here's a tidbit for the 2018 new models and the best ones to come real soon.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/future-cars-2018
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The city of Houston is already preparing for another champion in the sports world. And........it's not the Texans.
No, it's the NBA's Rockets, who are off to a blazing 25-7 record, by far, the second-best record in the league and their best start in many years. Don't be at all surprised if this year's Rockets can follow the Astros' lead and, for the first time since 1995 and the Akeem Olajuwon years, provide the city with another championship. That would be something to see.
Maybe if the Texans can turn it around and try next year....
By the way, the Texans are currently the only NFL team to have never won a conference championship. Other jinxes have ended recently, soooooooooo....
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This following story's long overdue for this blog, but it needs to be shared. Back in October, in the wee hours while most of us slept, a female employee at a North Texas Whataburger refused a few police officers service. Why, you ask? Because she is angry at cops over an incident involving her boyfriend being "beaten up by police". Well, gee, if that's so, then how did it happen? Did the "victim" provoke a police officer? Police evidence from that particular incident showed no altercation had taken place. All of which comes to this: the young lady at the counter lied.
I bring this up because we still have to undo a serious problem in our society, and that's false, left-wing-induced indoctrination. It's the idea in people that police officers are bad people and that the criminal be praised. How sad that it's come to this. You've seen countless stories about the abuse our police have been subject to. This crap started during the Barack Obama presidential administration. After all, it was he who wanted to "fundamentally transform" this country. Well, this anti-police mentality was apparently part of that. The aforementioned young lady was fired from her post at Whataburger, deservedly so. There was no reason for her to make a scene and curse at police officers when all they want for the moment is some chow during their night shift. I hope and pray that she never works at a restaurant ever again.
As for the fine men and women who serve as police officers and detectives, they need your prayers for safety. They're there to protect and to serve. That's their job. They also need our support and respect. I thank each and every one of them for the doggedly good job that they do. Before you criticize any police officer, just try getting in their shoes and try doing what they do.
Jack Webb's Dragnet character, Sgt Joe Friday, explains it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3hiR9H7amo
In the meantime, there needs to be a grass-roots movement to convince a generation brainwashed by Obama and those like him to have a change of heart. Life is always going to be unfair. If you bite a dog, then that dog will just bite you back. And if you even try to go after a police officer, then you'll likely regret it for eternity, and, hopefully, not by a single bullet.
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Many folks will be making New Year's resolutions as they look to pare their poundage after the holidays. But what if you decide on an exercise plan without a single piece of equipment? Here's a link to the "animal" way of doing things:
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/201...l-workout.html
You know, primitive can be innovative. And vice versa.
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Back to Houston for a second: There is some new development activity going on in a sorely-needed part of town that bears attention. Right off the North Freeway (Interstate 45) between Aldine-Bender and West Roads, on the west side of the freeway, there are new shops, businesses, hotels, and restaurants going in. Great stuff. Best Western Hotels has also built a brand-new facility in that area. It's real sleek and fresh. And Ol' Case is looking to stay there this coming summer in a possible Houston road trip that could have me going to two Astros games. More on that later, but some real positive things are going on in North Houston.
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As much as I enjoy attending Preston Trail Community Church in Frisco, Texas, I have to disagree with one decision. You see, the powers that be are not having services on New Year's weekend. They say they do this to give greeters and other servant leaders a chance to breathe and be with their families. My take is, why cancel church (where we need to be on weekends anyway) when there should be backup personnel to handle greeting, ushering, and the like? You'd think churches could rummage up enough people for that task or two.
Guess I could just visit First Baptist Frisco for that one weekend. Might not hurt.
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North Texans are definitely having a cold winter thus far. The last two years, we had 75 degrees at Christmas time. Not so now. We've been in the 30s, and message signs on Dallas freeways are telling people that crews are doing ice prevention procedures in the next couple of days. Hey, it's good to be prepared, even if it may not happen.
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Speaking of cold conditions, 60s on 6 jock Phlash Phelps told audiences of some parts of the country getting as cold as 40 below zero. And that he shared that, the colder it gets out there, the fahrenheit and celsius figures are almost exactly the same.
And when that happens, my friends, it is dangerous.
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Becks Prime, the best place for me to have a burger, is down to one location in Dallas. For now, anyway. Their Oak Lawn-area location, for whatever reason, is now closed, leaving the Houston-based franchise with just the Forest Lane location on the north side. It's the one I ate at today, and it's also one of the chain's most profitable locations, grossing very well, even beating some Houston outposts.
Good for them. I love a good Becks Prime hamburger and a great chocolate shake. What the honchos at Becks will need to do now is look for some other Metroplex sites, including the suburbs. There's certainly a market for this type of cuisine and the type of menu Becks offers. If I hear any new news on it, then you'll be seeing it here.
********
I like Yogi Berra's philosophy of life: "Whenever you see a fork in the road, take it".
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Well, friends, that's it for now. Savor these final days of a great 2017, with prosperity in the cards for 2018. Make it a great New Year!
And there you are.
, then let us proceed with what I'd call my year-end edition.********
More shenanigans involving things in apartments that become as human as the people who use them. At least, it sure seems that way. Yesterday, my air-conditioning goes out. Problem was really a bad fuse. So the fuse had to be replaced, and the problem, thus, solved. Now, another problem has arisen. Want to know what it is this time? It's the microwave. That's right. My microwave is not working at all. Timer, icons, light, vent, all of them. Out like a......, well, you know. I'll have to call maintenance yet again and get them after it.
With apartment dwellings, it just seems like a battle between go and stop. One minute everything works great, and then the next, a few things don't. I still dream about that Spanish villa for a house. Money (actually, lack thereof) is the reason for its elusiveness. While dreaming won't keep things from falling apart, let's just hope that, once the microwave is fixed, that something else doesn't fall apart, being that it will be New Year's weekend.
********
We've had another passing in the entertainment industry, and you'd swear that she'd go on forever. She happens to be none other than Rose Marie. You remember her from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Hollywood Squares", but she was on numerous shows through the years and was dearly beloved by so many viewers. Her career in entertainment spanned a whopping nine decades! Rose Marie died at her home this afternoon (at this writing) at the age of 94. I cannot put into words how much we will miss her on television.
Rest in peace, Rose Marie. Thanks for so many great TV memories.
********
Planning to get a new car anytime soon? Here's a tidbit for the 2018 new models and the best ones to come real soon.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/future-cars-2018
********
The city of Houston is already preparing for another champion in the sports world. And........it's not the Texans.
No, it's the NBA's Rockets, who are off to a blazing 25-7 record, by far, the second-best record in the league and their best start in many years. Don't be at all surprised if this year's Rockets can follow the Astros' lead and, for the first time since 1995 and the Akeem Olajuwon years, provide the city with another championship. That would be something to see.
Maybe if the Texans can turn it around and try next year....
By the way, the Texans are currently the only NFL team to have never won a conference championship. Other jinxes have ended recently, soooooooooo....
********
This following story's long overdue for this blog, but it needs to be shared. Back in October, in the wee hours while most of us slept, a female employee at a North Texas Whataburger refused a few police officers service. Why, you ask? Because she is angry at cops over an incident involving her boyfriend being "beaten up by police". Well, gee, if that's so, then how did it happen? Did the "victim" provoke a police officer? Police evidence from that particular incident showed no altercation had taken place. All of which comes to this: the young lady at the counter lied.
I bring this up because we still have to undo a serious problem in our society, and that's false, left-wing-induced indoctrination. It's the idea in people that police officers are bad people and that the criminal be praised. How sad that it's come to this. You've seen countless stories about the abuse our police have been subject to. This crap started during the Barack Obama presidential administration. After all, it was he who wanted to "fundamentally transform" this country. Well, this anti-police mentality was apparently part of that. The aforementioned young lady was fired from her post at Whataburger, deservedly so. There was no reason for her to make a scene and curse at police officers when all they want for the moment is some chow during their night shift. I hope and pray that she never works at a restaurant ever again.
As for the fine men and women who serve as police officers and detectives, they need your prayers for safety. They're there to protect and to serve. That's their job. They also need our support and respect. I thank each and every one of them for the doggedly good job that they do. Before you criticize any police officer, just try getting in their shoes and try doing what they do.
Jack Webb's Dragnet character, Sgt Joe Friday, explains it best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3hiR9H7amo
In the meantime, there needs to be a grass-roots movement to convince a generation brainwashed by Obama and those like him to have a change of heart. Life is always going to be unfair. If you bite a dog, then that dog will just bite you back. And if you even try to go after a police officer, then you'll likely regret it for eternity, and, hopefully, not by a single bullet.
********
Many folks will be making New Year's resolutions as they look to pare their poundage after the holidays. But what if you decide on an exercise plan without a single piece of equipment? Here's a link to the "animal" way of doing things:
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/201...l-workout.html
You know, primitive can be innovative. And vice versa.
********
Back to Houston for a second: There is some new development activity going on in a sorely-needed part of town that bears attention. Right off the North Freeway (Interstate 45) between Aldine-Bender and West Roads, on the west side of the freeway, there are new shops, businesses, hotels, and restaurants going in. Great stuff. Best Western Hotels has also built a brand-new facility in that area. It's real sleek and fresh. And Ol' Case is looking to stay there this coming summer in a possible Houston road trip that could have me going to two Astros games. More on that later, but some real positive things are going on in North Houston.
********
As much as I enjoy attending Preston Trail Community Church in Frisco, Texas, I have to disagree with one decision. You see, the powers that be are not having services on New Year's weekend. They say they do this to give greeters and other servant leaders a chance to breathe and be with their families. My take is, why cancel church (where we need to be on weekends anyway) when there should be backup personnel to handle greeting, ushering, and the like? You'd think churches could rummage up enough people for that task or two.
Guess I could just visit First Baptist Frisco for that one weekend. Might not hurt.
********
North Texans are definitely having a cold winter thus far. The last two years, we had 75 degrees at Christmas time. Not so now. We've been in the 30s, and message signs on Dallas freeways are telling people that crews are doing ice prevention procedures in the next couple of days. Hey, it's good to be prepared, even if it may not happen.
********
Speaking of cold conditions, 60s on 6 jock Phlash Phelps told audiences of some parts of the country getting as cold as 40 below zero. And that he shared that, the colder it gets out there, the fahrenheit and celsius figures are almost exactly the same.
And when that happens, my friends, it is dangerous.
********
Becks Prime, the best place for me to have a burger, is down to one location in Dallas. For now, anyway. Their Oak Lawn-area location, for whatever reason, is now closed, leaving the Houston-based franchise with just the Forest Lane location on the north side. It's the one I ate at today, and it's also one of the chain's most profitable locations, grossing very well, even beating some Houston outposts.
Good for them. I love a good Becks Prime hamburger and a great chocolate shake. What the honchos at Becks will need to do now is look for some other Metroplex sites, including the suburbs. There's certainly a market for this type of cuisine and the type of menu Becks offers. If I hear any new news on it, then you'll be seeing it here.
********
I like Yogi Berra's philosophy of life: "Whenever you see a fork in the road, take it".
********
Well, friends, that's it for now. Savor these final days of a great 2017, with prosperity in the cards for 2018. Make it a great New Year!
And there you are.
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