Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• I actually drove on the service road of the extended portion of the George Bush freeway that goes through Grand Prairie a couple of weeks ago. (It opened yesterday.)  No one was around me. Who is going to use the freeway?
• I've recorded, but have not watched, the Cowboy game. I miss the days when it was important to me. 
• I slept straight through the storms on Saturday night.
• Mrs. LL and the Fourth Grader In The House left at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday to go to a softball game only to learn it was cancelled once they got there. (Cancelled 15 minutes before they got there.) Talk about a beat down. 
• If you win a Nobel prize, is there a trophy?
• RG3 became the first player in NFL history to have a pass and a run over 75 yards in the same season. I wanted him back at Baylor on Saturday night. 
• I thinks Mrs. LL finally looked around yesterday and saw contented kids and sleeping pets and had a feeling of tranquility.
• I've been a "follow the rules" person all my life. I'm beginning to want to change that.
• That crazy guy who planned to jump out of a hot air balloon and break the sound barrier actually tried it yesterday. I know he lived. I don't know if he broke the sound barrier. Edit: He dropped 24 miles at a top speed of 834 miles per hour. (Was this on TV?)
• As a kid, I heard sonic booms all the time. Loved it.
• Mack Brown's first huge blowout loss to OU led to a Ticket drop of "I'd like to apologize to all Texas fans out there." That's been so long ago, I'm not sure a lot of people remember it
• I kind of get depressed after the Texas/OU game. The Fair will end soon and, although I won't go to it, it's a signal that Fall is coming to an end and the Holiday Season of joy/beatdown/hecticness is upon us.
• Mrs. LL put up a a family of tiny scarecrows in the front flower bed (the one that took me weeks to build with handcrafted stonewall making skills). The momma scarecrow, I noticed, was taller than the daddy scarecrow. 
• I dropped off three teenage girls at a Quinceañera this weekend. Seconds later, I tweeted that "I don't know who I am anymore."  But I felt very adult-like as I gave them some last second advice: "Be respectful. Don't do anything stupid."  Edit: There used to a book, I think, called Things I Learned in Kindergarten. If that advice is not in it, it should be. 
• There's a 17 year old missing after "cliff diving" at Eagle Mountain Lake. 
• New Order played in Dallas over the weekend. I always picture them as eternally young and eternally hip. And Bizarre Love Triangle may be favorite song. "I feel so extraordinary . . . "
• There was a picture in the Messenger this weekend of the guy who was convicted of Attempted Capital Murder and his lawyer. The guy was smiling. The lawyer (a friend of mine) had a look on his face of I'm-Stressed-I-Care-I'm-Worried-I'm-Hopeful-This-Is-Not-Just-A-Job.
• The Rolling Stones announced a concert tour over the weekend. In 1982 I was on a college campus where guys were telling me, after they had just purchased tickets to a Dallas show, "This will probably be the last time to ever see them live."
• Mrs. LL pondered what we would think if we "swapped places for a week".  That truly is a fascinating question.