Random Monday Morning Thoughts

• ERCOT warned of Texas rolling blackouts this morning due to power usage.  Edit: And then within 15 minutes all local news organizations began saying that may not be true. 
• Trying to get a faucet to slowly drip (in order to prevent pipe freezing) always takes me much longer than it should. 
• Drilling in the Barnett Shale is the lowest in a decade thanks to companies chasing oil in west and south Texas. Not good for Wise County.
• There was a mating session with The Family Pup yesterday, and I was home to see it. That'll be the last time. It was like doggie porn. 
• There are reports that Islamic militants with Al Qaeda ties have taken over the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Who didn't see that day coming day? And for those that say it's because the President "cut and run", do you really want Americans soldiers still over there in 2014 getting shot and blown to bits? It's been over ten years since we invaded that place solely, we were told, to look for WMDs. Uh, that Mission was Accomplished.
• I bet I woke up every thirty minutes last night with a different crazy dream happening during each sleep interval. 
• Sports: (1) Our long national nightmare of the University of Texas' cluster of a job looking for a head coach is over. (2) He might be great. Maybe not. Who knows. But I saw a fan tweet yesterday that no longer will athletes be recruited who are lazy, soft or have a sense of entitlement. Ok, great. But they need to be able to play, too. (3) Speaking of, UT's quarterback Tyrone Swoopes is awful. There's a reason Mack didn't play him all year. But incoming freshman Jerrod Heard looks freakishly fantastic. (4) The Dallas Morning News took down a tweet and a headline yesterday about a story of why Charlie Strong "is not a hip-hop" coach once the expected backlash was felt. (5) Yeah, I'm not a fan of the NFL but three of the four weekend playoff games were fantastic. (6) But in the concussion paranoid NFL, the last thing it needed was to have Jamaal Charles get knocked out of the first series of a playoff game. (7) I bet it will come as a shock to some of the racists on here when they finally realize the Longhorns and the Aggies both have African-American coaches.
• A guy from Decatur had a Letter to the Editor published in the Star-Telegram on Saturday suggesting there might be another U.S. civil war.
• There was a private jet which crashed and burned at the Aspen, Colorado airport yesterday which was witnessed by LeAnn Rimes and comedian Kevin Nealon. For a while there I was wondering if we had a celebrity death at that high tone resort. Although no less tragic, it was just the co-pilot. 
• From the Update: "Both drivers and a passenger in one of the cars was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth by ground ambulance." No one makes more grammatical errors than me when I throw this blog together every morning, but is that sentence correct?
• While I was away A&E "settled" its dispute with Duck Dynasty. I told you that whole controversy was just a bit. The guy got suspended after next season's episode had already been shot and he'll be there for the next season. Never missed a beat.