Billy Graham released from hospital

After nearly a two week stay, Billy Graham is going home.

The Charlotte-born evangelist was admitted to the hospital, 20 minutes from his home, in the wee hours of Aug. 18 because of intestinal bleeding. He had two more episodes while at the hospital, but none since doctors cauterized the bleeding in Graham’s colon Aug. 22.
“We have been pleased that he has been able to come back from this incident as well as he has,” Dr. Lucian Rice, Graham’s personal physician, said today. “He will continue to have therapy at home, and I feel that he can have a very good recovery.”

Vote for Thaxton

Yes, this is for another radio station other than OrangeNoiseRadio, but I’ll always give love to friends and family…

Thaxton has an opportunity to be named the 102.1 Edge Feature Band of the Week.
From the band:

Please vote for our band, it’s easy…NO Regietering just select THAXTON and submit vote, don’t forget to listen to our song. WE NEED YOUR HELP! Below is what the station sent us, please go to these links!!!

Each week one band is chosen as the Edge Feature Band of the Week. The featured band will be highlighted on the home page and local music pages of the Edge website. Their song will also be played over the air on the Local Show with Chris Ryan!

The featured band will be chosen based on 2 factors:

1) The number of times your song is listened to

2) The number of votes your band receives on the local music voting page

The votes and downloads will be tallied every Wednesday at 4:00 and the new featured band will be updated on Thursday morning each week.

LISTEN TO THAXTON’S SONG

VOTE FOR THAXTON

You did it to make a profit?!

I’m having a laugh about all the hub-bub over D Magazine’s latest cover story.
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People are getting seriously mad about it – and probably the majority of them haven’t read the article.
The Star-Telegram says the magazine is causing an uproar – but then they only interviewed three people. Shame.
Pegasus News says Sprout stores (which banned the magazine) just doesn’t get it.

Local media censorship efforts are running rampant lately. First, we get blocked by the Lancaster ISD — now Sprouts in Flower Mound has taken D Magazine off the shelves over complaints regarding the cover story “Why You Should Hate Southlake.”
Guess they failed to read the subhead: “Because the kids are smarter, stronger, and better-looking than yours. And they prove it every Friday night.”
And those smart kids apparently won’t grow up to manage Sprouts stores. They probably understand the concept of juxtaposition.

I think the D Magazine staff are just having fun with it all – and they should.

I do get offended when they say we wrote that headline “just to sell magazines.” I mean, we also wrote it to please Wick (D Magazine publisher). It’s what we live for.

And here’s another comment…

It’s a rare day when you can simultaneously prove Stevie Wonder and H.L. Mencken right.

The best part of it is those people who are complaining that D Magazine put that cover on it’s magazines simply to sell magazines.
Hmm. Sounds like it was a good plan then. I think they are in the business of making money. The more magazines they sell the more advertising they can get and the more money they can get to pay their employees and put out a better product (or simply hoard it all to themselves if they so chose ;-))
Either way, you’d think some of the folks in Southlake would have something better to complain about.
I’ve seen a lot worse.

So you want to merge all those waypoints/geocaches?

If you’re like me – you hate typing in all those coordinates for geocaches into your handheld GPS unit. It’s such a bother, which is why we decided to purchase the Magellan Explorist 500. Simply hook up your unit to your computer with the USB cable, run the conversion software and presto, all your geocaches are stored to your unit.
But the next problem I came across was the fact that Geocaching.com only gives you 20 caches per page on their website.
So if you search for caches within 25 miles of zip code 75165, there are 320 caches, but only 20 per page. And unless you’re a premium member, that means you’re going to have to download page of 20 caches individually and then upload the files to your GPS unit one by one.
You can download Easy GPS Companion, which does a fair job of combining the files into one .loc file. But occasionally it makes an error and your files get corrupted. Continue reading So you want to merge all those waypoints/geocaches?

Geocaching Wednesday

Well, Wednesday used to be date night for Laurie and I, but with the new semester starting, we’ve moved it to Friday night now.
And so Monday and Wednesday night’s I’m pretty much on my own from 6:30 to 9:30.
I went out and bought a kickstand and water cage for my bike after dinner and installed them both fairly easily.
Afterwards I found a new geocaching trick I’ll share in the next post.
I grabbed some new coordinates and headed out for an evening hunt and ride.
As far as workouts go – it was good.
As far as geocaching goes – I’d give it an C.
My first cache was located at the Oncor (TXU) facility down the road from us. I rode by the first time to scope it out and then pulled into the parking lot to check my coordinates. Luckily I had my bike and water container with me because shortly after stopping a security guard came around the corner to find out what was going on.
I just played everything off and said I was taking a break from my bike ride and checking my route distance on my GPS unit. So much for that cache.
The next cache was located at SAGU. I made a trip around the dorm it was located by and students kept coming in and out and in and out. I figured I’d better wait till next time when the campus is less busy – would have had a lot more luck three weeks ago before class started.
My third and final cache was at a nearby alternative school. Being almost 9 p.m. it was getting dark and as I rode around the campus I figured my chances of finding the cache in the dark were probably a lot less than being stopped by a local police officer or school security.
So I wrapped my hunt up and headed back home.
Now it’s time to get a shower and head to bed.

Wait! I almost forgot – our latest cache is now published, so search, hunt and find. Enjoy!

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