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Congrats to the Saints!

The Saints won their very first Superbowl ever! It was a great game – close score and well played by all. Just one or two problems with a controversial call and a player who was penalized for unsportsmanlike behavior. I think he was just carried away with the moment, but that’s no excuse for spearing a guy who is down on the ground.

We were invited to a party but decided to stay home and watch it. I’m not feeling well and wanted to be able to go lie down if I started feeling badly. Can’t do that at someone else’s house. But I stayed up through the game and really enjoyed seeing the Saints win.

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Happy Birthday Elvis Presley

If Elvis had not died, today would have been his 75th birthday. It makes me sad to think that he missed so much by overdosing on the drugs. I wish he had gotten the rehab and correct medical help that he needed in his last years of life while he suffered so badly from addiction and depression. It was such a waste of talent for him to die young.

Happy Birthday, Elvis.

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Happy New Year!

I’m looking forward to 2010. I hear you are supposed to call the year “twenty ten” rather than “two thousand ten.” I’m down with that!

Here’s hoping 2010 is good to all of us!

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New Years Eve

Tonight is going to be a quiet celebration at home for New Year’s. I have been invited to a couple of parties, but to be honest, I don’t fell up for a lot of socializing and partying. I think I would like to be at home in the peace and quiet, and maybe relax with a good movie and some internet surfing or games. I have great hopes for the New Year. I just don’t want to start my year in a crowded room with a lot of drunk people.

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Guitar Legend – Steve Cropper

There are a dozen guitar legends in the rock and roll arena, but this is one of the first that I found and I’ll always love his music. He only plays a few charity events and special shows anymore, but I would love to see him on stage. Everyone playing with him looks like they are having a blast.

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Another Update

Wow – I have to upgrade my WordPress again. This is awful. I can’t do it myself, I have to pay my system administrator to take the time to back up my blog and then install the update. I didn’t realize that there would be so many updates in a year. I thought it would be a once a year type of thing. But this is the fifth one this year. That’s putting me out of pocket over $100 for a supposedly free program.

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Full Moon Monday

Did you see the moon at sunset today? Wow! It was a big orange harvest moon. Made the whole evening seem magical. Wish I had a good enough camera to take a picture of it.

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It’s More Fun When You are Winning

Both of my favorite football teams are having rally bad seasons this year. The Titans have not won a single game. The Redskins lose games to the worst teams in the NFL.
It’s not much fun being a football fan this year.

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Hello October

Last month just flew by! September is always busy for my family. Lots of birthdays, a kickoff long weekend, and school is back in session. So the days get shorter and cooler, and next thing you know it is October!

Looking forward to pretty fall leaves and maybe a trip up to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg this year. Just to get away for a couple of days and appreciate Mother Nature again.

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Longevity at Duke University

I was reading the Duke University publication today. They have an article about the longevity of some of their professors.

Professor Strandberg is one of their faculty members who have taught at Duke  University for over 40 years.

Their Professor of Economics, Craufurd Goodwin, and their Professor of Chemistry, James Bonk, have both been there longer than Prof. Strandberg.

Prof. Goodwin has been the University for 54 years.