AND THE WINNER IS?

Well today is the big day and I am about to announce the winner of my big contest but first I must have the smartest people read my blog or I ask to easy a question as everyone who entered got all 3 questions right so congrats all you people. Thank you for taking the time to participate but now the bad news, only one of you will get a prize. I have put all the names in a hat and have drawn out one to receive the prize. Congrats goes out to ANN and her SON for knowing the answers. If you send me an address to my E-MAIL address I will send you your prize. God the excitement around here on the day I announce the winner. it is a lot of fun for me. I will have another quiz just before Christmas hopefully with some questions on the Christmas season.
Well after the excitement of declaring a winner it will be all downhill from here today. I am still making MD's of my CD collection so if I ever feel good enough to start walking again I will have lots of music to listen to. Today I am recording a set of 4 CD's called Nippers Greatest Hits. This set consists of 2 CD's of the 50's and 2 CD's of the 60's and all kinds of music from that era, they are 4 of my favorite CD's. Some of the singers in the 50's CD's are: Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Della Reese, Homer & Jethro. The 60"s have the same mix of music so you can see that all types of music is covered, why there is even Mario Lanza.
The MD's will hold anywhere from 3 to 12 CD's on these little discs, I also have about 150 cassetts I want to transfer to MD during this winter when the weather is not indusive to doing much else but staying in the house. I than will sell the cassetts for whatever I can get for them. Most of them are a compolition of country & western singers from the 50's, 60's, 70's & 80's. Also some old rock & roll from the same eras. They now call this music goldy oldies or in the odd case moldy oldies. I love listening to music no matter what I am doing even though I could not carry a note in a bucket.
Well that is my confession for today, not to much more I want to say just in closing I would like again to thank all the people who entered my quiz and will have a new one around the 18 of December, give or take a day or two.
Till next time, take care.

THE LAST DAY!!!!!

Today is the last day to send entries to my big sports quiz so if you havent already entered now would be a good time. I will announce who the winner is in tomorrow's post.
This is also Thanksgiving for our good neighbors to the south so I will start by offering them all the best wishes for now and in the future. Don't forget to thank your God for all your blessings.
I heard on CNN that George W. will be having left-overs from yesterdays dinner today in Crawford, Texas. Wonder if he feels like a cannibal when he has his turkey, just fooling folks, to good to miss.
I am getting a new Mini Disc player and have been transfering songs from my CD's to MD. For those of you not up on MD you can put from 80 to 400 minutes of music on a MD which is anout 70% the size of a floppy disc. The new HD MD will hold up to 1 Gig of information, is the same size, and costs less than $10.00. That works out to up to 45 hours of music. On the old style MD I have put 9 CD's of music, they are a great thing for walkers or joggers who enjoy music while they exercise.
Well I guess that is all for today, stay tuned as tomorrow I will announce the latest winner of the sports quiz.
Now for todays UFI.

(1) The average porkeypine has over 30,000 quills.

(2) The Flintstones live at 39 Stone Canyon Way,Bedrock.

(3) Golf great Ben Hogan's famous reply when ask how to improve one's game was: "hit the ball closer to the hole."

Till next time, take care.

NHL WHO NEEDS IT?

Well here we are still into a lock-out by the NHL owners over the players and the only thing they have proven so far is not too many people really care. Gray Betman will be remembered at the guy with the big plans that ruined the NHL. He gave away the shop last time and this time he is trying to take revenge on the players association (NHLPA) to get even.
The problem is not the players but the owners who are too willing to pay way too much for players for a chance to win the Stanley Cup.
I am not an expert but because of the nature of hockey it is very hard to buy a stanley cup, if you could New York Rangers would have won a bunch over the last few years. Hockey is a true team sport where the player must work together to make it happen, All players on the ice at any one time must know what their teammates are not only going to do but what they are capable of doing.
Baseball is different in that it is a team sport played by each player seperate from their teammates. You hit on your own, play your position by yourself, your teammate has no bearing on how you play. This is a sport where you can buy a championship or at least be one of the top teams year after year. The New York Yankees are a fine example of this, even years when they don't win it all they are always favorites.
I have been a hockey fan for more years than I care to remember, why I can even remember the last time the Make Believes from TO won their last Stanley Cup. I find that I do not miss hockey but if it were on I would probally check the score when the best team in the long history of hockey was playing. In case you are wondering I mean the Canadians from Montreal.
In closing I just want to say in my opinion if the owners don't take things in their own hands and beat some brains into Mr. Betman their will not only be a bunch of players with no jobs their will also be a group of owners who will have no team with an empty building. Don't think there is that much call for rock concerts.
Thats all for today:

The reason they call the game golf is all the other 4 letter words were taken.

Till next time, take care.