...because that's the last time I had any interest in staying up until midnight. It's already 2008 in London, and that's plenty good enough for me.
In the news:
DeMarcus Granger is an offensive tackle for the #3-ranked Oklahoma Sooners and scheduled to play for them in tomorrow's Fiesta Bowl here. Except that tonight he's back in Oklahoma. He went shopping in Tempe Saturday night and decided to use the five-finger discount to lift a jacket from Burlington Coat Factory. Took off the security tag, walked past the cash register and out the door. He was second in tackles, and had 3 1/2 sacks. In other words, he was a player with a future ahead of him. Burlington Coat Factory? For a discount jacket he throws away his career at Oklahoma?
Oh, wait. He's a star football player at a major university with a team in the top 10. He's fine.
Kumari Fulbright was Miss Pima County and competed for Miss Arizona. But more recently she's a law school student and clerking for a federal judge. Her job may be in some jeopardy at this current time, however. Seems she and three of her friends kidnapped an ex-boyfriend of Kumari's and held him for three days. They beat him up, robbed him, she stuck a knife in his ear...generally did a horror movie number on him.
So by Wednesday she'll probably be unemployed. By Thursday she'll be in the astronaut program at NASA.
I don't get the fuss about how Benazir Bhutto died. Depending on who opines, she either hit her head, was shot in the head, or was hit by shrapnel in the head. At the risk of sounding insensitive, she's dead. That brings some pretty heavy political implications for Pakistan and perhaps for the world (remember, they have nukes). But does it matter what caused her death? The what seems to be outweighing the who. And isn't that a lot more important?
We're inundated with the typical year-end lists, most of which are inane. But two struck me. One was the list of people in the news who died this year. It sounds crazy, but I forgot that some of them were dead. Some of them made me sad. Sad at the loss of their gifts and personality. Beverly Sills tops that list. (I didn't forget she died.) One of her quotes they played: "When I die I'd rather regret things I did than things I didn't do." Interesting.
I also enjoyed an article I read about the year's top videos. This one got top viral video ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
And this is a really good spoof on a really good ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-kSZsvBY-A
I think this is the point where I'm supposed to wax eloquent about the turn of the year - things past and things ahead. But I can't possibly come up with anything original, and everything that's been said has been said better than I could.
And what I'm actually thinking at this point is rather simple.
I'm thinking I'm thankful for a wife who does so much more than just put up with me. And kids, every one of whom is a source of such pride. I sure love them. My folks and siblings - I'm really thankful for our mutual love and commitment.
And friends. We have friends all over the country because of the itinerant life we've lived. They are all irreplaceable.
I'm rich.
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