Ed Icionsub

There’s a lot of money on the table today as the Saints play the Colts for the NFL championship. I would not be surprised if there were bets on which team would win the coin toss, bets on how many sacks will take down Manning, how many touchdowns will be in each quarter, and all kinds of other nonsense. Office pools have been passing around sign up sheets and collecting small dollar bets for days. I can’t wait to see who cashes in the biggest on this game.

My head says to pick the Colts but my heart says to pick the Saints. This will be a good game, either way.

The Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland areas have been in the middle of a second big snow storm. The new snow is predicted to pile up and be about 30 inches deep. That’s a whole lot of snow for anyone on the East Coast!

I called my mom in Virginia to check on her and she is fine. She says the snow is beautiful, they are well supplied with groceries, and have gas on hand for the generator if they lose power. So far, their electricity is still on and they have been working on a puzzle that they got as a Christmas gift. So I’m glad all is well, and they are actually enjoying some quiet time.

All this fuss about groundhogs today. The big one lives in Pennsylvania and has seen his shadow. So we are all supposed to get 6 more weeks of winter. Yeah, right.

Pennsylvania weather has absolutely nothing to do with the weather in Tennessee, Texas, North Dakota or anywhere more than a few hours drive from the Mid Atlantic area. So, Georgia decided to get their own groundhog and let him predict the arrival of spring for the southeast. And this groundhog did not see his shadow. So we are all supposed to enjoy an early spring.

Well, the first day of spring on the calendar is exactly 6 weeks and 4 days following groundhog day. So, in my opinion, we only have 4 days to quibble about anyways! Four days is certainly not worth all this fuss.

This next month is full of family birthdays. I have to buy several gifts for family members and some of them have to be shipped to Virginia and Oklahoma. I decided to spend a little time shopping for the gifts online while watching the end of the Grammy’s show tonight.

My youngest sister has a new granddaughter, so I want to help out with some new Nursery Furniture for my niece and her new baby girl. I know they have a nice crib, so I will find a nice changing table or dresser and have that delivered right to her house.

My other sister has a granddaughter who will be turning one year old just two days before Valentine’s Day. They don’t have much cash for new Infant Clothing, so I thought I would order a few things that should fit her now and keep her nice in warm, then order a couple things in a larger size that will be nice for the warmer weather that I hope is just a month or two away.

My grandson love to read and I want to start a nice library of Childrens Books for him. I know he loves anything to do with dinosaurs, so I found a couple of great books for him.

I put the orders in tonight and know that they will all be on their way next week to each of the homes – and I don’t even have to gift wrap any of them!

http://www.shopwiki.com/wiki/Toys+and+Games

Watched the Grammy Awards Show tonight. There were a lot of performers getting a few moments of the spotlight. Nashville was well represented in the winners circle. One of my favorite moments was the show by Pink. That woman is HOT!

I think the show was wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too long. I could have done without a lot of the lame jokes and boring stiff commentary. Some of the awards could have been mentioned in shorter moments that didn’t hog air time.And why were those actors brought into this show? Aren’t there plenty of musicians who would have done a great job on stage reading cues?

It got really boring at the end when they started bringing out rap and hip hop people who I have no idea who they are. Would it kill the show producers to run a little scrolling line at the bottom of the screen with the names of the people on stage? I have no idea who most the blacks were, but to be honest, I don’t even care enough to try to look up any of them either. I don’t like rap and hip hop music – it is disrespectful to women and encourages our young people to do drugs, commit crimes and live an irresponsible life. That should not even be allowed on the radio – it is just wrong to have our young people influenced by this crap.

Did you know that there are hidden symbols on a U. S., one dollar bill? There was an interesting article on the front page of Yahoo that explains some of the currency mysteries.

For the record, according to this article, each one dollar bill costs the federal government 6.4 cents to print.

My boss never mentioned having trouble walking or getting around, and for the few times each year that he was actually in our office for meetings, we never suspected that he would need a hip replacement. so we were totally surprised when the receptionist left everyone know that he was in the hospital this week recovering from his hip replacement surgery.

I wish he had talked to me about the surgery before he made his decision. I doubt that he was aware of issues on zimmer durom cup. I read about the problems online a few weeks ago. There was a video online about the attorneys who are handling lawsuits against the manufacturers of the hip replacement part that has been failing.

The durom cup hip replacement is an interesting piece of metal that is surgically inserted into the leg. It looks a little like a stainless steel plumbing piece.

Unfortunately, some of the zimmer durom cup types have failed to work properly within the first two yeas of use. That is the basis for the lawsuits underway by the Maglio Christopher Toale & Pitts Law Firm.

The weather forecast is pretty certain that Nashville will be getting a big snow storm sometime Thursday night or Friday morning. They are predicting at least 2 inches – maybe more – for all of middle Tennessee. That is a lot of snow for us – we don’t usually have an accumulation of snow. Most years we have a few days with flurries and it melts within hours or the next day. It will e interesting to see if we really get 2 inches from this storm or if the weatherman turns out to be wrong again.