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Funny how I was just talking earlier tonight about a special trip taken back in junior high school and it came up again tonight. The family took a two week drive down the East Coast to look at colleges for my oldest brother. My other brother and I got to go along for the ride.

We started out in Virginia and the first stop was Columbia, South Carolina. We stopped in Columbia because we had an aunt who lived there and we stayed in her huge antebellum house for a night and a nice visit.

I’ve been back to Columbia several times since then, although my aunt passed away many years ago. One of the best parts of Columbia is the big lake, created by the Lake Murray Dam. On the west side of Columbia and across the lake is a whole new community called Lexington, where a lot of very nice, upscale homes are located. Lexington SC Real Estate is the first place I would look for a new home if I was able to relocate to South Carolina.

Letterman had Madonna on his show tonight. It was a bizarre interview, but then again, Madonna is a whack job anyway. Letterman  tried hard to be a good host and ask some unusual questions. But she couldn’t seem to handle a serious conversation. I think she was doped up and she admitted that last time she was on the show she was high from smoking dope in the green room before coming out on stage.

The interesting part is that her entrance was unique. Letterman had a handful of NHL players for the NY Rangers team carry Madonna on their shoulders/sticks from the back of the theater and down the aisle then up onto the stage. She was not the least bit gracious toward the Rangers players and complained to Dave that the stick pinched her and she didn’t like it.

I’m thinking she should change her name from Ma-donna to Prima-donna.

At my house there are lights installed on each corner of the house, plus a light at the front door, a light over the garage, and a light beside the back door. All of these work off of independent switches. There is no one switch to turn on all of them at the same time. I think if I was building this house today, that I would have like a master switch for all of the exterior lights, along with a few other minor changes.

I was thinking about that today as I was climbing my ladder and replacing the Par38 Halogen lights on the house corners. These lightbulbs are great – they last a very long time and put a lot of light onto the yard. It is mostly for safety and security, but it comes in handy when I want to take the dogs out before bed, too.

There have only been a few girls that I can think of that I’ve known in any fashion who were named Cassandra. I don’t think it was popular with the mother’s of my generation, and the next generation of children didn’t have much impact on my life.

The two Cassandras that come to mind now are both in their late 20′s and they both use the nickname, Cassie. I wonder if their parents had the use of the nickname in mind when they gave their babies the name Cassandra?

Reading a New York Times article I came across an unfamiliar term. The writer called the worsening climate and the propensity to ignore the dire warnings of Al Gore and the world’s scientists, “The Cassandra Effect.”

The result of all this is that climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them.

None of us can argue that the weather has been getting more severe and more weird over the past several years. At first the climate experts were blaming “El Nino” but I think it has become apparent that it is much more than that.

It was painful to watch the Tennessee Titans loss last night. They played hard and keep throwing away chances to win. They should have won that game.

I don’t envy Jeff Fisher in trying to figure out what’s gone wrong with the team since last year. They had such a great winning season last year and now they can’t win a game to save their hides. Starting out 0 – 3 is down right embarrassing.