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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.

A few years ago I had great success planning face to face meetings for a group of friends on the internet. I made arrangements with various hotels and restaurants for meeting space and guest rooms at a discount, and for a party room or banquet room for at least one group dinner during the events.

Several of those same friends have approached me recently about planning more meetings this summer. I will be looking for a hotel in Atlanta, GA for the first meeting, hopefully in late June. Atlanta is a good central location for people along the East Coast and the southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

The second city that we’ll go to in July will either be St. Louis, MO or Chicago, IL. As much as I love Chicago, it has been very hard to find hotels that are willing to give good discounts on the guest rooms and most of them want to charge for the use of their meeting space. The hotels in St. Louis have been much more accommodating in the past. But I plan to check with both metro areas and see if conditions have changed.

If everything works out as planned, we might have time in August for a meeting in either Buffalo, NY or Dallas, TX. To be honest, about the only time of year I am willing to go as far north as Buffalo is August. I just can’t abide the cold weather, but in August the upstate New York is just gorgeous, and you can easily drive across the bridge and spend some time in Canada.

Today I decided to take a long lunch and drive over to Metrocenter to the cable company office so I could exchange my remote control. They didn’t seem to have a problem with it at all. They gave me a new remote control and it even has a pair of fresh batteries with it. I can’t wait to get home and try it on my TV in the living room. I hope the new remote will turn on the TV and end the problem. If the new remote doesn’t work, then I’m facing a few weeks of no TV until I can get some money together and buy a new TV to replace it.

Although I don’t watch many shows on TNT, I did watch a series preview for a show called “Men of a Certain Age,” on my bedroom TV. I guess I won’t be watching the good TV in my living room for a few days until I can get by the cable company office and exchange my remote control.

This TNT series started several weeks ago and I hadn’t paid much attention, but while surfing channels tonight I came across the show just as it was about to start. So I gave it look.

Here the storyline from the internet listing:

Daddy issues plague both Joe (Ray Romano) and Owen (Andre Braugher), as Joe pays a visit to his curmudgeonly retired father (Robert Loggia) and Owen’s dad produces an auto-dealership commercial that suggests Owen isn’t his son and leads the viewers to believe that Owen’s coworker is the son. Elsewhere, Terry (Scott Bakula) is rejected for a youth-mentoring program, sending him on an obsessive quest to find out why he was denied.

For some strange reason, when we hooked up my TV to the digital cable box, we did something that has caused the TV to not turn on and off by the TV’s push button or switch. The only way to turn on the TV is to use the remote control that came with the cable box. And tonight the remote quit working. I tried new batteries and nothing seems to make the TV come on.

I thought that it might be worth a shot to borrow the cable remote from a neighbor and see if the remote is the problem or perhaps the TV is no longer working. It’s one thing to replace a remote and quite another to replace the TV.

My neighbor to the south was home, as I saw her car in the driveway. I dashed over to her house in between the snow flakes and knocked on her door. When she came to the door, I asked if I could borrow her cable remote. It was at that moment that I realized she does not have cable. She has a satellite TV dish in her yard. DUH!

Since I was already over there, I talked with her for a few moments about her satellite TV service. She told me that she loves it and that if I am interested in becoming a subscriber, I should check for DIRECT TV Offers to see  if there are any DIRECT TV Specials that I can use to save money.

Turns out that you can get online and easily check for DIRECTV Specials for different packages and free offers for new subscribers.  When you have the opportunity present itself to rethink your service, it might be the chance to save a little money or perhaps get more bang for your buck, like the DIRECTTV Specials I found online tonight.