First Day of the Year

The U of Iowa won the Outback Bowl today by pounding the U of South Carolina, and I missed watching it, and I missed the Rose Bowl parade in the morning and did not get to see Cloris Leachman as the Grand Marshal of the parade. I was up late last night and slept late this morning. No drinking(I do not drink) but tiredness. Enuf of that. Nice weather today, but cold is supposed to come back in a few days. One month till Groundhog Day. In my last blog of people who died in '8 I forgot to mention Richard Widmark and Wm. F. Buckley, and the lady who had been the manager of wigs at the Met Opera died. And the heart surgeon Dr. Debakey died. A few days ago eight snowmobilers in British Colombia were killed in an avalanche. And Susanne Pleshette died in '8 too. And the war in Gaza keeps going on. At least 400 Palestinians have been killed in the last couple of weeks. And today American forces in Iraq officially were put under Iraqi command, before the troops are supposed to be pulled out in 16 months. We will just have to see what Obama's foreign policy will be with the Clintons in the State Dept. On January 7 will be the 40th anniversary of my going into the Army. And so this fall I will have got to Nam 40 years ago. This is going to be all for right now. You all take care. Di di mau!