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I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday. I know I did. I even disciplined myself and didn’t eat too much. I didn’t miss the pecan or sweet potato pie that much.
Today is Black Friday. I drove past Wal-Mart this morning on my way to work. You could not even get on the lot. This was at freaking 6 a.m.!! You couldn’t pay me enough to get up that early.
Went out tonight and bought a few Christmas gifts. I still have a lot to buy though. It seems like it gets more hectic year after year. People will charge themselves heavily into debt over the holidays and will end up paying far more for an item than it costs after putting it on the credit card.
I work all weekend. I may find time to bang out a couple of entries. Then on Monday, I will debut a new feature for Joey’s Jots. More later.

Drudge Report has posted that Dan Rather will step down as anchor of CBS Evening News in March of 2005. Probably a series of things led to this.

• Memogate-Rather and CBS will disavow this but the memogate scandal has taken its toll on the organization. Rather had egg on his face. He did his best to discredit and embarrass the president of the United States and got caught at it.
• His age-Rather has been there 24 years. He is no longer a young man. He probably knew that the writing was on the wall when Brokaw announced that he was stepping down and Brian Williams was taking his place. The face of television is that of a younger face. Rather can no longer compete, leading to…
• Sagging ratings-The cable nets and the expansion of new media have eroded network evening news ratings. Rather, Brokaw, Jennings just do not put up the numbers that they used to. It is probably a wise idea that Rather is stepping down now.

So all of this is leading to the changing face of evening news. In the next four months, 2 of the 3 network anchors will be gone. Wonder whats going on in Jennings mind right now?

More later.

It’s raining here this morning. Probably going to rain all day. I’m feeling okay today. It’s good to have a couple of days off from work.
All I have been hit with the past few days is that Pacers-Pistons brawl a few nights ago. I have seen that footage about a hundred times. The NBA did the right thing by suspending the players for their actions. And the local authorities are doing the right thing by going after the fans who were throwing things and starting fights. Kudos to both the University of South Carolina and Clemson University for refusing to accept bowl bids after their football players had their little brawl Saturday. It’s a shame that Lou Holtz may be leaving South Carolina with this being his last game.
I am going to be either travelling or working the next three days. It’s a rough way to spend a holiday weekend. My wife and I are going to her mothers for Thanksgiving dinner since we are both working during the day on Thursday. Then I have to come back and work on Friday. At least I’m not working doubles or having to go back twice a day this week. Although it is nice to have that extra money with the holidays coming up. More later.

Talked to the parents tonight. They saw on the evening news that an 8th grade teacher at the school I used to teach at found a list of teachers and students that said “to die” on it. This is why I’m not teaching. I found out very early on that teaching was not for me. It made my life much tougher giving up that job, but I had to do it. My sanity was at stake. I just couldn’t take it anymore. I have to talk to my friend Brandy to see whats going on at that school. A death threat list. Wow. Who could imagine that a 13 year old kid could come up with such a thing? Then again I used to teach 13 year olds and I read their journal writings. Teenagers are maturing much faster than they used to.

I’m starting to get the hang of this thing. Still not all of the way there yet but better than a few minutes ago. More later.

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