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My sister Anita got something like second-row seats for the Celine Dion concert last night, and she snapped a bunch of pics of the beloved diva looking and smiling straight at where she and her friends were sitting. Darn! If I had known Anita was plotting this, I’da cajoled my way into going with her, ‘cuz I’m a big fan of Dion! Then again, if I had gone last night I would have missed Lost Season 5’s premiere. Decisions, decisions…

Still, I’m glad that Anita got to go. She has certainly been letting everyone that she knows how excited she was about it for the past two weeks šŸ˜›...

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It’s now almost 2 weeks since Christmas, and Lisa is happily playing her new Nintendo Wii.

Yes folks, we have a Wii. And my sister does too!

How did it happen? The Thursday night before Christmas, I went to a GameStop store in Greensboro, where they were due to begin selling vouchers the next day for the Wii (which might have been the hottest item of Christmas 2007). The plan was that you buy the voucher, and your Wii comes in on January 25th. I figured hey, if it’s 4 weeks after Christmas that’s still okay.

So I got to the store, and lo and behold the nice associates told me that they had some Wiis in stock, that they were going to start selling the next morning.

“I’m not going anywhere,” I told them. “I’m gonna be camping outside all night until you guys open tomorrow morning, if that’s ...

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Bigtime props to my sister Anita, who this weekend will be awarded the degree of Doctor of Physical Therapy. That makes Anita the first member of our family (that I know of) with a doctorate level of education!

Can’t say that Anita hasn’t worked long and hard for this. Why, I remember the night Lisa and I got engaged, and we met Anita for dinner at the Cracker Barrel in Asheville and while we were eating Anita was telling us all about this dead body that she was dissecting for her anatomy lab and how she was having to scrape out the fat…

…yup, that’s my sister: Doctor Anita Knight! šŸ˜›...

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Funny story about that movie …

My sister Anita and I went to the Brassfield Cinema to see Speed during its first week in theaters. It so happened that we saw it on June 17, 1994.

Does that date ring a bell?

So we went to Greensboro and saw Speed and we got back later that night a little before 10 p.m. local time. Anita was telling Mom and Dad how great a movie it was. I thought it was terrific too. While Anita was talking about it I turned on the TV in our living room to see what was on.

Not ten minutes after we got back home, CBS interrupted regular programming with a breaking news report. The very next thing we saw was a closeup shot from a helicopter of a white Ford Bronco driving down some highway in California.

That’s always made me laugh: that ...

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