My Daughter is celebrating her 18th Birthday today! (Yea, its early by quite a few days, but, since the local news says the National Weather whatchamacallit is calling for a Winter Storm advisory tomorrow and its going to snow for the beejeebers for the next two days, so its best to get it in while we can!!).

Shame, but today is a beautiful day outside...
Wife is putting out decorations on the porch, (garland and lights) for Christmas (and to dress up a rather drab looking porch...

You know, I got up this morning, like any other morning, and was tuning the AM radio, and just happen to come upon one of those oldies channels...and they were playing X-mas music...and then it just hit me..

'Hey, it's X-mas time'....

But aside from that, I just don't feel it anymore...probablly do to the way my life is configured....

And I'm one who use to really love...

Getting out of bed this morning, I had one of those flashback moments. It was spent recalling how I learned to read as a little tyke, and as I recall, it's one of the durndest things that you probably wouldn't believe.

Way back when, I remember my mother telling me that I could read on sixth-grade level as a first-grader. But, even before that, there may be a reason as to why that came about. As a 2-year-old, the TV set was right in front of me, and I still...

Yesterday, my Wife told me that it was time for me to get back to the gym! So, I took my pain meds and I busted my butt, working out...
Sure wish I could get my Wife from whinning that I am 'working too hard', cause, if I dont work out hard enough, Im not going to get the weight off!!! Course, I will say that I even think I over did it a bit myself, but, wont tell her that LOL.

I came back home and my 'heart' was tired!! Since none of you have heart conditions (thank the LORD...

A very strong auction of 30 year bonds helped mortgage rates improve yesterday. Demand for our nation’s long bond was well above average, indicating investors still have an appetite for our debt. It was by far the best auction of the week. All lenders did reprice for the better improving consumer borrowing costs.

The Department of Commerce released the International Trade report this morning. Trade balance data reports the difference between the monetary value of a country's exports...