Rainy night in Georgia!

I don't know if it rained there or not, but 'rainy night in Memphis' isn't the name of a song and doesn't have the same ring to it! Yeah, we are getting some rain today, high near 50, so it will be a drab, gloomy kind of day for Memphis Mania. Giving my Micro final at 11:30. I made the exam so easy so I hope there are a lot of B's and maybe an A or two. I don't think I have had an A on a exam in Patho or Micro this term, without the curve points added that is! It looks like everyone will pass Micro, most with B's. I will try to find one or two 89's or close to give a couple A's to, but I don't really care, it just balances out the overall grades a bit and smoothes the curve.

I keep hearing references to Christmas, Holiday Trees etc and still don't get where this stuff is coming from. Sometimes I think some small town paper or maybe a big city reporter gets wind of some rumor or such, then writes an article that is mostly his own views (forget the facts), this gets published and picked up by more media outlets and finally we have a national story or movement that isn't even worthy of notice! Could that be? Makes sense to me, because I thought MOST U.S. citizens where Christians, and as such, should be appalled that Christmas might be demoted from a Federal Holiday to just a religious holiday, or references to removing Christ from Christmas! Now, if someone suggested removing Santa from Christmas, you get my vote. That ol' fat man with a beard and goofing red suit costs me HUNDREDS of dollars each year, so him, I could do without! We typically end up spending a minimum of $500 on McKenzie during Christmas, then my son and wife have to have something, so it adds up quickly! Oh well, we will survive!

I really think that Americans just have it too good and too easy in this country of ours. If we had to struggle daily just to survive, as most of the people in many underdeveloped countries do, we wouldn't have time to fuss, fret, whine, complain and nag about silly, mostly unimportant things! What if we had to worry that the next car coming down the road was going to explode in our block and blow the hell out of us? What if we lived in a small, poverty stricken nation were the only way we could eat was to either grow it or steal it? In perspective, US citizens should be spending all this idol time giving thanks to God that we have it so good instead of finding more and more things to become offended about, right?

Good day!