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December 01, 2004
Ken Jennings is my hero!
Ohhh....so sad....Ken lost on Jeopardy yesterday...I know I know, we all knew it was going to happen back in Sept when word leaked that he lost...I knew it was coming...but I really got used to seeing him on the show every day, coming thru with the correct answer when no one else knew it..ringing in first over and over, tearing up the columns he knew best, going into Final Jeopardy with a 20K lead over his rivals who were barely holding a 1200 purse...I'll miss him...I look forward to seeing if any new whiz kids show up, but I'll still miss him...He was on Nightline last night and David Letterman, so I got a few extra tweeks of him before he rides off into the Utah desert...he did say he has a book coming out next year, and I'm sure he'll be back to tear up the Tournament shows...But still...And now...
Tonight is the last night for Tom Brokaw too...boo! I don't watch much of the 5:30 national news anymore - its inconvenient and so biased that it makes me nauseous...but even tho Tom has a hard time with his "L"s, I still enjoyed him the most...I always enjoyed him coming on David Letterman and cracking jokes...he seems like an approachable, down to earth kinda guy, out on his Montana ranch and fly fishing in the river...We ran into Charles Osgood (CBS Sunday Morning program) last December when in NY, but its not quite the same...Too bad Tom wasn't skating around Rockefeller center or grabbing a hot chocolate in the cafe..we would have said 'hi'...(we had a hot chocolate in Rupert's Hello Deli outside Dave's studio, but again - not the same)...I'm sure Brian Williams will do a fine job, and maybe Tim Russert will be tapped to fill Dan Rather's shoes at CBS (was there ever a more aggrivating puffball than Dan Rather? And to think he owns a house here in Austin and his daughter lives here - well, I don't run in those circles, so no chance of running into them)...
I haveta go check the Blackberry bushes to make sure they survived the freeze last night. I've actually turned the heater on in the studio for the first time..it is going to be 65 today, so its not like it'll be running much...i just need to get the chill out of the air..and get the ferns back outside to enjoy the sun...
I'm working on some new stuff, I'm happy with some of it, others didn't turn out like I'd hoped...I'll try to get something ready for ya'll this week, tho...hang in there, I'm still making beads, but my creativity is all over the place at the moment and I'm having a hard time channeling it...but its coming out, in spits and fits...
Posted by Donner at December 1, 2004 11:03 AM