A TOUGH NIGHT IN APPOMATTOX LEAGUE ACTION

It was a very tough night in Appomattox League action last night for our team at Matoaca. We lost the 1st game 11-1 and we lost the 2nd game 9-8 after leading the game 8-1 after 2 innings. We will finish out the regular season tonight against out other team at the high school. Well my 1st day of work at my new employer went ok, it is different from my other job so the jury is still out whether I am going to like this job or not. I do have quite a few muscles which are very sore this morning. My blog entries in the future may be shorter because I have to leave for work a bit earlier now. MICKEY

Why is yawning contagious?
No one knows for sure, but a study published in a recent issue of the journal Cognitive Brain Research theorizes that yawning in response to someone else’s yawn may be an empathetic response, similar to laughter. “A yawn can be triggered not only by seeing a person yawn but also by hearing, reading about, or even just thinking about yawns,” says Steven Platek, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Drexel University, in Philadelphia, who directed the research. Platek and his colleagues believe that contagious yawning may be a primitive way of modeling our feelings after other people’s.

The top five most expensive U.S. real estate markets:
1. Orange County, CA
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. San Francisco, CA
4. Washington, D.C.
5. San Diego, CA

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