UVA BACK IN ACTION TONIGHT

The Virginia Cavalier basketball team returns to action tonight at the JPJ Arena against the Hampton Pirates. The Pirates enter the with a 5-4 recored while the Cavs are 7-2 and 5-1 at the JPJ Arena. Well today is the last day of school for both teachers and students for the next two weeks, I personally think that the break maybe a little to long and should be shortened a bit. I know that there are several fellow bloggers out there who haven't finished there Christmas shopping yet, to you people I say what are you waiting for. Speaking of fellow bloggers where in the world has Glenn, Marylin, Donna and Tammy been, it's like they dropped off the face of the earth. My AIP has been elevated a bit this morning because I have a bit of a stiff neck and I stubbed my toe again last night. MICKEY

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
Albert Einstein

PUN OF THE DAY
If we have to pay to go to the river, we'd better stop at the bank.

1843 : "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was first published in England.
1927 : George Scott and Frank Elliot became the only drivers ever to travel by car 4,200 miles across Canada without gasoline. They talked 168 passing motorists into towing their car, which did not have a motor.
1944 : American Christian songwriter Andrew Robert Culverwell was born. He wrote "Born Again" and "Come On, Ring Those Bells."
1960 : Frank Sinatra recorded "Ring-A-Ding-Ding" and "Let’s Fall in Love" in his first session with his own record company, Reprise Records.
1973 : Comedian Johnny Carson created a minor crisis when he mentioned during a Tonight Show monologue a news item that said toilet paper was disappearing from store shelves. Within a few days toilet paper actually became scarce in some areas.
1975 : Advertising executive and storyteller C.W. McCall earned a gold record for his novelty hit "Convoy," a single about truck drivers and their run-ins with the law. It reached #1 on both the country and pop charts.
1980 : Santa Claus robbed a bank in Berkeley, California, by threatening to blow it up. A short time later, police arrested a hefty 50-year-old man with a sackful of money, still wearing his Santa outfit.
1985 : ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released him from all TV commitments. "The Mouth" continued on ABC Radio for another five years.
1995 : Two bandits tried to rob Z's Sports Tap bar in Chicago where a police retirement party was underway. The 100 off-duty police officers arrested the suspects at the scene without a fight.
1997 : ''Titanic,'' the highest-grossing movie in history, opened in North American theaters.

Charlie Ryan Singer, songwriter is 92
Little Jimmy Dickens Country singer is 87
Cicely Tyson Actress is 74
Maurice White R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire) is 66
Al Kaline Baseball Hall of Famer is 73
Richard E. Leakey Palaeontologist is 63
Tim Reid Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati") is 63
Elaine Joyce Actress is 62
John McEuen Country musician (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) is 62
Janie Fricke Country singer is 60
Kevin McHale Basketball Hall of Famer is 50
Mike Lookinland Actor ("The Brady Bunch")is 47
Jennifer Beals Actress is 44
Scott Cohen Actor is 43
Robert MacNaughton Actor is 41
Criss Angel Magician is 40
Kristy Swanson Actress is 38
Amy Locane Actressis is 36
Rosa Blasi Actress is 35
Alyssa Milano Actress ("Charmed," "Who's the Boss?") is 35
Warren Sapp Football player is 35
Jake Plummer Football player is 33
Marla Sokoloff Actress is 27
Jake Gyllenhaal actor is 27