Thursday Thirteen - You know you're living in 2008 when...

You Know You're Living in 2008 When... 1.... You gave up your land line phone in favor of a cell phone. 2.... Every member of your family, including your eight year old, has a cell phone. 3.... If you want to speak to two or more members of one household, you have to call each of them separately on their cell phone. 4.... You email the pizza delivery place when you have a pizza craving. 5.... Your kid texts the person sitting next to him. You're not totally surprised when one of your kid's friends parents end up with a $1,000 phone bill because the child went over allotted texts. You're sorry this happened but relieved if wasn't your bill. You update your cell phone plan for unlimited texting just in case your kid also becomes a crazed texter. 6.... You know who David & David are. 7.... You follow at least one reality tv show. 8.... You have a blog. 9.... You talk to your friends more on blogs than in person or in email. 10... You watch tv in your car. 11... Every other person you see is wearing New Balance gym shoes. 12... You use your cell phone as your alarm clock. 13... Everyone fights for the closest parking space at work but then spends breaks power walking.

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Don't forget to read my interview with romance author Sandra Cox and her excerpt if you missed it yesterday. It's just below.

Thursday Thirteen

My Thirteen Favorite TV Shows of All Time I'm bushed tonight, so I'm not going to expound too much. Beyond having an extremely busy day at work, I finished the Heat Wave story I'm writing for TEB and I watched daughter #2 play a tournament game - her team won and she got the game ball for her awesome catching tonight. 1.... American Idol! (Season 4 was the best, but Season 5 and this year are good, too) 2.... Smallville (duh! I love Superman) 3.... Star Trek (the original series) 4.... Star Trek Voyager 5.... Sliders 6.... McHale's Navy 7.... Hogan's Heroes 8.... Charmed 9.... Scarecrow & Mrs. King 10... Lois & Clark (see #2) 11... Star Trek Next Generation 12... Bewitched 13... I Dream of Genie

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Thursday Thirteen - 13 things that happened in the news and entertainment the year I was born

Thirteen Things about 1959, the year Ashley Ladd was born 1. THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: Buddy Holly, 22, Jiles P Richardson - known as the Big Bopper -28, and Ritchie Valens, 17, died in a crash shortly after take-off from Clear Lake, Iowa at 0100 local time. 2. Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba. 3. Soviet Union's Luna 2 is first spacecraft to impact moon and the Soviet Union's Luna 3 takes first pictures of the far side of the moon. 4. The first Barbie Doll was produced. 5. Alaska and Hawaii admitted to the Union as U.S. states. 6. Xerox manufactures the Xerox 914, the first plain paper copier. 7. Rod Serling's classic anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. 8. Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time. It is critically acclaimed and eventually wins 11 Academy Awards 9. Pantyhose are introduced by Glen Raven Mills. 10. The first known human with HIV dies in Congo. 11. The number one hit of the year was Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife. 12. In Detroit, Berry Gordy, Jr. started a small company which he called Motown Records. 13. Confederate Walter Williams is the last veteran of the Civil War to die. Albert Woolson, the last Union soldier of the Civil War died in 1956.

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In the news tonight for Florida (my state if you're new to my blog), a 7 foot alligator was found in the back seat of a car pulled over for a traffic stop. Yes, it was alive. No, it wasn't driving. No, it's not a common occurrence in Florida. Yes, it would be even more uncommon in my home state of Ohio.

In the SAME car, they found a 6 foot water moccasin (snake). The news didn't say WHY the driver was driving around with loose dangerous animals.

Now WHY would someone want to put either an alligator or a poisonous snake in a car, much less unrestrained in a car with them??? The logic eludes me. Call me stupid, but I just don't get it.

The car's driver was bitten by the snake, but I suppose he was saved as nothing more was said and I can't find it on the Internet. Supposedly, they apprehended the alligator without injury.

I also don't get why people walk along railroad tracks. And yet, a young man tragically died today, also in South Florida when he and his father walked on them, or perhaps within a couple feet. My heart goes out to the young man and his family. I have to wonder, though, WHY they walked there and not on a sidewalk.

You'll want to check out Amarinda's blog and find out why she took off her shirt in the middle of traffic, today. LOL. And also Brynn's, Kelly's, and Anny's blogs to see what they're up to at the RT convention. Or you can also hang out with Sandra and Molly who are home and not at RT like yours truly.