Who sang that? Back in the mid sixties? Was it Herman and the Hermits?

I'm glad we are still a functioning blog. A couple of my other blogs were on the Ning service and servers and Ning decided to charge fees. One of them, a blog for writers and artists called Inked-In asked members for donations and all it took was a few folks to pony up the cash to keep it alive. But then, Inked-In has about a thousand users. My family blog there only has a few, so I shut it down.

The sad fact is that small blogs won't survive. The big monster is Facebook. It has all but killed off even the other "monsters," such as MySpace, which I predict will fade away within a year.

We are lucky to have Ed keeping us "alive." Thank you, sir!

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I feel like I am living in Brazil. The heat is awful. 96 yesterday. probably beat that today. The humidity is worse. You need to take a sharp knife with you when you step outside just to cut a path through the air. I am doing everything I can for the cats, floor fans everywhere, curtains pulled. Pans of ice in front of the fans. Tequila sunrises.

It will last until some time Friday when the slow cold front manages to get here.

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I am so happy that the Oranje got through Uruguay to the World Cup Final. They were a real surprise, but I feel that the Dutch team is one of the most talented football sides of the last four or five Cups, with the exception of the 1994 Brazilian side. Whoever wins today (Germany or Spain) will have a heck of a time beating the Netherlands.