Happy New Year

Hey...sorry I've been so lax about this log. Christmas came around and I was either working my tail off or running around getting ready for the holiday...finally, when I was done with those two, I was busy having fun. Thus, no blog for a couple weeks. Chances are you all were too busy to notice or care.
I hurt my hip last week, I think just from excessive time working on my feet. I haven't seen a doctor, and its gotten better each day, so I'm not concerned. It may have simply been a bad muscle pull, or bursitis or a pinched nerve-- who knows. All I know is that I woke up in the middle of the night on the 2nd with intense pain in my leg and hip, and when I hobbled out of bed to get some ibuprofen, I was cursing like a stevedore in pain. Yikes! I spent the weekend hobbling around on a cane and sitting on my ass watching football and movies. As of today, it's just a little sore and tight, but I can walk just fine and move around and all that jazz.
Luckily for me, some of the football games were good ones, like that great Tennessee-Baltimore game on Saturday and the equally great (if not more so) Green Bay-Seattle game yesterday.
Besides the football, I've been on an old movie kick of late. I watched the new DVD of Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Bacall was all of 19 years old when she and Bogie fell in love making the movie. The romance shows, her age doesn't. It's not that she doesn't look young and beautiful, but she sure doesn't act like any 19 year old *I* know. The film is pure Hawks. William Faulkner may have co-written the script, adapted from Hemingway's novel, but the film's author is clearly Howard Hawks. Was you ever bit by a dead bee?