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On Christmas Eve I received two cards in the mail – just in the nick of time.

The first card is from Doug and is actually a post card from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  And you guessed it, there’s a large missile on the front of the post card.  Doug actually lives in the DFW area, but since the card is post marked from NM, I’m going credit this card from a New Mexico destination.

The second card comes from the Leach family of Midland, Texas.   I’ve only been to Midland once to fly out of their airport, and my most vivid memory of that travel is just how darn windy and dusty West Texas can be.

Many thanks to the Leach Family and Doug for the cards and helping to fight lupus!

So that’s 11 cards from Texas, two cards from NY, and one from North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Canada.  

With a total of 20 cards, that’s $20 I’ll donate to help fight lupus.

With this being Christmas Eve and all, I don’t expect anyone to mail me a card at this point, so I won’t bother posting the address anymore.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

That Stuart Scott has cancer.  He’s in WifeGeeding’s One-Eyed Hall of Fame.

The guy annoys me a bit and I really can’t stand his very politically correct chat sessions that are in ESPN the Magazine, but I certainly don’t like the idea that he now has cancer.  Thankfully it was caught early. 

ESPN anchor Stuart Scott has been diagnosed with a malignancy in his appendix and plans to begin chemotherapy.

The malignancy was discovered when he had emergency appendectomy surgery on Nov. 26. He had a second surgery to remove surrounding tissue.

A statement Thursday from ESPN said Scott’s physicians “are confident they eliminated the cancerous tissue but have prescribed preventative chemotherapy.”

Scott will return to on-air studio work on ESPN’s NBA doubleheader Friday and will debut as ABC’s NBA studio host on Christmas Day. If needed, ESPN’s Mark Jones would sub for Scott.

Says Scott, in a statement: “Talk about a shocker … But I’m not the type of guy to let this eat up my life.”

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Tracy Phillips, the daughter of Dallas coach Wade Phillips, plays a belly dancer in a critical scene of Charlie Wilson’s War, the film starring Tom Hanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julia Roberts. Phillips does a seductive dance in front of the Egyptian defense minister. It’s a long story. We’ll all have to see it to understand it. Daughter joined Dad in Charlotte for the Cowboys-Panthers on Saturday night, by the way.

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There are going to be very few posts until the start of next year.  I need the break, and I’m sure most of you are off visiting family and doing better things than surfing the Internet.  As a matter of fact, this 32 year old just realized that 10 years ago I spent my last ever Christmas with my father, and now this will be my second without my mother.  Life is short and very unpredictable, so be sure to really let the time you spend with loved ones sink in.

I’ll continue to post any updates regarding Christmas cards.  I won’t post a final total until a little after the first of the year since the mail may be a little behind.  At that time I’ll be sure to total everything up and report on the final numbers.