Nine

I set yesterday's blog to post at 4:45 PM, but apparently while I fought to get the countdown widget to work it reverted to draft.  I clicked "Publish" around 10 PM, but it still said "4:45 PM" when my screen went blue.  Maybe it did publish on schedule and my screen wouldn't refresh.  

Then I started working on the first draft of this blog (at 10:23 PM) with every intention of setting it to post at 4:45.  It is now 8:12 PM.  Oh, well.

I did the first draft of this while watching Letterman.  I mentioned earlier that I used to be a fan.  I took about 10 years off, but I don't seem to have missed anything.  (Okay, Marty Short was pretty funny, but he always was.)  I just can't ignore Dave's left-wing slant any more.  Of course Colbert will be far worse, but I'll never know.  I may watch Dave until the end though, just for old times' sake.

When I was trying to get the widget to work yesterday, and didn't think I was going to, I did a Google image search for "Phil Donohue Countdown Calender," and couldn't find a single one.  Go figger.  When I search "phil donahue countdown calendar" I get 5 pictures: 1 of Dave, 1 of Dave with Bill Murray (go figger,) two guys I don't recognize and a Late Night with David Letterman logo.  (Remember Late Night was his old NBC show, but that's where he was when he did the countdown calendar.)

(Am I obsessing on this?)

When I break the search term into "phil donahue" "countdown calendar" I get a bunch of stuff, most of it ragging on George W. Bush.  There are also a lot of pictures of Charles Grodin, and one of Regis Philbin.  Ain't the interwebs great?

Maybe in 9 days I'll start counting down to Dave's retirement 103 days from now.  

YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!!!!!!