The 2007 Top Fives......

Top Five Sports Moments:

5) My first IRL race!
4) Boise State!
3) The Colts....finally.
2) Sidney Lowe's red jacket at the ACC Tournament.
1) Kevin Everett walks in the Bills' locker room.

Top Five Entertainment Loves:

5) Numb3rs
4) NCIS
3) Jessica Biel
2) Womens Murder Club
1) "24" (what else??)

Top Five People I Don't Want To Hear About in 2008:

5) (Tie) Anyone involved with Anna Nicole Smith and Barry Bonds
4) Paris Hilton
3) Lindsay Lohan
2) Britney Spears
1) Repeat numbers 2 thru 4

Top Five News Things:

5) Minneapols Bridge Collapse
4) The War on Terror
3) Bhutto Assassination
2) Housing Market
1) The Relatively Useless Federal Government

Top Five News Things to Watch in 2008 NOT Related to the Presidential Election:

5) The push to alert the public that analog TV is going bye-bye.

4) A major shift of advertising dollars going to the 'Net, at the expense of "old media" (terrestrial radio, local and network TV, newspapers).

3) The bottoming-out of the housing market (probably by September)

2) Ah, can we start smokin' out Al Qaeda and the Taliban again?????

1) Who runs Pakistan? Who will control the nukes? Will the leaders hate us or let us go in and find Osama once and for all?

TOP FIVE PEOPLE TO WATCH:

5) Michelle Obama
4) Jack Bauer (as to whether he will appear on TV in 2008)
3) Ben Bernanke
2) Vladimir Putin
1) Osama Bin Laden (he's too forgotten in the American psyche)

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And, to close......

THE BOTTOM FIVE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN 2007:

5) Watching Minneapolis suffer on August 1st and Virginia Tech suffer April 16th and beyond....
4) The death of Grannie Frank
3) OCD and Depression....
2) Losing my income....
1) Losing day-to-day contact with my great friends, including my best one.

THE TOP FIVE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME IN 2007:

5) Watching my son leave for Florida
4) Seeing my wife disappear by 26 percent
3) The look on Rachel's face when she found herself AT THE STAGE for Rascal Flatts

and a TIE for first!
The breakthrough into North Carolina, January 24th.
The Moody Blues, by myself, August 5th.

Now, off to snack, surf, watch wifey watch some weird movie (at least Eva Mendes is in it!), then get ready for midnight, when I will DROPKICK 2007 INTO THE PAST!!!

With a smile on my face.....:)