Tom Smothers, half of the Smothers Brothers and the co-host of one of the most socially conscious and groundbreaking television shows in the history of the medium, has died at 86. The National Comedy Center, on behalf of his family, said in a statement Wednesday that Smothers died Tuesday at home in Santa Rosa, California, following a cancer battle.

SAME! Those are awesome reids...thanks for sharing!

This was in the news this afternoon: But the eruption is thought to be more serious than a previous bout of volcanic activity on the peninsula in March 2021. The activity continued for six months during that year, prompting thousands of Icelanders and tourists to visit the scene and an Icelandic band to perform a live gig with lava in the background. Hjálmar Hallgrímsson, a police field commander, said, “We ask people to allow us to assess the situation, this is not a tourist attraction. This is many times more powerful.” This “is not considered tourist-friendly,” said Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland. “It’s quite serious when you have to evacuate 3,700 people and you don’t know when they can return.” “This is not a tourist attraction and you must watch it from a great distance,” Vidir Reynisson, head of Iceland’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management, told broadcaster RUV.

They are really cool. When I went to Iceland in May 2021, my flight to N. Iceland was cancelled due to not enough people on the flight (it was during Covid). The travel agency I was working with asked if I'd like to see the volcano instead. At first I didn't want to since I tried that on the Big Island of Hawaii years ago and they stopped you about 2 miles from the volcano, pointed to a little red dot and said "There it is!" However, in Iceland they let you get to within 300 meters of the damn thing and it was spectacular!

It was luck AND a lot of hard work to score that standing ticket!

...I know Scarlett was at the O2 gig - she was right in front of me between the barricade and the stage. Those wouldn't be "private" and I'm sure she got lots of great shots that night.

After a crap week, we had a gorgeous weekend with temps in the mid-50's and clear sunny skies! Next chance for snow is Christmas Eve.

Glad you guys had a great time! Loved Iceland and the people were so friendly ( a bonus that everyone speaks English!). Hope to see some pictures posted soon!

We've only had 4 hours of sunshine since last Thursday. This morning, 31 degrees and pea soup thick fog. At least the snow missed us this week......

Three cold fronts in a row since last Friday. We've had a whopping 4 hours of sunshine since then. Today, it's colder now at 1300 hours (31 degrees) than it was when I came into work at o500 hours (35 degrees). Tonight the third front comes through and we can expect an inch of snow tomorrow morning.

Ha....I had SO many packages of strings at home - all missing the high E because that is the one string that breaks so often!

Funny you should mention that. One weekend I had nothing better to do so I kept track of all the commercials on TV Friday night through Sunday night. I did the math that Monday and found that 87.2% of all the commercials I watched featured a black person (NOT a person of color, i.e., Asian, Hispanic, Native American, etc.) in a major role in each ad. If you were coming from a foreign country to visit here, and judged the US demographic by watching TV in your hotel room, you'd thin the U.S. comprised of 90% blacks, rather than the 14% that actually reside here!

WOW...that's pretty cool! All of them seemed pretty down-to-earth (at least in interviews).

Writer-producer-developer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s sitcoms as “All in the Family” and “Sanford and Son,” died on Tuesday. He was 101. Lear’s publicist confirmed to Variety that he died at his home in Los Angeles of natural causes. A private service for immediate family will be held in the coming days.

DAMN...that hurts. April Wine was an awesome 80's band and Myles kept his voice into his 70's. So sad!

Hey custard pie man, I was looking over my journal this past weekend and came across something that might be of interest to you. I stayed at three different hotels during my stay and all of them were beyond HOT! They use geothermal heating and the rooms get super uncomfortable, I sleep in just shorts anyway, but even then, it was too hot in the room to sleep. Turned the thermostat off, opened the window - still too hot! I usually sleep in shorts and a thin bed sheet, but all the beds in the hotels I stayed at only had a super-thick comforter on the bed and no bed sheet. I made a note to myself to bring a bed sheet along on my next trip there. I already put a bed sheet into my luggage for my trip there in May 2024.

I don't blame you. The transfer portal with no penalty to the players that leap from one school to another whenever it suits them, schools jumping conferences to the point we'll only have 2 conferences eventually, schools and coaches bending to the "woke" culture, etc. I quit watching the pros when the whole "Copperdick" debacle was raging, I'm not long for the college world either....

In my opinion, ALL four teams had a legit reason to feel they deserved to be in it: 1. FSU - Won their conference title, un defeated and will have their second string QB back on the field. 2. Texas - Only loss was to their conference rival, won their conference and beat the SEC Champ early in the season. 3. Alabama - Won the SEC conference title (THE toughest conference in college football), only loss was a regular season game against the Big 12 conference champion, and seemed to have to play a ranked opponent EVERY weekend. 4. Georgia - Only loss in the last two years was a 3 point loss to Alabama. Number one team for two years and should not have dropped so far in the polls.

Congrats Tide and thanks for revealing the BCS Committee for the frauds that they are! FSU is in my Top 5 schools that I dislike, but they deserved to be in the play-off. Undefeated (barely) and won their conference...they did all they were supposed to do to be in the play-off but were snubbed!

Sorry if this was already posted, but I just saw this and I'm SOOOO impressed with her talent! .

OUTSTANDING!!

HOLY CRAP! I had to do that over a month and a half ago! It's been above freezing since Sunday, but we still have 6 inches of snow on the grass and an inch of ice on the streets!

Led Wallet!

If I was you, I'd still go. The Icelanders are used to these volcanic activities and know how to work around them. Although the Blue Lagoon is currently closed (it's an over=priced tourist trap anyway - better hot springs elsewhere), the only thing that would prevent you having a GREAT time is if the smoke from an eruption messes with planes landing/taking off from the airport.

I was in Iceland when Fagradalsfjall was erupting! Long hike from the car park, but spectacular! They let us walk to within a couple hundred feet and it erupted like clock work every 15 minutes.