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I created this post quite some time ago, but life has gotten a bit hectic again lately so I haven't been able to do much of anything. Just a quick update, my father flew out to Houston again on Monday, had another procedure (the same one he had last time, just patching up some smaller leaks this time) and everything went well.

My parents are probably sitting in the airport in Houston now getting ready to come home. Pretty amazing that they can preform a surgery on your heart and a day later you are discharged from the hospital.

Hopefully this will correct the issues that my father has been having. There is a good chance that he will have another procedure to help more issues that his heart is having, but this one should correct the serious problems.

Here's hoping the problem stays solved this time....

This is old news by now, but it was something that riled me up a while ago so I created a post for it and never got around to it. Obviously the economy is not doing well, and many companies, if not most companies are having to lay off employees and cut costs. It bothers me though when companies use the down turned economy as an excuse to be able to cut costs and stream line things. For instance The NFL is cutting 14% of its staff . Really? The NFL, a multi-billion dollar business has to lay off some staff members because of this economy? The NFL's revenue last year was 7 billion dollars. I realize that is revenue and not profit, but do you really think they need to cut 150 jobs because they may only make 6.9 billion in revenue this year?

I feel bad for the people that got laid off and their families. The layoffs were early - mid December, perfect timing for the holidays. I am sure the top execs in the NFL were happy though, no better way to cut costs than to cut people. Business as usual I suppose....