howdy derek! good to see you too!
and spence i may get over that way next season and do just that

now that the cats out of the bag down here (legally) im gona let yall know where i've been.
long story short, in may of 2011 i found out that my husband of 19 yrs had molested two of our daughters and was working on the third one. somehow i managed not to kill him. i got the kids out of the house and two weeks later had a seizure out of nowhere and was diagnosed with brain cancer (GBM stage 4) which was inoperable due to the location of the tumor and given 3 to 6 months to live.
at this point, we've been through a living hell but i'm in remission, the kids are in therapy and school and doing well and the child molester has been arrested and charged with 5 felony counts with more charges pending.
i lost the ability to do numbers and reason for a while leading up to discovering the brain tumor and was unable to communicate coherantly for a while there. thats why i havent been doing the pickems the past few years but i've been keeping up and i'll be back

it broke my heart to read the news about howdy but i'm glad the rest of you guys are still here to entertain me

keep up the good work!
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire. ~Mark Twain