Happy Birthday to Donna and Tiffany!!!

Donna's is today, Tiff's was the 15th. I'm sure I've missed more. I need to get organized....

Houston

As much as I don't like living in Houston, I'd like to point out that it's 78 and sunny today.

Link to Mom on Swiss TV

Well, they don't show the cuteness of the Pollyanna, but Mom is shown talking. It's about 5 minutes in when it starts showing Woodward. The narrator is speaking German, so you have to listen carefully to hear the people speaking English.

http://www.sf.tv/sfwissen/dossier.php?docid=11292&navpath=pol/int

Then scroll down and click on the picture of Obama that has "Obama an der Macht" to the right of it.

By the way, they didn't show the part where she mentions me (naturally).

Mom (and Pollyanna) on TV in Switzerland

So Arthur Honegger is a tv correspondent for a Swiss tv show, like 60 Minutes. He spent time in the Pollyanna interviewing people, one of which was, of course, Mom. This show is supposed to be available after Jan. 20th on http://www.sf.tv/. If I can find it then, I'll post a direct link. The tough part is that this website is mostly in German/French. Other than people in Woodward, he is also interviewing folks from Freedom and Harlem (????). Here is a picture of Arthur from that site.

Article on his visit is on the Woodward News site: http://www.woodwardnews.net/homepage/local_story_011092117.html

He asked Mom if she thought that Obama would be able to save the economy, and she said yes. That her daughter in Houston did a lot of research on Obama and thinks he's a very smart man.

This is the closest I'll ever get to being on tv...

In case anyone was wondering what the Williams clan was doing tonight....

So since we got Mom & Dad the big screen tv for Christmas, I decided they needed HDTV, to take full advantage of the screen size. Their cable provider isn't offering HD, so I hooked them up with Dish, which is what I have.

What was I thinking??? Today, Dad was home watching tv, and something went wrong. All that was on the screen was a message "weak or lost signal" or something like that. So Donna called me and asked me to call Lyndon who was over at their house trying to fix it. While I'm talking to Mom, Lyndon talks to Lance who calls Temple, who gives ideas. I'm googling, we can't figure it out. You would have thought someone's pacemaker quit, the way we were all scrambling around.

Anyway, Donna also called Kristin, who stopped by and within 20 minutes, figured it out. (She had to push the "source" button on the side of the tv and select "component 1" - in case it ever happens again and Kristin isn't available.)

Whew!