My thoughts by Paul M. Dugan

I hope everyone is having a lovely December during the holidays. Here is Virginia it's cold for a few days then we get a warm burst for two days then we go back to cold. I hope no one in the area get badly sick during the crazy weather we are having. I just ordered my gift for my Christmas shopping this year. It's hard to shop bu I ordered some stuff online & bought some stuff in stores near home. How has your shopping gone for you this holiday? My work is going ok right now. Right now I am revising my resume to apply for a few jobs. I will be watching lots of college football since I love the sport & I am in a pick'em bowl pool I am the ring leader for that on yahoo. Notre Dame Football is going bowling this year. We need some positive vibes this days. Here are the games: All times Eastern 2008-09 College Football Bowl Schedule BOWL LOCATION DATE/TIME NETWORK EagleBank Bowl Wake Forest vs. Navy Washington, D.C. RFK Stadium Dec. 20, 11 a.m

I hope you had a lovely "THANKSGIVING" this year in the USA. Happy holidays to all to just in case I offended my friends in the United Kingdom. I had a lovely "THANKSGIVING" to with my family @home. Wall street (New York City) in USA has had it's ups & downs this year. I hope everyone is coping with this in a better way. My facebook update is I am up to 140 friends/family at this current time. I might be putting up to many sports articles at a time on facebook. I hope to get my own web site up to date later this month @ Paul's Candid Shots, the Sequel take care & had a great time on buying presents during the holidays (Jewish holiday & Christmas holiday). Peace Out you all.

I hope your doing well this days. I am doing pretty great here. My first two classes for Excel are went well. I was at my 15 year high school class union last month and I saw lots of friends that I have not seen in a while. I usually take my camera or digital camera to events that I go to but the problem is when I come with a digital camera I take pictures of other people but none of me. So it was nice to have someone else take pictures of event I was attending & get some photos of me in them. I have been watching lots sports (mostly college football & college basketball - men & women that just started). I do watch allot of mls & soccer (europeanfootball - epl ) & college soccer to. Both NOTRE DAME men & women soccer teams are in the ncaa tournament this season again. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still take pictures of a personal nature when I am going somewhere out of town to visit family & friends to. Tak

Sorry I have not emailed in while & typed on my blog . There are no new pictures on my web site still since I have not got the info to updated it anytime soon. I think I have been spending to much time on facebook I guess. I have 130 friends/family on facebook. I have been spending sometime in South Bend, IN (Notre Dame) a few times for NOTRE DAME Football during this season. I visited in Chicago, IL a few times to visit my brother John & wife Kelly . A few months they had a baby boy to named Quinn. Quinn is getting big pretty quick. That makes my younger brother & I uncles to little Quinn. I just attended Quinn's Christian a month ago & I was asked to be his "GODFATHER" to. I accepted this task with great delight for myself. So I am Quinn's uncle & "GODFATHER" to. Doubling my duties for hellping & caring for Quinn. I am very happy with myself this days because I am taking a class involing EXCEL ( Microsoft ) to get a

I hope everyone ok when wall street has been taking a big hit for the past three weeks or so. Sorry have not been on the computer lately because I had too much stuff on my computer to sort out. I was away to Cleveland, OH & South Bend, IN and Chicago, IL to visit family & friends without a UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame Football game involved in this trip. I took lots of pictures on my trip to. As soon as I came back from my lovely weekend I had to write some checks for some bills to take care of. My parents & I had lovely weather all the time on the trip just to let you know. In three weeks I will be taking class to get certifed on a program called "Microsoft EXCEL" on the window's platform. I am already using EXCEL on my mac (apple) pretty good at that. About a month ago I bought a new Wii (Nintendo) game called 2008 ncaa college football game. One game I love playing is fifa soccer 2008 to see match up's to see if real games really pen out during

Here is the first bcs rankings for college football season: BCS Standings - October 19, 2008 BCS Explanation | About the BCS | Past Winners | bcsfootball.org Week: 1 Other Polls Index USA Today Associated Press Harris Poll Legends Poll BCS standings ESPN.com Power Rankings ESPN.com Bottom 10 ESPNU Allstate Standings Harris Poll USA Today Computer Rankings BCS TEAM RK PTS % RK PTS % A&H RB CM KM JS PW % COMP AVG BCS AVG PRVS 1 Texas 1 2838 .9958 1 1522 .9980 25 25 25 25 25 25 1.000 1 .9979 NR 2 Alabama 2 2692 .9446 2 1436 .9416 24 24 24 24 24 24 .960 2 .9487 NR 3 Penn State 3 2631 .9232 3 1413 .9266 21 20 21 16 18 15 .750 7 .8666 NR 4 Oklahoma 4 2357 .8270 5 1218 .7987 17 23 20 23 22 22 .870 4 .8319 NR 5 USC 5 2327 .8165 4 1264 .8289 14 22 16 19 16 17 .680 10 .7751 NR 6 Oklahoma State 8 2046 .7179 8 1083 .7102 23 16 23

Well, I will be away this coming weekend for a special event so I will let you know what it is after I get back. Just to let NOTRE DAME Football fans know that they are not playing this coming weekend. GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am up to 114 friends/family on facebook that I really know. I got some poster frames to put in some really cool posters I have gotten when I went to some ND Sports event for the past years. It's really cool to do this finally. Take care

Here are the new college football polls: Oct. 12, 2008 Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week 1. Texas (44) 6-0 1,505 5 2. Alabama (14) 6-0 1,452 4 3. Penn State (3) 7-0 1,416 6 4. Southern California 4-1 1,198 9 5. Texas Tech 6-0 1,195 7 6. Oklahoma 5-1

AP Top 25 for college football 1. Oklahoma (51) 5-0 1,608 2. Alabama (13) 6-0 1,537 3. Missouri (1) 5-0 1,487 4. LSU 4-0 1,444 5. Texas 5-0 1,374 6. Penn State 6-0 1,287 7. Texas Tech 5-0 1,163 8. USC 3-1 1,137 9. Brigham Young 5-0 1,103 10. Georgia 4-1 1,014 11. Florida 4-1 977 12. Ohio State 5-1 931 13. Vanderbilt 5-0 833 14. Utah 6-0 815 15. Boise State 4-0 677 16. Kansas 4-1 623 17. Oklahoma State 5-0 565 18. Virginia Tech 5-1 485 19. South Florida 5-1 392 20. Auburn 4-2 236 21. Wake Forest 3-1 205 22. North Carolina 4-1 196 23. Michigan State 5-1 161 24. Pittsburgh 4-1 121 25. Ball State 6-0 97 Others Receiving Votes Wisconsin 96, Tulsa 85, Illinois 81, California 80, Northwestern 78, TCU 70, Georgia Tech 59, Kentucky 49, Florida State 36, Notre Dame 6, Fresno State 5, Arizona 5, Oregon 4, Boston College 3. Dropped From Rankings Wisconsin 18, Fresno State 22, Oregon 23, Connecticut 24.

Oct. 5, 2008 Rank Team (first-place votes) Record Points Last week 1. Oklahoma (60) 5-0 1,524 1 2. Missouri 5-0 1,404 3 3. LSU (1) 4-0 1,398 2 4. Alabama 6-0 1,339 4 5. Texas 5-0 1,305 5 6. Penn State 6-0 1,203 6 7.