Wednesday

One of my friends just got a hardback copy of her book. The publisher has been selling it as a paperback, and has now moved it to hardback. The book “Caitlin, Priestess of the Goddess” is visionary fiction. It tells a story in Pre-Druid times that has a message for today. It is a really big deal to move from paperback to hardback. Congrats to her. The hardback will be available soon at Amazon (the paperback is already there) or by emailing her—independentcelt@aol.com.

My tax situation has been postponed one more week. When I got there they needed my K-1 documents from the last three years. I called my financial advisor, knowing she could get them sooner than I could find them. The fax came in too late to contact the Colorado tax office. All of us on this end know that there is a mistake on their end. But, like with all tax stuff, the collector makes the allegation, and it is the tax payer’s responsibility to prove it is an incorrect allegation. For any who have dealt with a state’s tax man or woman, they know that 1. These people speak a very specific language that is not easily understood by the citizenry. 2. They assume the citizen has made a mistake. 3. They like to say they are there to help, but don’t really mean it. 4. They always have the upper hand. (I’ll let my tax guy deal with them---someday).

The Monsoon returned this afternoon with a nice little shower. There was enough nearby lightning that I unplugged all my electronics. There was enough thunder to wake the dead. There was enough rain to cool things off, wet the pavement and the ground. The rain brought us from 85° to about 72° in just a few minutes. August in Flagstaff is great.

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Random Facts…

Buttermilk does not contain any butter.

The first full-length animated motion picture made in the United States, Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), was produced from more than 400,000 hand-drawn sketches. It was 83 minutes long—that’s about 85 pictures per second. From MSN Encarta.

Crazy Stuff In The News…

JOLIET, Ill. - Drowsy spectators in one suburban Chicago courtroom might want to stifle their yawns from now on. Clifton Williams, 33, of Richton Park, is facing six months in jail for making what court documents call a yawn-like sound in Will County Judge Daniel Rozak's court last month. The yawn happened as Williams' cousin, Jason Mayfield, was being sentenced for a drug charge on July 23.
Rozak found Williams in contempt of court and sentenced him to six months in jail. However, Rozak could free Williams after a status hearing Thursday, if Williams apologizes and the judge accepts. By then, Williams will have served 21 days.
Witnesses disagree about whether Williams' yawn was out of line. From MSN.com

Month long events in August

Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August National Immunization Awareness Month… National Psoriasis Awareness Month… Women's Small Business Month... National Back to School month…American Adventures Month…Golf Month…National Inventor’s Month…National Win with Civility Month…What will be your legacy Month

Week of Aug 9…

Assistant Dog Week
National Resurrect Romance Week

13 Aug…
225 days so far this year…140 days remain in 2009
International Left Hander’s Day
*Laos: Day of the Free Laos—1949 from France


BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

1422….. William Caxton 1st English printer (Histories of Troy)

1655….. Johann Christoph Denner inventor (clarinet)

1818….. Lucy Stone pioneered women's rights
1860….. Annie Oakley Drake Ohio, frontierswoman
1888….. John Logie Baird Scotland, inventor (father of TV)
1895….. Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim) actor: The Wizard of Oz
1899….. Alfred Hitchcock London, director

1912….. Ben Hogan Dublin Tx, PGA golfer
1927….. Fidel Castro (Ruz) Cuban political leader
1930….. Don Ho Hawaii, ukulele player
1951….. Dan Fogelberg Peoria Ill, rocker

Events on this day…

1521….. Spanish conquerors captured Mexico City from Aztecs, Montezuma’s nephew, and successor, Cuahtemoc surrenders to Cortés. His name is spelled Guatimozin in some sources.

1889….. William Gray of Hartford, CT patented the coin-operated telephone.

1907….. 1st taxicab (NYC)
1934….. Cartoonist Al Capp began his famous comic strip, Li’l Abner.
1942….. "Bambi," Walt Disney's fifth animated feature, opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
1961….. Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany (Dark day)
1966….. China has announced It's Cultural Revolution
2004….. The Summer Olympic Games opening ceremony in Athens Greece


Word Ends Puzzle:

In each of these puzzles, a word starts and ends with the same letter. Can you figure out what the word is?

Example: _fric_ Solution: Africa

1. _aci_
2. _rues_
3. _ysti_
4. _loh_
5. _ayhe_
6. _ustfu_
7. _rys_
8. _oya_
9. _yni_
10. _ylo_
• Bonus_allo_
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Answers:
1. tacit
2. truest
3. cystic
4. aloha
5. mayhem
6. lustful
7. tryst
8. loyal
9. cynic
10. nylon
*Bonus: wallow


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