Monday

~~~Free Ramblings
Living in Arizona I didn’t get to watch the Broncos beat the Raiders. Even though I didn’t see it, it was nice to see highlights and watch them beat one of their rivals. This is one of the times I miss satellite TV. The Broncos are usually fun to watch.

I finished off my anti-virals today. I only needed one pain pill, so maybe I am healing. I look forward to a pain free week. I need to spend time gathering my wits for the trip next month. I’m not real sure where they are right now, since I have been on pain pills for a week. I’m sure they are around somewhere. Just hope they haven’t gotten too misplaced. While it was nice to be pain free, the idea of pain pill was not that much fun. Hopefully I will be pain free and pain-killer free for quite a while.

We had another day of short sleeves, shorts, and Tevas. My deck was 85°. Again, there were no clouds, little breeze, no moisture, and lots of heat. It did drop to 35° last night, so maybe fall will be coming soon.

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~~~Random Facts

Americans will spend more on cat food this year than baby food.

The average city dog lives three years longer than the average country dog.

~~~Before They Were Famous

Matt Damon attended Harvard but dropped out just shy of graduating.

Ellen DeGeneres had several odd jobs including painter, oyster shucker, vacuum saleswoman and paralegal.

Johnnny Depp worked as an over-the-phone pen salesman.

~~~Crazy News

A distraught architect threw himself in front of a train in the London Underground in a suicide attempt. Luckily, the train stopped inches from his body; in fact, it had to be jacked off its tracks to allow his removal. When questioned, however, the driver informed officials he hadn’t stopped the train. An investigation revealed that one of the passengers, unaware of the suicide attempt, had independently pulled the emergency brake. London Transport officials considered prosecuting the passenger for illegal use of the emergency brake but ultimately decided against it.

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~~~September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

~~~Week of 26 Sep…

Banned Books Week

~~~28 Sep Observances…

271 days so far this year…94 days remain in 2009
Eat Dinner with your Kids
World Maritime Day
Yom Kippur—Day of Atonement for Jewish Faith
World Rabies Awareness Day
*Poland St. Wenceslas Day—Patron Saint of Poland
*Taiwan and The Philippines Teacher's Day
*The Philippines Day of Awareness and Unity Against Child Pornography

~~~Births on this day

~ The ARTS
1856__ Kate Douglas Wiggins author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)

1901___William S Paley founder & chairman (CBS)
1902___Ed Sullivan TV variety show host/gossip columnist
1909___Al Capp New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner)
1916___Peter Finch actor
1924___Marcello Mastroianni actor
1934___Brigitte Bardot Paris France, actress
1972___Gwyneth Paltrow Academy Award-winning actress

~ATHLETICS

1905___Max (Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried) Schmeling
International Boxing Hall of Famer

~POLITICS/BUSINESS

1839___Frances Willard founded Women's Christian Temperance Union 1887___Avery Brundage AAU & International Olympic Committee president

~SCIENCE/RELIGION

551 –BC___Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)

1852___Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906)
1849___Dudley Allen Sargent US, physician/educator (Harvard U gymnasium)


~~~In Remembrance [passed on this day]

1953___Edwin P Hubble astronomer, designer of telescopes [b. 1889]
1964___Harpo Marx comedian [b. 1888]
1989___Ferdinand Marcos deposed president of Phillipines [b. 1917]
2003___Althea Gibson, American tennis player [b. 1927]

~~~Historical Events on this day

1066___William the Conqueror lands in England

1542___Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo landed his ship at what we now call San Diego Bay

1787___Congress sends Constitution to state legislatures for their approval

1867___Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario

1924___Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington completing the first round-the-world flight in 175 days
1928___While working at his laboratory at St Mary's Hospital, London Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin by accident

2003___A power outage has blacked out close to 90% of the country of Italy

~ Holy Mackerel

1967___Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, DC

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Anagrams
Here are some words that can easily be anagrammed into something interesting.
1. Ugly Satanic Hair
2. Voices Rant On
3. MOON STARER
4. THEY SEE
5. Go Get Oils
6. Trims cash
7. Hey you coward!
8. Burnished Pest
9. cannot aim
10. a year to shut down
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Answers:
1. Christina Aguilera = Ugly Satanic Hair
2. Conversation = Voices Rant On
3. ASTRONOMER: MOON STARER
4. THE EYES: THEY SEE
5. Geologist = Go Get Oils
6. Christmas = Trims cash
7. Why do you care? = Hey you coward!
8. President Bush = Burnished Pest
9. Action man = cannot aim
10. Year two thousand = a year to shut down

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