►Provocative Quote
"That must be wonderful! I don’t understand it at all."
~unknown
►Free Ramblings
I am very hard on bed pillows. I don’t know why, but after a year, they are a mess. I need a hard pillow. I like to scrunch it. So each January the pillow business puts good pillows on sale, and there I am, buying two new bed pillows. They are always perfect, until about October, when they start getting too soft. Every year I figure I have gotten one that will last more than a year. I feel the same year after year and am always disappointed. So today was pillow day. I’m set for another year or at least 10 months.
For those of you familiar with the Tuba City area, the highway across Hopi, 264, is closed due to a rock slide. The slide is about 200 yards from the bridge. Thankfully no one was injured. But travel in the area is messed up. Several Hopi’s had their fields damaged. Workers from Coalmine now have to drive through Leupp to get to work in Tuba—a five minute drive is now over an hour.
Flag’s low of 17° quickly rose to a very nice 54° today. A great day for running errands. No jacket required.
►Quotes from Values.com—LIVE LIFE
“If a wind blows, ride it!”
~Arabic Proverb
►Side Show Stories
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Texas woman said she celebrated the airport reunions and goodbyes of her long distance relationship by surprising her boyfriend with an airport wedding. Robyn Moore said she greeted her boyfriend, William Acosta, Monday at Corpus Christi International Airport with a camera and a wedding party ready to make good on the marriage license they filled out last week, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. "When I walked up and saw her, it just took my breath away," Acosta said. "She looks really beautiful." Moore said she and Acosta met while she was living in Dallas and he visited the city for business. She said she is now planning to move to Toledo, Ohio, to live with her new husband, who teaches computer science at a university in the city. "I've got the best Christmas present in the whole world," Moore said, "this is what every bride-to-be wants."
►Random Fact
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
§ Interesting Statistics
*Note: I realize that statistics can be made to say just about anything.
~$500,000 is spent annually by New York City for air, bus, and train tickets to send homeless out of town.
~Virginia is closing ½ of its highway rest areas to save money in 2010.
§ January Month Long Observances
Birthstone: Garnet …Flower: Carnation
Book Blitz Month * Bath Safety Month * Birth Defects Month * California Dried Plum Digestive Month * Celebration of Life Month * Cervical Cancer Screening Month * Financial Wellness Month * High Tech Month * International Creativity Month * International Quality of Life Month * International Wayfinding Month * International Wealth Mentality Month * National Be On-Purpose Month * National Bird Feeding Month * National Clean Up Your Computer Month * National Get Organized Month * National Glaucoma Awareness Month * National Hot Tea Month * National Mail Order Gardening Month * National Mentoring Month * National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month * National Poverty in America Awareness Month * National Radon Action Month * National Skating Month * National Soup Month * National Volunteer Blood Donor Month * Oatmeal Month * Rising Star Month * Self-help Group Awareness Month * Senior Women’s Travel Month * Shape Up US Month * Thyroid Awareness Month
§ Observance Weeks in January
Celebration of Life Week: 1-7
Diet Resolution Week: 1-7
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week: 1-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: 2-9
Home Office Safety and Security Week: 3-9
Women's Self Empowerment Week: 4-10
§ 7 January Observances—US/UN/World
Harlem Globetrotter's Day
I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day
International Programmers' Day
Old Rock Day—time to start a rock collection
§ 7 January Observances—by country
Coptic Orthodox Church: Synaxis of John the Forerunner & Baptist
European traditional – Distaff day: women's traditional work begins again after Epiphany.
Italy – Tricolor day (Festa del Tricolore) to honor the Italian Flag
Japan – Nanakusa (Seven Herbs Festival). Rice porridge with Japanese parsley (seri). Shepherd's purse (nazuna), Jersey Cudweed (gogyō), Common chickweed (hakobera), Nipplewort (hotokenoza), Turnip (suzuna), Daikon (suzushiro)
► Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1714…Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later in 1808)
►Who was born on this day?
~ The Arts
Eliëzer Ben-Jehuda [Perelmann] in 1855 - writer (1st Hebrew newspaper)
Nicolas Cage in 1964 - actor
David Caruso in 1956 - actor: C.S.I.: Miami
Katie [Katherine] Couric in 1957 - TV news host
Dustin Diamond in 1977 - actor (Screech-Saved By Bell)
Vincent Gardenia in 1920 - Tony Award-winning actor
Kenny Loggins in 1948 - singer
Charles Loloma in 1921 – Hopi jeweler
Alan Napier in 1903 - actor (Alfred-Batman)
Maury Povich in 1939 - TV host
Paul Revere in 1942 - keyboardist
Jann Wenner in 1946 - publisher: Rolling Stone
~Athletics
Jim (James Kenneth) Lefebvre in 1942 - baseball: Dodgers; manager: Mariners, Cubs, Brewers
Brian Milne in 1973 - fullback (Bengals)
~Business, Education, Politics
James Harrington in 1611 - political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)
Millard Fillmore in 1800 13th President
~Science/Religion
Jacques Montgolfier in 1745 - inventor [w/brother Joseph]: hot air balloon
Marie-Bernarde Soubirous [St Bernadette of Lourdes] in 1844 - saint/visionary
►Who Died on this day?
Catherine of Aragon in 1536 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII- cancer @ 51
Hirohito in 1989 Japan`s emperor - cancer @ 87
Allan Ramsay Sr in 1758 Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), @ 71
Nikola Tesla in 1943 Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), @ 86
►What happened on this day?
1608…Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1789…1st national (Presidential) election in US
1822…Liberia colonized by Americans
1911…1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco
1914…1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal
1929…"Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929…"Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, premiers
1934…"Flash Gordon" comic strip debuts
1942…WWII siege of Bataan starts
1950…Ernest Tubb made debut at “The Grand Ole Opry”
1959…US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1968…"GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1970…Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"
1971…-40ºF (-40ºC), Hawley Lake AZ (state record)
1990…Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
1999…Trial for the impeachment of President Clinton begins
►Rhyme & Reason Puzzle
Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)
1 discoloration from the cloudburst (4,5) :
2. in the centre of the Egyptian tomb (4,7):
3. a hole in the ground used to prepare short burlesque dramas? (4,3):
4. inflict blows on Lancelot (5,6):
5. an overactive puff adder (5,5):
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1 discoloration from the cloudburst (4,5) : rain stain
2. in the centre of the Egyptian tomb (4,7): amid pyramid
3. a hole in the ground used to prepare short burlesque dramas? (4,3): skit pit
4. inflict blows on Lancelot (5,6): smite knight
5. an overactive puff adder (5,5): hyper viper
