≈Week 20 of 2010: days this year… days remain≈
≈ Something To Think About
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
≈ Random Fact
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1922 ►The cartoon, On the Road to Moscow, by Rollin Kirby, won a Pulitzer Prize. It was the first cartoon awarded the Pulitzer.
≈ Free Ramblings
Our retirement group met for lunch at an old/new Chinese Restaurant. It has been around for years, I can’t remember when it wasn’t around. It closed about a year ago to remodel. Many were sure it would not re-open or if it did, it would no longer be a Chinese place. It re-opened recently, as a Chinese Restaurant. It is at least as good as it was before, if not better. A nice place to welcome back to Flagstaff. We had good food and good conversation. All of us are tired of the strong winds. Cheryl has her new raised flower bed planted—she is very confident that Williams won’t be having anymore snow this year. Mary and I are both not so sure and have not planted yet. Both Mary and Cheryl are busy making plans for their July trips. I’m holding off on making plans, since my trip isn’t until September.
A BIA friend and her husband are in Europe for a week. She notified all of us that she won’t be posting on Facebook—as she has for all her other trips. Her big concern is that someone will find out she is out of town—Albuquerque—and decide to rob her house. I find this a little reactionary to a fear that really isn’t there. They have a house in Albuquerque, a cabin in southern NM wilderness, and an apartment in DC. That alone would make me paranoid. For about five years I had a mobile home in Flagstaff and ‘quarters’ on the reservation. It did become a hassle, since it really cut down on my travel. I couldn’t see paying for a motel somewhere, and two homes. Just too cheap I guess. The other hassle was having to have two of just about everything. The mobile home meant that I didn’t have to live on campus when I earned my Masters. It allowed me to completely remove myself from my job on weekends and holidays. If I had work to do on the Rez, I could get up early Sunday morning and head back. If not, I could stay in Flag as long as I wanted on Sunday. I was never the person who wanted to get up at 4am to get to work, so I always went back to the Rez sometime Sunday. I guess my newly retired friend has some of those problems too. She is keeping us all informed of her travel through emails. I hope no one tells her how easy emails can be stolen, then she will have to send us all post cards.
Facebook with all its new privacy thing choices are sending people away from using it. Two of my geek emailers have become very frustrated by the changes. Both have sent out pages explaining the changes and how to protect your privacy. Neither has gone so far as to say ‘run quickly’ but today, one did offer other social networking sites that aren’t as complicated with their privacy selections. I have never heard of any of them. Time will tell if Facebook is going to fix this mess. One thing I have decided—I won’t be clicking LIKE for anything on Facebook except on someone’s post. I won’t be clicking on LIKE when the post is by a group, organization, or company as doing so may put my name on yet another list. The old “No such thing as a free lunch” is certainly true. Facebook seems to be carrying that to an extreme.
We had our warmest day of the year today…73° this afternoon on my deck. It was very nice. The house stayed cool, it was almost hot outside. Can it be true that spring has finally arrived? I sure hope so. Tomorrow may bring big winds again, but for today, Flag was a great place to be.
≈ A Quick Smile…
When I asked my friend if she was planning to attend church, she just shook her head. "I haven't gone in a long time," she said. "Besides, it's too late for me. I've probably already broken all seven commandments."
≈ Puzzle 1
Take the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Pain - Nil
2. War - Zoned
3. Routing - Tip
4. Shot - Teaming
5. Right – Blight
≈ Side Show Stories
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. - Workers at a New York state animal shelter said they were seeking people to donate erectile dysfunction pill Viagra to treat a dog's heart condition.
Employees at the Little Shelter Animal Rescue and Adoption Center in Huntington said Ingrid, a 6-year-old pit bull, requires two of the pills each day to treat a heart condition, WPIX-TV, New York, reported. The workers said they were asking for donations of the pills, which were originally developed as a potential heart medication, due to the $10 per pill cost for Ingrid.
≈ Puzzle 2: Brain Food
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
≈ Calendar Information
• Observance Weeks in May•
16-22
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
17-23
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week
National Effectiveness Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
• Today’s Observances—US/UN/World •
American Red Cross Founder's Day—Clara Barton in 1881
I Need A Patch For That Day: It’s a geek thing
International Virtual Assistants Day
Lindbergh Flight Day (1927)
National Bike to Work Day
National Defense Transportation Day
National Memo Day
National Wait Staff Day
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue & Development
• Today’s Observances—by country •
Colombia: Afro-Colombian Day
Chile: Battle of Inquique/Navy Day (1879)
Macedonia, Greece: Anastenarides Feast-dance barefoot on hot coals
Montenegro: Independence Day, honors the 2006 plebiscite that indicated that 55.5% of Montenegrins were in favor of becoming a sovereign nation. ()
Saint Helena Island: Saint Helena Day, celebrates the discovery by Portuguese navigator João da Nova. in 1502
• Today’s Number One Songs in…
For anyone interested, all these songs are available on iTunes.
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies." ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
1946 ►The Gypsy; The Ink Spots
1956 ►Heartbreak Hotel; Elvis Presley
1966 ►Monday, Monday; The Mamas & the Papas
1976 ►Silly Love Songs; Paul McCartney & Wings
1986 ►Greatest Love of All; Whitney Houston
• Today’s Happenings•
In The Arts
1908 ►1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1945 ►Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
1992 ►Johnny Carson performed his last tonight show
In Athletics
2006 ►The Swedish ice hockey team Tre Kronor takes gold in the World Championship, becoming the first nation to hold both the World and Olympic titles separately in the same year.
In Business or Education
1602 ►Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted by non-Indigenous (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1819 ►The first bicycles in the United States were called swift walkers and were seen for the first time on the streets of New York City
1914 ►Greyhound Bus Company begins in Minnesota
In Politics
1832 ►1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
In Science/ Religion
1804 ►Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
1927 ►Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris, completing the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight.
1932 ►Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a solo air crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland
1964 ►1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
• Today’s Births •
Artists, Writers, and Composers
Heinz Holliger, 71, oboist, composer, conductor, born Langenthal, Switzerland
Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel kindergarten art teacher: her work was inspiration for the famous Hummel figurines, born in 1909 Massing, Bavaria
Alexander Pope poet (Rape of the Lock), born in 1688 London
Harold Robbins (Francis Kane) writer The Dream Merchants, born in 1916 New York City
Fats [Thomas Wright] Waller, jazz singer/composer (Ain't Misbehavin') , born in 1904 New York NY
Athletes
Beth Botsford, 29, 100 meter/200 meter backstroke (Olympics-gold-96), born in Baltimore MD
Entertainers
Raymond (William Stacy) Burr actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides) , born in 1917 New Westminster British Columbia Canada
Peggy Cass actress/TV panelist (To Tell the Truth , born in 1924 Boston MA
Dennis Day (Eugene Denis McNulty) Irish tenor/comedian (Jack Benny Show), born in 1917 New York NY
Judge Reinhold, 53, actor (Beverly Hills Cop), born Wilmington, DE
Leo Sayer, 62, (Gerard Hugh Sayer) singer, born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex
Mr T(Lawrence Tero or Tureaud), 58, actor (Rocky III, “The A-Team”), born at Chicago, IL
The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace) rapper, born in 1972 Brooklyn, NY
Business, Education Persons
Armand Hammer industrialist: Occidental Petroleum Co.; physician: donated millions to aid cancer research, born in 1898 Manhattan, NY
Political Persons
Al Franken, 59, US Senator (D, Minnesota), comedian, actor, writer (Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations), born New York, NY
Mary Robinson, 66, President of Republic of Ireland, born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland
Scientists /Religious Persons
Andrei Sakharov physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75), born in 1921 Moscow
• Today’s Obits •
Jane Addams a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), complications of Pott’s Disease @ 65 in 1935
Hernando de Soto while searching for gold, near Mississippi River @ 46 in 1542
Rajiv Gandhi Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated @ 46 in 1991
Forsyth Hardy documentary film pioneer, @ 84 in 1994
Al "Lash" La Rue cowboy actor (Lash of the West), @ 78 in 1996
Alejandro Rey actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), lung cancer @ 57 in 1987
≈ ANSWERS to Puzzle 1
1. Pin - Nail
2. Ward - Zone
3. Outing - Trip
4. Hot - Steaming
5. Bright - Light
≈ ANSWERS to Brain Food
A stamp.
≈ Something you might enjoy…
In 2005, YouTube changed the internet forever. It is now available in 22 languages. Check out this one…
Scotland is a beautiful place. This is about Edinburgh and is about 7 minutes.
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