MidWeek

No monsoon, no clouds, no breeze. My deck hit 90° again today. Humidity was around 30% so it wasn’t the best of weather days. With only two days left in July, Flagstaff is getting set to have one the hottest July in a long time. Heat is so relative. Those in Phoenix are used to what they call triple digits. They too are complaining about this July, with many days well above 110°. I keep reminding myself, it’s a dry heat. I know I would have trouble in NYC right now. Way too hot with way too much humidity.

I really didn’t do very much today. I got a haircut and did some quick shopping. Our old WalMart is doing something—inside and out. Much of the parking lot is blocked off—much like the Sam’s Club lot has been for several months. Sam’s is building a gas station. I spent a short time in WalMart. It is remodeling. The last time I was there it was easy to go down the side main aisles. They had no stuff in those main wide aisles. It was nice. Well today, they have filled the main aisles again, but not with stuff a customer can buy. They filled them with boxes on pallets. It looks like everything is moving. Don’t think I’ll be going back until they finish. Moving stuff is fine. Moving whole departments is fine. Finding the things I needed was not easy. So, until they finish I will find what I need somewhere else or go without. They had a big stand up sign at the entrance saying they had temp jobs for people with three shifts, for about a month. Good for them. I’ll come back in late August.

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Random Fact…
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918,
by Charles Jung.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village.'

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.

Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, so named because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Crazy Stuff In The News…

27-year-old Chris Parks of Seattle had just flown back to the United States from a vacation in Mexico with friends. He was going through customs in an airport in North Carolina when his name caught the attention of Homeland Security personnel. Before he knew it Parks was arrested and tossed into the county jail in Charlotte and locked up for one week. When told he was a fugitive, he was floored. His crime? He was a deserter from the military.
The only problem is Parks was never in the military.
“I’ve been in the Army for 10 years, and didn’t even know it,” he says. “Just seems kind of odd.”
No one believed him. Parks was ordered to report to Fort Knox in Kentucky - where he sat and waited and waited some more with actual military deserters.
His head was shaved, he was issued fatigues. He was afraid he would be court-martialed.
“I was at Fort Knox for one week - and I almost didn’t get out,” says Parks.
Parks says when he was 18, he nearly joined the Army. But at the last minute, he backed out. Apparently, that message never got through military’s system.
Despite the army’s paperwork showing that Parks went through basic training in South Carolina, then went AWOL from a base in Georgia, he insists that never happened, and wonders if
his military recruiter from 10 years ago hung him out to dry by never processing his paperwork. Parks says he now carries documents to prove to authorities he’s not a deserter.

July is…

…Air Conditioning Appreciation Month…Blueberries Month…Cell Phone Courtesy Month…Family Reunion Month…Herbal/Prescription Awareness Month…Nat’l Doghouse Repair Month…Nat’l Grilling, Nat’l Hot Dog, Nat’l Horseradish, and Nat’l Ice Cream Month…Smart Irrigation Month…Social Wellness Month…Tour de France Month…Women’s Motorcycle Month…

Week of July 27…
World Hacky-Sack Week

July 30…
211 days so far this year…154 days remain in 2009
Cheesecake Day
Father-In-Law Day
*Vanuatu – Independence Day (formerly Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides)

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
1818
Emily Bronte England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
1863
Henry Ford Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)
1889
Vladimir Zworykin, developer of television
1890
Casey Stengel NY Yankee (1949-60) & 1st NY Met manager

1933
Edd "Kookie" Byrnes (Breitenberger) LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip,
1939
Peter Bogdanovich director
1940
Patricia Schroeder (Rep-D-Colo)
1941
Paul Anka songwriter
1947
Arnold Schwarzenegger Austria, actor, politician
1956
Delta Burke Orlando Fla, actress
1961
Laurence Fishburne (Lawrence Fishburne III/Larry Fishburne)Tony Award-winning actor

IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY…

1619
House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body

1836
1st English newspaper published in Hawaii

1928
George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
1931
Russel Boardman and John Polando land their Monoplane in Istanbul, Turkey today in 49 hrs and 20 minutes since leaving New York setting a new long distance non stop world record
1935
The first Penguin paperback book is published, an early step in the paperback revolution that would take off after World War II.
1956
US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1965
LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year



Word Fragments Puzzle

In each of these puzzles, a word fragment is given, and you must think of an English word that contains the fragment -- that is, you must form a word by adding letters to the beginning and/or the end of the fragment. You may not add letters to the middle of the fragment, nor may you rearrange the letters given.
Multiple solutions are given for several word fragments and are shown in brackets (although we omitted most alternate solutions that rely on variations of the same word). To solve the puzzles, however, you only need to find one word for each fragment.

Example: choan [1]
Answer: psychoanalysis

1. llel [3]
2. osoe [1]
3. iloli [1]
4. atula [2]
5. terb [8]
6. thom [1]
7. alibr [2]
8. wkw [2]
9. lywo [9]
10. athem [2]
*Bonus oela [1]

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Answers
1. allele hallelujah parallel
2. whosoever
3. kiloliter
4. congratulations spatula
5. butterball chatterbox counterbalance jitterbug litterbug quarterback scatterbrain terbium
6. fathom
7. calibrate caliber
8. hawkweed awkward
9. plywood pollywog
10. anathema mathematics
*Bonus: shoelace viscoelastic
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