Saturday

Retirement sure is good to my BIA friends, and others. One couple is out watching whales in an Alaska Cruise. Another is headed for St. Petersburg on another cruise. Two others are always taking off to see grandkids—one to CA, the other to Phx and Chicago. I only know one Tuba BIAer who is not enjoying her retirement. She is busy raising her three great-grandchildren. I do feel sorry for her, but she took on that responsibility while still working. We all have to make choices and then live with them. BIAers who are still working have one last day to enjoy summer break. Another year of work and another set of students starts on Monday. New programs and new forms abound. Since it is the BIA, many of the new forms do not replace old forms, they only add another couple. It seems like their summer just gets shorter and shorter.

Clouds with no rain here today. Only got to 83°, so it was a good day to be outside. I did take advantage of that with a nice walk. I must say I was glad that I wasn’t getting ready to return to work on Monday.

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Random Fact…
Chocolate only grows within 20 degrees of the equator.

PEZ candy comes from Austria where it originally tasted like peppermint.

In the 1500’s most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell...brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Still in the 1500’s baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath water!"

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, Italy in 133 B.C. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

Crazy Stuff In The News…
RAINBOW, Calif. - A man who bought a historic Oceanside, Calif., home for $1 and moved it to his property in Rainbow, Calif., said he is now selling it for a lower price -- free. Hayden Perrine said he had originally planned to convert the house, which was built in 1889, into an extension of his home, but San Diego County permits and mandated restorations have made the project too expensive, KGTV, San Diego, reported. "To do everything they're asking me to do to this structure and put the foundation in to code and to secure it to the existing home, it would cost me about $60,000," Perrine said.
Perrine purchased the house for $1 from the city of Oceanside after it offered a number of homes for the price with the stipulation that purchasers move the homes at their own expense. He said the house is now listed on Craigslist as free. He said the purchaser will have to pay to move the house and conduct the county-mandated restorations.

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 2…
National Fraud Awareness Week
National Clown Week
Single Working Mother’s Awareness Week

2 Aug…

214 days so far this year…151 days remain in 2009
Sister’s Day
Friendship Day
*Costa Rica: Our Lady of the Angels Day
*Macedonia: Republic Day [1944]/ St. Elijah Day [Summer Storms]
*Russia & Ukraine: Airborne Forces Day

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

1696…..Mahmud I Ottoman sultan, fought Austrians & Russians
1754…..Pierre Charles L'Enfant France, architect laid out Wash DC
1892…..Jack L. (Leonard) Warner (Eichelbaum) movie mogul: one of Hollywood’s famed Warner Brothers
1905…..Myrna Loy Montana, actress (Rebound, Emma)
1922…..Carroll O'Connor NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
1924…..James Baldwin author: Go Tell It on the Mountain
1926…..Betsy Bloomingdale dept store mogul
1932…..Peter O'Toole Ireland, actor
1939…..Wes Craven author: A Nightmare on Elm Street

Events on this day…

1375,,,,,1st roller skating rink opens (London)

1492…..Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella

1622…..The first regular newspaper printed in England. Because of political restrictions, it covers mainly foreign news

1776…..Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1798…..British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile

1819…..1st parachute jump in US
1858…..1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1876…..Wild Bill Hickok is shot, his final hand, pairs of aces and eights, becomes known as the "dead man's hand."

1909…..1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1939…..Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers 1943….. PT 109, with JFK. on board, was rammed and sunk
1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait


Word Fragment 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 (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.

1. illili [1]
2. ghw [1]
3. nhu [4]
4. nhi [2]
5. nho [6]
6. ayg [1]
7. ehel [1]
8. ewil [1]
9. itn [1]
10. xub [1]
*Bonus: cd[1]
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Answers:
1. milliliter
2. highway
3. inhuman, inhumane, manhunt, unhurt
4. downhill. inhibit
5. buttonhole, greenhouse, inhospitable, manhole, pinhole, townhouse
6. playground
7. beheld
8. bewilder
9. witness
10. exuberant
* BONUS: anecdote
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