Wednesday

Our monsoon came with a vengeance this afternoon. It was almost 90° when the very loud thunder hit. That was followed quickly by a lack of power, at least for a couple of seconds. That was followed by the clouds opening and dropping a ton of rain for about 15 minutes. By the end of the storm it was 70°. What an afternoon. The cool breeze sure feels good.

My trip to the tax man was wasted today. I got there about 10:30. There were three people working at computers. After a five minute wait, a guy called me over to his desk. I showed him my notice and told him I had called the Colorado people and the letter had something to do with a partnership. He said he didn’t do partnerships, but would check to see if the boss was available. The boss was in a back room. He came out and said the boss was busy and I needed to make an appointment. Remembering they are only open on Wed and Sat, I said fine. When on Saturday? Oh, the boss doesn’t work on Saturday. So I now have an appointment for next Wednesday. This is not a good way to work with a long time customer, but we will see what happens next Wednesday.

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Random Fact…

SPAIN literally means 'the land of rabbits.'

St. Paul, Minnesota, was originally called Pig's Eye after a man named Pierre 'Pig's Eye' Parrant who set up the first business there.

Chances that a road is unpaved in the U.S.A: 1%, in Canada: 75%.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.

Crazy Stuff In The News…

East St. Louis, Il, policeman Kristopher Weston apprehended a murder suspect about 20 minutes after the crime, which was such a nice piece of police work that the mayor called Weston before the city council to commend him. Five minutes after Weston left the room, the council got to regular business, the first order was to approve a list of police and firefighter layoffs due to budget shortfalls. Weston was on the list due to low seniority.

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 6…

Hobo Week

6 Aug…

218 days so far this year…147 days remain in 2009
National End Halitosis Day
Hiroshima Day
*Bolivia: Independence Day--1825
*Jamaica: Independence Day--1962
*Japan: Toro Nagashi—floating lanterns ceremony for Hiroshima victims

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

1809…..Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate of England
1881…..Sir Alexander Fleming cashed in on penicillin (Nobel 1954)
…..Leo Carrillo actor: The Cisco Kid
…..Louella Parsons (Oettinger) gossip columnist
1892…..Hoot (Edmund Richard) Gibson actor

1911…..Lucille Ball Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress
1917…..Robert Mitchum Bridgeport Ct, actor
1927…..Andy Warhol pop artist
1944…..Swoosie Kurtz actress
1965…..David Robinson NBA center
1976…..Soleil Moon Frye actress


Events on this day…

1806…..Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1890…..1st use of electric chair in US, John Hart, in NY for murder

1926…..NY's Gertrude Ederle becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel
1948…..Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
1965…..Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights

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. nmit [1]
2. lutat [1]
3. icet [1]
4. rrela [1]
5. icni [1]
6. ersat [2]
7. ffro [2]
8. laman [1]
9. feg [2]
10. topl [3]
*Bonus: cipl [3]

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Answers:
1. enmity
2. salutation
3. nicety
4. correlation
5. picnic
6. conversation versatile
7. affront saffron
8. salamander
9. lifeguard safeguard
10. cytoplasm protoplasm stoplight
*Bonus: discipline participle principle

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