Sunday

~~~Free Ramblings
I had a good Saturday, and it’s not even over yet. Got up pain free. Cleaned up around the house, went for a walk, saw a couple of friends, and talked to a couple more. All is good. It’s great to talk to people who are still working. They have their lives so very structured. My brother really loves his wife, being in NY, and taking getaways on weekends or making long weekends. Next week they are headed for Barbados for a long weekend. Great. I’m happy they do that. But to be able to do that, they have to work 12 hour days, including weekends, for about three weeks to be able to leave the business for two work days. Not my idea of fun. Another friend runs into Flag from the Rez during the week, after work. Can’t come on weekends because work needs to be done at school or home. A four hour evening—including a 2 ½ drive—is OK is his book, but not a whole day and evening in Flagstaff. Oh well, to each his/her own.

I turned on my computer this evening to be greeted with yet another high wind advisory for all day tomorrow. We can expect sustained winds in the 20mph with gusts to 50mph for most of day and night tomorrow. Whoopee.
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~~~Random Facts
The Bank of America was originally the Bank of Italy!
Israel's Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.

~~~Before They Were Famous
Before becoming the great comedian known as "Redd Foxx," John Elroy Sanford worked as a dishwater in a small restaurant in New York where one of his best friends, Malcolm X, also worked there as a waiter.

Morgan Freeman attended Los Angeles Community College before serving as a mechanic in the US Air Force in the 1950's. He was also the character "Easy Reader" on the children's TV show "The Electric Company".

Before Clark Gable became the King of Hollywood, he worked as a necktie salesmen at the Meier & Frank department store.

Greta Garbo was once a lather girl in a barbershop. She also worked at PUB, a major department store in Stockholm, Sweden, during the 1920s before becoming a successful actress.

~~~Crazy News
BEECH GROVE, Ind. – Investigators said a man who stole $97 from an Indiana drug store returned for a beverage he purchased before the robbery. Beech Grove, Ind., police said the man, described as about 48 years old, handed a Walgreen’s clerk $2 for a cola and made “idle conversation” until she opened the cash register, The Indianapolis Star reported.

The man then put his hand under his coat and informed the clerk he was robbing the store. He took $97 from the register and began to leave, police said. However, the police report said the man “came back for the bottle of soda that he placed on the counter and previously paid for.”

Police said the suspect was last seen walking through a parking lot across the street from the store.

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~~~October Month Long Observances

Birthstone: Opal Birth flower: calendula
Adopt A Shelter Animal Month ~ Apple Month ~ Celebrate the Bilingual Child Month ~ Domestic Violence Awareness Month ~ Emotional Intelligence Month ~ Gay & Lesbian History Month ~ Halloween Safety Month ~ Month of Free Thought ~ Nat’l Arts and Humanities Month ~ Nat’l Book Month ~ Nat’l Cyber Safety Awareness Month ~ Nat’l Popcorn Poppin’ Month ~ Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month ~ Photographer Appreciation Month ~ Squirrel Awareness Month ~ Vegetarian Month

~~~Week of 2 Oct
Fire Prevention Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
Nat’l Work From Home Week
Nat’l Newspaper Week
Nat’l Metric Week
World Space Week

~~~4 OCT Observances
277 days so far this year…88 days remain in 2009
Intergeneration Day
‘Ten-Four Good Buddy’ Day
^World Animal Day
^World Communion Day
^Lesotho – Independence Day (from Britain, 1966).


~~~Births on this day

~ The ARTS
1861__Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West
1895__Buster Keaton actor

1917__Jan Murray Bronx NY, comedian Game Show Host
1923__Charlton Heston actor
1928__Alvin Toffler author: Future Shock
1931__Dick Tracy comic strip crimestopper
1935__Jimmy Orr football: Baltimore Colts wide receiver: Super Bowl III, V
1941__Jackie Collins author
1941__Anne Rice (Howard O’Brien Rice) author: Interview with a Vampire
1949__Armand Assante NYC, actor
1967__ Liev Schreiber actor

~ATHLETICS
1934__ Sam Huff Pro Football Hall of Famer
1943__Owen Keir Davidson Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ

~POLITICS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION
1626__Richard Cromwell lord protector of England

1822__Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)

~SCIENCE/RELIGION
1542__Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)

~~~In Remembrance
1944__Al Smith, American politician @71
1970__Janis Joplin, American singer @27
1974__Anne Sexton, American poet @ 46
1989__Graham Chapman, British comedian of Monty Python @48

~~~Historical Events on this day
1636__1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1824__Mexico becomes a republic
1854__Honest Abe Lincoln made his first great political speech
1881__The player piano was invented by Edward Leveaux of Sussex, England

1910__Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1927__Work begins by sculptor Gutzon Borglum on the face of Mount Rushmore
1957__"Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957__The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into orbit.


~ Holy Mackerel
1965__Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
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Countries by population
Place these countries in order by estimated 2009 population—largest to smallest.
1. Denmark
2. Djibouti
3. Dominica [in Lesser Antilles]
4. Dominican Republic
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Answers:
1. Dominican Republic 9,650,054 (growth rate: 1.4%)
2. Denmark 5,500,510 (growth rate: 0.2%)
3. Djibouti 516,055 (growth rate: 1.9%);
4. Dominica [in Lesser Antilles] 72,660 (growth rate: 0.2%)
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