Wednesday 3-24

♣ 24 March 2010~~Week 12 of 2010: 83 days this year…282 remain ♣

♣ Two Quotes to think about…Today ♣

Scottish Proverbs

A good tale never tires in the telling.

A thread will tie an honest man better than a chain a rogue.

♣ Free Ramblings ♣

I had to do laundry today. One would think with a washer and dryer in the house, it would be easy to do laundry every few days. Not for me. I wait until I am out of clothes before I tackle the problem. Today it was six loads. Don’t think I will ever learn to do a little every few days. By doing it all at once I somehow feel as though I have accomplished something. Probably just lazy and a creature of habit. While I was working, Sunday was laundry day. Now that I don’t have to dress for work every day, I just wait until there are no more clothes. It does make for some interesting combinations as the closet and drawers get empty.

Now is my time to get ready for the battle with the taxes. I have finally received all my documents. Now I have to get the other stuff organized. I don’t have a lot of medical bills, thankfully, but it takes time to get all those receipts found and organized. I have always believed that any horizontal space in my office is waiting for a pile of paper, and very pile is awaiting another pile on top of it. When I was working, the end of a quarter or trimester always had me clean up the horizontal areas of my office. Now, no more of that, so tax time has become the time to do it. It is not as bad as it sounds, but certainly a couple three hours of work ahead.

We had some strange weather here today, and I learned a new word. While I was coming home from being out and about there was moisture in the air. Suddenly we had hail or at least I thought it was hail. It was tiny little balls of white. The balls were so small, they just sat on the ground, no bounce, no noise, looked more like Styrofoam. It only lasted a few minutes then there were snowflakes in the air. That also only lasted a few minutes. That was all we got. The student weather guy said that Flagstaff had ‘virga’ today. That means that there is lots of moisture up there in the clouds, but it makes a streak for the ground but evaporates before it makes it. Maybe somebody had that, but we had Styrofoam today. Whatever it was, it didn’t add any moisture to our ground. With all this strange weather we did make it to 52° and while kinda cloudy, it was a nice day.

♣Random Fact: ♣

After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again. Eeeewwwww!

♣Side Show Stories—♣

Pigs Livin' Large: Among the items that celebrity farmer Cathy Gieseker bought with proceeds from the $12 million Ponzi scheme she, in February, was sentenced for perpetrating (prosecutors called her the "Midwest Madoff") was a $900 tanning bed for her "show" pigs. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2-26-10]

♣ A quick smile ♣

"Guess what I heard today?" a man says to his wife.

"What, hon?" she asks.

"I heard the mailman has seduced every woman on our block but one!"

"Huh," his wife says, "I bet it's that stuck-up Phyllis next-door."

♣ Puzzle ♣

In each of these puzzles, a proverb is written with exactly one letter of each word replaced with another. Can you figure out what the original proverb is?

1 Wetter mate that fever.

2 Paint heard newer son pair lads.

3 I switch is dime raves mine.

♣ Calendar Information ♣

• March’s Month Long Observances •

BIRTHSTONE: aquamarine and bloodstone (courage) FLOWER: Narcissus [daffodil, jonquil] (vanity)

National Cheerleading Safety Month • National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month • National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month • National Craft Month • National Ethics Awareness Month •National Eye Donor Month • National Frozen Food Month • National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month •National Kidney Month• National Nutrition Month • National Social Work Month • National Umbrella Month • National Women's History Month • Optimism Month • Play The Recorder Month • Poison Prevention Awareness Month • Red Cross Month • Save Your Vision Month • Sing With Your Child Month • Small Press Month •Spiritual Wellness Month • Women's History Month • Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month • Youth Art Month

• Observance Weeks in March•

19-27

National Bubble (blowers) Week

21-27

•Consider Christianity Week •Passion Week •Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

22-28

World Folk Tales & Fables Week

• 23 March Observances—US/UN/World •

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

World Tuberculosis Day

•23 March Observances—by country •

Argentina: Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (since 1976 bloody coup)

Laos : Army Day

♣ Number One Songs in…

1947►The Anniversary Song - Dinah Shore

1955►The Ballad of Davy Crockett - Bill Hayes

1963►The End of the World - Skeeter Davis

1971►Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin

• Holy Mackerel: On this day in 1973 ►Pink Floyd the British Progressive rock band release the album "Dark Side of the Moon" which has became the 6th best-selling album of all time with sales exceeding 40 million copies worldwide.

• Born on this day •

…The Arts

Artists and Composers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 91, “Beat” poet, author (Coney Island of the Mind)

Entertainers in Cinema, Music, Theater, and TV

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, 1887, actor

Norman Fell (Feld), 1924, actor: Three’s Company

Harry Houdini, 1874, magician: escape artist

Star Jones, 48, television personality

Bob Mackie, 70, costume and fashion designer

(Terence Steven) Steve McQueen, 1930, actor

John Cameron Swayze, 1906, news correspondent, Timex spokesman

…Athletes

Peyton Manning, 34, football player

…Business, Education

Clyde Barrow, 1909, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)

Steve Balmer, 54, Microsoft CEO

…Politics

Christine Gregoire, 63, American politician, current governor of Washington

…Science/Religion

Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1871, nuclear scientist

John Wesley Powell, 1834, geologist, explorer: Director of U.S. Geological Survey

•Today’s Obits •

Sam Jaffe, 1984, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), cancer @ 93
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1882, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), @ 75

Jules Verne, 1905, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), @ 77

•What Happened on this Day •

…The Arts

1937 ►National Gallery of Art established by Congress

1949 ►Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")

1962 ►Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys

…Athletics

1988 ►Quarterback Dan Fouts retires

…Business, Education.

1617 ►King James I, of England, decides the Indians of Virginia must be educated. Today he directs the Anglican church to collect funds to build churches and schools.

1898 ►1st automobile sold

1900 ►Work on the New York subway begins on the first section from City Hall to the Bronx

1954 ►Nash Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company merged to form the American Motors Corporation ( AMC )

1978 ►The tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two off the coast of France during strong winds dumping 220,000 tons of crude oil on the Brittany coast line.

1989 ►The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot oil tanker, ran aground on a reef and ripped holes in its hull, spilling crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The Tanker spilled over 200,000 Barrels of Oil or more than 11 million gallons of crude oil

…Politics

1603 ►Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England

1629 ►1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia

1664 ►Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island

1855 ►Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS

1924 Greece becomes a republic

1952 ►Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa

1958 ►Elvis Presley is inducted as US Army as a private #53310761

…Science/Religion

1832 ►Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

1930 ►1st religious services telecast in US

♣ANSWERS to puzzle ♣

1 Better late than never.

2 Faint heart never won fair lady.

3 A stitch in time saves nine.

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