Saturday 3-27

♣ 27 March 2010~~Week 12 of 2010: 86 days this year…279 remain ♣
♣ Two Quotes to think about…Today ♣
Scottish Proverbs
Never draw your dirk when a blow will do it.
A turn well done is soon done.
♣ Free Ramblings ♣
I have been retired too long. I can’t read a calendar anymore. While I knew the home show was coming to Flagstaff on the 26th, I still thought it was next week. Anyway, luckily for me, Mary called and reminded me it started today. Our local paper made a deal with whomever it is that puts it on, so the if you got there between 10am and 11am, you get in free. Even though I am not a home owner, I do enjoy seeing the stuff that is out there, and of course, I enjoy the snake oil salesmen with their products that you can’t live without. Of course you have lived without them all you life and never missed them. Last year a friend got her glasses cleaned at one of those places, and said it really was the best cleaner she ever had. So this year I got some. They also cleaned my ring and glasses before I bought any. I have a diamond and turquoise ring that I have had for almost two years and never had cleaned. Wow…amazing how that diamond shines now. There was also a local guy who makes cooking sauces. He popped some popcorn with the jalapeno olive oil…talk about hot and delicious. He also had some honey mustard dressing/dip/ whatever that was also very good. He got some of my hard earned money too. I passed on the cell phone hook, because I carry my BB in a case, in my pocket, but it was very cool. I didn’t get any of the pots and pans that magically seal in the steam while cooking. I also passed on entering any of the many free drawings, knowing well that I would not win and my mailbox would be filled within days. The Home Show really is a lot of fun.
The Home Show provided a nice respite from the very cold wind today. The ol thermometer said we got to 46° but the 30mph wind and the 50mph gusts made it feel much, much colder. It spit snow about 6am, again about 10am, and the wind just blew and blew. This wind had to becoming from the Arctic Circle somewhere and coming directly toward to us.
♣Random Fact: ♣
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven.
♣Side Show Stories—♣
Later this year, manufacturer Organovo, of San Diego, will begin shipping its $200,000 ink-jet-type printers that create living organs for patients needing transplants. The 3-D "bioprinter" works by spraying extracted microscopic cells on top of each other, in pass after pass. On the bioprinter's equivalent of a sheet of paper, and under laboratory conditions, the cells fuse together and grow for weeks until an organ substantial enough for research use is created (and ultimately, substantial enough for human transplants). The bioprinter is faster than growing such organs from scratch, which scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have been doing for several years. [The Economist, 2-18-10]
♣ A quick smile ♣
A man pacing back and forth glanced at his watch and yelled upstairs to his wife, "Honey, are you ready yet?"
Shouting back, the woman replies, "For crying out loud, Ed, I've been telling you for the last half hour...I'll be ready in a minute!"
♣ 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 Earls so red, earls no rose
2 Beauts in oily shin beep
3 Won't pit oft pill gomorrow whet yon tan go toddy.
♣ 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
• 27 March Observances—US/UN/World •
Celebrate Exchange Day
Earth Hour
Education and Sharing Day
Quirky Country Music Song
Titles Day
Viagra Day
National "Joe" Day
World Theatre Day
•27 March Observances—by country •
Burma : Resistance Day
♣ Number One Songs in…
1950 ►Chatanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley
1958 ►Tequila - The Champs
1966 ►The Ballad of the Green Berets - SSgt Barry Sadler
1974 ►Mockingbird - Carly Simon & James Taylor
1982 ►I Love Rock ’N Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
• Born on this day •
…The Arts
Artists and Composers
Nathaniel Currier, 1813, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
Patty Smith Hill, 1868, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
Anthony Lewis, 1927, newspaper columnist (New York Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
Budd Schulberg, 1914, novelist (On the Waterfront)
Entertainers in Cinema, Music, Theater, and TV
Mariah Carey, 40, singer, born Long Island, NY
Fergie, 35, singer, musician (The Black-Eyed Peas)
David Janssen (David Harold Meyer), 1931, actor: The Fugitive
Quentin Tarantino, 47, actor, director (Pulp Fiction)
Gloria Swanson (Gloria May Josephine Svensson), 1899, actress
Snooky Lanson (Roy Landman), 1914, - singer: By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Sarah Vaughan, 1924, ‘The Divine One’: jazz singer
…Athletes
William Caleb (Cale) Yarborough, 70, former auto racer(Won Daytona 500 4 times)
…Business, Education
Sir Henry Royce, 1863, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
…Politics
Baron Haussmann, 1809, French civic planner
…Science/Religion
John E. Sulston, 68, .British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (human genome sequencing projects)
Fr. Stanley Rother, 1935, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala
•Today’s Obits •
1625 James I Stuart king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dysentery @ 58
1850 Wilhelm Bear German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), @ 53
1968 Yuri Gagarin 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, plane crash @ 34
1986 Cass Canfield US publisher, @ 88
1992 James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68), @ 84
♣ANSWERS to puzzle ♣
1 Earls so red, earls no rose: Early to bed, early to rise.
2 Beauts in oily shin beep: Beauty is only skin deep.
3 Won't pit oft pill gomorrow whet yon tan go toddy: Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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