HOLY MACKEREL: 1880 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis TN
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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Good day of healing today. I had lunch with our group at a Chinese place here in town. Dawn joined us and was able to catch us up on latest Tuba gossip. Amazing how quickly one forgets how that town lives on ‘partial’ stories. I really don’t miss the crap it causes. Strangely, as with all gossip, no one wants to check up on the facts, just spread the ‘interesting’ story. I did get the Hot and Sour Soup and asked for vinegar. Turns out that in Taiwan, they use a dark vinegar, whereas in Shanghai---where the waiter was from—they use rice vinegar. I got the dark, and it was just like being back in Taiwan without the lazy susan. Mary tried it too and enjoyed it. Next time I’ll try the rice vinegar. I had a spicy shrimp and discovered that while my esophagus may be a little weird, my sinus area is doing just fine. While the food wasn’t really spicy, my sinus started draining after the first bite.
The Gabby Gifford’s Story just becomes more amazing. She will be headed to rehab tomorrow…in Houston. They seem to have a great rehab center there. She even went outside today. Just amazing. Now if the right leaning crazies would quit talking about her resignation.
I added Barometric Pressure to the weather thing for Flagstaff. I must admit I never really understood it so figure if I start listing it, I will begin to see some trends. Whenever the weatherman talks about pressure it is always steady, rising or falling. The internet sites don’t tell us that piece of information. Not sure why because the little I know tells me that its trend is what is important.
I did pick up a script for pain pills today…I had been using the ones from the last surgery. Same script. Due to my deductable or something, the 30 pills cost me seventy two cents. No wonder the pharmaceutical companies make so much money. The drugs that heal are expensive. The drugs that just mask the symptoms are dirt cheap. Even though I am a child of the 60’s, I do find being ‘stoned’ during the day gets really boring after a day or two. Hopefully I’ll just take it at night tomorrow. My neck is healing nicely. I do have some bruising above the scar. Have to find out why, since it is not sore, doesn’t appear to be a deep bruise. It’s just a couple of dark-er spots—like I might have been choked. Still no word from the ENT about my newly diagnosed condition—the one that makes it hard to put a breathing tube down my throat. I haven’t decided it I’ll call tomorrow or wait for the appointment on Tuesday. I don’t want to come off as a wimp, but I do want to know. I figure the ENT doesn’t want his office lady giving out the information/diagnosis or something.
I got a txt from my brother. His Vietnam trip is going well. Sure hope he becomes the head of the American division of the company. It will be good for him and good for their company. He has so much experience and this will build his self-esteem.
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∞ JEOPARDY PUZZLE—(Super-Jeopardy Answers) from 1990 BODIES OF WATER
…answers at bottom…
•The Strait of Belle Isle separates the Island of Newfoundland from this, its mainland terr.
•The Chukchi, Barents & Kara Seas are among those that surround this ocean
•This river in the Northwest U.S. was named for the ship of its discoverer, Capt. Robert Gray
•This bay in New South Wales was so named because many new plant species were found on its shores
•2 of Europe's longest rivers, they both empty into the Black Sea & begin with "Dn"
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
To get more juice out of lemons, limes, & oranges - microwave them for 20 - 30 seconds before you cut them in half.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM… PACOIMA, CA
— A motorist fell asleep while his car was stopped on railroad tracks Thursday — but survived uninjured when a Union Pacific cargo train cut his vehicle in half.
The collision occurred at 1:15 a.m. at the track crossing on San Fernando Road and Branford Street, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The driver, an elderly man, was uninjured but was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, Sgt. Dave Mascarenas of the Los Angeles Police Department Valley Traffic division told the newspaper.
The man drove his Hyundai Sonata past the caution arm of the tracks. A 59-car train struck the car and ripped it in half, leaving the driver in the rear part, Mascarenas said.
The force of the accident caused the tracks underneath the train to bend and buckle all the way to its destination in Sylmar, he said.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…FOOTBALL
• Cleveland Browns - The Cleveland All-America Football Conference franchise conducted a fan contest in 1945 to name the team. The most popular submission was Browns in recognition of the team’s first coach and general manager Paul Brown, who was already a popular figure in Ohio sports.
• Chicago Bears - The team was originally located in Decatur, IL, and was named after team sponsor, the Staley Starch Company. The team moved to Chicago in 1921 and became the Chicago Staleys. In 1922, after team founder-manager and star end George Halas purchased the team, he changed the name to the Bears. Halas reasoned that because football players were generally bigger than baseball players, and the city’s baseball team was the Cubs, then logically the football team should be the Bears.
• Philadelphia Eagles - When Bert Bell established his NFL franchise in Philadelphia in 1933, the country was struggling to recover from the Great Depression. New president Franklin D. Roosevelt had introduced his “New Deal” program through the National Recovery Administration, which had the Eagle as its symbol. Since Bell hoped his franchise also was headed for a new deal, he picked Eagles as the team name.
• Green Bay Packers - Curly Lambeau solicited funds for uniforms from his employer, the Indian Packing Company. He was given $500 for uniforms and equipment, on the condition that the team be named for its sponsor. Today Green Bay Packers is the oldest team name still in use in the NFL!
Baltimore Ravens-Ravens was selected from among three finalists in a poll conducted by the Baltimore Sun. Baltimore fans selected the name in honor of Edgar Allan Poe, the American poet who penned his famous poem, “The Raven” while living in Baltimore.
• Indianapolis Colts-Baltimore’s first pro football team was a member of the 1947 AAFC. A fan contest produced the Colts name reflecting the great tradition and proud history of horse breeding and racing in the Baltimore region. The original Colts disbanded after the 1950 season but the name was retained when a new Baltimore franchise began play in 1953. The Colts moved to Indianapolis in 1984.
A LITTLE LAUGH…
I was shopping with my roommate, and I saw a humorous button that said, "It might look like I'm doing nothing, but on a cellular level, I'm quite busy."
I showed it to her, and her response was, "Oh, I should buy that one, I'm always talking on mine."
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS…COLLECTIONS
•Niek Vermeulen (Netherlands) has 5,468 airline sickness bags from 1,065 different airlines, as of 26 March 2008, which he has accumulated since the 1970s.
• The largest collection of bar towels belongs to Robert Begley of Chambersburg, United States, with 2,372 towels representing 27 different countries; which he has been collecting since 1990.
• David Morgan (UK) has a collection of 137 different traffic cones. David owns a cone from about two thirds of all types ever made.
∞CLOSEUP PICTURE
Can you identify this close up picture
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♫ T V COMMERICALS OF 1960’s♫
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
‡…THIS WEEK…‡
16-22 International Printing Week • Healthy Weight Week • Hunt For Happiness Week • National Activity Professionals Week
17-23 National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25 Week of Christian Unity
20-30 Sundance Film Festival
‡…TODAY IS…‡
National Hugging Day
International Fetish Day
Barbados: Errol Barrow Day (Prime Minister who led Independence from UK)
Dominican Republic: Nuestra Senora de Altagracia Day: Catholic belief for sight of 1st church in DR.
Quebec: Flag Day
‡…Today’s Births…‡
• AUTHORS
M. K. Hobson, 42, American speculative fiction and fantasy write
Louis Menand, 59, American writer and critic (The Metaphysical Club)
1804 Eliza Roxcy Snow, American poet (d. 1887)
• ATHLETES
Jack William Nicklaus, 71, golfer
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, 48, basketball (Rockets, Raptors) born in Lagos, Nigeria
• BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1884 Roger Nash Baldwin founder (American Civil Liberties Union)
1905 Christian Dior fashion designer
• ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Robby Benson (Robin Segal), 55, actor (“Search for Tomorrow,” Ode to Billie Joe)
Geena Davis, 54, actress (“Commander in Chief,” Thelma and Louise, Oscar for The Accidental Tourist)
Mac Davis, 69, actor, songwriter (“The Mac Davis Show,” North Dallas Forty)
Placido Domingo, 70, opera singer, one of the “Three Tenors”
Jill Eikenberry, 64, actress (“LA Law”)
1924 Benny Hill comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1897 J Carrol Naish actor (Charlie Chan-Adventures of Charlie Chan)
1926 Steve Reeves actor (Hercules, Hercules Unchained)
1924 Telly [Aristotle] Savalas actor (Acapulco, Kojak)
1922 Paul Scofield Academy award-winning actor: A Man for All Seasons [1966]
1939 Wolfman Jack [Bob Smith], DJ (Midnight Special)
• POLITICIANS
1821 John Cabell Breckinridge (D) 14th US Vice President (1857-61)/Major-General (Confederacy)
1813 John C Frémont [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer (western US)/Governor (AZ)
Eric H. Holder, Jr, 60, US Attorney General
1824 Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson Lieutenant-General 2nd Corps (ANV, Confederacy)
• SCIENCE & RELIGION
1912 Konrad Bloch German biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964)
1921 Barney Clark 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
1815 Horace Wells dentist (pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
‡…Today’s Obituaries…‡
1892 John Couch Adams English co-discoverer of Neptune, long illness @ 72
1959 Cecil B[lount] de Mille producer (10 Commandments) @ 77
1991 Howard "Red" Grange football's galloping ghost @ 87
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin Russian leader, stroke @ 54
1793 Louis XVI French king (1774-93), beheaded by revolutionaries @ 38
1997 Colonel Tom Parker manager (Elvis Presley), @ 87
1967 Ann Sheridan actress (Pistols 'n' Petticoats), cancer @ 51
‡…Today’s Events…‡
• ARTS
1789 1st American novel, WH Brown's "The Power of Sympathy", is published
1959 The Kingston Trio (Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard) received a gold record for Tom Dooley
• ATHLETICS
1887 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1922 The first slalom event in skiing was held -- in Murren, Switzerland.
• BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1853 Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester MA
1915 Kiwanis International founded in Detroit
• INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1674 Father Pierre Millet "foretells" the coming of today's lunar eclipse, using an almanac. Challenging Iroquois shaman to predict the time or date of the eclipse, which they don't, Millet will make religious inroads among the Iroquois by his successful prediction.
1698 French missionary Father de Montigny reaches the Taensa Indian village on the Mississippi River, today. He will stay with them to instruct them in his religion.
• POLITICS (US)
1949 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman)
1977 President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders
1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children
• POLITICS (International)
1863 City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years
1919 Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
• SCIENCE & RELIGION
1189 Philip II, Henry II & Richard Lion-Hearted initiate 3rd Crusade
1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston
1799 Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1908 New York City NY regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public
1954 1st atomic submarine, USS Nautilus, launched on Thames River, christened by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower
1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis
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ANSWERS
∞ JEOPARDY
•The Strait of Belle Isle separates the Island of Newfoundland from this, its mainland terr.
What is Labrador?
•The Chukchi, Barents & Kara Seas are among those that surround this ocean
What is the Arctic?
•This river in the Northwest U.S. was named for the ship of its discoverer, Capt. Robert Gray
What is the Columbia?
•This bay in New South Wales was so named because many new plant species were found on its shores
What is Botany Day?
•2 of Europe's longest rivers, they both empty into the Black Sea & begin with "Dn"
What is the Dnieper and the Dniester?
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• AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW •
