Monday, November 30, 2009

Good Morning! Monday November 30, 2009

Good morning! It's a wonderful morning. It's gray out, but a "soft" gray - not harsh and dark. It'll be low 60s today, cloudy, and probably rain by this afternoon. Lovely that it waited until after the holiday weekend! :)
Yesterday was a very busy day. It didn't turn out like I had hoped ... most of my expected guests, for various (good) reasons, were not able to come. So, I ended up cooking a big Thanksgiving dinner ... for my 2 step-sons. Who were late. LOL! We'll have LOTS of leftovers all week, which is not a bad thing.
Tonight I hope to work on adding ornaments to the trees, and also get back to some overdue sewing.
There are 24 days left until Christmas!

Today is "Computer Security Day" ... "Cyber Monday" ... "Saint Andrew's Day" ... "Stay Home Because You're Well Day" ... "Independence Day (Barbados)".

Quotes of the Day:
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
-- Peter Ustinov

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."
-- Bertrand Russell

Today in history:
In 1913, Charles Chaplin made his screen debut in Mack Sennett's short film "Making a Living."

In 1988, the Soviet Union stopped jamming broadcasts of Radio Free Europe for the first time in 30 years.

Today's birthdays include
- Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1508
- Irish satirist Jonathan Swift in 1667
- Novelist Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) in 1835
- British statesman Winston Churchill in 1874
- Actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in 1918
- Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1924
- Actor Richard Crenna in 1926
- Actor Robert Guillaume in 1927
- Producer/TV music show host Dick Clark in 1929
- Watergate figure G. Gordon Liddy in 1930
- 1960s radical Abbie Hoffman in 1936
- Filmmaker Ridley Scott in 1937
- Playwright David Mamet in 1947
- Singer/actor Mandy Patinkin in 1952
- Rock singer Billy Idol in 1955
- Actor Ben Stiller in 1965

Everyone have a Great Monday!

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