Good morning! It's a beautiful morning! Out my window is all sparkly with sunshine on frost. We have a very strange weather pattern going on here. Today will be lower 60s, mostly clear, and windy. And that windy is ushering in a major storm system ... watches go into effect this afternoon, even though the storm isn't "due" until tomorrow evening. They're tossing around that "S" word again! LOL! My only concern is that --once again-- winter weather may cancel plans I have, which leaves someone else stuck doing what I should (and willingly would) be helping with. I know this is all part of God's plan. I just don't understand it! LOL!
Last night was another night of not much getting done. It was just plain uncomfortably chilly in the house. I'm very glad I at least do have heat ... I know there are people who don't. Still ... I watched AI; dozed (in the one warm room) through some silly programs; checked email briefly and listened to some "pretty words", and tried to go to bed early. The fact that the news was delayed didn't help! :) Oh well. It will be interesting to see what today holds!
Today is "Anniversary - Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion" ... "
Quotes of the Day:
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
-- Jane Wagner
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
-- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Today in history:
In 1547, 9-year-old Edward VI becme king of England.
In 1782, the U.S. Congress authorized creation of the Great Seal of the United States.
In 1878, the first commercial telephone switchboard began operation in New Haven, Conn.
In 1958, The Lego company receiveD a patent for their toy building blocks.
In 1965, Canadian Parliament acceptED a new national flag design. The new flag includes a red maple leaf in its center.
In 2005, Condoleezza Rice was sworn in as the 66th U.S. secretary of State. She was the first African-American woman to hold the office.
Today's birthdays include:
- Roman Catholic St. Thomas Aquinas in 1225
- Canadian Prime Minister and statesman Alexander MacKenzie in 1822
- Cuban revolutionary and poet Jose Marti in 1853
- French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in 1873
- Concert pianist Arthur Rubinstein in 1887
- Abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock in 1912
- Sculptor Claes Oldenburg in 1929
- Actor Alan Alda in 1936
- Actress Susan Howard in 1944
- Former leader of Liberia Charles Taylor in 1948
- Ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in 1948
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 1955
- Singer Sarah McLachlan in 1968
- Actor Elijah Wood in 1981
Everyone have a Great Thursday!
Betty
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