Thursday, October 21, 2010

Good Morning! Thursday October 21, 2010

Good morning! It's a wonderful morning. It's very foggy again, but that should begin to burn off soon. Today will be mid to upper 70s, breezy and sunny. What a great day to be able to get outside and do things! We did get rain yesterday; not much, but every bit helps.
Yesterday: I finished hemmng the suit pants! Yay! LOL! I haven't tackled the jacket sleeves yet, but will start those tonight. I hope I can finish tonight; but if I don't, I can always take my needle and thread with us this weekend. :)
Today: As you can (probably) see, I'm later ... I got to "sleep in"! Ahhhh ... nice. It'a a vacation day, and later I have lots of things to do. I need to get some cleaning done before I go off for the weekend; a few errands I need to do (post office, bills to pay), and a hair appointment. Also, I need to do last-minute laundry and start packing! OK, I confess, I've already started; but today I need to make significant progress ... that means deciding what to take! :)
The kitten was very good this morning, and curled up by my legs to sleep instead of trying to eat my toes. I'll probably let her "escape" from the kitchen for awhile later today.

Today is "Get Smart About Credit Day" ... "International Credit Union Day" ... "International Stuttering Awareness Day" ... "Overseas Chinese Day (Taiwan)".

Qoutes of the Day:
"Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy."
-- Janet Long

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know. "
-- Ambrose Bierce

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. "
-- Jerry Seinfeld

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. "
-- Ronald Reagan

Today in history:
In 1879, after 14 months of experiments, Thomas Edison invented the first practical electric incandescent lamp.

In 1908, The Saturday Evening Post magazine carried an ad for a brand new product: a two-sided phonograph record.

In 1959, the Guggenheim Museum opened in New York.

In 1959, rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team were transferred from the U.S. Army to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Today's birthdays include
- English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1772
- Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize, in 1833
- Dancer/choreographer Ted Shawn in 1891
- Conductor Georg Solti in 1912
- Jazz trumpeter John Dizzy Gillespie, in 1917
- Former pitcher Whitey Ford in 1928
- Author Ursula K. Le Guin in 1929
- Actress-author Carrie Fisher in 1956

Everyone have a Great Thursday!

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