Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. Again, the sun is just peeping over the trees. It won't be many more mornings before it will no longer be up by this time. DST will soon come to an end, but even then, mornings will be getting darker. I don't mind this year ... I'll soon be seeing fewer of them (at least this early)! LOL! Today will be another perfect fall day: right around 70, mostly sunny, a little windy.
Last night I didn't get a lot of cleaning done, but I did get a lot of important paperwork taken care of. Since it needed to be done, that counts too! And, I got to sleep a bit earlier. Tonight, hopefully, I'll be able to get something more productive done ... I have several things I need to get checked off my "to do" list before the weekend; and tonight isn't very good for TV (for me). Sad, huh. What can I say, I like my shows! :)
Today is "National Noodle Day" ... "Balloons Around the World" ... "National German-American Day" ... "Armed Forces Day (Egypt)" ... "Ivy Day (Ireland)".
Quotes of the Day:
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
-- Sir Barnett Cocks
"If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."
-- Nadine Stair
Today in history:
In 1853, Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.
In 1921, sports writer Grantland Rice was at the microphone as baseball's World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.
In 1927, "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, Hollywood's legendary "first talkie," premiered in New York, ushering in the era of sound and a subsequent end of the silents.
In 2001, Cal Ripkin Jr. retired after a spectacular baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles that included playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games.
Today's birthdays include
- Singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, in 1820
- Inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse in 1846
- French aviator Roland Garros in 1888
- Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody in 1905
- Actor Janet Gaynor in 1906
- Actor Carole Lombard in 1908
- Norwegian ethnologist, archaeologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl in 1914
- Former 60 Minutes journalist Shana Alexander in 1925
- Actor Britt Ekland in 1942
- Northern Ireland politician Gerry Adams in 1948
- Writer David Brin in 1950
- Elisabeth Shue in 1963
Everyone have a Great Wednesday!
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