Good morning! It's a beautiful morning. It's going to be an extraordinarily hot day here (as apparently it is over much of the country, and even up into Canada). The prediction for today is 101, and as I've said before, we're normally 3 to 5 degrees higher than that. There is of course the possibility of afternoon storms when it's so hot and humid; but I'm not really counting on that happening! :)
Yesterday: It didn't turn out anything like I thought it would. I started out OK, getting "normal" morning things done; and I did make a start on my on line class. I got a refill picked up, and some grocery shopping. But after that, a good friend needed a ride and none of her family were available to help out. So, DH and I took her, waited, we all went to McDonalds, and then home. That took up all of the rest of the day!!
Today: It's dialysis and work today. I have no after work errands (how did that happen? LOL!), so hopefully I can get into the class tonight. :)
Today is "Liberation Day (Guam)" ... "Independence Day (Belgium)" ..."Legal Drinking Age Day".
Quotes of the Day:
""I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
-- E. V. Lucas
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."
-- William Faulkner
Today in history:
In July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to walk on the moon; and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin lifted off from the surface of the moon.
In 1970, after 11 years of construction, the massive billion-dollar Aswan High Dam across the Nile River in Egypt was completed.
In 2003, physicians at Vienna General Hospital in Austria say they performed the world's first successful tongue transplant on a human, a 42-year-old man.
In 2007, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final installment in the best-selling series, sold more than 8.3 million copies on its first day on the bookshelves.
Today's birthdays include
- Composer Chauncey Olcott (When Irish Eyes Are Smiling) in 1860
- Author Ernest Hemingway and poet Hart Crane, both in 1899
- Professional golfer Harold Jug McSpaden in 1908
- Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan in 1911
- Violinist Isaac Stern in 1920
- Singer Kay Starr in 1922
- Actor/comedian Don Knotts in 1924
- Producer Norman Jewison in 1926
- Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in 1938
- Actor Edward Herrmann in 1943
- Singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens in 1948
- Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) in 1948
- Actor/comedian Robin Williams in 1952
- Actor Jon Lovitz in 1957
Everyone have a Great Thursday!
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