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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
Last week, Ms. G was gone on Wednesday, but it didn’t stop her from calling while i was busy at her house.
She waits until she is pretty sure i’m at her place, then calls to tell me what i already know to do.
It was like a scene out of the TV show MASH. I was telling her what had been done while she was saying, “have you done x?” and then she’d say, “oh, so you already did that?” I’d confirm and go on to the next thing while she was saying, “have you done y?”
I felt like Radar O’Reilly, anticipating each thing and telling her it was done or i was in the middle of doing it, or it would get done after this next thing.
Funny thing is, Ms. G actually realized i’d done or gotten in motion everything she wanted, and sounded a bit deflated, then got off the phone very quickly for her.
I’ll have to see if i can keep this up.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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It's Tock-tober Day! We're celebrating on the birth anniversary of Derby. Derby, and his brother Ducky, who took over the tradition, are now at the Rainbow Bridge, so Dobby is keeping up the family honor.
Come celebrate with them! These kittens posed for a back end shot, as did Jack, but they’re a little more demure about it.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.
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Today is:
Birth of the Bab -- Baha'i
Feast of Agios Gerasimos -- Kefalonia, Greece (celebration of the patron saint of this Ionian island, with religious services followed by dancing and feasting)
Feast of No Excuse For A Feast Day -- internet generated, if you have no other excuse to celebrate something today, use this one
Festival of Ebisu -- Japan (the laughing god, who is the only one available this month, as the 8 million other gods of the pantheon gather at the Grand Shrine of Izumo; traditionally on 20th day of 10th month of the lunisolar calendar)
Information Overload Awareness Day -- we all get bombarded, take stock of how it affects you; sponsored by the Information Overload Research Group
Installation of Scriptures as Guru Granth -- Sikh
International Juan Valdez Appreciation Day -- internet generated, yet as we sip our morning wake up brew, let's remember the hardy souls who pick the beans for us!
Mashujaa Day -- Kenya (National Day/Kenyatta Day)
Miss American Rose Day -- with online only pageants devoted to high achievement and community service for girls and women of all ages, Miss American Rose suggests treating all women in your life like beautiful roses and performing community service with them
National Brandied Fruit Day
National Day on Writing -- US (sponsored by National Council of Teachers of English)
National Pharmacy Technician Day -- because pharmacy technicians "Help America Feel Better"
Navaratri Dussehra -- Hindu (final and most important day of the nine-day Festival of Durga, wife of Shiva; local dates of observance may vary)
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
Revolution Day -- Guatemala
St. Acca's Day (Patron of learning)
Suspenders Day -- probably begun by the same people who wanted to see if you would observe Wear Something Gaudy Day and Dress Like A Dork Day
World Osteoporosis Day -- International Osteoporosis Foundation
Anniversaries Today:
Clint Black marries Lisa Hartman, 1991
William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty, 1973
The Sydney Opera House opens, 1973
Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, 1968
Birthdays Today:
John Krasinski, 1979
Dann Gillen, 1967
Viggo Mortensen, 1958
Danny Boyle, 1956
Keith Hernandez, 1953
Tom Petty, 1953
Melanie Mayron, 1952
Tom Petty, 1950
Jerry Orbach, 1935
William Christopher, 1932
Mickey Mantle, 1931
Joyce Brothers
Art Buchwald, 1925
Fayard Nicholas, 1914
Bela Lugosi, 1882
Charles Ives, 1874
Charles Dewey, 1859
James Robert Mann, 1856
Arthur Rimbaud, 1854
Christopher Wren, 1632
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Six Million Dollar Man"(TV), 1973
"No Time for Sergeants"(Play), 1955
"Vor Sonnenaufgang/Before Sunrise"(Hauptmann play), 1889
Today in History:
The first Crusaders arrive at Antioch, 1097
The city of Nuestra Senora de La Paz (Our Lady of Peace), Bolivia, is founded, 1548
Battle of sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's Shoguns, 1600
Maria Theresa of Habsburg becomes ruler of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1740
Patent of Toleration, providing limited freedom of worship, is approved in Habsburg Monarchy, 1781
US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase, 1803
The U.S. and U.K. sign the Convention of 1818, which, among other things settles the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel for most of its length, 1818
First Edition of London Sunday Times, 1822
Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday in the US, on the 4th Thursday of November each year, 1864
P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome featuring "The Greatest Show on Earth" opens in NYC, 1873
The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched, 1910
The first Negro League World Series is held, the KC Monarchs shut out the Hilldales, 5-0, 1924
United States of America and Pakistan establish diplomatic relations for the first time, 1947
The Nepal Stock Exchange collapses, 1971
The Sydney Opera House opens, 1973
BM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released, 1983
US accuses Microsoft of violating law by forcing IE browser on computers, 1997
European astronomers announce the discovery of 32 extrasolar planets, 2009
Astronomers announce that galaxy UDFy-38135539 is the most distant object observed from Earth, around 30 billion light-years, 2010
Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Mutassim Gaddafi are killed shortly after the Battle of Sirte, 2011
Pollution is linked to 1 in 6 deaths worldwide or 9 million in 2015 in a report published in "The Lancet", 2017
Qantas Airlines runs a first test flight of its new 787 Boeing Dreamliner, flying from New York to Sydney in 19 hours, 42 minutes, 2019
The US Justice Department sues Google for an alleged illegal monopoly over internet searches and search advertising, 2020
New dating techniques using solar storms show the first European settlements of the New World were made by Vikings around 1021AD in Newfoundland, 2021
A claim by some archaeologists saying Indonesia's prehistoric site Gunung Padang, West Java, has world's oldest pyramid constructed by humans 27,000 years ago causes controversy, 2023
France awards the Medal of Honor to US Army veteran John Gojmerac, age 99, for his service in WWII which both restored phone lines needed for military communications and captured the Germans who had been damaging them, 2023
Egypt is declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, becoming the third country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the 44th worldwide to achieve this status, 2024
American classical pianist Eric Lu wins the top prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland, 2025
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