It's That Time Again

Yes, ladies and germs, it's time once again for the
17th Annual 12 People In A Two Bedroom Condo At The Beach For A Week Family Should Be Close But Not This Close Vacation.

We will once again spend a week hanging at the pool and beach, shopping, playing in the game room, and just generally bumming around. A visit to the Naval Air Museum is included, and this year the kids want to see the Gulf Coast Zoo as well.

Yes, as close quartered as we get. the week is worth it. That's why we go back each year.

Thank you, Grandpa, for making it possible.


Today is

Apple II Day

Belmont Stakes

Change Your Mind Day

Constitution Day, Denmark

Doughnut Day

Drawing Day (a/k/a Pencil Day)

Elfreth's Alley Day (Fete Day), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (one of the oldest continuously inhabited streets in the country, first Saturday in June)

Festival of Popular Delusions Day

Liberation Day, Seychelles

National Gingerbread Day

National Trails Day

Pink Tomato Festival, Warren, Arkansas -- through the 12th

St. Boniface's Day

St. Gobnatt's Day

St, James Salomonelli's Day (patron against cancer)

World Environment Day


Birthdays Today:

Mark Wahlberg, 1971
Brian McKnight, 1969
Kenny G, 1956
Jill Biden, 1951
Suze Orman, 1951
Ken Follett, 1949
Spalding Gray, 1941
Bill Moyers, 1934
Tony Richardson, 1928
Panco Villa, 1878
Thomas Chippendale, 1718
Pu Songling, 1640


Today in History:

Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem, 70
Kraków, Poland receives city rights, 1257
The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched, 1817
Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas, 1837
Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy, 1849
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper, 1851
Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage, 1915
Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements, 1956
The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in, 1959
The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale, 1977
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion, 1984
A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region, 2003