The Week At Home

Yes, I'm going to need something to get through the week. Stamina. Prayer. Valium. Something.

Sweetie is bored. When he is bored, it costs money.

Yesterday, it was take the kids to the zoo, and out for lunch, and then to a movie for the evening.

Heaven only knows what he will want to do to occupy his time today.

When he is not occupied, he is a chatterbox. That's fine when we are sitting and just spending time together. It is difficult to deal with when I have to get a lot done and need to concentrate. He wants me to sit and "take a load off." Then he wonders why dinner is late.

If he ever retires and is home full time ... well, I'm not going to borrow trouble. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.


Today is

Constitution Day -- Cayman Islands

Day of the Capital -- Kazakhstan

Independence Day -- Comoros; Malawi

Ivan Kupala Day -- Poland; Russia; Belarus; Ukraine

Jan Hus Day -- Czech Republic

Ludi Apollinares -- Ancient Roman Calendar, first day of games in honor of Apollo

National Fried Chicken Day

National Pickle Festival

Nothing Day

Old Albums are Frisbees Day

Rememberance Day, Luxembourg

San Fermin Festival -- Pamplona, through the 14th

Statehood Day -- Lithuania

St. Maria Goretti's Day (patron of teenage girls)

Webmaster Day


Birthdays Today

Matthew O'Leary, 1987
Gregory Smith, 1983
Tia and Tamera Mowry, 1978
Jennifer Saunders, 1958
Geoffrey Rush, 1951
George W. Bush, 1946
Sylvester Stallone, 1946
Burt Ward, 1945
Ned Beatty, 1937
Dalai Lama, 1935
Della Reese, 1932
Janet Leigh, 1927
Pat Paulsen, 1927
Merv Griffin, 1927
Bill Haley, 1925
William Schallert, 1922
Nancy Reagan, 1921
Sebastian Cabot, 1918
Laverne Andrews, 1915
Frida Kahlo, 1907
John Paul Jones, 1747


Today in History

Richard I (Richard the Lionheart) is crowned King of England, 1189
Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death, 1348
Jan Hus is burned at the stake, 1415
Richard III is crowned King of England, 1483
Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River, 1484
Sir Thomas More is executed for treason against King Henry VIII, 1535
Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera, 1573
The dollar is unanimously chosen as the monetary unit for the United States, 1785
In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party is held, 1854
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies; the patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog, 1885
David Kalakaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced at gunpoint, at the hands of the Americans, to sign the Bayonet Constitution giving Americans more power in Hawaii while stripping Hawaiian citizens of their rights, 1887
Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain, 1892
The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship, 1919
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeats the National League, 4–2, 1933
The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed, 1939
Anne Frank and her family go into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse, 1942
The Hartford Circus Fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut, 1944
Davis Phinney became the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France, 1986