The swelling in my face is no better yet. We are finally back from "celebrating" homecoming, and I feel awful.
It's time to sleep.
Today is:
American Enterprise Day
America Recycles Day
Dynasty Day, Belgium
George Spelvin Day
I Love to Write Day
National Bundt Pan Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
National Philanthropy Day
National Spicy Hermit Day
Nativity Fast begins (through Dec 24) -- Orthodox Christian
Republic Day, Brazil
Shichi-Go-San (Shrine Visiting Day) and the Seven-Five-Three Festival, Japan
St. Albertus Magnus' Day (patron of science students, scientists, and technologists)
St. Gertrude's Day
St. Leopold's Day (patron of Austria)
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims
Birthdays Today:
Kevin Eubanks, 1957
Sam Waterston, 1940
Petula Clark, 1932
Ed Asner, 1929
Bill "C.W. McCall" Fries, 1928
Joseph Wapner, 1919
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887
F. William Herschel, 1738
William Pitt the Elder, 1708
Today in History:
Christopher Columbus notes the first recorded reference to tobacco, 1492
The NY General Assembly permits Jews to omit the phrase "Upon the faith of a Christian" from adjuration oaths, 1727
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1763
The Articles of Confederation are adopted by the Continental Congress, 1777
Georgetown University, the first Catholic college in the US, opens, 1791
Zebulon Pike gets his first sight of Pike's Peak, Colorado, 1806
Isaac Pitman introduces his steno/shorthand system of writing, 1832
Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia, 1864
King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade, 1904
The first telecast of an unscheduled event, a fire, takes place on W2XBT, in NY, 1938
Today is very strange.
It is homecoming day at the university, and the kids and I are up here at the on campus hotel for the alumni. We are going to the parade and game, etc. We do this every year.
I woke with a portion of my face swollen, and I don't know why.
It has me very nervous.
My doctor is one of the people who will be up there today, and I'm hoping to snag a moment with him.
I also hope this does not interfere with the kids getting to enjoy homecoming.
ETA -- My doctor was just here at the on campus hotel, looked, asked a couple of questions, said I have a staph infection (read zit, of all things) that needs an antibiotic. I will leave the kids here on campus with their dad while he works, and go pick up the Rx. I'm 46, not 16! Zits! Only me.
Today is:
Children's Day, India
Independence Day, Jordan
Inuit Asking Festival
Kalamazoo Russian Festival begins, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
Moccas -- Celtic (pig goddess festival)
National Guacamole Day (yummm!!!)
Operating Room Nurse Day
St. Dubricus' Day (the saint who crowned King Arthur)
World Diabetes Day
Birthdays Today
Condoleeza Rice, 1954
Yanni, 1954
Prince Charles, 1948
King Hussein of Jordan, 1935
McLean Stevenson, 1929
Brian Keith, 1921
Veronica Lake, 1919
Barbara Hutton, 1912
Rosemary Decamp, 1910
Joseph McCarthy, 1909
Dick Powell, 1904
Aaron Copeland, 1900
Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889
Claude Monet, 1840
Robert Fulton, 1765
Today in History:
Samuel Pepys reports on the first blood transfusion (between dogs), 1666
Louis Timothee is hired in Philidelphia to be the first professional librarian in the US, 1732
Captain George Vancouver is the first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay, 1792
John Mason debuts the first horse-drawn street car in NYC, with a route between Prince and 14th on 4th Ave., 1832
Herman Melville publishes "Moby Dick", 1851
The St. Andrews Golf Club, in Yonkers, NY, opens with 6 holes, 1888
New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass the fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in fewer than 80 days, 1889
(Note: she succeeded, finishing the trip in January 1890 in 72 days and 6 hours.)
Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light, 1908
The first airplane flight from the deck of a ship takes place in Norfolk, Virginia, 1910
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