12/30/11 New Year's Eve Eve

[mnhermit]

G'mornin' - up way too early and want to nap soon. Got a thin dusting of snow overnight.

Today in History:

1731 - 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
1809 - Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii (Kona)
1835 - After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Missississippi River
1854 - Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
1861 - US, banks stop payments in gold
1884 - Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig
1896 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5
1918 - John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover
1924 - Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
1936 - United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
1940 - California's 1st freeway, (Arroyo Seco Parkway), opens
1952 - Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
1974 - Beatles are legally disbanded (4 years after suit was brought)
1979 - Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1988 - Col.North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
1997 - An abandoned building collapses on NY's 42nd St, no one hurt

born today:

1741 - Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer
1851 - Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)
1867 - Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard Titanic)
1937 - John Hartford, NYC, country singer (Gentle on My Mind)
1937 - Paul (Noel) Stookey, singer/musician (Peter, Paul, & Mary)
1939 - Del Shannon, [Charles Westover], Coopersville Mich, rocker (Runaway)
1942 - Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1945 - Davy Jones, Manchester Eng, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1947 - Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)

[brucemacneill]

Good morning. Yup, December 30th and I'm meeting some guys for golf at 10, so I should be on the practice range at 9. New Years Day looks promising golf-wise too. Last year we were digging out of a record snowfall.

[Kramster]

Hey

Look..we have seasons in Phoenix..



Darn Palm tree ⬇

[Deleted]

Yup! Last Friday of 2011. I'll be offline over the weekend.... so all of yaz have a safe weekend and a healthy and prosperous New Year!

[Cornflake]

Good morning. Absolutely nothing was happening at the office so I knocked off until next week. I'll be off to the boonies shortly. Enjoy your day.

[Fingerplucked]

Eve always gets a lot of press this time of year.

[drlj]

Good morning, all on this New Year's Eve Eve.

LJ

[Doug]

I'z here
Chris z here
Lazy dog still in bed. I lied dog got up.

[Marshall]

I can almost see that palm tree shiver, Kramster.

(Might want to see fp's branch shiver a little )

[paulschlimm]

Up and awake. No big plans for today.

[millring]

Just another working day. Got a cold. Dar's got it worse. We watched "Tangled" last night -- two powerfully good voices in Mandy Moore and Donna Murphy. I had seen this "Separated at Birth" photo on my nephew's facebook page, but didn't know who "Flynn" was. Now I get it....

[iamjohnne]

Good morning.

[Lonnie]

Good morning...

[Tamarack]

Good Morning Good People

Stomach bug earlier in the week has turned into a conventional cold. Other than that life is good on Paris Avenue

Sleeping/waking schedule has been completely thrown off. Didn't fall asleep until after 3:00 AM. Side effect is vividly weird dreams. Last night I dreamt that I was training to be a figher pilot -- no uniforms and the trainers were young women with attitudes that could be baristas at the Starbucks from hell. The night before I dreamt the northwest side of Grand Rapids had become a post-industrial wasteland and we couldn't get across to downtown because there were storms in the Grand River, which had somehow become wider than the Mississippi.

Off to pop sudafed and take a hot shower in hopes of a more normal day thereafter.

Have a fabulous final Friday of 2011 one and all.

[Marshall]

Cool dream, Tam. . . . , What're you taking ?

[Doug]

no uniforms and the trainers were young women

Naked women trainers? What drugs do you take to get dreams of naked women trainers.

[epaul]

Dec 30, 2011 7:35:46 GMT -5 Fingerplucked said:

Eve always gets a lot of press this time of year.

Jeez, Jim!

Couldn't you have posted a warning or something!

I opened this at home without any pants on. If you had put up a NSAH or something, I would certainly have had my pants on before opening it.

[Don Clark]

Dec 30, 2011 7:35:46 GMT -5 Fingerplucked said:

Hey FP.....Eve lost her guitar.

Mornin'.....

Just making it downstairs to check in here and then get after the last day of painting. I will have done the girl's room and the entire lower level of the house. Except for a couple of small touch up areas, that's it for painting for a while. Next is finish hooking up sound in the musicroom. My PC >>>>> stereo tuner/amp>>>>>Carvin PA.

Kids go back to school on 1/5, then I'll get back to work on the CD. Going early Sunday morning to Burr Oak, Ks. to see Aunt Ruth and play some tunes for her.

And ending on a bit of a sad note, older son Joshua's roommate accidentally left a door open at their house in Manhattan. Sneezer, Joshua's cat of 14 years got out. Hasn't been seen for 5 days. He was de-clawed in front, and they live at the edge of a field where they have herd coyotes. Joshua was in tears with me on the phone, quite upset.....and at the same time he was mad enough at his roommate to be punching holes in the wall.

[sidheguitarmichael]

'afternoon. Driving to Missoula today; just finished emailing promo copy for the first performance in a supper club series that I am spearheading (and talking Mags with Marshall). Be back on Monday.

[t-bob]

Kramster, your house looks like it could be on the east coast somewhere, certainly not Phoenix. 1st photo.

Whole "family" (estranged wife and angry son, and moi) has the flu. At least I'm on the upside of it. Good afternoon.