01/01/2012 sundaily

[mnhermit]

G'mornin' - not hungover from the Bailey's and coffee I consumed last night, but then I went to bed at 10. 25F and cloudy.

Today in History:

1502 - Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro
1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)
1660 - 1st entry in Samuel Pepys' diary
1772 - 1st traveller's checks issued (London)
1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves
1847 - Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment
1858 - Canada begins using decimal currency system
1862 - 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000)
1886 - 1st Tournament of Roses (Pasadena Calif)
1896 - Wilhelm Roentgen announces his discovery of x-rays
1902 - 1st Rose Bowl game (Pasadena, California) (U of Mich-49, Stanford-0)
1916 - 1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown)
1922 - Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road
1935 - 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl
1956 - Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville
1960 - US census at 179,245,000
1962 - Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful
1966 - Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
1978 - Pres Ford signs 1st major revision of copyright law since 1909
1985 - US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY)
1993 - Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) & Slovak
1995 - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)
1998 - US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733

born today:

1449 - Lorenzo de'Medici, [The Magnificent] of Florence
1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith/US patriot
1752 - Elizabeth Griscom (Betsy) Ross, flag maker
1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work)
1879 - Edward M Forster, England, novelist (Howards End, Passage to India)
1895 - J Edgar Hoover
1900 - Xavier Cugat, Barcelona Spain, bandleader
1919 - J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, NYC, novelist
1942 - Country Joe McDonald, Calif, rock guitarist/vocalist

[theevan]

Hola, 2012!

[brucemacneill]

Happy New Year, again.

[iamjohnne]

Good morning. Happy New Year.

[paulschlimm]

Up. Throat is on fire. Head isn't much better. Happy New Year!

[theevan]

Scotch, Paul. You need Scotch.

[Kramster]

Hey

[Fingerplucked]

Morning. Today is the first day of broken resolutions. I feel like a new man.

[Fingerplucked]

<Newman>

[Doug]

Happy Nuz Year

[Cornflake]

Good morning.

[drlj]

Happy New Year. Hope the Mayans were not correct about 2012 because I have some plans for the whole year.

I hope it is good to all of us!

LJ

[billhammond]

Good day, good year, etcetera,

Well, we finally got some snow, about three inches of really wet stuff, should be a lot of fun to shovel, and I also have a dead car in the driveway that I am gonna have to jump start with my car.

Today was sposed to be the day that the Dottirs and Guest Beau and I spent skiing, with my offsetting part of the cost by playing a gig. Well, now, no one is going skiing because of health issues, but I am still committed to the gig, so I just hope the roads are OK and it all goes smoothly and quickly. I'll need to leave around 1:30 and probably won't get back until 7:30 or 8, just gonna miss my darlings so much during that time!

Tomoro I am treating them to a Kafe 421 feast, that should be great. Then they fly to NC on Tuesday morning. Damn, seems like they just got here....

[Deleted]

From the Nappy You Here thread.

Jan 1, 2012 10:26:07 GMT -5 Marty said:

I went to bed at 11:56, got up at 8:56, now I'm taking DaWife to breakfast.

Going to try and get some work done in the home shop, wish me luck. The problem is I keep reaching for or needing items that I'm used to having at hand and the home shop is not as well stocked as my Podium shop. Yes I'm spoiled but I've spent a lot of years stocking that shop so I have what I need when I need it.

[PaulKay]

Happy New Year all. Snow on the ground for the first time tis winter...and 50 mph wind gusts. Won't be going antwhere today...good thing there's a Packer game on. We'll see how Detroit likes playing in cold.

[Tamarack]

Good Morning Good People

Cold and rainy as non-winter continues. Involved with spruce this morning -- Dawn is taking down the Christmas tree and we will spent the next month cleaning up little sharp needles that hide in nooks and crannies and then wander out to stick in bare feet.

Not much else going on. Few home repairs and might feel well enough to reintrduce myself to a stringed instrument.

Have a peaceful New Years Day one and all.

[millring]

Kentucky ✔
Ohio State ✔

Hoosiers are starting to believe again....

[Lonnie]

Good morning. Stayed up til 3:30 (not on purpose, just couldn't sleep). It's nice of the new year to start on a Sunday, not much to do til this evening when we start to mix the Madeleine CD. Oh, the damn snow, forgot about that.

[Cosmic Wonder]

Happy New Year everyone. It has been an interesting past few weeks. We had my Dad's "Celebration of life" friday night up at my brother's house in Kirkland. Family, food, and a few tears were shed, but all in all it was good to see/get everyone togther and tell tales about Dad.

I greeted the new years last night by playing blues on the Collings.

Have a great day everyone.

Mike

[epaul]

So far I'm batting a thousand on my New Year's Resolutions.

-Try start each day with coffee if it's convenient.

I think we can put a check by that one. Now if I get my teeth brushed before I go out, number two will be taken care of. I forget number three, oh, wait, breakfast! Three for Three. What a great start to the New Year.

Off to sing in a stone cathedral. Our Cantata group is singing at Florian, a great big Catholic church like they used to build in the olden days. Pretty amazing to have a building like that in the middle of an empty prairie. The town of Florian consists of five or six people, and a huge stone cathedral.