Sumday, 8th of January 2012

[t-bob]

An early good morning to all of us.
I'm just now finishing an exciting day of vacuuming, dusting, and general house cleanup, more activity than I've been able to muster in almost two weeks. My flu is departing, albeit quite slowly. I also enjoyed the two NFL offerings yesterday/today, and look forward to tomorrow's lineup, especially Giants/Falcons. Also, will finally be cooking our Christmas ham, unless it's gone bad in the reefer.
Next week brings continued job searching, debt restructuring, and finding an oxymoron, a responsible, yet inexpensive, roofer.
Hope our Sunday is what we all expect it to be, with pleasant surprises thrown in for good measure.
Good night and good morning.

[Doug]

I'z here

[brucemacneill]

Good morning. Walked 9 holes carrying my clubs again yesterday and shot an honest 49 which isn't great but it's the best I've done in a year and 10 shots less than last week. Came home, took a little nap and then did some yard work. It's good to be able to walk without pain again and get physically active again. Hope this keeps getting better. Now, if my fingernails grow out so I can play without fake nails all will be well.

Don, hope Rambo gets well.

Enjoy your Sunday.

[iamjohnne]

Good morning all.

[Kramster]

Hey... off to a bagel...maybe Doug will wander there too..

[mnhermit]

G'mornin' - another not winter day, and I'm leaving for the island soon, I may miss most of the minnesotan winter.

Today in History:

1656 - Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)
1675 - 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)
1760 - Comet C/1760 A1 (Great comet) approaches within 0.0682 AUs of Earth
1798 - 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed
1815 - Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew
1833 - Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established
1889 - Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine
1902 - 1st National Bowling Championship held (Chicago, Ill)
1918 - Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition)
1954 - Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"
1964 - President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty"
1966 - Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
1966 - Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC
1974 - Silver hits record $3.40 an ounce in New York
1993 - Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale


born today:

1587 - Johannes Fabricius, Denmark, astronomer (discovered sunspots)
1786 - Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd bank of US 1st effective central bank
1862 - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)
1868 - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity
1906 - Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
1935 - Elvis Aaron Presley, Tupelo Miss, singer (Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog)
1940 - Anthony Gaurdine, (Little Anthony & Imperials-Goin Out of My Head)
1942 - Stephen Hawking, English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
1944 - Terry Brooks, US, fantasy author (Sword of Shannara)
1946 - Robbie Kreiger, LA Calif, guitarist (Doors-Come on Baby Light My Fire)
1947 - David Bowie, [Jones], London, singer/actor (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust)
1947 - Terry Sylvester, rocker (Hollies-You are the Air that I Breathe)
1948 - Paul King, rocker (Blue Oyster Cult)
1955 - Mike Reno, Vancouver BC Canada, rock vocalist (Loverboy)

[paulschlimm]

Up.

Watching Man United beat the crap out of Man City in Round Three of the FA Cup. No Joe Hart and a red card on Kompany at 13. Just watched Man City sink a penalty at 48 to make it 3-1, but with 10, it'll be hard.

Translation available for certain Iowans upon request.

[Lonnie]

Good morning... road trip this afternoon, good weather for it... I heard someone say 40 degrees again!

[Tamarack]

Good Morning Good People

Sunny and cool, other than that, no weather whatsoever.

Typical Sunday ahead. Planning to spend less evening/weekend time in the office this year.

Have a melodious post-Epiphany Sunday one and all.

[Marshall]

Had a rough surprise last night. Leaving a restaurant, I decided to turn around and go another direction at a turn. . . . , and never saw the new median in the road. . . . , Bam, bam. . . . , double flats. had to get towed home to a local service station that won't be open until Monday. Hope it's only tires. Next on the downward spiral would be rims. And then undercarriage damage.

We'll see.

[millring]

I'm going to be the substitute guitarist for the "Band O' Goshen" for the Fort Wayne contra dance on January 21. (Band O' Goshen is my friend Les Gustafsen Zook's band. Les's claim to fame is that he's a multi-year National Autoharp champion at Winfield). Song list....

Dance Tunes

Nail the Catfish to the Tree G /D
Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss D
Bill Cheatham A
Mississippi Sawyer D
St. Anne’s Reel D
Whiskey Before Breakfast D
Liberty D
Golden Slippers G
Westfalia Waltz G
Girl I Left Behind Me G
Jaybird D
Temperance Reel G
Arkansas Traveler D
Waiting For Nancy D
Shenandoah Falls D
Blackberry Blossom G
Grasshopper Sitting on a Sweet D
West Fork Gals D
Cuckoo’s Nest D
Green Willis D
Quince Dillon’s High D D
Julianne Johnson D
Forked Deer D
June Apple A
Little Liza Jane A
Sally Anne A

Waltzes
Shebeg Shemore D
Westfalia G
Oshokan Farewell D
Lover’s Waltz G

[Cornflake]

Slept very late. Busy day yesterday, although a good one, and I guess my body needed some z's. Good morning. Enjoy your day.

[Fingerplucked]

Morning.

John, the substitute guitarist gig should be fun, but I looked at the song list and couldn't find Substitute anywhere on it.

Marshall, sorry about your car. That happened to me about 30 years ago. Now I just stick to roads with averages in the middle.

[sekhmet]

Medians are the curse of drivers. Sorry to hear about your mishap, Marshall.

Sunday is chilly, survived another week of 2012. Who would thought I would live to see it?

Thinking of little Rambo and your family, Don. Hoping for a full recovery. He sounds like he will be fine. Puppies are made of rubber.

[Village Idiot]

Those stupid medians are a reason why I don't like driving in the dark. It could have happened to me last night in Cedar Rapids. Kim's yelling "just pull out, quit crawling!" while I'm looking as close as I can to see if there's a median or not. There was, and I saw it, but not keeping those things painted in reflective yellow as a budget cut is not a good idea.

[Don Clark]

Heyyyyy......

Played one service, did lunch and a few groceries. Barb stayed home with Rambo. Kids went with me.

It's just a quiet afternoon for a vigil. We're all just taking turns sitting with Rambo. Hard to say just how this will turn out, but still hopeful.