April 7, 2012

I got farther yesterday than I have in a VERY long time. The only reason I didn't finish is because there was still a learning curve involved in some of the things that I finally got to do for the FIRST time. Now that I know what I'm doing, it'll all go a lot smoother if I ever get that far again. I finally went out to DINNER for the 1st time in a very long time. Dinner, that means real food ... or at least better than I eat for lunch. In this case I still had a cheeseburger (I usually opt for something better for dinner), but the difference between a dinner cheeseburger & a lunch cheeseburger is: lunch cheeseburger = Burger King. Dinner cheeseburger = Hooters. Entirely different environment & the cheeseburger is 10X bigger ... at least it seems like it is. It's a LOT larger. How do you piss of your 15-year-old son? Easy. Check in on facebook at Hooters WITHOUT him. I come back home ... "MOM! You went to Hooters without me?!" "Yep, sorry." "Did you bring me anything?" "Yep, got you this Dr Pepper ... couldn't talk a waitress into coming home with me to meet my 15-year-old son. Go figure." I wonder if I can get my office set up like Hooters? Speakers that will make your ears bleed & 20 TVs that I could count just from where I was sitting, each one on a different channel.

Milligan water meeting Monday.

Caller ID:

A telemarketer? An in-law? No more having to claim you were just running out. (1990)

Closet:

Put a dryer sheet in shoes you're storing away for the summer months to absorb moisture & odor. Stuff shoes with newspaper to keep their shape & also help absorb moisture.

How did the holiday celebrating the exodus of the Jews from Egypt come to be called Passover?

Inordinate:
Exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate (like the number of TVs in Hooters?)

Mary complained that she had to spend an inordinate amount of time cleaning up after her 2 sloppy roommates.

At one time, if something was"inordinate," it didn't conform to the expected or desired order of things. That sense, synonymous with "disorderly" or "unregulated," is now archaic, but it hints at the origins of "inordinate." The word traces back to the Latin verb ordinare, meaning "to arrange," combined with the negative prefix in-. Ordinare is also the ancestor of the words "coordination," "subordinate," "ordination," & "ordain," though not "order," "orderly," or "disorderly."

John Wayne wins Best Actor Oscar (1970):

On this day in 1970, the legendary actor John Wayne wins his first--and only--acting Academy Award, for his star turn in the director Henry Hathaway’s Western True Grit.

Wayne appeared in some 150 movies over the course of his long and storied career. He established his tough, rugged, uniquely American screen persona most vividly in the many acclaimed films he made for the directors John Ford and Howard Hawks from the late 1940s into the early 1960s. He earned his first Oscar nomination, in the Best Actor category, for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949). The Alamo (1960), which Wayne produced, directed and starred in, earned a Best Picture nomination.

Wayne’s Oscar for True Grit at the 42nd annual Academy Awards in 1970 was generally considered to be a largely sentimental win, and a long-overdue reward for one of Hollywood’s most enduring performers. The Academy had failed to even nominate Wayne for any of his most celebrated performances, in films such as Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), The Quiet Man (1952), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) and especially Ford’s The Searchers (1956), considered by many to be the greatest Western ever made. In True Grit, Wayne played a drunken, foul-tempered but endearing U.S. marshal named Rooster Cogburn, who becomes an unlikely hero when he helps a young girl avenge the murder of her father. He would reprise the role in the film’s sequel, Rooster Cogburn (1975), opposite Katharine Hepburn.

Nominated for seven Oscars at the 42nd annual awards ceremony that night, John Schlesinger’s gritty urban drama Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories. The film’s stars, Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, were both nominated in the Best Actor category but lost out to Wayne. Richard Burton (as King Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days) and Peter O’Toole (as the beloved schoolmaster Arthur Chipping in Goodbye, Mr. Chips) rounded out the category. It was the fourth of what would be eight career nominations (and no wins) for O’Toole.

In 1964, Wayne battled lung cancer, undergoing surgery to remove his entire left lung. He went public with news of his illness in hopes of convincing people to remain vigilant about cancer. In his last movie, The Shootist (1976), Wayne portrayed an aging gunfighter dying of cancer. Three years later, the great actor himself succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 72 on June 11, 1979.

Library of Congress:

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Mission:

In the mid-18th century, a Jesuit missionary named Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) establishes a church in the hostile jungles of Brazil, but he finds his work converting the Rain Forest Indians threatened by greed and political forces among his superiors. Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert De Niro) is a heartless soldier who kills his own brother and then convinces the Father's missionary to oversee his penance and conversion to the clergy.

Proverbs 12:12 says "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes it is a tree of life." In other words, when you can see something at the end of the tunnel that's not an oncoming train - something that's real light & real hope - you get excited.

What church in Jerusalem’s Old City is traditionally believed to have been built on the site of Christ’s crucifixion?

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is known as the Church of the Resurrection to Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Which character was created 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?

A. Gingerbread man

B. Gumby

C. Pillsbury doughboy

ABC. "The Gingerbread Man" & similar fairytales date back to the 1850s.

Words that work:
"I'm sorry".

The most essential words in the vocabulary of courtesy are nearly effortless to say, but convey a wealth of meaning to others.

Making & accepting apologies gracefully are acts of courtesy & maturity. Saying "I'm sorry" is important for matters big & small. Sincere apologies can defuse volatile situations, since it's hard for most people to remain angry with someone who takes responsibility for his own actions. "I'm sorry" is also one of the simplest & often kindest ways to express sympathy or regret.