- May 1, 2012 -

I did it! I finally found my rhythm again. It took me many months after a very disruptive time over the new year, but I'm back. I've had very good days lately of getting everything done that I both needed & wanted to do. I even had the time to add the entryway to the new house I'm building in the Sims. I even had time to play with PSP last night & make some tags for friends. The pot roast was amazing last night. Happy May! City council meeting / LCFD BBQ / Maintenance night tonight.

Aerobic capacity, maximum heart rate, and recovery time all decline with age. The rate of decline can be slowed by exercise training, however. Maintaining fitness contributes greatly to quality of life.

Baby showers 101:

Adoptive Parents.

Showers for a child who is adopted - whether an infant, an older baby, or a toddler - differ in that they're always held after the child has been brought home. Notations giving the child's age & perhaps the correct size for clothes are helpful additions on the invitation.

Batman's 1st appearance in Detective Comics (1939).

Cabotage:

1: Trade or transport in coastal waters or airspace or between 2 points within a country. 2: The right to engage in cabotage.

Some assert that the high price of imported goods would be significantly reduced if the government would simply relax its restrictions on cabotage.

Coastlines were once so important to the French that they came up with a verb to name the act of sailing along a coast: caboter. That verb gave rise to the French noun cabotage for trade or transport along a coast. In the 16th century, the French legally limited their lucrative coastal trade, declaring that only French ships could trade in French ports. They also called the right to conduct such trading cabotage. Other nations soon embraced both the concept of trade restrictions & the French word, & expanded the idea to inland trade as well. Later, English-speakers also applied "cabotage" to the rights that allowed domestic airlines to travel within national boundaries but that prevented foreign carriers from doing so.

Debt, in itself, doesn't keep someone from being marriage material. But you're definitely not marriage material if you don't work, are irresponsible, haven't taken control of your life, have no character, or can't manage your own behavior. People like that stay in debt & always struggle to pay their bills. If you marry someone like this, they'll drag you through that mess too!

Giant ziptop plastic bags:

Waterproof & airtight, they're great for storing everything from leaky bottles to cashmere sweaters.

Ice skating & bowling are fun & keep you healthy & thin.

Kitchen:

Make a hot potato fast! Use 4 toothpicks to create legs for the potato. The raised potato will cook faster in the microwave because the heat will surround the potato completely.

Record-breaking tornado wave begins (2003):

A record-breaking wave of tornadoes begins across the southern and midwestern United States on this day in 2003. By the time the wave is over, more than 500 tornadoes are recorded for the month, shattering the previous record by more than 100.

The amazing spate of twisters followed an unusually quiet month of April, when tornadoes are usually most frequent. March and April also saw a lack of significant thunderstorms, another highly unusual situation. But the residents of the South and Midwest were not in the clear. In 2003, the moist, warm air necessary for the formation of tornadoes did not arrive from the Gulf of Mexico until May and, when it did, weather conditions in these regions changed suddenly. The first 10 days of May brought an incredible amount of destructive weather to the central United States, including more than 300 tornadoes.

The best available records regarding tornadoes in the second half of the 20th century show that the previous high for tornadoes in a month was 399 in June 1992. May 2003 had a remarkable 516 recorded twisters. However, the 38 people killed in May 2003 were far fewer than the record 163 dead in May 1953. The death toll was lower because 2003 saw no F5 tornadoes (the highest intensity with winds in excess of 260 mph) and very few measured as high as F4 (with winds in excess of 207 mph).

Illinois alone had 74 recorded tornadoes in May 2003, almost 50 percent more than its previous monthly high. Missouri suffered through 71 twisters in the month, which dwarfed the pervious high of 29 in December 1982.

The worst stretch of tornadoes over a small stretch of time was recorded April 3-4, 1974, when 148 individual tornadoes touched down across the Midwest in an 18-hour period. During a single hour in the middle of this vast storm, 20 tornadoes were recorded at the same time. More than 300 people died in this single storm.

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What is the literal meaning of the word “avon”?

What lies at the feet of the Statue of Liberty?

A broken chain, symbolizing Lady Liberty’s freedom from oppression and bondage. It is protruding from the bottom of the statue’s robe and visible only from her torch or the sky above.

Which animal has the biggest, 2nd biggest, & 3rd biggest eyes?

A. Elephant

B. Ostrich

C. Horse

BCA. Ostrich peepers are about 5 cm in diameter. But if you head out to sea, the giant squid will peer at you with 25 cm dinner-plate eyes. I'll wait here.

Which TV show aired 1st, 2nd, & 3rd?

A. A Charlie Brown Christmas

B. Frosty the Snowman

C. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer