• Eve's 19th Birthday! •

HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY EVE! I miss you & I wish I could be with you today. I woke up relatively early even though I overslept by almost an hour & a half, but that's because I couldn't get to sleep again last night for an hour & a half. Woke up, went on a FD med call, drove Kyle to work, then started my day. I have a headache & I'm guessing it's from the weather. It's all rainy & stormy out & we sure need the rain! This is Texas, we always need the rain. :) I completed the 2nd panel on my machine knit afghan last night & it's coming out great so far. Very colorful with the square color blocks. My gardening was down to peppers. I had both sweet & hot peppers & it turns out something out there likes sweet peppers, they've all been eaten off the plant. As for the hot peppers, nothing touched them but they did manage to eat every single leaf off the plant, so now it's just bare sticks with peppers hanging off the sticks. Since the leaves are what hold the moisture for the plant, I'm guessing it's probably going to die soon. It's been hanging in there so far, but how long can a plant live with NO leaves on it & still produce? Eve, have a GREAT birthday!

Doorman:

Takes luggage from your vehicle to the front desk; hails you a cab & opens the door, particularly at luxury hotels.

Tip: $1-$2 for carrying luggage; $1-$4 for getting a taxi (the higher end if it's raining or if the doorman had trouble flagging down a cab); none required for opening the door.

Lights go on at Wrigley (1988):

On this day in 1988, the Chicago Cubs host the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field.

The first-ever night game in professional baseball took place nearly 60 years earlier, on May 2, 1930, when a Des Moines, Iowa, team hosted Wichita for a Western League game. The match-up drew 12,000 people at a time when Des Moines was averaging just 600 fans per game. Evening games soon became popular in the minors: As minor league ball clubs were routinely folding in the midst of the Great Depression, adaptable owners found the innovation a key to staying in business. The major leagues, though, took five years to catch up to their small-town counterparts.

The first big league night game took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 24, 1935, and drew 25,000 fans. The crowd stood by as President Franklin D. Roosevelt symbolically switched on the lights from Washington, D.C. To capitalize on their new evening fan base, the Reds played a night game that year against every National League team--eight games in total--and despite their lousy record of 68-85, paid attendance rose 117 percent. Over the next 13 seasons, the rest of the major league parks followed suit, with one exception, Wrigley Field, which by 1988 was the second oldest ballpark in use after Boston’s Fenway Park. For 74 seasons, the Cubs played only day games at home. Finally, on August 8, 1988, the Cubs played the Philadelphia Phillies in the park’s first night game. Ninety-one-year-old Cubs fan Harry Grossman was chosen to turn on the lights. After counting to three, he flipped the switch, and announced "Let there be light."

Rick Sutcliffe started the game for the Cubs, and gave up a home run to Phil Bradley of the Phillies on his fourth pitch. The Cubs’ star second baseman Ryne Sandberg answered with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first inning, and with the Cubs leading in the bottom of the fourth inning 3-1, the game was called due to rain. Because the five innings needed for the game to be official were not completed, Wrigley’s first night game is officially recorded as a 6-4 win over the New York Mets on August 9, 1988.

Today, the Cubs are the only major league team that still plays the majority of its home games during the day.

Minimize clutter by instituting a household rule for clothes, toys, books, games, trinkets, etc. When 1 item comes in the door, an old one has to go. This is a great lesson to teach children, so as adults they can manage their clutter.

Muriel's Wedding:

Misfit Muriel (Toni Collette) has always escaped life by listening to ABBA ditties and dreaming about marriage. When she and her flighty friend Rhoda (Rachel Griffiths) leave small-town Porpoise Spit, Australia, behind them, her fantasy starts to come to life. That comes along in the form of a hunky swimmer (Daniel Lapaine) looking for Aussie citizenship. At long last, her storybook dreams have come true, but is Muriel ready for this reality?

Name 4 musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Evita, Cats, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Peripatetic:

1: Capitalized : Aristotelian 2a: Of, relating to, or given to walking. b: Moving or traveling from place to place : itinerant.

Rodney was a peripatetic foreign correspondent, reporting from all corners of the globe.

Are you someone who likes to think on your feet? If so, you've got something in common with the followers of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Not only a thinker & teacher, Aristotle was also a walker, & his students were required to walk along beside him as he lectured while pacing to & fro. Thus it was that the Greek word peripatetikos (from peripatein, meaning "to walk up & down") came to be associated with Aristotle & his followers. In addition, the covered walk in the Lyceum where Aristotle taught was known as the peripatos (which can refer to either the act of walking or a place for walking).

Swim Time Converter:

Your premier swim time converter app to convert swim times for different length pools.
Key Features:
• Convert times between Short Course Yards (SCY), Short Course Meters (SCM), and Long Course Meters (LCM)
• Supports multiple conversion methods (Colorado Swimming, NCAA, and USA Swimming)
• Copy converted time to the clipboard via tap and hold gesture
• Altitude adjustment
• Simple, elegant user interface

There's a sure-fire way to get through school. It's called WORK. Our culture tells kids that student loans are a way of life, but all that really does is set them up for a lifetime of financial bondage. I don't believe in student loans, & I know for a fact that you can get a college education without borrowing a dime!

Transformers: The Movie released. Optimus Prime's death deemed the saddest moment in human history. (1986) 

When it comes to fine dining, what musical term describes a palate-cleansing course served between two larger courses?

Intermezzo, which means “something between” in Italian.

When shopping for a swimsuit, really move around in it - sit down, jump up, bend over. Dressing room gymnastics can prevent a costly mistake.

Which of these is the largest, 2nd largest, & 3rd largest component in human blood?
A. Red cells
B. Plasma
C. White cells

BAC. Plasma, the clear stuff everything else swims in, is usually about 55% of blood volume. Red cells make up another 45%, & white cells about 1%. Works for me.

Which substance is the hardest, 2nd hardest, & 3rd hardest?

A. Titanium

B. Steel

C. Molybdenum

Why did Czech-born National Hockey League sharpshooter Jaromir Jagr pick 68 as the number for his team jersey?

Woman gave birth to 2 sons who were born in the same hour of the same day of the same year, but they weren't twins. How is this possible?