fish out of water

Wow, so yesterday I got to spend a lot of time doing real family things. It was weird. I ate leftovers, stepped on little kids in the church, I got to listen to my mom play the piano after everyone else went to bed, I went home teaching with my dad and got attacked by the two youngest kids (their whole family is very much into fighting. swords and otherwise), I took a walk with my dad, and met the family that moved into my ward while I was gone, I went to choir practice and experienced having room to breathe and sing at the same time, I read two chapters of Mosiah, and other good times. Oh, and how I thought that I wasn't going to be able to randomly sing hymns all day anymore, I met this girl whose family moved into my ward while she was at BYU and she likes singing a lot too, and doesnt have anything to do all summer. so shes coming over tonight to sing with me, oh happy! But I need to get a job, not sing all the time. So I'm going to call a couple of people today or tomorrow and get something lined up. And then I will lose my summer, and I will be miserable, but I will make a whole lot more money than if I were to not work.

Today is Hug an Australian Day, Pretzel Day, and Richter Scale Day. This month is also National Soft Pretzel Month, so today is a special bonus double holiday. or something. And today is also the day that The Fitz left us. She's going to have the time of her life now. Good luck to you. And today is the first day that Scott Bowen hasn't gotten one of these emails. He was on my list from the beginning, but he has to go on a mission now. Good luck to you.

Happy Birthday to the following:
William Shakespeare, 1564
Pasquale Paoli, 1726
Joan M Kemper, 1776
Artemus Ward, 1834
Rudolf Hess, 1894
Charles Richter, 1900
William "Count" Basie, 1904
Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, 1916
James Holt, 1922 (I like this guy, look him up if you have a minute)
Carol Burnett, 1933
Sarah Tueting, 1976 (look her up too!!!)

Happy Deathday to:
Daniel Defoe, 1731 (STUD LIST)
Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, 1785
John Wilkes Booth, 1865
May McAvoy, 1984
William "Count" Basie, 1984 (STUD LIST, died on his 80th b-day)
Lucille Ball, 1989
Peng Zhen, 1997 (mayor of Beijing)

And some fun, not so fun, and outright horrible things that happened today in history:
Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights, 1220 (bad idea, man)
Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn, 1514 (GO NIC!!)
First British colony lands at Cape Henry, VA, 1607
Jews are expelled from Brazil, 1654 (this is what I mean by outright horrible)
Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated, 1721
1st Russian university opens, 1755
1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii, 1906
H Shapley & H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae,1920 (I actually remember this!)
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony, 1936 (STUD!)
Last horse race at Havre de Grace Track in MD is run, 1950 (all things Maryland remind me of Liz)
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site, 1980 (why don't they use their own test site?)
Longest jump by a jet boat is set at 120', 1980
Largest US bank robbery (Tucson Ariz), more than $33 million stolen, 1981
4th reactor at Chernobyl USSR explodes, 31 die, 1986 (I was totally just talking to A-Dogg about this last Thursday! crazy, no?)
126 die in a (6.9) earthquake in China, 1990 (Happy Richter Scale Day...)
Ozzie Smith steals his 500th base, 1992
Taiwan Airbus A-300 crashes at Nagoya Japan, 262 killed, 1994

And today's quotes:
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
George Wald (1906 - )
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Look for the ridiculous in everything, and you will find it.
Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
...I would also add that religion helps quite a bit with evil people doing good things...
Thats all for today, I don't want to exhaust my resources. I have a limited number of quotes, and I think I may have already repeated one or two. Oh well.

Well, I dont really have anything to do all day, if you're not busy either, sign on to messenger of some sort. My MSN name is GreasyHippie@hotmail.com and my AIM name is SimplifiedPlum. I like talking to anyone and everyone, so get on and i'll talk to you. Well, have a good day everyone. Peace out.
B'arris