"We all came out to Montreux, On the Lake Geneva shoreline..."

Wheee! I gave you the first two lines and didnt pull them out of the middle!

-Julie E., I apolagize for not sending you these sooner, hope you enjoy this.  and you can see all my old ones right here.  I hope that link works...

-I'm just chillin here at home.  again.  I'm not even listening to loud raucus music because my family is home.  i dont know what i'm going to do today.  its memorial day, and so my brothers are home from school, and they really like computer games.  i may have to get this email done quicklike so that i dont cause a row.  Hehe, thats the influence of too much (psh!) Harry Potter.  i read goblet of fire in two days, and i plan on finishing order of the phoenix by sunset tonight.  its only 870 pages...  i guess thats what i'll be doing today.  wow, i figured something out for myself.

-My dad was making bread just now, and as he was kneading, he said "the trick is not letting it get attached to you" which i take to mean, "don't let it name you"

-Last night at dinner, my dad, Andy and I discovered artificial candied yams.  Its true.  we had some carrots and potatoes with out roast and they were all nice and soft, and then my dad went to the refridgerator to get some steak sauces and worcestershire sauce, etc. and he came back with a bottle of chocolate syrup.  so i put it on my potatoes.  andy decided to try it on his carrots, and he said it tasted like yams, so i tried it, and indeed it tasted just like yams.  so if you ever dont want to mess with yams and marshmallows and brown sugar and all that weird junk, just steam some carrots and add our friend chocolate.

- I missed a few days' worth of holidays.  the 29th was JFK Day, the 30th was Water a Flower Day, and today is: Memorial Day, World No Tobacco Day, National Macaroon Day, and Save Your Hearing Day.  Hmmm.  perhaps no raucus music then.

-Today is the birthday of:
Henry Sidgwick, 1838
Willem Ravelli, 1892 (baritones can be famous, marc!)
Martin Schwarzschild, 1912 (gah!  i dont remember quite was he did... OH!  the radius.  thats right)
Viscount Ingleby, 1926
Clint Eastwood, 1930
Peter Yarrow, 1938 (questionable character, cool music)
Yoshiko Sakakibara, 1956 (sailor moon, vampire hunter, etc)
JIM CRAIG!!!!!!!!!!!!, 1957  (Olympic gold 1980!!!! against USSR!!!!)  (I do not pretend unbiasedness)

-Famous Death for today:
Hermann Schell, 1906 (read Gott und Geist, in english if you prefer)

-Some things happened:
Rome captures 1st wall of Jerusalem, 70 AD
Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League, 1495
Lady Godiva rode naked through Coventry in a protest of taxes, 1678
US copyright law enacted, 1790
HMS Beagle anchors in Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1836 (PRIZE: WHO OWNED THE SHIP??)
DeSemdt patents asphalt pavement, 1870
Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal", 1884
Alexis Ahlgren runs world record maraton (2:36:06.6), 1913
1st wedding held in an aircraft, 1919
Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim, 1964 (grrrrrr....)
John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance", 1969 (one of my favorites... not.  actually its ok the first time, but i can only handle about 300 lines of the chorus before it drives me batty)
57th National Spelling Bee: Daniel Greenblatt wins spelling luge, 1984

-Does anyone else wake up at exactly the same time every morning or is it just me?  i never set an alarm, yet i wake up at presicely 8:00 every stinking day.  is that normal?  just wondering if i'm a freak.  Oh, and i think i may have given up on reading Faust.  Harry Potter is simply more gripping.  i read about 30 pages of Faust, and i dont think i can do it anymore.  i get sidetracked.  this is exactly what happened with Timeline and a few other books that i started this summer.  I cant handle this, there are too many books in the world that i havent read.  it is my goal to read all of them.  and also to listen to every song ever written.  and also to walk to the boise public library and rip off that stupid exclamation point.  i dont know why its there.  you drive by and see "Library!"  it makes no sense, and i kind of want that "!" in my room, maybe over my bed or something.  but thats stealing, so i wont.  i'm trying to be a good person now.  its a little tempting still though.

-I heard a pretty odd joke yesterday.  it goes like this:  What happens when a Catholic, a Mormon a Jew and a Baptist walk onto a cruise ship?  the answer is: nothing, because there is no punch line.  I dont know about anyone else, but i thought it was pretty funny and i laught and laught.  hehe, thats another fun game i like to play with myself, i use -t as a past tense marker where there should be a -ed.  Yes i know i'm a loser.  or perhaps you could call me a word-nerd.  hehe, it rhymes!  i like rhymes, times, limes, grimes, slimes, The Sublimes, crimes, dimes, climbs...  wow.  thats enough of that then.

-Words of the Day!
demotic:  of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing;
              popular, common;
              of or relating to the form of Modern Greek that is based on everyday speech
causerie:  Chat; a piece of informal writing

Focal an Lae:  uisce = water
Usage:  uisce fuar (ISH-kyuh FOO-uhr) = cold water
           uisce faoi thalamh (... fwee HAH-luhv) literally means "water under ground", but the figurative meaning is "intrigue, plotting"
           uisce beatha (ISH-kyuh BA-huh, BA as in "bat") = water of life = whiskey. Whiskey is simply "uisce", a bit mangled by English. Interestingly, Irish later borrowed the word "whiskey" back, in the form "fuisce".
History:  Uisce comes from the Indo-European root *wed- (wet, water), viaa derivative *ud-skio- (the suffixed zero-grade, for those who care).

Quotes of the day!

I am no more humble than my talents require.
          Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

Men have become the tools of their tools.
          Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
          G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
          Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)

-And here is your random picture of the day.  Hope you like tomatoes :) click this

Have a good day, everyone!  play some frisbee, its good for your soul.

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