"Hello hello hello, is there anybody in there..."

Good morning everyone.  Well, its morning for me anyway.  And its going to be a good one.  I get to play hockey at 10, and then again in the evening.  So i'm happy.  I havent played hockey in soooo long.  I played last night and i was really rusty but i got back in my groove, more or less.  I think the last time I played was in March.  Its been way too long.  So I play today.  Oh, and some more good news (for me) I got a free hockey stick from David who got it from a hobo.  Pretty good, eh?  It's even left handed.  I keep switching off between right and left.  I can't decide which works better for me.  But my nice right handed stick got stolen, so I've been playing with borrowed sticks for a while.

 

So Today is officially National Jamie LaPierre Day, the big 2-0.  And it's also Hockey Day, and The Official Wednesday of Surprises.  Also I did even deeper searching to try to find a valid holiday and I found one.  Today is the Festival of Fornax, the Roman goddess of ovens.  Today is also Vestalia, in celebration of Vesta.  To celebrate this, (seriously) women walk around barefoot carrying grain all day long.  At least thats what i gathered.  If any of you have heard of the Vestal Virgins, this is when they do their thing.

 

Happy Birthdays to the following old people:

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), 1640

Peter I "the Great" Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1672

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st woman mayor in England, 1836

George Axelrod, 1922

Geraint Gruffydd, 1928 (that is mos def a Welsh name.  His last name is pronounced like "Griffith")

Donald Duck, 1934 (If only Mike Moss could see my emails...)

Jon Lord, 1941 (keyboardist for Deep Purple and also White Snake.  Very cool.)

Johnny Depp, 1961

Grant Marshall, 1973 (right wing for Dallas Stars)

Abraham Joseph Groening, son of Simpson creator Matt Groening, 1991

 

Happy Deathdays to the following:

Claudius Nero, 68 AD (this guy was wacked)

Charles Dickens, 1870

 

Yah, not too many cool people died today.

 

Today in history:

Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland, 1572

Sweden & Denmark signs 3rd Treaty of Stockholm, 1720

1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book", 1790

Charles Graham patents false teeth, 1822 (but these were not the first false teeth, just his style)

Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500, 1941

Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia, 1942

"Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1, 1958 (WHY?!?)

Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton U, 1970

Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks, 1977

Gutenberg Bible (1 of 21) sells for $2.4 million, 1978

"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," premieres in US, 1989

 

Good times, good times.

 

Just so you know, I'm typing this email sitting in the middle of the office, which has been torn apart and repainted and all that stuff.  And the lights don't work, so I'm relying on the early morning light through the window which has recently been untaped.  And I have a hockey stick on my lap.  And there is a ladder to my left and a big bucket to my right.  Now you know.

 

Words of the day:

Kwyjibo: A big, dumb, balding North American ape with no chin and a short temper.  (courtesy The Simpsons)

Propinquity: 1. oseness of blood: kinship. 2. nearness in place or time: proximity

Braggadocio: 1. A braggart, 2. Empty boasting, 3. A swaggering, cocky manner

Wamble: 1. To move unsteadily; to totter, waver, roll, etc.  2. To feel nausea.  3. (Of a stomach) To rumble or growl.

 

No Quotes Today.  I had trouble finding any good ones.  I just was not meant to find a good quote.  And also, the universe is out to get me.  Its a good thing i dont live in discworld, because then the multiverse would be out to get me.

 

Oh, i almost forgot, the Focal an Lae:

 

"File" is today the most common word for a poet. The craft and product of a "file" is "filíocht" (FILL-ee-uhxt), poetry. The wordcomes from an old verb root meaning "see" and in earlier days the poet also functioned as a "seer" or prophet.

History:  Old Irish "fili" derives from Archaic Irish (ca. 500 AD)*welís. An Ogham inscription from this period contains the word VELITAS, apparently a genitive singular form (= "of (a) poet")corresponding to Old Irish "filed". McCone derives the word from the Insular Celtic verbal root *wel-. Compare Welsh "gweld" (to see).The words "fuil", "bhfuil" and "níl", long firmly established as forms of the verb "to be", are related. They originally had the imperative meaning "see!, look at!", and in Old Irish were still followed by the accusative case.

 

I can't believe how cool languages are.  That's all I have to say about that.

 

Words that rhyme with "light":  spite, right, tight, bite, write, height, white, kite, sight, aight, plight, byte, fright, fight, night, knight, might, mite, quite, Amalakite.

 

Everyone have a good day, remember to surprise people.  do nice things, like.

Brian

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