eye candy

Nothin' special, just felt like I needed to try to get back in the groove, weather permitting or not. It's not particularly permitting, but I'm tired of waiting.

Today is Newman Day.
In 1964 police officer Lonnie Zamora of Socorro, New Mexico, saw a shiny object 200 yards off the road which he took to be an overturned car. Nearby were two 'people' in white coveralls. He drove towards the object, and got out of the car. Almost at once, it took off with a loud roar, rising straight up, with an orange-blue tail of flame. To this day, Zamora's reputation remains sterling, and the case remains unresolved. It is one of the best-documented such encounters on record.

Hi ho!

I've been too busy, and the weather's been too pissy, to shoot any pics lately. And I'm long past the time when looking at last summer's pictures was fun; damnit, I want to go camping already, but the mountains are still buried under hundreds of inches of snow.


International Day of the Book (recognizing the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, on this day in 1616).
Lover’s Day (Catalonia).
Independence Day (Conch Republic).
In 1014, Brian Boru beat down the Danes at Clontarf.
In 1551, Boris Godunov was born.

Pale fire

Phil's photo, not mine.

Important note you probably won't see on TV.

Lots of birthdays today:
In 1658, Giuseppe Torelli was born.
In 1724, Immanuel Kant came along.
In 1870, V.I. Lenin joined the race.
In 1891, Sergei Prokofiev took his first breath.
In 1899, Vladimir Nabokov came into the light.
And in 1937, Jack Nicholson yelled for the first time.

In 1889, the Land Run of 1889 officially started. Many entered the territory early and staked out the best spots, before the official starting time. These folks were later called “Sooners.”
In 1898, President McKinley blockaded Cuba.
In 1949, Science reported that Dr. A.D. Bajkov, an ichthyologist, was bombarded with fish from the sky shortly after breakfast in Biloxi, Mississipi.
In 1959, the Chicago White Sox scored 11 runs on one hit, 10 walks and three errors, against the Kansas City A’s –in one inning. Ugh.

Life is but a dream

Not my photo.
Grounation Day! (commemorates Haile Selassie’s 1963 visit to Jamaica. Second-holiest day in Rastafari calendar). First full day of Ridvan (Bahá’í – commemorates the commencement of the prophethood of Bahá’u’llá). 753 bce, traditional date for the founding of Rome. In 1838, John Muir was born.

Hot times in the old town tonight!

I've been incapacitated all month (and some of March) by combined allergies/sinus infection and some unrelated tendonitis in my right elbow (which effectively prevents me from doing much of anything physically productive). It's a bitch! If the weather had been decent, I could have at least been shooting some pictures, but winter is lingering here this year so it's been cold and gray.

I am not happy about it.

But, I am happy about a lot of other things. Like, the work that I got done in spite of all the stuffing in my head- I organized a lot of stuff, which will make the coming work much easier. The building of systems -developing schedules that work, devising routines that flow, making compromises between needs/demands and capabilities/possibilities- is hard work, but it's now more-done than it was before. Is it ever finished? I doubt it.

In 1748, Georg Michael Telemann was born.
In 1893, Harold Lloyd and Joan Miro were born.
In 1912, Tiger Stadium (Detroit) and Fenway Park (Boston) opened.
In 1970, the Kansas Union at the University of Kansas was firebombed, marking the end of a week of unrest and civil disorder in Lawrence, sparked by the war in VietNam, the recent incursion into Cambodia, and racial unrest. Hot times in the old town, tonight!
In 1979, President Carter was attacked by a swamp rabbit while on vacation.