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Our Daily Thread 11-14-14

Good Morning!

It’s Friday!!!

And Happy Birthday to InButNotOf!

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On this day in 1832 the first streetcar went into operation in New York City, NY. It was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people. 

In 1940 German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.  

In 1968 Yale University announced it was going co-educational. 

And in 1979 President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.

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Quote of the Day

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”

P. J. O’Rourke

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For today’s music we have birthday boys named Johann.

First we have Johann Georg Leopold Mozart.

And then Johann Nepomuk Hummel.

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Anyone have a QoD?

41 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-14-14”

  8. 60% of the adorable grandchildren are spending the night tonight. Here’s the schedule:
    5 arrival, hope Grandpa is home.
    5:30 dinner: home made macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, cooked apples, raspberries some sort of vegetable.
    6 walk in the dark around the neighborhood, with flashlights!
    6:30 Shower
    7 book reading–six great choices from the library.
    7:30 game playing or maybe a movie
    Bedtime–snug in a “nest” of blankets in the giggle room or some sort of sprawling group in the guest room; or whatever.
    Bedtime–Grammy, exhausted.

    Who knows what will happen Saturday morning but it is sure to involve pancakes.

    See you!

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  11. Sounds like fun, Michelle!

    What my youngest four could not handle:
    the sugar of fruit that late in the evening, showers, movies, the nest of blankets.
    They would absolutely love the vegies especially if they were tomatoes, the walk in the dark, the books, the game. But as they go to bed between six thirty to seven they would be so bouncy they probably could not play. Children are fun. And energetic. I hope grandpa is home.

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  13. Speaking of Grandpas. The grandpa that lives at my house is on Baby Countdown. ERH is due tomorrow. He has changed his FB profile picture to her sonogram face picture. A package went off earlier in the week with birthday presents for the Big Brother and gifts for Little Sister.
    I have had to explain to him that he is not actually birthing this baby himself. Some friends of his bought her an outfit. You would have thought he was a first time mother at a baby shower.
    Cracks me up.

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  14. Happy Birthday IBNO!

    michelle, that’s a nice, tight schedule you have there.

    Grateful it’s Friday — and I actually scored yesterday on a couple of calls with police on cold cases for that special project. I’ll be writing other stories in what will be a yearlong project for us, but this first one (due in a week) has to do with the modest spike in homicides we see (in the LA County stats we’re using) among those over 70+, including some 90-year-old folks.

    I spoke with the detective on one case from ’08 that was never solved and he seemed glad they might be able to get it out there again in hopes that someone might come forward and the family could find some closure. (It was a home invasion where the woman was robbed, tied up, beaten, suffocated — very brutal and her two adult daughters have never gotten over it, of course.)

    “Bottom line,” he told me, “is someone out there knows something.”

    The other case was a street robbery/purse-snatching where the woman was knocked down, hit her head — and seemed fine at first but a few months later died from bleeding and a blood clot to the brain which was attributed to the robbery, changing it to a charge of homicide. Except there’s virtually no description — no witnesses came forward and the woman couldn’t provide police with anything beyond “male and young,” maybe a teen because he was “so quick.” He got about $120 in property and money.

    Aren’t I a cheery voice this morning?

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  16. Cheryl,

    Not yet. Well I started to, but I haven’t finished yet.

    The ones I’ve done so far are:

    Grebe
    Coot
    Green Heron
    Great Blue Heron
    Green Backed Heron
    Great Egret
    Cattle Egret
    White Ibis
    Snowy Egret
    Double Crested Cormorant
    Great Cormorant
    and 2 types of Stork.
    And some type of finch I never saw. And Cardinals. And a Jay. Lots of ducks…..

    There’s like 500 pics. 🙂

    I very much enjoyed it.

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  18. Funny, one of our reporters — whose birthday was yesterday — put together a little video (in response to all the bd wishes on FB) in the style of a movie preview, complete with sound track.

    Pretty good, actually, starts out with very dramatic music and the words “In a world where raises were forgotten …” (boom-boom! goes the music) “.. He was just … doing his job” boom-boom. Funny. Anyway, he has Edie McClurg playing me. Never heard of her.

    He cast Matt Damon as himself, of course. 🙂

    Amazing what we can do with computers and video now.

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  23. Annms, I saw that Anne Lamont will be doing a program through the Georgia Center for the Book at a nearby church (the church where I had to use their parking lot for my recent dentist visit).
    We are suppose to be out of town or I would try to see her. She will be discussing the book you are reading. The church use to be Southern Baptist but lost their status because they have a woman pastor.

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  26. 🙂

    Even in North Carolina, some southerners sound strange. i.e. At the Lions Club, I overheard this woman:
    “He called me to ask where I was aayatt.”
    That would likely have blown Cheryl’s mind, Kim, Janice and I only find it amusing.

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  27. annual craft faire this morning. This is where I usually buy all my gifts. We will see what they have. Then the rest of the Professional focus weekend, then I will walk to the back gate to pray over the illegal structures out there, then some time at school to get ready for next week. Will I have the energy for it all???

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  31. Bunch of tourism professionals from other states are in town today. The idea was to impress them so they’d book more tours out here on our waterfront..

    Unfortunately, they were greeted by a 5-hour police standoff, complete with lots of yellow tape, sirens, helicopters, police dogs and SWAT team w/robot. After a foot chase, an armed robber this morning barricaded himself in the freezer of the local Spanish market.

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  32. Happy Birthday IBNO~~
    Busy day…it got up to 37 here in my neck of the Forest…heatwave!! 🙂
    With all the cold and snow, I am itiching to decorate for Christmas…would it be too soon?! I did purchase some extra Christmas lights today and some greenery…and they were playing Christmas music at Hobby Lobby and the Antique shoppe….!

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  39. Janice, not a bad idea — in fact, there was also something filming in town simultaneously that included lots of car crashes. Who would know the difference? Weird day all the way around.

    But they did get the chilled suspect after about 6 hours, no one hurt.

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