Friday, February 13, 2009

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I want to be on a boat...

You will need to watch a 30 sec commercial but it is worth it I think, Maybe the impending recession will cause the crap these guys are making fun of to cease to exist.

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51945244

JR

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

24 hours and counting!

Tomorrow will mark my wife's birthday. 29 again. I will not say how many 29th birthdays she has had, but this is not the first!

The issue is a point of fun around our family but it is really a moot point as my wife like her mother and grandmother before her ages at 1/2 the rate of a normal person! Scientist should really research their gene pool!

So for all of you who know Chrissy, feb 4th is her special day and as a tribute to my history nerd wife here a list of other, far less significant events that happened on Her day!

1783: England officially proclaims an end to hostilities in America

1938:Adolf Hitler takes command of the German Army

1945:Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta in the Crimea to discuss plans for the defeat of the Axis powers and to decide on the post-war future

1971: Rolls Royce goes bankrupt after a disastrous contract to supply aero engines to Lockheed Aircraft

1915: World War I: Germany declares the North Sea a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, are liable to be sunk without warning.

1861:In Montgomery, Alabama delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana convene to establish the Confederate States of America.

1794: The French Revolutionary legislature abolishes slavery in the territories of the French Republic.

1789:George Washington becomes the first President of the USA.

211: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies. His two sons, Caracalla and Geta, are left in control of the Empire.

And a few people who are lucky enough to claim this day as their birthday also!

1688: Pierre De Marivaux, French writer.
1881: Fernand Leger, French painter.
1900: Jacques Prevert, French poet.
1902: Charles Lindbergh, American pilot
1913: Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
1921: Betty Friedan, American philosopher.
1947: Dan Quayle, Former American Vice-President


So happy birthday baby! They can't hold a candle to you!