SPRING FORWARD 2026

Today started Daylight Savings Time, so that means you SPRING FORWARD and lose and hour of sleep. Ex-Prez GWB changed the dates and, honestly, I really like the change. We used to lose that hour when it was far more precious to me, at the end of March when tax season was at it's worst. At least I can try to make it up during the week.

 

Today we move our clocks ahead in the USA for daylight savings time. Is it ending or beginning, I can never get straight. All I know is that I lost a valuable hour of sleep during tax season.

But the end is in sight, and warm weather is upon us!

 

Look forward to International Women's Day 2026!

 

CELEBRATE WOMEN!

 

Sunday, March 8, 2026

toothsome \TOOTH-suhm\, adjective:

1. pleasing to the taste; palatable: a toothsome dish.
2. pleasing or desirable, as fame or power.
3. voluptuous; sexually alluring: a toothsome blonde.

Toothsome entered English in the 1560, joining the word tooth, denoting "sense, liking," with the adjective-forming suffix –some.

Mastabbatical 

• A self imposed period free from masturbation. Often employed by single men as a strategy to improve productivity at work and in other life pursuits. Regularly used in conjunction with a set end date or target time frame. Should be used with caution as is considered by many to present considerable health hazards.

"Did you hear that he is taking a 7 week mastabbatical? That guy has a tag like 5 times a day! That's gotta be tough."

 

Holiday

• Daylight Savings Time (begins in the US)

Holiday

• International Women's Day

 

 

History

• Gnadenhutten massacre: nearly 100 Native American converts to Christianity were murdered by militiamen during the American Revolution in revenge for raids carried out by other Native Americans (1782)
• New York Stock Exchange: the world's largest stock exchange by dollar volume received its constitution and its name (1817)
• FBI: 9 men from the US Secret Service were moved to the Justice Department, forming the Bureau of Investigation — later to become the FBI (1909)
• February Revolution: broke out in Russia — February 23 in the Julian calendar; it brought an end to the reign of Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov dynasty (1917)
• cloture: the US Senate voted in a method of bringing endless debates — filibusters — to an end (1917)
• Nelson Pillar: Dublin's granite column topped with a statue of Lord Nelson, the British hero of the Battle of Trafalgar, was destroyed by an IRA bomb (1966)

Birthdays

• Karl Ferdinand von Grafe 1787
• Alvan Clark 1804
• Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841
• Kenneth Grahame 1859
• Otto Hahn 1879
• Stuart Chase 1888
• Louise Beavers 1902
• Claire Trevor 1909
• Alan Hale, Jr. 1918
  

  
• Cyd Charisse 1923
• Sean McClory 1924
• Dick Hyman 1927
• Sue Ane Langdon 1936 - Actress
• Lew DeWitt 1938 - Singer (The Statler Brothers)
• Jim Bouton 1939 - Baseball player, author
• Susan Clark 1940
• Ralph Ellis 1942 - Musician (The Swinging Blue Jeans)
• Lynn Redgrave 1943 - Actress
• Mickey Dolenz 1945 - Singer, musician (The Monkees), actor
• Randy Meisner 1946 - Musician (The Eagles)
• Carole Bayer Sager 1947
• Mike Allsup 1947 - Musician (Three Dog Night)
• "Little" Peggy March 1948 - Singer
• Jamie Lyn Bauer 1949
• Jim Rice 1953 - Baseball player
• Cheryl Baker 1954
• Clive Burr (Iron Maiden) 1957
• Gary Numan 1958 - Singer (Tubeway Army)
• Pauline Murray 1958 - Musician (Penetration, Invisible Girls)
• Aidan Quinn 1959 - Actor
• Lester Holt 1950 - News anchor ("Today")
• Jimmy Dormire 1960 - Country musician (Confederate Railroad)
• Camryn Manheim 1961 - Actress ("The Practice", "Ghost Whisperer")
• Cheryl "Salt" James (Salt-N-Pepa) 1964
• Peter Gill (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1964
• Shawn Mullins (The Thorns) 1968
• Andrea Parker 1969
• Jason Elam 1970 - Football player
• Boris Kodjoe 1973 - Actor
• Hines Ward 1976 - NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
• Freddie Prinze Jr. 1976 - Actor
• James Van Der Beek 1977 - Actor ("Dawson's Creek)
• Kameelah Williams 1978 - Singer (702)
• Tom Chaplin 1979 - Singer (Keane)
• Bob Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
• Clint Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
• David Moffatt (The Moffatts) 1984
  Milana Vayntrub 1987 (the AT&T girl)
  

  

 

  

Patience is a virtue

So I was in the McDonald’s drive-through this morning and the lady behind me honked at me and flipped me off because I was taking to long to order. Wow. (Take the high road). 

So I paid for her food. 

I moved up and she leaned out the window looking all crazy at me because the teller told her I paid for her food. She felt embarrassed. 

When I got to the second window to get my food, I showed them both receipts and took her food too! I paid for it, it’s mine! Now she has to wait even longer. So I Honked my horn and screamed back, “Patience is a virtue!” She's gonna learn today!

Saturday, March 7, 2026

moiety \MOI-i-tee\, noun: 

1. a half.
2. an indefinite portion, part, or share.
3. Anthropology. one of two units into which a tribe or community is divided on the basis of unilineal descent.

Moiety comes from Old French meitiet, from Late Latin medietas, from Latin medius, "middle."

sexsuade

• To convince someone to agree to, accept, or do something, usually by using the promise of sex (explicit or implicit) or by withholding sex until you get your way.

Girl 1: My bf won't take me out to dinner.
Girl 2: You need to sexsuade that man!

History

• Daniel Webster: orator delivered his Seventh of March speech defending the Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• telephone: transmitter/receiver of sound was patented by Alexander Graham Bell (1876); exactly 50 years later, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London (1926)
• fair use: the US Supreme Court ruled in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies are not copyright infringements (1994)

Birthdays

• Luther Burbank 1849
• Pieter Mondrian 1872
• Maurice Ravel 1875
• Anna Magnani 1908
• Lee Young 1917 - Musician (Nat King Cole Trio)
• Mahlon Clark 1923 - Musician (Lawrence Welk's band)
• James Broderick 1927
• Lord Snowdon 1930 - Photographer
• Frank Morelli 1932
• Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today")
• Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer

  
• Homero Blancas 1938
• Daniel J. Travanti 1940 - Actor ("Hill Street Blues")
• Michael York 1942
• Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO
• Tammy Faye Bakker 1942
• Billy MacMillan 1943
• Chris White 1943 - Musician (The Zombies)
• John Heard 1946
• Peter Wolf 1946 - Musician (J. Geils Band)
• Matthew Fisher 1946 - Musician (Procol Harum)
• Donna Loren 1947
• Peggy March 1948
• Franco Harris 1950 - Football player
• Lynn Swann 1952 - Football player
• Ernie Isley 1952 - Musician (The Isley Brothers)
• Jules Shear 1953
• Bryan Cranston 1956
• Ivan Lendl 1960 - Tennis player
• Bill Brochtrup 1963
• Wanda Sykes 1964 - Comedian, actress
• Taylor Dayne 1965 - Singer
• Paul Davis 1966 - Musician (Happy Mondays)
• Randy Guss 1967 - Musician (Toad the Wet Sprocket)
• Jeff Kent 1968 - Baseball player
• Rachel Weisz 1971 - Actress
• Peter Sarsgaard 1971 - Actor
• Hugo Ferreira 1974 - Musician (Tantric)
• Jenna Fischer 1974 - Actress ("The Office")
• Laura Prepon 1980 - Actress ("That 70s Show")

   

 

 

 

  

Rock out for Clive's Birthday!

Some classic Iron Maiden to observe Clive Burr's birthday and to round out the week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5jaRipA5_M&feature=related 

I love playing the drums in this song!

Phantom of the Opera

I've been looking so long for you now you won't get away from my grasp

You've been living so long in hiding in hiding behind that false mask

And you know and I know that you ain't got long now to last

Your looks and your feelings are just the remains of your past

Standing in the wings there you wait for the curtain to fall

Knowing the terror and holding you have on us all

Yeah, I know that you're going to scratch me, maim me and maul

You know I'm helpless from your mesmerizing cat call

Keep your distance, walk away, don't take his bait

Don't you stray, don't fade away
Watch your step, he's out to get you, come what may

Don't you stray from the narrow way

I'm running and hiding in my dreams you're always there

You're the Phantom of the Opera, you're the Devil, you're just out to scare

You damaged my mind and my soul it just floats through the air
You haunt me, you taunt me, you torture me back at your lair

You torture me back at your lair

 

 

Have a great weekend!

WTF: Good Times!

  

Don't ask me! 

 (pic by Lisa)

Friday, March 6, 2026

bestiary \BES-chee-er-ee, BEES-\, noun: 

• a collection of moralized fables, especially as written in the Middle Ages, about actual or mythical animals.

Bestiary is from the Latin bestiaries meaning "a fighter against beasts in the public entertainments." It entered English in the 1620s.

Lent Trap /lÉnt træp/ noun

• In couples where one party is Catholic and the other is not, the unwilling subjection of the non-Catholic to the 40-day ritual of penitence known as Lent.

1. We were going to have dinner at this great new steak place on Friday night, but Joe's got me stuck in a Lent Trap.

2. My wife Jane decided to give up sex for Lent. Worst. Lent Trap. Ever.

 

 

Trivia
How many amendments to the U.S. Constitution were proposed in the Bill of Rights passed by Congress in 1789?

• 12. The first two proposed—dealing with the number and apportionment of the House of Representatives, and Congressional pay raises—failed to be ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures. The remaining 10 were ratified and became the Bill of Rights.

History

• Toronto: Canada's largest city, and one of the most livable cities in the world, was incorporated (1834)
• the Alamo: fort was overrun by Mexican troops during the Texas revolution; all inside were killed (1836)
• La Traviata: Verdi's opera premiered in Venice (1853)
• Dred Scott case (1857): US Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens; the decision was overturned a decade later by the 14th amendment

Birthdays

• Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475

  
• Cyrano De Bergerac 1619
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806
• Furry Lewis 1893
• Bob Wills 1905
• Lou Costello 1906
• Ed McMahon 1923
• Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman, possible zombie
• Wes Montgomery 1927
• Leroy Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper 1927

  
• Gabriel Garcia-Marquez 1928 - Author ("Love in the Time of Cholera")
• Lorin Maazel 1930
• Marion Barry 1936
• Sylvia Robinson 1936
• Doug Dillard 1937
• Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolaeva 1937
• Joanna Miles 1940
• Willie Stargell 1941
• Ben Murphy 1942
• Mary Wilson 1944 - Singer (Supremes)
• Dame Kiri Te Kanawa 1944
• Rob Reiner 1945
• Hugh Grundy 1945 - Musician (The Zombies)
• Kiki Dee 1947
• Dick Fosbury 1947
• David Gimour 1947 - Musician (Pink Floyd)
• Tom Arnold 1959 - Actor
• Skip Ewing 1964
• D.L. Hughley 1964 - Actor ("The Hughleys")
• Connie Britton 1968 - Actress
• Moira Kelly 1968 - Actress ("Caroline in the City")
• Amy Pietz 1969
• Shaquille O'Neal 1972 - Basketball player
• Chris Tomson 1984 - Musician (Vampire Weekend)