Today is Sunday, April 9 and there are only 216 days until my birthday. I’m just saying. Today we remember the birthdays of James Scott, Eadweard Muybridge and Magyar Am.  On this day in1682 Robert LaSalle claimed the lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France, in 1833 the first tax-supported library opened, in Peterborough, NH and in 1953 “TV Guide” published its first issue.  In Bolivia it is National Day, in Latvia it is Independence Day and in the US it is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day and National Name Yourself Day.

I have to admit that I really don’t have anything this week.  I could rail about the crazy drivers that are out on the road, but even I am getting tired of that.  I could go on and on about commercials.  I could mention the ones where things appear that were not there in the beginning of the commercial or the poor use of language, but I think you all need a break from that.  I could go on and on about the annoying people in the grocery store.  In fact, the other day my Barbara was run into by a woman on a motorized cart and then hit by another woman pushing a cart.  But after awhile, those people are no longer surprising.

I even thought about trying to stir up interest in getting into how a rabbit giving away colored eggs  and candy has anything to do with Easter, but we have been there, done that.  So rather than rehash the same old targets, I am going to beg your pardon for coming up blank and I promise you I will have more next week.  Please tune in again.

This week, I am going to have to debunk what has been commonly accepted as a fact.  The fact states that it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  Well, I can and do on a regular basis.  I know others who can, too.  Stop by sometime and I will be happy to show you.

Go have a Chinese Almond Cookie, give yourself an exciting name and have a good week.