list Monday - best musicians i've seen live

1. Frank Sinatra - Las Vegas
2. Grateful Dead - Soldier Field
3. Neville Brothers - House of Blues
4. Joe Jackson - Chicago Theatre
5. U2 - Soldier Field
6. Green Day - Glendale Arena
7. Harry Connick Jr. - Chicago Theatre
8. Prince - Chicago Stadium
9. Pete Townsend with guest Eddie Vedder - HOB
10. Neil Diamond - various

honorable mentions:  Bruce & E Street Band, Hot House Flowers, JGB, They Might Be Giants, Poi Dog, Rush, Journey, willie nelson, Placido Domingo, pink floyd, the commodores, berlin, thompson twins, & the elvis brothers

Soup is good food

Did I mention the girl child likes her soup?  Well, upon walking into the house with a case (not a 6 pack, but a case) of the Campbell's, she shrieked with delight, "MY BABIES!"

p.s.:  she lost her 2nd baby tooth today, during a brownies meeting...

List Monday - best athletes of all time

1. Michael Jordan
2. Muhammed Ali
3. Michael Phelps
4. Usain Bolt
5. Barry Bonds
6. Nolan Ryan
7. Walter Payton
8. Pele
9. Tiger Woods
10. Wayne Gretzky

honorable mentions:  Nadia Comeneci and Secretariat

This morning's view from the scenic overlook:

....a foggy metaphor for my recent bout of blogger's block.  Time to turn on the defrogger....

Not just for breakfast anymore...

The girl child could literally eat chicken noodle soup 3 meals a day....

Oy, it's so humid...

First day of H school (better late than never, and beats where I had to schlep to-in the snow, uphill, both ways).   Don't feel too bad for the little mensch, he just got a new Ipod and video game (which were not bribes).

XLIV

44.  Forty-four.  Cuarento y quatro.  Hard eight coming out.  The number of American presidents.  Half my life expectancy gone.

Forty-four is a tribonacci number, a happy number  (A happy number is defined by the following process. Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number equals 1 (where it will stay), or it loops endlessly in a cycle which does not include 1. Those numbers for which this process ends in 1 are happy numbers, while those that do not end in 1 are unhappy numbers (or sad numbers^[1]).) and an octahedral number.The retired numbers for former baseball players Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and Reggie Jackson.The code for international direct dial phone calls to the United Kingdom.Vicks Formula 44 is a cough suppressant.

Events

• 1503 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
• 1609 – Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
• 1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
• 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
• 1788 – The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
• 1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
• 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
• 1923 – Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
• 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
• 1940 – World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
• 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
• 1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
• 2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
• 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.

[edit]Births

• 1851 – Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
• 1903 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
• 1925 – Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 – Joe E. Tata, American actor
• 1944 – Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
• 1944 – Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
• 1948 – Nell Carter, American actress (d. 2003)
• 1965 – Zak Starkey, British musician
• 1965 – Annie Duke, American poker player
• 1965 – Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
• 1966 – Maria Furtwängler, German physician
• 1970 – Jason Bourne, fictional character
• 1971 – Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
• 1980 – Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player

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It's going to be a sweet new year....

L'shana tovah

Stop looking at me swan....

Back to school! Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool! I got my lunch packed up, my boots tied tight, I hope I don't get in a fight! Ohhhh, back to school! Back to school! Back to school! Well, here goes nothing! 

End of Summer

The Go Go's brought the summer to a nice close with a rockin' concert in Dana Point overlooking the sea.  Bring on school!!!

List Monday - Holidays

Top 10 Favorite Holidays

1. Groundhog's day - just for the absurdity of the holiday and the Bill Murray movie
2. Chanukah - what's not to like:  presents and latkes
3. July 4th - Hot dog eating contest, beaches, and fireworks (but don't make me watch that same parade again)
4. MLB All-Star Break - ok, technically not a holiday, but ya can't beat the home run derby and watching all your favorite ballplayers in one place
5. Thanksgiving - feasting with family
6. Flag Day - a little anniversary bias
7. Christmas - good movies and Chinese foooood
8. MLK day - because Arizona is a messed up, backwards state
9. Cinco de Mayo/Fat Tuesday - any excuse to party
10. Labor Day - a relaxing 3 day weekend

Top 5 Least Favorite Holidays

1. New Year's - serious amateur hour and nothing ever good on TV
2. Columbus Day - America was here long before Chris hit the Carribean.  And so were the Vikings.
3. Valentine's Day - oh the pressure of a Hallmark holiday
4. Palm Sunday - not applicable
5. St. Pat's Day - I'm Greene 365 days a year...

Sept 5

Today is the 248th day of the year.  Only 117 left.  More than two thirds of the year is over, fin, kaput.  Where has it gone?  Why wasn't there more beach time this unseasonably cool summer.  And why aren't the kids back in school yet?  (alas, only 2 more days of freedom for the rugrats)  It's been a pretty good year, so far, happy & healthy, full of fun adventures and travels - Chicago, New York, Charleston, San Fran, Vegas, Bahamas, Orlando, Arizona, and San Luis Obispo.   Those Go Go Greene's really get around.  Lots of sailing for the punks.  Lots of work for the parents, who are still struggling to figure out what they're doing.  Overall, no complaints...knock on computerized wood.

For the rest of the year:  help the kids meet the challenge of a new school year, figure out this work thing, hang with my p's, at least 2 or 3 more trips would be nice, more qualtity wife dates, enjoy the fall tv season, hope the flub's hire Ryno, spend quality time with the pups (one in decline and one exiting puppyhood), avoid stray magnutron's, celebrate some birthdays (mine's next....sorry Jillian, you've had your fiesta), and finish 2010 with a bang (lots of love).  Cause 2011 is just a weird sounding year and would require a new name for this blog.

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