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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