January 4th - Today is the 4th day of the year, with only 361 days remaining in 2006.

Someday We'll Laugh about This Week
90% of all New Year's resolutions are violated within a week. Why not laugh about it (during the first full week after New Years)?


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
NEW MOON - Dec 31   3:12 a.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Jan 6   6:56 p.m.
FULL MOON - Jan 14   9:47 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22   3:14 p.m.


ATTAINABLE RESOLUTIONS
This year, I resolve to...
1. Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.
2. Stop exercising. Waste of time.
3. Read less. Makes you think.
4. Watch more TV. I've been missing some good stuff.
5. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow.
6. Not date any of the Baywatch cast.
7. Spend more time at work, surfing with the T1.
8. Take a vacation to someplace important: like, to see the largest ball of twine.
9. Not jump off a cliff just because everyone else did.
10. Stop bringing lunch from home: I should eat out more.
11. Not have eight children at once.
12. Get in a whole NEW rut!


ACTING -
1914 Jane Wyman, St Joseph MO, first Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession, Angela-Falcon Crest)
1917 Jesse (Marc Weidenfeld) White, Buffalo NY, actor (Maytag Repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo, Harvey) [D: 01/09/97]
1927 Barbara Rush, Denver CO, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Ruth Camden-7th Heaven)
1930 Sorrell Booke, Buffalo NY, actor (Boss Hogg-Dukes of Hazzard) [D: 02/11/94]
1937 Dyan Cannon (Samile Diane Friesen), Tacoma WA, (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Heaven Can Wait)
1958 Matt Frewer, Washington DC, actor (Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor)
1958 Gary Jones, Swansea So Wales, actor (Sgt. Walter Harriman-Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis)
1963 Dave Foley, Toronto Canada, actor/comedian (Kids In The Hall, Dave Nelson-NewsRadio)
1965 Julia Ormond, Epsom England, actress/UN Goodwill Ambassador (Sabrina, Legends of the Fall)
1971 Jeremy Licht, LA CA, actor (Mark-Valerie/Hogan Family)

ARTISTIC -
1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Hesse-Kassel Germany, librarian/philologist/mythologist (fairy tale collector) [D: 09/20/1863]
1838 Charles Stratton (General Tom Thumb), Bridgeport CT, 33 inches/84 cm-weighed 15 pounds/7 kg [D: 07/15/1883]
1905 Sterling Price Holloway, Jr., Cedartown GA, voice of Winnie the Pooh [D: 11/22/92]

HISTORIC -
1809 Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer (reading system for blind) [D: 01/06/1852]
1883 Angela Raubal Hamitsch (Angela Hitler), Braunau Austria, half-sister of Adolf Hitler [D: 10/30/49]
1941 Maureen Elizabeth Reagan Revell, LA CA, first daughter (Ronald Reagan) [D: 08/08/2001]

MUSIC -
1957 Patty Loveless (Patricia Lee Ramey), Pikeville KY, country (Blame It On Your Heart, When Fallen Angels Fly)
1960 Michael Stipe, Decatur GA, rock vocalist (REM-Losing My Religion, Stand)
1966 Deana Carter, Nashville TN, country singer (Strawberry Wine, Once Upon a December)

SCIENCE -
1581 Bishop James Ussher, Dublin Ireland, calculated Earth's beginning (November 23, 4004 BC) [D: 03/21/1656]
1643 Sir Isaac Newton, Lincolnshire England, scientist and philosopher [D: 03/31/1727]
1797 Wilhelm Wolff Beer, Berlin Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed first Moon map) [D: 03/27/1850]
1900 James Bond, Philadelphia PA, ornithologist, name used by Ian Fleming for 007 [D: 02/14/89]

SPORTS -
1930 Don Shula, Grand River OH, winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins) Hall of Fame
1935 Floyd Patterson, Brooklyn NY, heavyweight boxing champion, 55 wins/8 losses/1 draw
1960 Cory Everson, Racine WI, body builder (6X Ms Olympia) TV hostess (ESPN-Gotta Sweat)


1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1863 4-wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.
1885 Dr William W Grant of Iowa, performs first appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22).
1920 First Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.
1935 Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue".
1936 Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.
1959 Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1962 First automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City NY).
1974 United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over materials subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics.
1983 US Football League holds its first player draft.
1989 Vice President Bush is first since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.
2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
ADMISSION DAY ** Jan. 4, 1896 - Utah (45th State)
Day of Martyrs of the Colonial Repression - Angola
Head of State's Birthday - Western Samoa
Independence Day - Myanmar / Burma
Martyrs of Independence Day - Zaire (Democratic Congo)
Trivia Day - United States of America


AN IRISHMAN'S PHILOSOPHY
There are only two things to worry about.
Either you are well or you are sick.
If you are well,
then there is nothing to worry about.
But if you are sick,
there are only two things to worry about.
Either you will get well or you will die.
If you get well,
there is nothing to worry about.
If you die,
there are only two things to worry about.
Either you will go to heaven or hell.
If you go to heaven there is nothing to worry about.
But if you go to hell,
you'll be so damn busy shaking hands with friends
you wouldn't have time to worry!


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. - Mark Twain


LAUGHTER: Best medicine, after chicken soup. (WordFoolery)

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