Redleg

Day shift is in...

chaikwa

Go hang out at Heidi's... sooner or later, you'll see it!

Take something of value that belongs to him, like his car. Then, before he gets back, leave it on his front lawn with the keys in it and the door open. When he gets done blowing a gasket, you can explain the similarities.

Yes, SCOTT Maker!








Morning Don, Rick, Davey and y'all.

Nice to see we made it thru a night without circular tornadic activity killing anymore people. Hopefully that trend will continue.


Today is Friday, April 29th.

On this day in 1813 - Rubber was patented by J.F. Hummel.

1861 - The Maryland House of Delegates voted against seceding from Union.

1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during the Civil War.

1879 - In Cleveland, OH, electric arc lights were used for the first time.

1913 - Gideon Sundback patented an all-purpose zipper.

1918 - Germany's Western Front offensive ended in World War I.

1945 - The German Army in Italy surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

1945 - In a bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were married. Hitler designated Admiral Karl Doenitz his successor.

1945 - The **** death camp, Dachau, was liberated.

1946 - Twenty-eight former Japanese leaders were indicted in Tokyo as war criminals.

1952 - IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine.

1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

1975 - The U.S. embassy in Vietnam was evacuated as North Vietnamese forces fought their way into Saigon.

1990 - The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.

1992 - Exxon executive Sidney Reso was kidnapped outside his Morris Township, NJ, home by Arthur Seale. Seale was a former Exxon security official. Reso died while in captivity.

1992 - Rioting began after a jury decision to acquit four Los Angeles policemen in the Rodney King beating trial. 54 people were killed in 3 days.

1997 - Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

2003 - Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud) filed a lawsuit against Best Buy Co. Inc., that claimed the store did not have permission to use his likeness in a print ad.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you put freeze-dried coffee in the microwave, will you go back in time?

It's ready.

Oh yeah, almost forgot; It's Arbor Day. Go watch the ships sail in and out of the 'arbor! If you don't have an 'arbor to go to, you can plant a tree instead! Arbor Day encourages people to appreciate, plant and care for trees and it falls on the last Friday of April. The DAY falls on the last Friday, not the tree.

dssimecek

Mornin' all,

Grabbing a cuppa and a frisky gut bomb with sprinkles. Cypress wx good today. Need rain.
Dragon is stomping around and snorting fire. Someone left a copy of How to Train Your Dragon on the counter.
Trad thanks for all the storm damage reports. Glad you and your family are OK.
Lunch Laddy goes on duty soon.
No trivia of the day posted yet. Also what happened to the motivational posters that were up in here?
Have a good un, and be safe out there.

Davey

dssimecek

Mornin' Chaikwa, wow just ask and the trivia of the day appears. Thanks

Davey

chaikwa

It's why I'm here!

Redleg

Scott, you forgot this day in 2011. the day Kate became legitimate.

Wonder if they gave all the horses laxitives yesterday to keep the roads clean?

FiverBob

.........................Great idea Don -- such a devious mind - - - you scare me. .....

Gorgeous morning here - - wrapping up computer work and heading out to order deliveries of materials. So, grabbing a ........and out of here. Ya'll stay safe - - gone.

Bob

Redleg

Yeah, better idea than the alternative that the janitor was thinking about. Finally seeing the sun up here today.

dssimecek

Time to lite the grill fire. Big 2" steak to grill, bake taters salad. Son is here in town, daughter here soon with 2 of her girl friends. They toured the Blue Bell Ice cream factory this afternoon. Grand daughter here too. Waiting on wife.
Should be a good time.

Davey

Scotty

MMMMMMMMMEAT
Its too windy here today for me to use the coals. Crazy north wind took the temp from 68F down to 38F in an hour and the wind went from calm to 50 mph. Could see snow again.
Just for that I am altering the ph00 with some ghost peppers. I had another heat experience with those peppers again last night. I sure do love the ghost pepper buffalo chili I make.

Enjoy your evening DTRonians.

chaikwa

Evening all.

Hopefully everyone survived today with no more death and destruction.

ofcmarc

Nightshift on duty.

Nice day here today. Just about cleared 60*. Started in on the yard work. Ground is still frozen so I didn't get very far but I did get started.

Redleg

I'm here Marc, you can head out, quiet night?

ofcmarc

Semi-quiet. Not too bad for a Friday. Kinda surprising seeing as it was case night up at the University.......

That's OK though. I'm kinda on light duty so I can't play when it hits the fan....... Oh well.

3 more hours.

chaikwa

How's the new place setting up Don?








Morning all.

Today is Saturday, April 30th.



On this day in 0030 - Jesus of Nazareth was crucified.



1789 - George Washington took office as first elected U.S. president.

1803 - The U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.

1812 - Louisiana admitted as the 18th U.S. state.

1864 - Work began on the Dams along the Red River. The work would allow Union General Nathaniel Banks' troops to sail over the rapids above Alexandria, Louisiana.

1889 - George Washington's inauguration became the first U.S. national holiday.

1900 - Hawaii was organized as an official U.S. territory.

1900 - Casey Jones was killed while trying to save the runaway train "Cannonball Express."

1943 - The British submarine HMS Seraph dropped 'the man who never was,' a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.

1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide. They had been married for one day. One week later Germany surrendered unconditionally.

1947 - The name of Boulder Dam, in Nevada, was changed back to Hoover Dam.

1968 - U.S. Marines attacked a division of North Vietnamese in the village of Dai Do.

1970 - U.S. troops invaded Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas. The announcement by U.S. President Nixon led to widespread protests.

1972 - The North Vietnamese launched an invasion of the South.

1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and other top aides.

1975 - Communists North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon. 11 Marines lifted off of the U.S. Embassy were the last soldiers to evacuate.

1998 - In the U.S., Federal regulators fined a contractor $2.25 million for improper handling of oxygen canisters on ValuJet that crashed in the Florida Everglades in 1996.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you spend your day doing nothing, how do you know when you're done?

It's ready, have at it!