***BREAKROOM 08/26 to 09/01***
 

C'mon people, get up. It's time for church.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26th:

1842 - The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.

1873 - The school board of St. Louis, MO, authorized the first U.S. public kindergarten.

1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.

1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.

1937 - All Chinese shipping was blockaded by Japan.

1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.

1957 - It was announced that an intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully tested by the Soviet Union.

1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled out.

1981 - The U.S. claimed that North Korea fired an antiaircraft missile at a U.S. Surveillance plane while it was over South Korea.

1987 - The Fuller Brush Company announced plans to open two retail stores in Dallas, TX. Fuller Brush had sold its products door to door for 81 years.

1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised that national elections would be held.

1992 - A "no-fly zone" was imposed on the southern 1/3 of Iraq. The move by the U.S., France and Britain was aimed at protecting Iraqi Shiite Muslims.

1998 - The U.S. government announced that they were investigating Microsoft in an attempt to discover if they "bullied" Intel into delaying new technology.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

I'd make the coffee but I keep getting kicked out of the site this morning.


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I am up. Wish I wasn't. My get up and go got up and went back to bed.

Morning all. Is anyone going to come help me with the last of the potato patch? I will send you home with lots of free and fresh veggies.....

FiverBob - is the hurricane heading towards your piece of heaven?

He isn't home. He's out traveling somewhere but I think it's a secret because he didn't say where he was heading. Hope he had his place battened down good!

Afternoon DTR. Raining here today, doing to maintenance to the wife's toyota corolla and working around in the garage.

Here is a few words of warning. Never watch Diners, Drive In's and Dives when you haven't figured out supper. We are now having hamburgers with onion rings on them, coleslaw and corn on the cob. Next Saturday we are going to smoke a brisket and make North Carolina BBQ sauce. Is it just a little weird that we have 2 briskest on hand??

FiverBob may have gotten confused and gone to Cuba to outrun the storm.

Dang, that would have gone good on last weeks biscuits and gravy.

Thanks for the recipe. I will try it. Might try Matts recipe when I get to CA next month (free peppers and garlic down there).

Hey! A fellow plane wrencher was posting in the random pic thread a couple weeks ago.

Raining here. Darn, I was going to do some painting too.
Life can be so disapointing sometimes.
Guess I will just have to eat something and take a nap.

Diner Drive ins and Dives is a good show and I agree that one should not watch it when hungry.

It's really good on some scrambled or fried eggs w/ a little salt and pepper.

Bob, stay dry. Hope your place comes out ok.

Hey ALL! good posts, keep 'em coming!

appreciate garden fresh veggies, also nice to get away with ordering hubby to raid the garden for tonight's salad. snicker snicker (he likes food a little more than being the boss)

nice weather, real son has girlfriend, cleans apartment now. no communication with parents....good for him! another promotion at work due to his work ethic/ team player for the job goals.

second son comes out from buffalo; hour and a half drive. loves to work, so we help him learn to operate the backhoe, cut wood, listen to his work week (HVAC guy) and go for motorcycle rides.
he tells my son how to be polite to a girl, even trade...

Hey Shorts! sis in law just went back to DFW. loved our 65 degrees and cool breezes...hehehe

Morning all youins.

MONDAY, AUGUST 27th: (can you believe August is almost gone already?)

1859 - The first oil well was successfully drilled in the U.S. by Colonel Edwin L. Drake near Titusville, PA.

1892 - The original Metropolitan Opera House in New York was seriously damaged by fire.

1894 - The Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The provision within for a graduated income tax was later struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

1939 - Nazi Germany demanded the Polish corridor and Danzig.

1945 - American troops landed in Japan after the surrender of the Japanese government at the end of World War II.

1962 - Mariner 2 was launched by the United States. In December of the same year the spacecraft flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to reach the vicinity of another planet.

1972 - North Vietnam's major port at Haiphong saw the first bombings from U.S. warplanes.

1981 - Work began on recovering a safe from the Andrea Doria. The Andrea Doria was a luxury liner that had sank in 1956 in the waters off of Massachusetts.

1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. The teacher that was eventually chosen was Christa McAuliffe. She died in the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.

1985 - The Space Shuttle Discovery left for a seven-day mission in which three satellites were launched and another was repaired and redeployed.

1989 - The first U.S. commercial satellite rocket was launched. A British communications satellite was onboard.

1996 - California Governor Pete Wilson signed an order that would halt state benefits to illegal immigrants.

2001 - The U.S. military announced that an Air Force RQ-1B "Predator" aircraft was lost over Iraq. It was reported that the unmanned aircraft "may have crashed or been shot down."

2001 - Work began on the future site of a World War II memorial on the U.S. capital's historic national Mall. The site is between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Results? I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

C:offee is hot and ready!

Morning Yall

Drove back to Texas yesterday, storm was was shooting for Mobile.

This morning its got a bead on New Orleans. I have a funny feeling its gonna keep tracking west.

Bout to hit the road and head home to make preparations.

Yall behave.

Yall be careful! Keep us updated too.

Yo...

How is everyone? I sure have missed a lot of breakroom...

The internet here is terrible, they have two wifi rooms, but you can never get on. I made buddies with a civilian here that has regular internet in their office, they're hooking me up...

Anything major happen?
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Nothing major except Lary was going to detail Bark and Cincy to lead an expedition to find and supply you with carrier pigeons.