Thursday, November 29, 2012

This Month Is Nearly Over

 
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 I managed to get a few snapshots this morning, starting with some just before dark of the full moon and Venus above two saguaro cacti. I do not have my Adobe Elements photo manipulating software installed on this computer so I will wait until I am at home this coming Saturday to prepare them for inclusion in the blog. If, that is, they turn out okay.

One of the winning Powerball tiakets was sold here in Arizona. It was not sold to me. I know this because I stopped buying Powerball tickets earlier this year when the price went up from one dollar to two dollars. One hundred and four dollars is way too much for me to afford to spend on gambling in a year's time, Besides, what would I do with all that money if I were to win?

I suppose I could just give it all to my immediate family. Now there's an idea.

Additional text (if any occurs to me) goes here . . .

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WORD FOR TODAY

terrestrial [tuh-res-tree-uhl]
adjective
1.
pertaining to, consisting of, or representing the earth as distinct from other planets.
2.
of or pertaining to land as distinct from water.
3.
Botany
a. growing on land; not aquatic.
b. growing in the ground; not epiphytic or aerial.
4.
Zoology
living on or in the ground; not aquatic, arboreal, or aerial.
5.
of or pertaining to the earth or this world; worldly; mundane.

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
 
 
Birthday: November 29, 1961
Age: 50 years old

Kim Delaney is an American actress best known for her starring role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama television series, NYPD Blue, for which she has won an Emmy Award. Early in her career, she played the role of Jenny Gardner in the hugely popular ABC daytime television drama, All My Children. She later had leading roles in the TV dramas Philly and CSI: Miami and currently stars on the Lifetime television drama Army Wives.

 
Birthday: November 29, 1955
Age: 56 years old

Howard Michael "Howie" Mandel is a Canadian comedian, actor, television host, and voice actor. He is well known as host of the NBC game show Deal or No Deal, as well as the show's daytime and Canadian-English counterparts. Before his career as a game show host, Mandel was best known for his role as rowdy ER intern Dr. Wayne Fiscus on the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere. He is also well known for being the creator and star of the children's cartoon Bobby's World. On June 6, 2009, he hosted the 2009 Game Show Awards on GSN. Mandel became a judge on NBC's America's Got
Talent, replacing David Hasselhoff, in the fifth season of the reality talent contest. Mandel has mysophobia (an irrational fear of germs) to the point that he does not shake hands with anyone, including enthusiastic contestants on Deal or No Deal, unless he is wearing latex gloves.


 
Birthday: November 29, 1964
Age: 47 years old

Donald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle had an early role in Picket Fences and followed it with performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, Rosewood and Boogie Nights. He then started a collaboration with director Steven Soderbergh that resulted in the movies Out of Sight, Traffic and Ocean's Eleven. Other Cheadle films include The Rat Pack, Things Behind the Sun, Academy Award for Best Picture winner Crash, Swordfish, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, Reign Over Me, Talk to Me, Traitor and Iron Man 2.


 
Birthday: November 29, 1935
Age: 76 years old

Diane Ladd is an American actress, film director, producer and author. She has appeared in over 120 roles, on television, and in miniseries and feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Touched by an Angel (1997) (TV), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and American Cowslip (2008). Twice divorced and currently married, Ladd is the mother of actress Laura Dern, by ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern.

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People who annoy people are the luckiest people in the world.
--Howie Mandel

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