Friday Follies...

Happy Friday...

October is Alternate History Month...in my alternate history I'm as rich as Bill Gates and much better looking...

We are in the middle of Mental Illness Awareness Week...after I'm done posting I'm upping my dose of Depakote and taking a Haldol chaser...

Today is Leif Erickson Day...the man who really discovered America first...

On this day in:

1003: Leif Erikson lands in L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada, becoming the first known European to reach North America...see, told ya...
1635: Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land...obviously not a Republican...
1992: A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York; destroying the family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu...I bet they didn't have insurance on it...

Today's birthdays:

1952- Sharon Osbourne...the secret to Ozzie's success...
1954- Scott Bakula...of Quantum Leap and Enterprise fame...
1953- Tony Shalhoub...of Monk and Jack Jeebs fame...

"To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano."
Tony Shalhoub

That's funny, I don't care who you are...

Have a nice weekend, have a nice day; now get back to work...