WHAT'S A BLOG ANYWAY? ETC.

A few years ago, a BLOG was just an Internet log function that allowed a person to keep track of their everyday activity.  For instance: 

08:00 AM I got up; 

0815 AM I ate my oatmeal; 

08:30 AM I ran for my bus...

Later, folks began to elaborate on their activities and BLOGs became what they are today:

1. Big ego trips.

2. Ways to let your friends and relatives know about what you are experiencing and how those  experiences are enriching your life. This is different from those XMAS letters that just tell about where folks visited this last year. 

(I like those letters. Now that I can no longer travel, I can join my friends and relatives in their travels vicariously.)

Italian Names

For years, Italian children received their father's surname at birth.  Recently, a law has changed that and now a child may legally get its mother's surname at birth, if requested

I was told that when I was born, both my first name and surname were written on my birth certificate by some Italian-American nuns to reflect the ethnicity of the guy who was thought of at the time to be my biological father.  If that had been finalized, my name would have been shown as Geuseppi B...

My mother didn't like that and rewrote the birth information to show me as Joseph Vaughan , her surname.

However, for years, relatives would call me Joe Zippy, and some neighborhood kids would call me Joe followed by a forbidden (at the time) word that begins with B.

We're Havin' a Heatwave, a tropical heatwave

My tap dance teacher, Carole Haney, danced the "heatwave" number on Broadway and in a movie, for which she earned an award.  The number was designed to raise the heat level of the audience, and it certainly did that.

Now, we are about to get some 90+ weather this weekend and our Air Conditioner is still broken; waiting for a part for over a month.

The A/C people just arrived with a massive portable unit that should cool the whole house.  We also have a smaller one left over from last year's A/C problems, so we should be OK.   

I think it wasn't until 1980 when we finally had a "whole house" air conditioning unit installed.  Suddenly we couldn't live without something that we seemed to have lived without for many many years.

Several years later, we took a trip through Canada.  Although the temperature there was in the upper eighties and it was humid, there was never an air conditioner in sight... nowhere!  But, we lived through it.

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