I am a science teacher. As a science teacher, I
understand that all living things serve a purpose but I will argue that viruses
are not living things and they are nothing but a nuisance. As a science teacher
I am around 130+ children each day and they, very generously, share their
diseases. One of my dear students has shared yet another virus with me. I would
love to have the license number of the truck that they ran me over with last
night. Arrgh!
Let’s move on. Richard Haydn was born on this
date in 1905. Haydn gained fame playing tightly wound, nasally, overly proper
characters. He became the go to guy for aristocratic buffoons in television and
movies. Haydn’s most famous role is probably that of Max Detweiler, the friend
and promoter of the von Trapp family in The
Sound of Music. You know there is a Disney connection coming so here it is:
Haydn was the voice of the caterpillar in Alice
in Wonderland and he also appeared in the 1967 live-action movie The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin. How
shall we celebrate Richard Haydn? In light of recent developments with the Big
Thunder Mountain Railroad as a television pilot, let’s go ride it in honor of
Richard Haydn, preferably over and over, late at night, actually best about 1
AM.
Carrie Underwood was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
in 1983. I was 21 years-old, audible sigh. Underwood won season four of American Idol, helped with the
soundtrack for Enchanted (“Ever, Ever
After) and helped launch the American
Idol attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The American Idol Experience
is pretty cool as an observer, but as a participant it can tie up a huge amount
of your day. The big reason to be a participant is, if you win the daily
contest, you get a guaranteed audition for the show. My daughter was in the
competition and did very well. She lost to a lady who was a vocal coach and
owned her own theater but she made it on stage and we were in the audience to
vote for her. If you’re a great singer, give it a shot, if you’re not, go and
vote. And, lest we forget, it is air conditioned, mmmm, Florida + air
conditioning = heaven.
Today is the
International Day of Awesomeness. I know nothing about this day of observation
other than to say that any day at Walt Disney World is a day of awesomeness.
That’s not an excuse, that’s a fact.
Today
is Land Line Telephone Day. This one I understand because this is also the day,
in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call to Thomas
Watson. Our favorite landline telephones are in the red telephone boxes in the
British Pavilion at EPCOT. You can call these phones and talk to someone at
Walt Disney World. Unless they have been changed the numbers are: Right Booth: 407
827-9861, Left Booth: 407 827-9862, Center Booth: 407 827-9863.
Today is the beginning of
Daylight Savings Time in the USA. You should have moved your clocks forward one
hour. If you were late for church this morning, now you know why.
Finally, on this date in 1849,
Abraham Lincoln filed a patent for a device to help move boats across obstacles
in streams. Although his invention was never used or even built, this fact
makes Abraham Lincoln the only president in the history of the USA to hold a
patent. In honor of this momentous event, let us ride the paddlewheel boat
through the Rivers of America. Lincoln gained his inspiration on the actual
rivers of America, running flatboats and not killing vampires.
Remember, your best excuse is
always: waiting for your dreams to come true.
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