Saturday & Sunday 10/14 & 15/23
Celebrate:
Saturday
Be Bald and Be Free Day
I Love Yarn Day
International African Penguin Awareness Day
National Chess Day
National Chocolate-Covered Insect Day
National Costume Swap Day
National Dessert Day
National FRUMP Day ( Frugal, Responsible, Unpretentious, Mature Persons)
National Kids Bowl Free Day
National Lowercase Day
National Motorcycle Ride Day
National Real Sugar Day
Universal Music Day
World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
World Standards Day
Sunday
I Love Lucy Day
Breast Health Day
Global Handwashing Day
International Day of Rural Women
My Mom is a Student Day
National Aesthetician Day
National Cheese Curd Day
National Chicken Cacciatore Day
National Grouch Day
National Mushroom Day
National Pug Day
National Red Wine Day
National Roast Pheasant Day
National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
National White Cane Safety Day
Sewing Lovers Day
World Toy Camera Day
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Chedder News had an interview about an eco-friendly bathroom.
One of the ideas was to spit your mouthwash into the toilet. The disinfectant and deodorizing works in your toilet as well.
One other tip for an eco-friendly bathroom, and maybe you got one during the toilet paper runs during COVID, a bidet. I've had one for a while, but had to replace it, and when I did, found out that checking it, it shoots water across the small bathroom into the shower. I let people know.
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Her plus one needs no introduction. Taylor Swift held the premiere for her "Eras Tour" concert film in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and there was a very special guest: Beyoncé, who's debuting her own concert film in December. "I'm so glad I'll never know what my life would've been like without @beyonce's influence," Swift shared, adding that the singer has "been a guiding light throughout my career and the fact that she showed up tonight was like an actual fairytale." They took photos together sitting in the theater and tossing popcorn.
Beware of spoilers, such as that the movie ends with Swift singing a song.
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The "Halloween" franchise is officially set to return despite having just released a movie titled "Halloween Ends." Miramax has acquired the television rights to "Halloween" and is already plotting a TV series, they will be "introducing this iconic franchise to a new form of storytelling and a new generation of fans."
By the way, this will be the sixth timeline for the franchise.
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There are a lot of things that you can do to get your blood pumping: Having some caffeine . . . doing vigorous exercise . . . signing on to Twitter . . . or just attempting to parallel park.
A new study has found that parallel parking can increase your heart rate by an average of 57%. There's the stress and anxiety of doing it quickly, without hitting anything. It's basically the same for both men and women.
Parallel parking is tricky but even just backing into a parking spot was associated with an average heart rate increase of 46%. In that case, on average, men experience a bigger jolt than women.
Pulling FORWARD into a parking spot raised people's heart rate by 41%, which was less but it's still significant for such a common maneuver.
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Not sure if Taylor Swift's film has an encore, but where did that idea come from?
Well, encores date back to the early 1700s, at Italian opera concerts in the U.K. But they weren't the encores we're used to today.
Back then, if an audience loved a certain piece, they would shout for an encore, which meant they wanted the artist to sing that song again . . . immediately.
This was actually considered a NUISANCE by artists, because it can ruin the continuity of a show. It got so annoying that some concert venues would print "No encores" in their programs or on huge placards.
It became popular during early rock and roll days, but The Beatles and Elvis never did them. In fact, the "Elvis has left the building" announcement was to tell people he wasn't coming back out.
Apparently, it was Bruce Springsteen who really popularized the encore as we know it today.
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A 23-year-old man in Florida was arrested after assaulting a couple of Walgreens employees early Monday morning.
He went into the Walgreens at about 1:20 A.M. because he wanted cigarettes. The workers refused and told him to leave. It's unclear why he was denied, but he was HAMMERED, so that probably had something to do with it.
Weapon of Choice????
The guy was furious, and started throwing Snickers bars at the employees. He struck a female worker in the face, and a male worker was hit in the chest. Neither employee was injured by the Snickers bars.
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"Six degrees of separation" is the claim that anyone on Earth is no more than six social connections away from anyone else. And a group of mathematicians just found that six really is the sweet spot.
They found every new friend you add comes with an upside and a downside. The upside is your social network expands. But at some point, adding new friends weakens your other connections, and old friends start falling away.
They say it doesn't just apply to people though. For example, it also works with viruses like COVID. Quote, "Within six infection cycles, a virus can cross the globe."
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