1) Happy Berfdee, M/M!
2) Sue (finally) got her violin and bow fixed up, and now, as I type, she's playing some nifty diddies!
3) Tonight, we had to execute an emergency X-Pando intervention on the radiator by the front door. Back in November, we didn't mess around with that one, but it started leaking a bit from the joint between the supply valve and the radiator itself. Fingers crossed the X-Pando comes through for us again. We have to wait till it "sets" to turn the heat back on. Br-r-rr-rr-r.
4) Picked up a couple small Sue-prizes today to further spiff up the house. See below.
5) I missed this one. Found out too late. Yesterday was Square Root Day, a rare holiday that occurs when the day and the month are both the square root of the last two digits of the current year. Numerically, March 3, 2009, can be expressed as 3/3/09, or mathematically as √9 = 3, or 3² = 3 × 3 = 9.
"These days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day--and poof--they're gone," Ron Gordon, a Redwood City, Calif., teacher who organized a contest intended to publicize the event, told the AP. The prize, or course, is $339.
Celebrants were expected to mark the occasion by cutting root vegetables into squares or preparing other foods in the shape of the square root symbol.
Square Root Day occurs only nine times in a century. The last one occurred on February 2, 2004, and the next will occur in seven years on April 4, 2016.
1 comment:
I had heard about square root day as well. It was included in the news which plays in our elevators at work.
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