KILGOROUND

I DEC IDED early this morning that today must be Freaky Friday. I need to check the Farmers' Almanac, but I think we may be close to a full moon or some other celestial event. Others have told me we are on the cusp of a season change and that a solar eclipse occurred recently. Maybe that is the reason for the all the randomness I am experiencing today.

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I FOUND myself searching the isles of the grocery store this week for the newest trend in quick and easy breakfast foods. This one lets your child drink a glass of milk through a crispy cereal straw that can then be gobbled up. What will they think of next? And, why do I let my kid eat this junk?

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HAPPY Birthday Google! Google is nine years old today. I hate to confess to how much I have come to rely on Google and even use it as a verb. I don't just look something up on the internet any more I "google it."

+++ ON THIS day in: 1911 -

French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum; 1950 - The gameshow Truth or Consequences debuts on television; and in 1979 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.

+++ BORN on this day in: 1860 - Grandma Moses, American painter; 1949 - Gloria Gaynor, American singer; and in 1983 - Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks.

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HAPPY birthday today to Joe W. Roberts, Betty Jo Mobley, John Neugebauer, Willie L. Clark Jr., Bridget Okray, Jimmy Guins, Lyndi Bione, Lisa Hopper Henry, Emerson Jones, Linda Allen, David Welch, Bill Edney, Tara Leroy, Brenda Laurent, Dee Ann Goddy, Dreka Ranson, Steven Knighton, Amy Reese, Patsy Haynes, Jo Lisa Thompson.

CELEBRATING wedding anniversaries today are Dr. and Mrs. Charles Florio.

HAPPY birthday tomorrow to David Keiser, Nickalus Peters, Mrs. A. E. Douty Jr., Terry Thrower, Eva Harlow, Ginger Becker, Stacy Johnson, Katherine Fortson, Krista Megan Blankeney, Ricky Hudgins, Rev. T.A. "Tony" Clayton, Loren Beebe, Hazel Collins Rucker (90), Chris Jackson, Betty Robertson, Kelly Cook, Doyline Rhodes, Fonnie Ector Jr., Cora Russell, Caitlin Wilcox, Jake Lockman.

HAPPY anniversary Saturday to Burt and Michele McLaughlin.