Good morning to you! Welcome to a Wednesday, October 29. Raindrops are falling on my dog, whos out in the yard returning the favor to nature, but showers should diminish today. Steady rain returns tonight, and it looks like snow in the Cascade passes for the weekend. Saturdays the day studs become legal, and Saturday nights when we have to run around and change all of our clocks back one hour. Daylight Saving Time is stupid, Ive always maintained. But itll be nice to have an extra hour. Rocket scientists are scratching their domes over the colossal launchpad explosion that destroyed an unmanned rocket that was carrying 200 million dollars of scientific gear, supplies, and kids experiments to the International Space Station. A new poll for KGW amd The Oregonian shows Oregons pot legalization measure trailing by two points, but within the 5-point margin of error. GMO labeling is down by six. Kitzhaber is up by seven, and Merkley has a 19 point lead over Wehby. The only poll that counts is six days away. Some screwed-up soul is mutilating cats in the Clackamas High School area. My first thought was coyotes--but the cops say no. Machete. The Blazers open tonight at home against Oklahoma City. Tipoffs at 7:30 on KGW and Rip City Radio 620, which means theyll be playing at about the same time Game Seven of the World Series is wrapping up on Fox 12. I have no idea how the Giants will bounce back from the waxing they endured last night. Their catcher Buster Posey says, ah, its just another game. But it felt like hes telling that to himself and his teammates more than anyone. A study in the British Medical Journal says women who drink more than three glasses of milk a day have a higher risk of early death than women who drink less than one. And the study found that higher milk consumption brought no reduction in bone fracture risk. The effect was less pronounced in men, and yogurt was associated with lower rates of mortality and fracture. Im enjoying a Greek yogurt/peanut butter/blueberry shake as I write this. It’s National Oatmeal Day. So the good people of Quaker Oats Co. are temporarily renaming Oak Street to Oat Street, and handing out free Quaker Oatmeal Cups at the Southwest corner of Oat Street and SW 5th from 7 to 10 a.m. Thousands of investors were wiped out in the Wall Street crash of October 29, 1929, when the stock market lost 12% of its value--on top of 13% the day before--heralding a ten-year depression Were unusually space-minded this morning because, on this date in 1998, the first man in orbit--John Glenn--became the oldest human in space, when the Ohio Senator flew aboard the Shuttle Discovery at age 77. And speaking of space...as the US works on plans for a Mars mission years in the future, science writer Kate Greene makes a pretty compelling case that the crew should be, predominately female. Ive linked the article below. Actor Richard Dreyfuss--who commanded the stage at Portlands Grant High School and flirted perilously with his senior lead, in Mr. Hollands Opus, is 67 today. And a vegetarian teetotaler with a high IQ who is almost never recognized in public and yet is one of the most familiar voices in the world is celebrating his 57th birthday today. Its Dan Castellaneta--whos paid $300,000 for each and every episode as the voice of Homer Simpson. Thats a lot of doh! Thank you for scrolling through my daily prep sheet, and for contributing thoughts and likes. (I got my feelings hurt by Good Morning America, which says any post that doesnt get 100 likes is lame. Were into metrics lately. I discovered that the new phone counts every single one of my steps. 13,051 yesterday...12, 981 the day before) Anyway, have a very fine day, and please join us on 103.3 FM for the morning drive. Thanks!
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:59:45 +0000
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