A Heartfelt Plea

Dear St. Anthony,

Do you help Catholics and non-Catholics alike? I sure hope so. I appear to have "misplaced" all my exercise records from the past 8 weeks of the wellness program. I had them Thursday when Andy handed them to me, and now, after a weekend of cleaning up for company, they've vanished.

I need to find these items before 7:30 tomorrow morning, so if you can lend a girl a hand, I'd really appreciate it.

Sincerely,

A lost soul

A Quiz

A (virtual) gold star to the first reader who can correctly name the source of the quotation used for today's Word of the Day at The Free Dictionary (if you're reading this after July 25, you'll need to look at the archived version).

To check your answer, click here.

Sick Day?

Did anyone else experience the no-traffic phenomenon this morning on the way to work? All I can think is that everyone who didn't finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows over the weekend called in sick this morning.

Dog Days, Or, An Excuse to Post a Picture

The Firefox weather add-on I use shows a little icon for each day's weather forecast. Thursday shows a flaming-hot thermometer, signifying "very hot" weather. This got me thinking about the origin of the term "dog days." I had no idea it had anything to do with astronomy and the alignment of Sirius and the sun. I truly thought that it just referred to the tongue-hanging-out-of mouth effect of the summer heat.




photo: Chicago Daily News. (1904). [Two black and white puppies standing next to each other]. Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0002055. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. Available from Library of Congress American Memory, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n002055))

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