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07-01-2007

Bear with me here, as I attempt to avoid sounding like a new age twit. A while ago this house we are living in had a distinctly foreboding atmosphere, as though there was something here that wanted to make us to feel angry and depressed. I felt as though there were 'other things' here, what, I'm not quite sure, but the house sure did feel like it was inundated with other 'entities' for want of a better word.

Now, either I've come to my senses, or something's changed, but the house doesn't seem like the presence is here any more. The house feels 'clear'. We've been under heaps of stress, and there's been a general malaise about everyone here, but it's more a 'phew - that was a bad time' exhaustion, different to what it was before. Before, it felt as though there was some kind of dark presence willing us to be angry and depressed. It's as if we manage to beat it, and it goes away to plan it's next 'attack'. Maybe it's just my zoloft working lol. I dunno, but the atmosphere here is so different.

06-24-2007

Number one reason is because I think Tracey is a really boring 70s kind of name. I hated it when I was younger because I was called 'Cyclone Tracey' (after the cyclone which levelled Darwin, Australia on Christmas Eve - I think in 1974), and 'Dick Tracey', (after the detective character of course, but in my young mind the part I really objected to was 'Dick' lol).

I'm trying to get serious with my photography business, and Tracey Goodwin Photography' just hasn't got the...I dunno...'ring' to it that 'Lucy Goodwin Photography' has. I think it sounds somewhat classier, but then again, I could just be talking a load of codswallop.

Thirdly, I've had a terrible few years, and changing my name is somehow symbolic of throwing off all the old crap and starting afresh. Changing your name in Australia is kind of frowned upon - it seems only pretentious people do it, and I doubt my family will ever call me anything but Tracey. But I'm going to change it legally, as I need to change my bank accounts, driver's licence and passport into my married name anyway, so I may as well do the lot in a name I really like.

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06-21-2007

1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed
1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1837 1st Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 The opera "Les Vˆpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris)
1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of "Erewhon," Christchurch, NZ
1866 House passes 14th Amendment
1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra
1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
1889 2' of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 �mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1918 Philles & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1921 Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana
1935 James T Braddocks beats Max Baer for HW boxing champ
1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem�nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1966 Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina
1970 Beatles' "Let It Be," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 Beatles' "Long & Winding Road," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 NY Times began publishing "The Pentagon Papers"
1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice & #1978 Patrice
1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604
1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8+ years (LA Dodgers)
1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci
1977 Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured [?]
1980 Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"
1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta's triple-play
1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete
cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East
1988 George Harrison releases "This is Love"
1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren't racist
1989 Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,
1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)

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06-21-2007

Well, I recognise a few more of these names:

323 -BC- Alexander the Great dies of fever at Babylon
1886 King Ludwig II of Bavaria drowns
1946 Edward Bowes radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour), dies at 71
1961 Ben Jones Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway), dies at 79
1962 Sir Eugene Goossens composer, dies at 69
1972 Clyde McPhatter singer of the drifters, dies of a heart attack
1977 Tom C Clark former Supreme Court Justice, dies in NY at 77
1979 Darla Hood actress (Little Rascals), dies
1982 King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, dies at 69
1986 Benny Goodman the clarinet playing King of Swing, dies in NY at 77
1987 Geraldine Page actress (Blue & Gray), dies at 62

King Ludwig was that dude who kept making those beautiful fairytale castles in Bavaria. Benny Goodman eh? Now there's a bit of trivia I can throw out there at a party.

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06-21-2007

40 Gnaeus Julius Agricola Roman general; conquered Wales, No. England
823 Charles II (the Bald) king of France (843-77), emperor (875-77)
1752 Fanny Burney England, author (Camille, Evelina)
1773 Thomas Young proponent of the wave theory of light
1786 Winfield Scott American army general/presidential candidate
1821 Albert duc de Broglie, France, premier (1873-74, 1977)
1831 James Clerk Maxwell physicist, formulated electromagnetic theory
1865 William Butler Yeats Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923)
1881 Lois Weber 1st US woman film director (What Do Men Want?)
1892 Basil Rathbone Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
1893 Dorothy L Sayers England, novelist (9 Taylors)
1894 Mark van Doren Ill, author (The Happy Critic)
1897 Paavo Johannes Nurmi Finland, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1924)
1899 Carlos Ch vez Mexico City, conductor/composer (Sinfon¡a India)
19-- Deann Mears Fort Fairfield Maine, actress (Emily-Beacon Hill)
19-- Lefty Perez NYC, salsa singer
1900 Ian Hunter S Africa, actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood)
1903 Harold "Red" Grange "Galloping Ghost" of football (Illinois Bears)
1911 Albert Cleage famous African
1911 Luis W Alvarez physicist (Nobel-1968)
1912 Mary Wickes St Louis Mo, actress (Dennis the Menace, Julia, Doc)
1913 Ralph Edwards Merino Colo, TV host (This is Your Life)
1915 J Donald Budge US tennis player (1st to hold world's 4 major titles)
1918 Ben Johnson Foraker Okla, actor (Chisum, Battle Force, Dillinger)
1920 Knut Nordahl Sweden, soccer players (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 Paul Lynde Mt Vernon Ohio, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched)
1935 Christo Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
1940 Bobby Freeman SF, rocker (Do You Want to Dance)
1941 Robert Forester Rochester NY, actor (Banyon, Nakia)
1941 Tom Hallick Buffalo NY, actor (Search)
1943 Edward Skorek Poland, volleball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1944 Joe Amato NHRA top fuel drag racing champion (1991)
1945 Ronald J Grabe NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51-J, STS 30, STS 42)
1947 Peter Holm boyfriend of Joan Collins
1951 Richard Thomas NYC, (John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda)
1962 Ally Sheedy NYC, actress (St Elmo's, Short Circuit, Maid to Order)
1963 Bettina Bunge Switz, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Calif 1983)
1963 Catarina Lindqvist Sweden, tennis player (Swedish Open 1986)
1968 Deniece Peterson rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
197- Charlie Rivera singer (Menudo)
1971 Broderick nonuplets Sydney Australia (7 of 9 survived infancy)
1986 Ashley Olsen actress (Full House)
1986 Mary Kate Olsen actress (Full House)

Joan Collin's boyfriend rates a mention?!

Who'd have thought I shared a birthday with the Olsen twins. I wish I shared their money. I can't see anyone else on the list that I recognise. Nonuptlets - that poor mother!

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