It's not like I "lost" my job. It's not like "Whoops, where'd my TRIVIA QUIZ go?"

Hi, everybody! Just a quick note that I won't be updating next Monday...it's Columbus Day after all!

Today is National Noisy Munching Day, a day to annoy others by eating ice, pickles, chips, anything crunchy and loud.

Today is World Smile Day. Do an act of kindness and help one person smile. Sponsored by Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts, who created the smiley face in 1963. Um, that was his great artistic achievement??


On this day in 1930, Laura Ingalls completed the first transcontinental airplane flight by a woman. She flew a bi-plane from New York to California in four days. All that, and she still found time to help her blind sister Mary and have an alarmingly close relationship with her Pa.

On this day in 1974, American David Kunst became the first person to walk around the world. The stroll took four years and 21 pairs of shoes. He crossed four continents and walked 14,450 miles. I think if he'd actually walked around the world, some of those shoes would have to be flippers ;)

Since everybody's doing so well with this entertainment trivia: What star of the movies "K-PAX" and "American Beauty" received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on this day in 1999?

Good luck :)