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Today’s Questions:
The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare?
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do?
N/A to both (I don't celebrate).
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? - Yes, in my apartment, just one.
Our power when out last night during our stormy evening for a couple of seconds so it was done then.
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? - Leave the clocks alone.
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? - The only bill that gets paid by paper check is my rent.
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? - 2 weeks ago.
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does?
I do not. The only person I know who does is a clerk at one of the stores I frequent.
The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare? Nothing, doubt I will do anything.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? Since my brother and SIL come up here and Dad walks over, I usually do a small fiber optic tree and other things, but don't know if I will this year.
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? I did 4 yesterday, will do the car this morning, if I remember how
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? I'm all for set it and forget it
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? Online banking
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? I go occasionally to cash a check.
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does?
I do.....now
Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, November 5, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some of the famous people born on this date are historian Will Durant; actresses Vivien Leigh, Elke Sommer, Andrea McArdle, Tatum O’Neal and Tilda Swinton; actors Roy Rogers, Joel McCrea and Luke Hemsworth; musicians Ike Turner, Art Garfunkel, Bryan Adams and Kevin Jonas; basketball legend Bill Walton; American football player Odell Beckham, Jr.; British writer-host-fashion designer Alexa Chung; writer Joyce Maynard and celebrity businesswoman Kris Jenner.
Today’s Questions: The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare?..................I have my Thanksgiving decor out but nothing is done for Christmas. I'm not in the mood for the holidays this year.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do?..................I do a couple of trees and decorate the living room, dining room, kitchen, guest bathroom and front porch.
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust?............Yes, we did them last night before we went to bed. I still have the vehicles to do. I think we do about 8 clocks.
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward?..................I'd stay on daylight savings time if I could.
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person?................Other than online banking I use all of the above depending of what I'm dealing with.
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank?....................A couple of weeks ago.
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does?.............I don't have red hair but I do get red highlights every now and then. I know people with beautiful red hair.
Today in History 1492 – Christopher Columbus is introduced to corn (maize) by the native people of Cuba. 1605 – Guy Fawkes Day. The “Gunpowder Plot” attempted by Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes is foiled when he is captured before he can blow up Parliament. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with the burning of a Guy Fawkes effigy in a bonfire followed by fireworks. 1639 – The American colonies’ first post office is opened in Massachusetts. 1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting, where it is resolved that anyone who supports the Tea Act (which was not a tax but gave the British East India company an unfair advantage on tea imports) is “an enemy to America.” 1789 – French National Meeting declares that all French citizens are equal under the law. 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant in the U.S. presidential election. [I wonder how, if women were not allowed to vote?] 1895 – First patent for a gasoline-powered automobile is granted to George B. Selden. 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is established by the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. 1917 – World War I: General Pershing and U.S. troops see action for the first time on the Western Front. 1935 – Parker Bros. launches the game of Monopoly. 1937 – Adolf Hitler, in a secret meeting with his military leaders, announces his intention to go to war. 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term as U.S. president. 1946 – John F. Kennedy elected to the U.S. Senate. 1956 – The Nat King Cole Show premieres on NBC, the first television variety program hosted by an African-American. It will be cancelled after one season due to lack of sponsors. 1967 – The Hither Green railroad crash in the U.K. kills 49 people. Bee Gee Robin Gibbs is among the survivors. 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected U.S. president; defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey and segregationist George Wallace. 1973 – OPEC announces a 25% cut in oil production. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declares the United States “The Great Satan.” 1992 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for the world chess title. 2000 – Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants are sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’ia Muslims in 1982. 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite goes into orbit around the Moon.
Word of the Day: rumbustiousadjective (British, informal)
1. boisterous or unruly.
Example:
“Clear to him now, and his departure will make clear to any other politicians in Westminster that behaviour they might have laughed off or treated as part and parcel of the rumbustious life is not acceptable and is not, it seems, acceptable to Number 10.”
Quote of the Day:
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
- Will Durant
Today is:
Guy Fawkes Night (Great Britain)
First day of Standard Time (U.S.)
Book Lovers Day
International Games Day
Bank Transfer Day (U.S.)
National Love Your Red Hair Day (Ireland)
Today’s Questions:
The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare?
For Thanksgiving/Autumn, I have the exterior front door trim decorated with orange/yellow miniature lights and garlands of leaves, same type of leaves down the front steps railings, mums, and pumpkins....and autumn door decoration. Inside, pumpkin display on coffee table, autumn place mats on kitchen table.
For Christmas I do more, and have a plan for outside and inside. I don't do the blow up things in the yard, but try to keep the decor tasteful and keeping with our historic home....white miniature lights, fresh pine boughs, fresh wreaths, and small Christmas tree on the front porch. Inside, it will look like a "wonderland" to me (to others, maybe crazy) ...miniature lights and garland around pillars which divide the first floor rooms, fresh poinsettias up the stair steps, etc. Big tree in foyer will be decorated with white lights, yards of spiraled burgundy/pink ribbon and old fashioned ornaments. I found that I can buy 15-20 small, live, poinsettias cheaper at WalMart than 3-4 bigger ones, and spread the color around. We'll have a family party one evening before Christmas Day, and I've got my Christmas music CDs ready for playing, and of course, Christmas candles. Everything starts for Christmas decorating the day after Thanksgiving, and comes down Jan. 10th, or so. Yeah, I'm nuts about decorating, and YES, I'm excited.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? See above. I love decorating for holidays.....all holidays. I'm so thankful that at age 77 I can climb around, decorate, entertain, and enjoy all of this.
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? We did that this morning, 5 times
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? useless....one more thing to do
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? In person for us, since we're such a short distance from our bank
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? last week, but drive through bank almost every day for our business
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does? no
Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, November 5, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Scorpio. Some of the famous people born on this date are historian Will Durant; actresses Vivien Leigh, Elke Sommer, Andrea McArdle, Tatum O’Neal and Tilda Swinton; actors Roy Rogers, Joel McCrea and Luke Hemsworth; musicians Ike Turner, Art Garfunkel, Bryan Adams and Kevin Jonas; basketball legend Bill Walton; American football player Odell Beckham, Jr.; British writer-host-fashion designer Alexa Chung; writer Joyce Maynard and celebrity businesswoman Kris Jenner.
Today’s Questions: The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare? Uhhhhh....nothing.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? Yes, I put up two small trees and lighted garland, lights in the windows
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? I forgot until I woke up, what a nice surprise to be able to roll over and go back to sleep for an extra hour. I only have to reset two clocks.
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? No I'm not ok with it, I wish they would just stop it
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? I pay most of my bills online, very rarely have to write a check
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? Probably two months ago
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does? My mother has natural red hair, my grandfather had red hair, my Aunt and a nephew also. My natural color is brunette with red highlights
Today in History 1492 – Christopher Columbus is introduced to corn (maize) by the native people of Cuba. 1605 – Guy Fawkes Day. The “Gunpowder Plot” attempted by Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes is foiled when he is captured before he can blow up Parliament. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with the burning of a Guy Fawkes effigy in a bonfire followed by fireworks. 1639 – The American colonies’ first post office is opened in Massachusetts. 1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting, where it is resolved that anyone who supports the Tea Act (which was not a tax but gave the British East India company an unfair advantage on tea imports) is “an enemy to America.” 1789 – French National Meeting declares that all French citizens are equal under the law. 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant in the U.S. presidential election. [I wonder how, if women were not allowed to vote?] 1895 – First patent for a gasoline-powered automobile is granted to George B. Selden. 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is established by the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. 1917 – World War I: General Pershing and U.S. troops see action for the first time on the Western Front. 1935 – Parker Bros. launches the game of Monopoly. 1937 – Adolf Hitler, in a secret meeting with his military leaders, announces his intention to go to war. 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term as U.S. president. 1946 – John F. Kennedy elected to the U.S. Senate. 1956 – The Nat King Cole Show premieres on NBC, the first television variety program hosted by an African-American. It will be cancelled after one season due to lack of sponsors. 1967 – The Hither Green railroad crash in the U.K. kills 49 people. Bee Gee Robin Gibbs is among the survivors. 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected U.S. president; defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey and segregationist George Wallace. 1973 – OPEC announces a 25% cut in oil production. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declares the United States “The Great Satan.” 1992 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for the world chess title. 2000 – Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants are sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’ia Muslims in 1982. 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite goes into orbit around the Moon.
Word of the Day: rumbustiousadjective (British, informal)
1. boisterous or unruly.
Example:
“Clear to him now, and his departure will make clear to any other politicians in Westminster that behaviour they might have laughed off or treated as part and parcel of the rumbustious life is not acceptable and is not, it seems, acceptable to Number 10.”
Quote of the Day:
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
- Will Durant
Today is:
Guy Fawkes Night (Great Britain)
First day of Standard Time (U.S.)
Book Lovers Day
International Games Day
Bank Transfer Day (U.S.)
National Love Your Red Hair Day (Ireland)
Today’s Questions: The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare? I started Christmas shopping.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? yes. Tree, lights, the usual.
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? 7
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? I wish we could leave the clocks alone.
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? I do half and half
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank?
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does? I don't have red hair but know many people who do.
The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare? We will be spending Christmas with good friends. I am making a cookbook for her, buying a book for him and getting them a driveway alert. That is the extent of my preparations for the holidays, lol.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? None
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? I changed the microwave clock but will have to change it again when we move the rv which is every other day for now. All others are automatic.
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? I hate this time of year.
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person? Regular bills are done electronically. Had to write a check for a contractor yesterday.
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? Three weeks ago. Needed a bank check for a closing and it took them an hour. Problems with the computers
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does? Not now.
Today’s Questions: The holiday season is upon us (gulp). What, if anything, have you done to prepare? Nothing yet.
Do you decorate for the holidays? If so, what do you do? Nothing.
If your region went from Daylight to standard time, did you remember to turn your clocks back? How many clocks did you have to adjust? Yes. I had to adjust 4 clocks.
What is your opinion of these semiannual time changes? Are you OK with it, or do you wish you never had to turn clocks back and forward? I'm fine with the change. Before retirement I really appreciated not having to drive to work in the dark.
Do you use electronic funds transfer/online banking or do you prefer paper checks and doing your banking in person?
When was the last time you were inside a brick and mortar bank? A couple of months ago.
In Ireland, today is Love Your Red Hair Day. Do you have red hair, or do you know someone who does? No and yes.
Today in History 1492 – Christopher Columbus is introduced to corn (maize) by the native people of Cuba. 1605 – Guy Fawkes Day. The “Gunpowder Plot” attempted by Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes is foiled when he is captured before he can blow up Parliament. The holiday is traditionally celebrated with the burning of a Guy Fawkes effigy in a bonfire followed by fireworks. 1639 – The American colonies’ first post office is opened in Massachusetts. 1773 – John Hancock is elected as moderator at a Boston town meeting, where it is resolved that anyone who supports the Tea Act (which was not a tax but gave the British East India company an unfair advantage on tea imports) is “an enemy to America.” 1789 – French National Meeting declares that all French citizens are equal under the law. 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant in the U.S. presidential election. [I wonder how, if women were not allowed to vote?] 1895 – First patent for a gasoline-powered automobile is granted to George B. Selden. 1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is established by the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. 1917 – World War I: General Pershing and U.S. troops see action for the first time on the Western Front. 1935 – Parker Bros. launches the game of Monopoly. 1937 – Adolf Hitler, in a secret meeting with his military leaders, announces his intention to go to war. 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented third term as U.S. president. 1946 – John F. Kennedy elected to the U.S. Senate. 1956 – The Nat King Cole Show premieres on NBC, the first television variety program hosted by an African-American. It will be cancelled after one season due to lack of sponsors. 1967 – The Hither Green railroad crash in the U.K. kills 49 people. Bee Gee Robin Gibbs is among the survivors. 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected U.S. president; defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey and segregationist George Wallace. 1973 – OPEC announces a 25% cut in oil production. 1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini declares the United States “The Great Satan.” 1992 – Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky for the world chess title. 2000 – Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and two co-defendants are sentenced to death for the massacre of 148 Shi’ia Muslims in 1982. 2007 – China’s first lunar satellite goes into orbit around the Moon.
Word of the Day: rumbustiousadjective (British, informal)
1. boisterous or unruly.
Example:
“Clear to him now, and his departure will make clear to any other politicians in Westminster that behaviour they might have laughed off or treated as part and parcel of the rumbustious life is not acceptable and is not, it seems, acceptable to Number 10.”
Quote of the Day:
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
- Will Durant
Today is:
Guy Fawkes Night (Great Britain)
First day of Standard Time (U.S.)
Book Lovers Day
International Games Day
Bank Transfer Day (U.S.)
National Love Your Red Hair Day (Ireland)
Thank you, BA.
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...miniature lights and garland around pillars which divide the first floor rooms, fresh poinsettias up the stair steps, etc. Big tree in foyer will be decorated with white lights, yards of spiraled burgundy/pink ribbon and old fashioned ornaments. I found that I can buy 15-20 small, live, poinsettias cheaper at WalMart than 3-4 bigger ones, and spread the color around. We'll have a family party one evening before Christmas Day, and I've got my Christmas music CDs ready for playing, and of course, Christmas candles. Everything starts for Christmas decorating the day after Thanksgiving, and comes down Jan. 10th, or so. Yeah, I'm nuts about decorating, and YES, I'm excited. 
