It seems Rupert Grint who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies was ordered off the set of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after being diagnosed with the infamous swine flu. He’s recovered now, thank goodness.
And from the Department of Extreme Silliness, the Sci Fi Channel officially becomes SyFy (which I refuse to call them because it’s just such a stupid name) tomorrow when the new show Warehouse 13 premieres. That looks like a really fun show but I can’t figure out why they don’t pair it up with Eureka which has its season premiere on Friday. 
On this date in 1919, a British dirigible crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time and landed at New York’s Roosevelt Field.
On this date in 1933, the first major league All-Star baseball game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago. And for those who care 
the American League beat the National League 4-2.
This was a busy date in history. In 1944, a fire in the big top at the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus killed 167 people, most of them children. 682 others were injured.
And in 1957, 15-year-old Paul McCartney met 16-year-old John Lennon at a church picnic where Lennon’s band was playing. By the end of the day, McCartney had joined the group. And musical history was born.
Had an appointment this morning with one of my doctors (the diabetes dude that I usually call Dr. Annoying) for a check-up. Thankfully, he wasn’t quite as annoying as usual. I was not well-pleased with the scales, however. Must find some kind of exercise I can do that won’t put a lot of pressure on my ankle which really hasn’t fully recovered from being the Broken Ankle from Hell, despite that being two years ago.
Anyway. I’d like to give a shout-out to Barb at Sisters in Sync for her kind words about my blog. Thanks, sweetie!
As far as I can tell, there isn’t a thing on tonight I care to watch. So it’s back to recorded shows. Which is fine. I need to clean out some stuff anyway.
Back to writing tonight after my week-long break. Hope I can get back into the story groove without any trouble.
Reading: Finished up Scent of Danger by Doranna Durgin last night and started—barely—The Laughter of Dead Kings by Elizabeth Peters. This is the new (well, it was new last year but I haven’t read it yet) Vicky Bliss book which we waited 14 years (hey, the same length of time I’ve been working on that one fantasy of mine!) to read.
I can’t wait to see Warehouse 13 and YAY! Eureka is back Friday! WOO! That whole ScyFy thing? So stupid!
Good luck getting back to the writing!
Have a wonderful day!
Comment by Brandy — July 6, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
SyFy is just plain weird.
Can you do chair exercises?
Have fun writing. I’m sure you’ll find your groove.
Comment by Dru — July 6, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
SyFy…are you serious??
Comment by Kacey — July 6, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Hi Tori,
I’ll confess that I had to google “dirigible”. You better bet I’m going to throw that word around at work tomorrow. I can’t be the only one that didn’t know what it meant. Right?
Broken ankle from hell huh? I know what you mean…I broke my thumb many years ago and it still acts up from time to time. Even the weather affects it. I feel so old!
The shout out was well deserved and thank you for inspiring me!
Barb
Comment by Barb — July 6, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
That Sci Fy thing is really silly. Why would they do that?
Good luck with the return to writing tonight!!!! Hope the words just fill the page.
Comment by Melissa Mc — July 7, 2009 @ 8:06 am
SO excited about Eureka.
And, I follow “SyFy” on Twitter, and they have a discussion on why they changed the name — mostly it boils down to the fact they want to own their name, and they can’t own “SciFi”, and while I understand it, I still think it’s goofy.
Comment by Marianne — July 7, 2009 @ 10:18 am