Hollywoodland

Oh yeah. That ranks right up there with “It’s not you, it’s me” as lamest break up lines.

Celebrity birthdays on this date:

• Actor Howard Keel was born in 1919.

Highlights from last night’s DWTS (not that there were any, but we’ll just pretend, okay?) [»]

My external hard drive appears to be dead as the proverbial doornail. This is very distressing. Some things I can salvage elsewhere but pretty much everything I’ve done in the past year or so is apparently gone. *sigh* All my writing files. All my genealogy files. All my clipart. All my music I didn’t have loaded on my iPod. All my podcasts. It’s going to be a chore recreating it all. Some of it may never get recreated.

We’ve had another celebrity death. Dixie Carter who played Julia Sugarbaker on the TV show Designing Women died yesterday at the age of 70. No reason for her death has been released last time I looked.

Reading: I’m still reading Adjusted to Death. I didn’t get as far as I’d planned because in an unusual move for me, I fell asleep while reading! And I slept for six hours. Guess I was tired.

Now there’s a nice, all-purpose excuse. *g*

Today in history:

• 1912 – The ill-fated Titanic sailed from Southampton, England on its one and only voyage.

• 1915 – Actor Harry Morgan was born.

• 1953 – The first 3-D film, House of Wax is released by Warner Brothers.

The only thing on today is horse racing this afternoon. The Arkansas Derby which has become one of the big pre-Kentucky Derby races.

My external hard drive is acting really squirrelly today. Hope it doesn’t crash until the new drive I ordered arrives. My ideal situation, though, is the bigger drive for storage and the smaller (current) drive to store all my backups.

Worked through another ten pages last night.

Reading: Finished up Death in a Deck Chair last night and now I’m reading Adjusted to Death by Jaqueline Girdner. This is the first in her Kate Jasper series which I have yet to read all the way through in order.