Today in History... [just because I can] 1819 - John Keats was inspired write one of the best-loved English poems, Ode to Autumn. 1893 - New Zealand becomes the first self-governing nation in the world to grant all of its female citizens the right to vote when the Electoral Bill, pushed by years of suffragette activities by women, is signed by Governor Lord Glasgow. 1928 - Adam West, star of the tv series Batman, was born. 1928 - Mickey Mouse's screen debut. 1936 - Indian Love Call, was recorded by Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, on Victor Records. 1945 - Randolph Mantooth, good looking star of Emergency. I had a crush on him for the *longest* time. 1988 - U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck and injured his head on the board in a preliminary round of springboard diving at the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 1991 - Otzi, the Iceman, was found by a German tourist on the Similaun Glacier on the Italian-Austrian border.

me: arrrhh arrarrrhhh good mornin' there me hearty busdriver: ahh.. *taken aback* me: it's talk like a pirate day! Prepare to be boarded. busdriver: *laughs* I suppose you heard that on the radio or something. me: the internet, actually. busdriver: so where's your parrot? me: none of your business! I sound less like a pirate and more like a demented irishman. I also can't remember much beyond the "arrahhh" and "prepare to be boarded". The pirate speaks,"Today on t'wayt't'ferry, we passed a house on t'afto'a truck, readyt'be loaded onto a ferryt'Waiheke. As we drove past I noticed that thar was a man asleep inside, stretched out on his aft by t'ranchsliders. I mentioned thist'me bus driver, and added t'note that me bosses lived on Waiheke and ferry'd over everyday. He said "i bet they don't have a great bus driver like you do" I said " no one in t'whole world has a great bus driver like I do." ar harrr me hearties.

I had the worst night's sleep last night. [fyi] I woke at 12am after going to sleep at 10pm. Then I woke again at 3am and again at 4am, 6am and 7am only to doze off and wake at 7:45am to be borderline late for my bus - I made it though. Maybe my brain knew all night long that this morning would suck.