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Susan, I am disappointed on two separate matters. First, you don't need any additional excuse. If the offense is twitch-worthy, it is rant-worthy. And for that matter, it is Hammer-worthy, but Mr Tensaided probably frowns on hammering customers. Especially those customers you can hammer on your own time. Second, wearing WHITE cartoon gloves AFTER Labor Day? Have you no sense of fashion or style?

A fractured metatarsal is not what any of us had in mind when we thought, "The Prof deserves a break."

Panels four and seven may be artistic exaggeration to display Diane's emotion and probably should not be an indicator of shape-shifting abilities. But her look of frustration / disgust / disappointment / fury / confusion / fatigue in the final panel just screams "PANDORA" to me.

06 September 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish magister militum Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. This is rather typical of Politics through Warfare that was common across the various eras and empires that called themselves "Roman". But we do ourselves a disservice if we do not recall the historic names. For example, the Battle of the Frigidus is not the Friday fight in the break room over who must clean out the Frigidus before the weekend. 1492 – Christopher Columbus sails from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. What is amazing is that Columbus pestered almost every royal court in Europe for sponsorship on this trip, and only Isabella of Castile realized that for the cost of a few ships, they could either get rid of this trouble maker or become very rich. Of course, the fact Leif Ericson made the trip half a millennium earlier without a royal bankroll isn't important. 1522 – The Victoria, under the command of Juan Sebastián Elcano, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition and the first ship to circumnavigate the world. Four ships and the fleet's commander are lost on the voyage, but does anyone recall the captain who actually completed the mission and led his vessel home? Is there an Elcano space probe? No, history remembers Magellan, and others. 1620 – According to the Julian Calendar still in use in Britain, the Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. If this was the day Columbus started his trip, and what was left of Magellan's armada finished their trip, this must be a good day for sailing. 1847 – Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden Pond and moves in with Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family in Concord, Massachusetts. If you've found that moving out of society and living the simple life off the land is too stressful, then move in with a friend and live off of them. 1901 – Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Interesting how easily the titles "unemployed" and "anarchist" go together. Almost as if people who have responsibilities providing for a family or building and maintaining a community can't be bothered to orchestrate the overthrow of society. 1937 – Birth of Sergio Aragonés, Spanish-Mexican author and illustrator. World's fastest cartoonist. His pictures in the margins of the pages were often the best part of Mad Magazine. 1939 – World War II: South Africa declares war on Nazi Germany. This must be because of South Africa's Commonwealth relationship with Britain. Or is South African claiming some sort of moral high ground? 1958 – Birth of Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter. If you know Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a redneck. 1968 – Swaziland becomes independent from Britain. But much of their international mail is delivered to Switzerland. 1991 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Nice of them to do that while there was still technically a Soviet Union. Now who was it that had been keeping the Baltic States from being independent for the last half century? 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924. Will this town please make up its mind? Most cities never change their names. And those that do change their names will usually go at least a century before changing again.

With a pen in a sore hand, I can imagine young Diane finding the old copy of Robert's Rules in the school library and writing down the plan for how she and Lucy and their friends would deal with boys. Resolved, the bylaws for the Girls Association of the D E Shive Memorial Junior High School shall be as follows: 1. Boys are Gross 1a. Unless we find a boy we like, in which case 2. Boys are Gross 2a. Except for the boys we like 2b. Unless a boy we like annoys us, in which case 3. Boys are Gross

Remote controls really should be clear about which appliances they operate. And "Universal" remotes need to be explicit about which appliances they are operating right now.

It doesn't matter how much effort you put into prevention and education. People are, unfortunately, people.

Lucy had a high opinion of Diane and, for several years, behaved in ways that she thought would gain Diane's approval. Now Lucy discovers that Diane was not unconcerned about the opinions of others, she was simply unaware. Furthermore, now that Diane is aware of what others have said about her, she is concerned about their opinions. Diane's tough exterior turned out to be a thin veneer that can be chipped away. And what Lucy is seeing under that veneer is not the stuff of legend.

Eventually, this crew will get out of the Moperville high schools. Eventually... Maybe... Probably before the Milky Way collides with Andromeda. And when they do get out of high school, they will need to continue their education...

02 September 44 BC – Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Pharaoh Ptolemy XV Caesarion. Following the death of his mother, Caesarion would be the last Pharaoh and reign for eleven days. If history forgets this young monarch, it is mostly because eleven days is not enough time to have your tomb built to the standards of traditional Egyptian opulence. 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10,000 buildings, including Old St Paul's Cathedral. Is it possible that incinerating what is flammable and filthy will leave everything that survives in a better condition? 1752 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar. This was actually a two year process for the Empire. In Britain, 1751 officially began on Lady Day, 25 March, and then ended on 31 December for a year of 282 days. This was to change New Year's Day in Britain to 01 January. Then in 1752, Wednesday 02 September was followed by Thursday 14 September, a 355 day year. This was to make the dates in Britain match those used by their neighbors. And those of us in the United States today are grateful that they didn't wait until the 1770s or later to do this, because Americans would have stubbornly held on to the Old Style calendar just like we hold on to the pre-Metric measurements Britain dropped not too long after they decided those darn colonists weren't worth fighting to keep. 1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. So let that be a lesson to everyone who would side with Britain against Napoleon. Your British Allies may not give you enough help to defeat the Corsican Conqueror. But they will destroy everything you have to keep you from surrendering anything to Bonaparte's Brigades. 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner. Later decades would see this day celebrated in the German Empire as Sedantag, which does not involve small children chasing each other in four door automobiles. 1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair. Historians, for some reason, seem to think this was Roosevelt's philosophy towards diplomacy. It was actually practical advice on how to navigate the unruly crowds of the fair. 1939 – World War II: Following the start of the invasion of Poland the previous day, the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed by Nazi Germany. Neither Danzig nor Gdańsk would be free for a very long time. 1945 – World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. That should be the end of fighting in Asia for a while... 1945 – Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. I have a bad feeling about this... Also 02 September is National Blueberry Popsicle Day in the United States, as if we needed an excuse.

Depending upon the level of angst, training may not be necessary. And she has already been training in stealth techniques that managed to fool drunk college kids and a megalomaniac aberration. If the recent comics can be believed, she is already developing the skills of hiding in plain sight without even trying.

01 September 1529 – The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by natives. Let me see if I understand this. The Conquistadores had cannon, muskets, the entire European history of fortification and castle building, AND they put the place in the care of the Holy Spirit. Then with all that, they still lost the fort? 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England. No. Don't. Please don't. This will not work out well. 1715 – King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years, which is the longest of any major European monarch. Granted, he did become King when he was four years old. The current best contender to dethrone the king of longest enthroned king is Britain's Elizabeth II who, if she is still reigning, will overtake Monsieur XIV on 27 May 2024 (at age 98 years, 36 days). I know Britain and France are not technically at war right now, but "My monarch lived longer than your monarch" seems like a classic ego battle. 1804 – Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. Where is the Millennium Falcon? Asteroids do not concern me. 1831 – The high honor of Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic. So a Pope named Gregory creates an award named for another Pope named Gregory that can be awarded to any notable person of the Pope's choosing. This would coincidently get the name of Pope Gregory into the papers several times along side the name of the person being honored. 1875 – Birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Despite what the stories suggest, he was not subsequently abandoned in the African Rain Forest to be raised by Apes. 1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd. The Baltic port would undergo more name changes this century. I don't think any of them involve Istanbul or Constantinople. 1914 – Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, a female, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo. At one time people said they were so numerous that the migrating flocks could block out the Sun like an eclipse. 1920 – The Fountain of Time opens on The Midway Plaisance as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent. Because when I think of Anglo-American relations, I think of Chicago. 1922 – Birth of Yvonne De Carlo. Despite what the stories may suggest, the Wife of Moses was not the daughter of Count Dracula. 1939 – Too much happened this day. General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army. A legend tells that the General was worried the US Congress would promote him to Marshal Marshall. The Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross is also instituted on this date. Careful. Rearming those forces was not exactly legal per the terms of Versailles. New medals might draw more attention to yourself. Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. This is not the behavior civilized people expect from an enlightened and benevolent ruler. There will be serious complaints. Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or national emergency). A new American Chief of Staff and some new German Medals hardly seem to constitute an emergency for the Swiss. Was there something else going on? Oh. Oh, yes. This... 1939 – Nazi Germany invades Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. The results are... complicated. 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published. Spoiler Alert: An old man goes fishing in the sea. I preferred the Monsterpiece Theatre Adaptation, The Old Man and the C. 1958 – In the middle of the Cold War, Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars. Did no one in Iceland read Hemmingway? 1974 – The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of 1 hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h). 44 years later, it still takes over six hours to fly commercial from JFK to Heathrow.

September

An Angst Induced Awakening perhaps?

I know garlic bread gives a boost to some aspect of myself. Although I am not at all certain that it is my power level.

31 August AD 12 – Birth of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. Son of General Germanicus and Maternal Grandson of Octavius Augustus. Also known as, Caligula. He is such a sweet and innocent little boy. 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims. This is why you need to fill out the proper forms. Mr The Ripper may have had any number of other victims. But because he didn't update his blog with the identities of the targets and details of their demise, today we really don't know Jack. 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. And no, he was not working for Goodyear. 1879 – Birth of Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel (born Alma Margaretha Maria Schindler), Austrian-American composer and author. So much could be said, but Tom Lehrer put it best when he was discussing her 1964 obituary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEsdfX-Lek 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, an early movie viewer. Is sitting in a dirty chair on a sticky floor in a crowded, noisy, and freezing theatre really such an improvement over one person at a time watching a silent film? 1907 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet. The Russians and the British are in agreement about Persia? Shouldn't the Persians have some say in this matter? Or is being partitioned by 20th Century Empires some sort of karmic justice on the distant descendants of the Ancient Persian Empire? 1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK, now WWJ, in Detroit. Media manipulation of the "news" had only been able to reach those who could both read and buy a newspaper regularly. Now the target audience is expanded to those who only need to listen and buy a radio once. 1935 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts. US President Franklin Roosevelt does not veto the legislation, but spends a lot of time figuring ways around the details. 1939 – The Gleiwitz radio station in Nazi Germany, near the border of Poland, is viciously attacked. Some historians seem to think that agents acting on behalf of the highest authorities in Berlin attacked the radio station while pretending to be in the Polish military. But why would Germany want other countries and their own citizens to think Poland had attacked them? 1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent. Well, sort of independent. True, they are no longer controlled by the Dutch, French, Spanish, or British colonial powers. But Trinidad is still stuck with Tobago and Tobago can't get rid of Trinidad. 1997 – The opinion of the general public towards paparazzi reaches an all time low when Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris attempting to evade aggressive photographers. This does nothing to dissuade the practice. Sales of newspapers and magazines with candid pictures of the Princess skyrocket. 2016 – Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to be elected President of Brazil, is impeached and removed from office. Thus becoming the first democratically elected female head of state to be removed from office by impeachment any where in the world. Some body had to be first...

I remember the contest between Quisp and Quake cereals in commercials produced by Jay Ward. I remember thinking I was missing out on something because I never saw the commercial where their race ended. I remember when the Saturday Morning staple Superfriends changed its name to the "Super Powers Team" and by coincidence, all the characters on this version of the show were available as action figures under the Super Powers Team label. This included several characters that never were in any mainstream DC comic. I remember the Honeycomb Hideout. I remember He-Man and She-Ra having adventures with the same core group of allies and enemies four out of five episodes. But at least once a week there was a rarely seen hero and/or villain so central to the plot, you had to add that action figure to the collection. I remember McDonaldland characters. Are these representative of the alternating half-hour and half-minute commercials to which you were referring?

Stop making the payments and you will get an entirely different type of correspondence.

Do unto others before they can do unto you?

This reminds me. Last year when my neighborhood was evacuated for Darth Irma, I went to a Middle School about ten miles from my home. The school was not designated a "Pet Friendly" shelter, but a lot of people brought their pets anyway. A few small classrooms wound up stacked to the ceiling with portable kennels and pet carriers. Was it right or wrong to put these pets into those cramped conditions? Aside from the pet problem, and the fact that the shelter did not provide cots as you often see on TV, the school wound up being a well run shelter. I have only complements for the Red Cross, the Manatee School District, The Manatee Sheriff's Department, The National Guard, FEMA, and the Volunteers, mostly organized by the Red Cross and the School.

Or it could be symbolic. It is quite possible to be all alone in a crowd. Obviously the guidance counselor who hands out class schedules to new students. http://egscomics.com/comic/2007-06-12 I don't think any of the other faculty or staff in that school would provoke an awkweird or worse reaction in Diane right now. Well... maybe one instructor

So all we need to do is Consume a handful of highly toxic chemicals and Run a fever equivalent to about one fifth the temperature of the Sun's surface Then we could have blue skin and/or hair? Do we have some one working on this?

29 August 1009 – Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration. Hopefully the structure is still under warrantee. 1475 – The Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between the kingdoms of France and England. You really need to buy the program to follow the French and English fighting. 1521 – The Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade). What will the Ottoman Empire do for an encore? 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia. Ok, that is quite an encore. 1541 – The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom. So the Ottomans kill the last Hungarian King of the Jagiellonian dynasty, but wait fifteen years to capture the kingdom's capital? 1728 – The city of Nuuk in Greenland is founded as the fort of Godt-Haab by the Ottoman Turks (oops, got into a bit of a habit there). Royal Governor Claus Paarss. 1898 – The Goodyear tire company is founded. If only there was some big, slow moving, flying billboard to announce this to the world... 1991 – Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union suspends all activities of the Soviet Communist Party. Any more "official" Soviet activity at this point is just to use up the Soviet forms and stationary in the Kremlin. 2005 – Hurricane Katrina makes its second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h) near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana. Devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage. Lesson? When the government says "Evacuate", leave before the high winds and flooding start. Your situation will not be better if you wait for someone to rescue you afterward. And unless you're in the New Orleans Saints, you do not want to spend that much time in the Superdome.

28 August 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna. Is the Empire really Roman if neither the Eastern nor Western components are using Rome as the Capital City? 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continentl United States. Today, the city is a tourist destination as the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States, and America's source for Datil Peppers. 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay. He has a few more places to visit before he starts naming Rivers and Bays for himself. 1833 – King William IV gives Royal Assent to the Slavery Abolition Act 1833, abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire, with exceptions. Slavery remained legal in areas controlled by the East India Company for another decade, until the passage of the Indian Slavery Act, 1843. And of course, this had no effect on slaves in the troublesome colonies that had declared their independence 57 years earlier. 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published. Yes, there was a time when you could be both American and Scientific. 1849 – After a month-long siege, Venice, which had declared itself independent as the Republic of San Marco, surrenders to Austria. Apparently they were never able to link up with the Republic of San Polo. 1859 – The beginning of the Carrington event, the strongest geomagnetic storm on record to strike the Earth, is noted with increased sunspot and aurora activity. Electrical telegraph service is widely disrupted as the event reaches its peak in early September. The 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Ton Gorilla at the center of the Solar System is flinging stuff at us. 1867 – The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll. It remains a largely forgotten island until paired with Tora, Tora, Tora as a double feature on cable. 1898 – Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola". So that's it? No Brad Challenge? No Brad Generation? 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House. The courts would eventually decide that the White House is primarily a place of Federal Business and thus pickets and other protests can take place outside, just like any other Federal office. So a protest on 28 August was successful? This could set a precedent... 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement... 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator... 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech... 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins... 1968 – Rioting takes place in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention, triggering a brutal police crackdown. Thus the 28 August Protests did continue on all sides of the political spectrum, with a mixed bag of success for the protesting parties and their targets. 1993 – The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon. Just as the human Galileo was the first to discover moons around another planet, Not to worry. It's not like Astronomers are going to change the definition of what it is to be a moon. 2003 – In "one of the most complicated and bizarre crimes in the annals of the FBI", Brian Wells dies after becoming involved in a complex plot involving a bank robbery, a scavenger hunt, and a homemade explosive device. The ability to multitask is valuable ability in legitimate employment and parenting. Not so much a part of recreational activities. And it should be avoided when committing major felonies.

So it isn't actually blue It just looks blue?