DATEBOOK: Saturday, May 4 – Katherine Jackson (Jackson family matriarch) is 94 (in 2024) • Richard Jenkins (The Shape of Water, Six Feet Under) is 77 (in 2024) • Jackie Jackson is 73 (in 2024) • Country Singer Randy Travis is 65 (in 2024) • Mary McDonough (Erin on The Waltons) is 63 (in 2024) • Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live) is 57 (in 2024) • Will Arnett (Arrested Development, Lego Batman, Lego Masters) is 54 (in 2024) • Sports personality Erin Andrews is 46 (in 2024) • Lance Bass (‘N Sync) is 45 (in 2024) • Ruth Negga (Loving, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) is 43 (in 2024)
SPECIAL EVENTS _ Star Wars Day • Anti-Bullying Day • Kentucky Derby • Auctioneers Day • Homebrew Day • Scrapbooking Day • Bird Day • International Drone Day • Join Hands Day • International Firefighters’ Day • International Respect for Chickens Day • Kids Fitness Day • Orange Juice Day
DATEBOOK: Sunday, May 5 _ Lance Henriksen (Millennium, Aliens) is 84 (in 2024) • Michael Palin (Monty Python) (1943) • John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Raiders of the Lost Ark) is 80 (in 2024) • Former MTV News correspondent Kurt Loder is 79 (in 2024) • Newsman Brian Williams is 65 (in 2024) • Tina Yothers (Family Ties) is 51 (in 2024) • Danielle Fishel (Boy Meets World) is 43 (in 2024) • Vanessa Bryant (widow of Kobe) is 42 (in 2024) • Henry Cavill (Enola Holmes, Superman in DC films) is 41 (in 2024) • Adele is 36 (in 2024)
SPECIAL EVENTS _ Cinco de Mayo • International Midwives Day • Nail Day • Enchilada Day • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Lemonade Day • Museum Lover’s Day • National Cartoonists Day • Hoagie Day • Silence the Shame Day • Revenge of the Fifth
The internet can come up with some pretty impressive lists, and here is one of my absolute favorites. It is almost poetic in it’s simplicity.
Here’s how to uncomplicate your life:
• Missing somebody? Call.
• Wanna meet up? Invite.
• Wanna be understood? Explain.
• Have questions? Ask.
• Don’t like something? Say it.
• Like something? State it.
• Want something? Ask for it.
Told you it was pretty impressive. Now, go out and do your best to uncomplicate your life!
And from the inspirational to the downright silly ….
BAD BOSSES _ What’s your bad boss story?
• Every day I spend most of my lunch break walking at a nearby park, eating a sandwich as I try to get in my 10,000 steps. One day my boss asked if, once a week, I’d take a small potted plant he keeps on his desk with me to the park once or twice a week.
• Once a month my hotshot boss takes his small staff our for drinks after work. Every few months he claims he has to leave early and looks to me to pick up the tab. When I ask him to be reimbursed he says there’s no budget for social events!
• On at least two occasions when my boss has left the office before me, he’s ‘borrowed’ my umbrella to stay dry in the rain — and never brought the umbrella back to me.
• We have an honor system beverage fridge in our break room. Take a juice or soda out, put a buck in the can. At least once a day my boss asks me to get him a soda — but never offers to pay me back the dollar I paid for it.
I’ll bet we all have a bad boss story. I would tell you mine, but the boss reads this blog, and I really want to remain gainfully employed.
