So over the Holiday weekend all of a sudden we had a Tropical Storm form in the gulf and quickly move inland near the Texas/Mexico border. No big deal but it was named Hermine? And I’m sure like me every now and then you shake your head at these Hurricane names so it got me thinking where do they get these names? Are they the guys working at the Hurricane center using friends and girlfriends or make em up? Come to find out first they were named after Catholic saints.  Later on, the latitude-longitude positions of a storm’s formation were used as a name. That was too weird. Military meteorologists started giving female names to storms during World War II,  then they started a system of rotating, alphabetical names.  The name is then not used for 10 years, which makes historic references and insurance claims easier.  Names can be retired at by request from a nation that has been hit by the storm.

In 1979, the system was given a dose of political correctness:  male names were added to the list, as were French and Spanish names, reflecting the languages of the nations affected by hurricanes.

Today, we use six lists of 21 names (Q, U, X and Z names are not used) that it cycles through every six years, with the gender of the season’s first storm alternating year to year, and genders alternating through the rest of hurricane season.  If there are more than 21 storms in a year, as there were in 2005, the rest of the storms are named for letters in the Greek alphabet.

So who’s left after Hermine this year? Let’s hope we don’t see Igor, Julia, Karl, Lisa, Matthew, Nicole, Otto, Paula, Richard, Shary, Tomas, Virginie, and Walter.

Some much needed R&R. I’ll be back Monday, July 12th, unless of course I win a major lottery jackpot.

This Sunday, May 9th is Mothers Day. I would like to say happy Mother’s Day to all the mother’s, and the soon to be mother’s awaiting their new arrival this year.

WHAT MOMS REALLY WANT FOR MOTHER’S DAY

To have their 14 year old answer a question without rolling her eyes at you.

A fulltime cleaning person who looks like Brad Pitt.

A grocery store that doesn’t have candy, gum or cheap toys displayed at the checkout line.

Five pounds of chocolate that won’t add twenty.

For their teenager to announce, “Hey Mom! I got a full scholarship and a job all in the same day.

TOP FIVE REJECTED MOTHER’S DAY CARDS

1. You’ve stuck by me through thick and thin, so guess what mom? I’m moving back in.

2. When I started dating you made not one peep. I wish you’d have told me my husband’s a creep.

3. Dear Mom. Your cooking made me what I am today…thin.

4. When I was little you bandaged my knee, but I don’t think you can help with this E.P.T.

5. My love and devotion an ocean could fill…do you think you could put me back in your will?

Mother’s Day is this Sunday. What’s the best advise your mom ever gave you? Here’s a list from a survey done by ivillage.

1.   You aren’t getting anything done just sitting there. You’ve got to get up and go get it — a job, success, whatever — take charge and just do it.

2.   Appreciate all the blessings that you receive in life, and don’t bemoan the things you can’t have.

3.   Get an education, once you have it, no one can take it away from you.

4.   If a guy reall wants to talk to you, he’ll call.

5.   You can’t change someone who doesn’t want to change.

6.   Never count on a man being around forever.

7.   If you settle for less that’s all you’re going to get.

8.   Don’t marry the man you can live with — marry the man you can’t live without.

9.   Stay out of the sun.

Fran Lasee rolled a perfect 300 game this year in Winconsin. At 89 years old he is the oldest person to roll a perfect game. The United States Bowling Congress listed others who have accomplished the feat.

300 games, oldest bowlers…

Berry Thomas, Nashville — (87 years, 11 months)

Joe Dean, Columbus, Ohio — (87 years, 6 months)

Jim Hoeh, Bay City, Michigan — (87 years, 26 days)

Joe Norris, San Diego, CA — (86 years, 10 months)

I only hope i’m still able to throw the ball down the lane when and if I live to be 87, yet alone bowl a perfect game of 300.

Pranks, pranks and more pranks. Ha Ha Ha, it’s April fools day.

No one knows for sure why people began pulling pranks on April 1st, but we’ve been doing it for centuries. As fun as April 1st pranks can be, the preception is that it’s not celebrated as often as it once was. I have not pulled a stunt since I was a teenager. What about you?

What does Kate Winslet, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Hilary Swank and Reese Witherspoon have in common? If you said they all won a “Best Actress” award at the Oscars, you would be right. You would also be right if you said that all six stars marriages ended after they won the award.

Kate Winslet parting from director Sam Mendes after seven years of marriage. Julia Roberts parts from Benjamin Bratt, Halle Berry from Eric Bonet, Charlize Theron from Stuart Townsend, Hillary Swank from Chad Lowe and Reese Witherspoon from Ryan Phillippe.

Somebody has been keeping record and discovered that eight of the last 12 actresses that won “Best Actress” had their marriages fail following the win. Now you might think that’s just a coincidence, but the people out in Vegas make their living using odds like that.

And guess who just found out her husband has been cheating on her? Sandra Bullock, who just won “Best Actress” at this years Academy Awards.

Just when you thought you’d heard everything in the way of lawsuits listen to this one. City workers in Detroit are being told not the wear perfume, cologne, or anything that brings a scent into the work force. Signs will be placed in city buildings warning workers not to wear scented products, including colognes, aftershave lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body/face lotions, and the use of spray or solid air fresheners.

And all of this because a city employee filed a $100,000 federal lawsuit claiming a colleague’s perfume made it challenging for her to do her job.

Don’t you think she went a little overboard? What was wrong with that employee that was wearing too much perfume or cologne to just be asked to just tone it down a little?

I like working in an environment where the women smell real nice with the latest perfume and body lotion. I sure would hate to see what her place at home smells like. I bet you after three weeks or so of everyone in the office where she works coming inwith no deodorant on, she’ll quickly change her mind.

  After weak songs last week, Didi Benami and Lacey Brown performed well last night. Ellen’s funny comment after Didi’s version of “Rhiannon”’ was, “Yes indeedy, Didi.” Crystal Bowersox seems to be rollin’ along although after her performance she was so weak she had to sit down on her guitar amp to hear the judge’s critique. So who may be in trouble Paige Miles and Katelyn Epperly had very bad reviews from the judges. We’ll see how the guys do tonight.

Steve “The Saints won the Superbowl” Suter and his wife Lisa going to Saints Mass Superbowl Sunday