Happy Birthday Linsey

At 26, Linsey is now closer to 30 than 20 and closer to 50 than birth.

She shares birthdays with: Drew Barrymore (1975), Michael Change, the tennis player (1972), Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin (1962), George Washington (1732), Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts (1857), and, probably the person she most admires in this world: Sen. Ted "Don't Call Me Chapaquitic" Kennedy (1932).

Feb. 22 is the 53rd day of the year, leaving 312 left until 2009. 

On this day...

... in 1920 in Emeryville, New York, the first dog track to use an imitation rabbit to entice the dogs opens. Men in button up, floral-patterned shirts and blue dock shoes show up soon afterward.

... in 1923, the U.S. starts its first transcontinental air mail route. People immediately begin longing for the old days, when letters traveled by land and, sure they took longer, but they meant more, didn't they.

... in 1856, the Republican Party opened its first meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Somewhere in Delaware, one of the last remaining Wig party members finally removed his white, powdery headdress in defeat.

.. in 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed a bill to make North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington states. A man in Virginia is quoted as saying, "Geez, we'll let anyone in these days, won't we."