Everyone’s born right handed — only the truly great overcome it…

YOU take the first sip. I’ll watch…

A woman who lived her life as a pack rat was so good at hoarding her dead body remained hidden in her home four months after she died.

The woman’s husband, Bill James, claims he had no idea his wife Billie Jean’s corpse was under a ceiling-high pile of junk in their Las Vegas home.

Area cops scoured the house and even used dogs that were deployed to find bodies at Ground Zero, but never found Billie Jean’s body.

It wasn’t until this week that Bill James noticed his 67-year-old wife’s feet sticking out from under a pile that the search came to an end.

Imagine the smell. No wait! Don’t…

On this day in 1864, Union Army General William Tecumseh Sherman lays siege to Atlanta, Georgia, a critical Confederate hub, shelling civilians and cutting off supply lines. The Confederates retreated, destroying the city’s munitions as they went. On November 15 of that year, Sherman’s troops burned much of the city before continuing their march through the South. Sherman’s Atlanta campaign was one of the most decisive victories of the Civil War.

William Sherman, born May 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio, attended West Point and served in the army before becoming a banker and then president of a military school in Louisiana. When the Civil War broke out in 1861 after 11 Southern slave states seceded from the Union, Sherman joined the Union Army and eventually commanded large numbers of troops, under General Ulysses S. Grant, at the battles of Shiloh (1862), Vicksburg (1863) and Chattanooga (1863). In the spring of 1864, Sherman became supreme commander of the armies in the West and was ordered by Grant to take the city of Atlanta, then a key military supply center and railroad hub for the Confederates.

Sherman’s Atlanta campaign began on May 4, 1864, and in the first few months his troops engaged in several fierce battles with Confederate soldiers on the outskirts of the city, including the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, which the Union forces lost. However, on September 1, Sherman’s men successfully captured Atlanta and continued to defend it through mid-November against Confederate forces led by John Hood. Before he set off on his famous March to the Sea on November 15, Sherman ordered that Atlanta’s military resources, including munitions factories, clothing mills and railway yards, be burned. The fire got out of control and left Atlanta in ruins.

Wow. Between the start of WWII and the fall of Atlanta, 9/1 is a pretty big day in history…

Did you know that already?

With the soothing trickle of a water fountain serving as background noise inside its four seasons patio, tables of four can engage in quiet conversation, or as one customer did this week, crack open a novel while leisurely polishing off a panini.

It’s exactly what owners Jenelle and Michael Glime envisioned in 2001 when they opened their quaint European-inspired café just off Algoma’s lakefront. Two years later, they moved to a renovated 1891 Italianate-style brick building, the unique aesthetic affording them an opportunity to showcase one of Northeastern Wisconsin’s hidden summer hotspots.

“The main goal was to have something different, something healthier with a Mediterranean focus,” Michael Glime said of his wife’s initial vision for a local coffeehouse. “Nothing is fried here. It’s a lot of homemade creations, be it our quiches, Italian crepes, signature sandwiches or gelato. We’re always looking for the best product.”

Nice to see Mike and Jenelle getting some of the recognition they deserve. Just had breakfast there yesterday — the Quiche Lorraine is to die for and everything on the menu is almost as delicious. Do stop by when you’re in Algoma…

Great infographic of some time and energy saving tips…

You’re at a café with the woman in your life when your eyes move inexorably toward another woman walking by.

In one-fifth of a second, before the conscious mind has had a chance to react, the male brain has rendered judgment on whether the oncoming stranger is sexually hot.

If the ruling is favourable, physical manifestations are immediate.

Pupils dilate, heart rate spikes, testosterone surges and the eyes assume a vacant stare — sure signs that the “man trance” has set in.

For genetically preprogrammed men, the offence is as involuntary and natural as breathing, says brain researcher, neuropsychiatrist and author Louann Brizendine, whose book, The Male Brain, mounts a unique defence for such male indiscretions.

Hmmm. What say you?