Welcome to Fire Prevention Week; Teller Appreciation Week; and Get Organized Week, an opportunity to streamline your life, create more time, lower your stress, and increase your profit by getting organized. Thursday is National Dessert Day, so celebrate with your favorite treat. Saturday is Clergy Appreciation Day, so while you're making that special dessert, you might want to make an extra one for your pastor.
    Monday is Destiny Day, which honors the Dutch sailor Piet DeStynie, who persuaded Columbus to change the log and make it seem that October 12 was the date of the first New World landing. The real date, October 13, might have caused superstitious fear in the other sailors or in potential investors in later voyages. The change was detected by an Italian history study group named the Colombiani.
    Monday is also International Moment of Frustration Scream Day. To share any or all of our frustrations, all citizens of the world are encouraged to go outdoors at twelve hundred hours Greenwich time and scream for 30 seconds. Sponsors say we will all feel better, or Earth will go off its orbit!

WHAT'S HAPPENING?
    Wednesday's 10:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. storytimes observe Clock Month with stories about time and a make-a-clock craft. There will be no Saturday storytime this week.
    You'll all want to mark your calendars for Friday, Saturday and Sunday - the days of the Altrusa Club/Friends of the Library Annual Booksale! The event opens on Friday at 6:00, with a $2.00 admission charge for this special preview night. Members of the Friends will be admitted free. The sale continues with no admission charge on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. All proceeds from the sale go to the Friends of the Roswell Public Library to support library projects and services.

BOOK TALK
    Here are some more titles from the library's growing collection of talking books, CD ROM books, and software, provided by Librarian Larry Holm. Women who enjoyed the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series will be delighted to know that dessert has arrived! Choose from "Chocolate for a Woman's Heart"     or "Chocolate for a Woman's Soul." Also of interest are "Women of the Beat Generation," who are reading "Succulent Wild Women, "Girlfriends Talk About Men," and "When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple."
    Ready to get down to business? The library has many new business titles, including some for making wise investments. The wizard speaks in "Soros on Soros," or you can join "The $100,000 Dollar Club," do high tech investing in "Inside the Tornado," bite the markets in "Pit Bull," manage money in "Money and the Meaning of Life," invest international in "Trade War," get financially buff with "The Power of Money Dynamics," or cash in with "The Gorilla Game."
    Business leadership titles include "Synchronicity," "The Trust Factor," "Best Practices: Building Your Business with Customer Focused Solutions," "You Can Negotiate Anything," "The Art of Japanese Management," "The Power of Purpose," Wheatley's highly acclaimed "Leadership and the New Science," and Ken Blanchard's "Managing by Values."

DID YOU KNOW?
    Here are some more "totally useless facts" found on the Internet. For instance, if you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will come up heads approximately 4,950 times because the heads picture weighs more than the tails side and ends up on the bottom more often. If you multiply 111,111,111 times 111,111,111, the answer is 12,345,678,987,654,321.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: "Laughing helps. It's like jogging on the inside."

JUDY ARMSTRONG, 624-7276

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