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1st Thursday in 2018

Today is the 5th day of the 1st week, the 4th day of the 1st month, the 4th day of 2018, and: 
  • Dimpled Chad Day – thank the state of Florida for teaching the US the importance of a dimpled or hanging chad in presidential elections
  • Free Flower Basket Day
  • I Am A Mentor Day
  • Independence Day: Myanmar from the United Kingdom in 1948.[or Burma as it used to be known as]
  • National Spaghetti Day
  • National Trivia Day
  • Pop Music Chart Day
  • Tom Thumb Day
  • World Braille Day
  • World Hypnotism Day
  • The eleventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
Quote of the day:

   “Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”

~ Tony Robbins [AKA Anthony J. Mahavoric], American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach



On this day in…


1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.

1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.

1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company shoots the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.

1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.

1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson outlined the goals of his ''Great Society'' in his State of the Union address.

1974 - President Richard Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

1993 - Deep Space 9 premiered on USA TV.

2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 40 secs of light-travel time from Earth

 

My five year old computer, the infamous Alienware X51 I have talked about before, is once again having graphic card problems – this time the most troubling symptom is that when I boot up, WINDOWS doesn’t recognize the graphics card.  So far I can work around it but it is only a matter of time before it dies – and this time Dell/Alienware did not offer to extend the warranty for another year.   Given the amount of care and attention they have given me and the number of repairs and replacements they have spent over the years, I certainly cannot blame them.  I have my eye on a replacement, being carefully mindful about the power voltage  – but I think I’ll wait until this machine dies before going to the expense.  Hopefully the machine will still be available!  And, in other news, now even non-weather weenies on the East Coast know what a “bomb cyclone” is    Today was the first real taste of unpleasant weather hereabouts – the Fed opened two hours late and many school systems closed for the day as the huge storm brushed our area and the winds started howling, pulling icy air in.   Wind chills are in the single digits even in the middle of the day! 

 

 

 

But it is still Christmas, so sing your songs and keep your lights lit!  
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