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Carol H Tucker
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3JAN2017
Today is the 3rd day of the 1st week, the 3rd day of the 1st month, the 3rd day of 2017, and:
- Drinking Straw Day
- Festival of Sleep Day
- Humiliation Day
- J.R.R. Tolkien Day
- National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
- National Drinking Straw Day
- National Write to Congress Day
- Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
- Women Rock! Day
- The tenth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
ON THIS DAY: In 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. In 1870 construction of the Brooklyn Bridge began. In 1888 the James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, was used for the first time -- it was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time. In 1892 JRR Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa. In 1910 "Happiness and contentment are found from one end of Canada to the other" - headline in London Times (page 5). In 1913 an Atlantic coast storm set the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental US. In 1938 the March of Dimes was established by President Franklin D Roosevelt. In 1957 the Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch. In 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro. In 1977 Apple Computer was incorporated. In 1999 the Mars Polar Lander was launched. In 2000 the last new daily "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles Schulz ran in 2,600 newspapers. In 2004 NASA's Mars rover, Spirit, touched down on the red planet. In 2009 the first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I don’t because I learned the ephemeral nature of such oaths at a pretty early age. Instead, I started doing an introspective look back on the year, summarizing events, looking inward to see what changes in me the changes in life had wrought. Last year at this time, when I was struggling with this blog, lacking a focus and a direction, having no reason to really write each day [well almost each day], and decided to try a new format [for lack of a better word]. You can go back and read about the decision here [side note – the missing photo problem strikes again]. It has worked out well, I think, on the whole.
What changes did 2016 bring? I am still pondering that one. The two biggest things for me that are easy to identify:
- This is the first full year that I was without a romantic interest in either RL or my 2nd Life [AKA an LDR – long distance relationship] and I am ambivalent about the differences between being alone and being lonely [is it a Freudian slip that I just wrote “looney”?]
- This is the first time that a political campaign made me afraid. In the past I have been angry, I have been annoyed, I have been disgusted, but never this deep-down worried. And no, it isn’t because HRC lost and DJT won – it is the implications of the deep divides between what I thought I knew about my country and the vitriol that was splashed about so freely.
As for 2017?
Wish me luck!
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