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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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Beware the Ides of March
Today is the 15th day of the 3rd month and the 74th day of 2016:
- Buzzards Day
- Dumbstruck Day
- Everything You Think is Wrong Day
- Ides of March
- International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
- International Day Against Police Brutality
- International Eat an Animal for PETA Day
- National Agriculture Day
- National Brutus Day
- National Peanut Lovers Day
- National Pears Helene Day
- National Shoe The World Day
- True Confessions Day
- World Consumer Rights Day
- World Social Work Day
In 44 BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. In 1985 the very first internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com) -- and that company has been bought out and trying the site will take you to http://xf.com/ , who has this to say about their history:
"The Original Domain Name
xf.com Investments owns Symbolics.com, the world’s first registered domain name dating back to March 15, 1985. Every day, crowds of curious web surfers visit this historic domain name. The current iteration of Symbolics.com is not what it originally looked like, nor is what the name will display in the near future."
You can still view the original site via the Wayback Machine archives
Yesterday marked a couple of sad anniversaries for me, times of irrevocable choices. It has been two months since I had Kula put to sleep, and I still miss him. I reproach myself over every time I remember that I was too busy to cuddle him, and wonder if I made the right call. I think I did, but it is still hard to accept that I chose without any idea of how he felt about it, and I am convinced he knew what was going to happen on that last trip to the vet…. It has been three years since my mother’s passing. We knew that she was going to die, she had started refusing all sustenance when she learned that she would lose her private room and have to start sharing living quarters as her funds had run out and Medicare took over in two months. I guess that Margaret [the wife of her cousin who had the power of attorney] could’ve put her on IVs and kept her going for a bit longer, but we said our good-byes and let her go feeling [and hoping] that we understood how she felt and what she wanted.
Sometimes an irrevocable choice is a burden that you must assume, and then live with the consequences for the rest of your days….
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