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Carol H Tucker

Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan

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Today is the 3rd day of the 16th week, the 17th day of the 4th month, the 107th day of 2018, and: 
  • Bat Appreciation Day
  • Blah Blah Blah Day
  • Elllis Island Family History Day
  • Herbalist Day
  • Income Tax Party Day
  • International Haiku Poetry Day
  • Malbec World Day
  • National Cheeseball Day
  • National Kickball Day
  • Nothing Like a Dame Day – so what triggered this day?  The bookAn artist?  Or the song
  • World Hemophilia Day
On this day ...

1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury

1492 – Spain and Christopher Columbus sign the Capitulations of Santa Fe for his voyage to Asia to acquire spices.

1851 - James Smith launches his square-rigged clipper ship Marco Polo at Marsh Creek, Courtenay Bay; named for its full-length figurehead of the famous Venetian traveler; built with the body of a cargo ship above the water line and the configuration of a much-faster clipper ship below; soon sets a record for the passage from Saint John to Liverpool at 15 days; 1852 The Fastest Ship in the World sets a new speed record circumnavigating the globe from Liverpool to Australia and around in only five months and 21 days

1907 - The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day

1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

1951 - Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.

1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

1964 - The Ford Motor Co. unveiled the Mustang

1970 – The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.

1973 - FedEx, then known as Federal Express, began operations.

1982 - Constitution - Queen Elizabeth II signs the Royal Proclamation of Canada's constitution in a ceremony on Parliament Hill; brings into force the Constitution Act, 1982, effective April 18; ends British authority in Canada, replaces BNA Act; incorporates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Canada remains a constitutional monarchy and member of the Commonwealth. Section 15 of the Charter, on Equality Rights, will officially come into force three years later, on April 17, 1985.

2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 500th career home run, becoming the 17th major leaguer to reach the mark.

2014 – NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

 

During the course of the day, I am on social media, sharing stories that I find interesting, making comments on others’ stories.  Does this constitute interaction?  Is this “small talk”? 

 

I’m not actually sure that it does – certainly it doesn’t help me indulge in the kind of chit-chat that lubricates social interactions between those who are acquaintances and/or strangers.  Maybe it has to do with charisma – I figured out a long time ago that I hadn’t rolled a high number in that category – but I am pretty much in awe at those who seem to maintain a casual flow of conversation.  Me?  I tend to ask questions.  If the person wants to talk, then the conversation flows, if they aren’t in the mood it quickly turns into an awkward interrogation and I eventually shut up.  Sometimes the person does talk, and then I ask more questions and I listen, although I always worry that I am hijacking their story when I counter with a story of my own.  Conversely as a person who asks questions usually, I am not terribly good at answering them.  It isn’t so much that I think they are prying as I just don’t know if what I am saying is of any real interest, if that makes sense, and I grow shy and start to be quiet.    There seems to be two exceptions to that pattern:  when I know someone very well, we just prattle on with ease, or when I am talking to complete strangers I am very good at introductions and ice-breaking.  

 

And social media – or what I call my 2nd Life [Facebook, Twitter, Linked-in, games, SL, blogging] – doesn’t seem to have changed that at all.

 



 

I need to reboot I think….


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