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Carol H Tucker
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dagnabit
Today is the 5th day of the 32nd week, the 11th day of the 8th month, the 224th day of 2016, and:
- Annual Medical Checkup Day
- Independence Day -- Chad from France in 1960
- Ingersoll Day
- National Raspberry Bombe Day
- National Raspberry Tart Day
- Play in the Sand Day
- Presidential Joke Day
- Son and Daughter Day
In 3114 BC the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations [notably the Mayans], begins. In 1929 Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1934 the first civilian prisoners arrived at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. In 1942 actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi. In 1968 the last steam-hauled train runs on British Rail. In 2015 for the first time in Major League Baseball history, all 15 home teams won their games [the prior record was 12 in 1914].
I have pondered out loud many times the onset of “dagnabit” moments. To recap, these are the times when you throw caution to the winds, when you spend more than you should , splurging because you work hard every single day and you deserve something – usually a special dinner with a gooey desert, or new clothes, or a collectable that can only be found on eBay, or a trip – dagnabit! Others can tsk tsk disapprovingly, pointing out virtuously that one should husband their resources and not splurge, but most of us have been there.
So my dagnabit moment is all about taking time off – I have the leave, things are slow at the moment and I get two short work weeks. Even though I am not going anywhere or doing anything in particular…
I do indeed deserve this!
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