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Today is the 2nd day of the 17th week, the 24th day of the 4th month, the 114th day of 2017, and: 
  • Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day – marking the day in 1915 and the arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul
  • International Sauvignon Blanc Day
  • National Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
  • National Teach Your Children to Save Day
  • New Kids on the Block Day
  • World Day for Laboratory Animals
  • World Meningitis Day
  • Yom HaShoah ends at sundown
ON THIS DAY:  In 1479 BC Thutmose III ascended to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifted to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).  In 1184 BC Troy fell (traditional date).  In 1704 the first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, was published.  In 1792 the French national anthem, "La Marseillaise," was composed by Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.  In 1800 the United States Library of Congress was established when President John Adams signed legislation to appropriate $5,000 [that would be about $93,448 in today's dollars] to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".  In 1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley was hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.  In 1895 Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, set sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".  In 1914 the Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.  In 1922 the first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, started operations.  In 1923 in Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id, which outlined Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego) by Sigmund Freud was published.  In 1928 the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the words 'qualified persons' in Section 24 of the BNA Act do not apply to women, that 'by the Common Law of England, women were under a legal incapacity to hold public office'.  In 1952 Vancouver actor Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the Gruen Guild Playhouse   In 1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1 when its parachute failed to open -- the first human to die during a space mission.  In 1962 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal.  In 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. 

Retirement is something that I think about rather often since I have now officially worked longer than any of my friends or family.  Interestingly enough, it is a rather recent phenomena and something that really wasn’t very common until our grandparents’ generation.  Certainly retirement is a feature of the industrial revolution that took work out of the home – the first known suggestion of taking care of seniors with pensions after their working life came in around 1881and nothing was done in the US until later.   I found it rather telling that the age of 65 was set for retirement because it wasn’t expected that many folks would live past that, so there was still an assumption that workers would work until  they were no longer able to do so rather than our current concept of retiring – getting out of the way of the younger workers and enjoying “golden years”. 

In my own family, the men did die early – my maternal grandfather was off work sick for only a year before dying, my paternal grandfather enjoyed a couple of years of fishing before he had a fatal heart attack, my father succumbed to lung cancer before retiring, and while my husband had retired from the Police Dept, he was working part-time when he died.    The women fared a little better.  Grandmom Riley was a stay-at-home widow who did housework until the end, so while she never actually “retired” she never had to get out and about either.  Grandmom Hughes retired from nursing and had a couple of really good years before she died.  My mother retired at 65 and enjoyed her retirement for the most part  -- she had to be very careful about her money, but she stayed very active for 15 years or so [until the dementia set in] by doing crafts, going on day trips, even taking community college courses, and teaching herself to draw.

Now my financial advisor told me a couple of years back that if I scrimped and saved [IE no trips, moved into cheaper housing, and kept expenses at a bare minimum] I could retire at 72, but he admitted I would have to continue scrimping and saving.to get by.  At that point I decided that I would keep working – but sometimes I have to remind myself that being in the office every day is a choice that I am making ….





IT's good to have a choice, neh?


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