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Today is the 3rd day of the 2nd week, the 9th day of the 1st month, the 9th day of 2018, and:
- Balloon Ascension Day -- In 1793 Jean-Pierre Blanchard became the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
- International Choreographers Day
- Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
- National Apricot Day
- National Cassoulet Day
- National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
- National Poetry at Work Day
- National Shop for Travel Day
- National Static Electricity Day
- National Word Nerd Day
- Panama's Martyr Day -- In 1964 several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between US military and Panamanian civilians.
- Play God Day
On this day in ...
1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1886 - Walter R. Brooks, who wrote the Freddy the Pig book (and created Mister Ed) was born on this day
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1968 - The Surveyor 7 space probe made a soft landing on the moon. It was the last of America's unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.
2001 - Apple Computer Inc introduced its iTunes music management software at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.
2006 - "The Phantom of the Opera" became the longest-running show in Broadway history, surpassing "Cats," which ran for 7,485 performances.
2007 - Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple’s long-awaited entry into the cellphone world, the iPhone.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 46 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? Just start, keep going, then finish. The problem is getting going! As I have moved through life, I have found inertia to be a very potent force. It is inertia that keeps me from getting up and doing something, whether it is exercising or going to the movies, or even visiting with friends. It is inertia that keeps me from baking bread or getting on that blasted exercise machine, or clearing out the Disaster Area. It is inertia that keeps me from watching the last season of Sense8 or Sherlock or Dr Who, keeps me from catching up with Orville or Once Upon a Time, leaves blu-rays that I want to watch still in their cellophane wrapper, lets ‘to be read” the book stack grow higher, keeps me from opening and playing new games. Instead I retreat into myself, re-reading old favorites, watching old episodes of Chopped or Beat Bobby Flay, killing demons in Diablo III, or wandering about in world. It isn’t quite the same as procrastination because I am choosing to do something, just not THOSE things right now. It is akin to the feeling that has me buy a pass to Balticon, then to decide that I don’t feel like fighting the traffic and parking to get there. There is a curious freedom and I attribute it to living alone – there are no expectations of when I will do something and plans can be altered at the drop of a hat as I can decide to suit myself and whatever it is can bloody well wait. I can be as arbitrary and irascible as I want and can exercise the control to do it [whatever “it” is] when I feel like it. Maybe that is the real source of this inertia? There are so many things in my life that seem far beyond the realm of my control and the sphere of my influence that being able to make a choice out of sheer inertia feels like a positive action even if it means that today I just don’t feel like doing anything….
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