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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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Inaugeration eve....

Today is the 5th day of the 3rd week, the 19th day of the 1st month, the 19th day of 2017 [with 339 shopping days until Christmas], and: 
  • Artist as Outlaw Day
  • Brew a Potion Day
  • Get to Know Your Customer Day
  • Good Memory Day
  • National Popcorn Day
  • New Friends Day
  • Robert E. Lee Day [AKA Lee’s Birthday and Confederate Heroes Day (Texas)] –  he was born on this day in 1807 and the 3rd Thursday in January is a state holiday in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Florida   
  • Tenderness Toward Existence Day -- Galway Kinnell of all poems and the text of all loves
  • Thank Your Mentor Day
  • Theophany / Epiphany (Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy)
  • Tin Can Day
  • Women's Healthy Weight Day
  • World Day of Migrants and Refugees
ON THIS DAY:  In 379 Emperor Gratian elevated Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gave him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.  In 1607 San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.  In 1685 Robert de La Salle misses Mississippi and landed in Matagorda Bay, Texas  In 1788 the second group of ships of the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay.  IN 1829 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy was performed for the first time.  In 1853 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore was performed for the first time in Rome.  IN 1883 the first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began service at Roselle, New Jersey.  In 1915 Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.  In 1920 the United States Senate voted against joining the League of Nations.  In 1937 Howard Hughes set a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.  In 1940 You Nazty Spy!, the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premiered, starring The Three Stooges with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone".  In 1953 almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.  In 1978 the last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany left VW's plant in Emden [Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003].  In 1983 the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, was announced.  In 1986 the first IBM PC computer virus was released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain -- it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.  In 2006 an unmanned NASA spacecraft blasted off on a 3 billion-mile journey to Pluto. 



I do not live in DC and I do not think of myself as a District resident.  I moved down here from the Baltimore area because the last four employers were a tremendous commute from where I was living in Randallstown.  Now I live in a NW suburb of DC [White Oak] and work in another NW suburb [Kensington], so I don’t have to drive downtown on a daily basis.  On days like today as the city hunkers down for the inauguration celebrations and/or demonstrations, I realize just how disruptive this can be for everyone in the area.   There has definitely been an influx of old rich white men with big limos sporting tans and coifed hair and their trophy wives – something of a 1% cliché that I have to admit I didn’t expect to see with this “populist” President.   I guess I was picturing something more like Andrew Jackson’s inauguration…..




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