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Carol H Tucker
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just another manic Tuesday....
Today is the 3rd day of the 6th week, the 7th day of the 2nd month, the 38th day of 2017 [with 320 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- "e" Day -- since the first 2 digits in the number "e" are 2 and 7 ((bet you didn’t know that “e” was a number!))
- African American Coaches Day
- Ballet Day
- Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Dry Bean Day
- Independence day: Grenada from the United Kingdom in 1974
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Day
- National Fettuccine Alfredo Day
- Rose Day
- Send a Card to a Friend Day
- Wave All Your Fingers at Your Neighbor Day
Quote of the day: “We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it.” ~ Diana Trilling, The Beginning of the Journey
ON THIS DAY: In 457 Leo I the Thracian became emperor of the Byzantine Empire. IN 1854 a law was approved to found the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, but lectures didn't start until October 16, 1855. In 1876 the first recorded use of the word "puck", was in a Montreal Gazette article about hockey In 1904 a fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroyed over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours. In 1940 the second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premiered. In 1964 Beatlemania arrived in the US as the Beatles arrived in New York at the start of their first tour of the United States. In 1979 Pluto moved inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. In 1984 astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). In 2000 Michael Calce, a 16-year-old Montréal hacker using the handle Mafiaboy, pulled off one of the largest denial-of-service attacks ever staged, bringing down several major commercial websites, including CNN.com, Amazon.com, eBay and Yahoo by using a bot network to gain control of millions of computers. In 2013 Mississippi officially certified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery in the US. In 2016 North Korea launched Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 into outer space.
The moon is waxing gibbous at 86% of full, so I cannot blame the lunar cycle. Ash Wednesday isn’t until March 1st so it isn’t Lent yet. Maybe I am just in the winter doldrums, the same malaise that always impacted the third quarter back when I was back in school. And as usual, I have one of those sick colds that takes my voice and makes me feel like crap; as usual, after a day of coddling myself, I am back at work, coughing and croaking. Fortunately I feel better than I sound and the weather is relatively warm, so venturing out wasn’t too burdensome even though I would rather be home. Cue the usual discussion about staying home VS going to work when you feel lousy because you don’t want to use up your limited PTO.
Time to gaze at stars since I am not at all interested in my navel and therefore I figure you all aren't either:
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