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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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seasonal angst
Today is the 4th day of the 9th week, the 26th day of the 2nd month, the 57th day of 2020, and:
- Ash Wednesday
- Carnival Day
- For Pete's Sake Day
- Inconvenience Yourself Day
- Levi Strauss Day
- National Personal Chef Day
- National Pistachio Day
- Pink Shirt Day - stand against bullying in schools, workplaces, homes, and online.
- Tell a Fairy Tale Day
- Thermos Bottle Day
- The first day of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith) (Please note that this observance is only locked into this date the Gregorian calendar on this date if Bahá'í Naw-Rúz takes place on March 21, which it doesn't in all years)
ON THIS DAY IN ....
1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of New Guinea.
1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun
1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency
1907 - US Congress raised their own salaries to $7,500
1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
1916 - Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1917 - the first jazz records recorded - "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" and "Livery Stable Blues" by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1930 - the first red and green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 - Ferdinand Porsche introduces the "Volkswagen"
1952 - PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
1960 - Vera Miles stars in the famous "Mirror Image" episode of the classic CBS television series "The Twilight Zone"
1966 – Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1971 – U.N. Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks
1987 - the first release of Beatles compact discs
1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H
1987 - USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
2012 - 84th Academy Awards: "The Artist" wins five Oscars and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927,
2013 - A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed
I am not a fan of spring, never have been. Or more correctly, I am not a big fan of that space of time between the Valentine’s Day and Easter, which seems to incorporate a lot of what is traditionally thought of as spring. Far from seeing it as a time of renewal, for me it is a time of doldrums and depression, of the cone of silence descending, of broken connections and riven relationships. I have never been quite certain why this is or what triggers it, I just hunker down and live through it, hoping that those who love me will still be around afterwards. It kicked in last week this year.
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Maybe it is the allergies that kick in.
Maybe it is my birthday.
Maybe it is the dregs of winter.
Maybe I just don’t like the harbinger of humid heat.
But after the 70th spring, I don’t think I’m likely to change my mind anytime soon….
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