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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beladona Memorial 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...
Today is the 3rd day of the 30th week, the 26th day of the 7th month, the 208th day of 2016 [with only 151 shopping days until Christmas], and:
Aunt and Uncles Day ((now that is something I will never be -- I am an only child and can’t even be an “honorary” aunt since my closest friends are childless))
Independence Day: Liberia from the American Colonization Society in 1847 and Maldives from the United Kingdom in 1965.
National All Or Nothing Day
National Bagelfest Day
National Coffee Milkshake Day
One Voice Day
Finding positive news that isn’t about war or disaster in the list of things that happened on this day is difficult. As always, I post the earliest item no matter what it is.
In 657, in the Battle of Siffin, troops led by Ali ibn Abu Talib clash with those led by Muawiyah I. In 1745 the first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Post Office Department which later becomes the United States Post Office Department. In 1803 the Surrey Iron Railway, thought to be the world's first public railway, opens in south London, United Kingdom. In 1963 Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral [now Kennedy Space Center] on a Delta B booster. In 1971 Apollo 15 was launched on a manned mission to the moon. In 1977 the National Assembly of Quebec voted for the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.
It is said that bad things always come in threes, and this morning I completed the trifecta.
The first issue is the ongoing problems with the CPU – last night the Alienware Support team once again did a full clean install of the Nvidea drivers for my computer. It would appear that the last clean install didn’t remove all the bits and pieces of the drivers and the tech used a program called the Revo Uninstaller Pro to make sure that every last lingering smudge of presence was detected and deleted before reinstalling the drivers. We’ll see if that fixes the issue.
While cuddling Panda last night I noted there were three tiny splotches of bare skin showing on her ear, the one right above the healing bare spot on her forehead. I immediately rubbed the lotion on them and washed my hands. There isn’t any more that I can do to the apartment in the way of cleaning up, although I guess I could take another full day to wipe everything down and vacuum the apartment again…. Panda is scheduled for the second shampoo and dip on Thursday and I have a doctor’s appointment to make sure that I have not become a source of reinfection for her
And this morning, while making my bed I go to the side closest to the window and heat/air conditioning unit and… squish. Now this is not a feeling or sound that you expect to encounter while making your bed in your carpeted bedroom, so it gets my attention and I investigate further. Yup, the entire carpet is sopping wet! Last year there was an issue with my unit leaking into the apartment below, it took six tries and visits to my bedroom, but they supposedly fixed the problem. Apparently they did not and this year I am getting the water. I blot up as much water as I can with a towel, turn the A/C up so the unit stops running, then call maintenance – let’s see how long this goes before it is resolved.
There you go, three problems that are dragging on without a point of resolution and bugging me on a very personal level. Why am I going on about them? Well you see, although these are not within the realm of my control, they are still in the area of my influence -- I can at least make a stab at addressing them and maybe even impacting the outcome.
Such is not the case with the issues of the day that bedevil the world. As last night wore on, I will admit that I had to actively fight the impulses to [1] comment on and engage in debate about how the establishment deliberately worked against Bernie [the comments saying that we should all just grow up or go away really tested my resolve], or to [2] watch the speeches at the DNC last night and join the running Tweet stream, or to [3] turn on CNN to see the updates about the bombings, stabbings and shootings, drenching myself in the “WTF is going on with the world” vibes. While I am reading the news and keeping informed, I honestly do not see where doing any of those things is truly helpful. Problem is? I am not quite sure what to do about any of the public issues – thoughts and prayers, advocacy, even making contributions – none of these things that are within my power to do seem to have much impact at the moment on the ultimate outcome. Like too many folk, I feel both powerless and disenfranchised, and while I will indeed go to the polls to do my duty, I realize I have become that person known as a “depressed voter”
Me? I’ll just take it one day at a time for the moment, okay?
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