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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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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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TGIF - the 1st of 2019
Today is the 6th day of the 1st week, the 4th day of the 1st month, the 4th day of 2019, and:
- Dimpled Chad Day
- Free Flower Basket Day
- I Am A Mentor Day
- Independence Day – Myanmar [formerly known as Burma] from the United Kingdom in 1948.
- National Spaghetti Day
- National Trivia Day
- Pop Music Chart Day -- in 1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
- The eleventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas. (Western Christianity)
- Tom Thumb Day
- World Braille Day
- World Hypnotism Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1847 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller.
1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1863 - 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1865 – The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.
1885 - Dr William Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy in America on Mary Gartside, aged 22
1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
1912 - Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center
1935 - Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"
1954 - Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1958 – Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.
1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1959 – Gypsy opened and closed on Broadway after 120 performances and four previews
1963 - Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1970 - Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1984 - "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
1989 - Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
2000 - The first British women to walk across Antarctica to the South Pole arrive safely, more than two months after starting their record-breaking journey.
2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2010 - Dubai opened the world's tallest skyscraper, the 2,717-foot gleaming glass-and-metal tower Burj Khalifa.
2016 - Colombo's Gemology Institute certifies world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015
Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not any fun as you juggle needs and wants, and then deal with what I call “dagnabit moments”. Those are the moments when you get stubborn and point out to the uncaring universe and hard-hearted society that you have worked HARD and want some fun and some stuff and ….. Well you get the idea. It usually happens around this time of year when one is faced with the bills generated by the holiday, when the skies are gray and all the fun seems leached out of the world leaving only dull and boring things like responsibility and duty behind. I usually start vacation planning and gazing wistfully at cruises and other journeys far afield to more exotic [and warner] climes. Or I see things – clothing maybe so I can change my style and feel dressy or go for a new cosplay outfit, or a new car because mine is 14 years old now, or a VR rig because I think my computer can handle it -- and my inner self is like OOOOOOOO SHINY!. Or I get all ambitious about what I am going to do online: there are new games to explore or maybe I’ll buy a region in InWorldz or rent more space in Second Life. Desperately I try and tell myself that these are not just wants, I need to have a break from the workaday world. I need some glitter, some excitement….
Ah January! You are just so…. mundane!
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