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Today is the 3rd day of the 1st week, the 2nd day of the 1st month, the 3rd day of 2018 [with 356 shopping days until Christmas, just in case you were wondering[, and:
55 MPH Speed Limit Day – Nixon signed a bill lowering the maximum US speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo in 1974
Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
National Buffet Day
National Cream Puff Day
National Motivation and Inspiration Day
National Personal Trainer Awareness Day
National Run It Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day
national Science Fiction Day
Pet Travel and Safety Day
Swiss Cheese Day
The ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
On this day in...
366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire.
1492 - The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.
1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France. No not THAT Vulcan and no Mr. Spock, but is a small hypothetical planet that was proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun to explain irregularities in Mercury's orbit
1900 - Emile Berliner starts manufacturing 7, single-sided gramophone records at a plant in Montréal; took out a Canadian patent on his invention in 1897; manufacturing 10discs in 1901, 12in 1903; double-sided records in 1908; plant taken over by the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1924.
1929 - The United States and Canada reached agreement on joint action to preserve Niagara Falls.
1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
Quote of the day:
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
~ e.e. Cummings (1894 - 1962), American poet
For those of us lucky enough to have off on federal holidays, today is the first day back to work in 2018. The holidays are over, although I still have decorations up – undecorating takes longer than decorating and always leaves the place looking a little empty. I have taken down the wreath from my door since someone saw fit to dismember it, and I have put away the Christmas presents so I have made a start at rejoining the workaday world and letting the holidays go – meanwhile I will enjoy the 12 days of Christmas as we work up to the Feast of the Epiphany
As far as 2018 goes, “dream” was the word that I chose for this year, although I have been told that I am doing it wrong because it is supposed to be a motivational word for THIS year, not something I liked in the past. I’m sticking with it – I need to be reminded that there is more to life than work [especially as I drudge through the EOY reports and reconciliations], chores [seriously, why does laundry just keep piling up? And then you have to FOLD the stuff for crying out loud], and the plethora of horrible, very bad news that keeps popping up.
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