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the 1st workday of 2018
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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