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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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The third Monday in April
Today is the 18th day of the 4th month and the 109th day of 2016 with only 250 shopping days until Christmas. It is Monday and: - Adult Autism Awareness Day
- Boston Marathon Day
- Income Tax Pay Day [for those of us in the US – this year anyway, usually it is the 15th]
- International Amateur Radio Day
- National Animal Crackers Day
- National Columnists' Day
- National Golf Day
- National Lineman Appreciation Day
- National Velociraptor Awareness Day -- are you prepared? ((and you thought the only thing you had to worry about was the pollen count!))
- Newspaper Columnists Day
- Patriots' Day
- Pet Owners Independence Day
- World Heritage Day
On this day: In 796 King Æthelred I of Northumbria was murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicated 27 days later. In 1930 the BBC reported there was no news, then played out the day with piano music. In 1946 the League of Nations went out of business. In 1955: Albert Einstein died at the age of 76. In 1980 the Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) is founded.
My Facebook timeline has been full of vacation news from the past two years. Last year I was just getting home from a great stay with my friends in Las Cruses NM – it was the first time I got to see the desert in the spring. In 2014, I was getting ready to go on my very first Disney cruise with my daughter and grandson, bookended with visits to the parks. And now this year I am officially in countdown mode because in just 12 days I am headed to WDW with my daughter and her family and it too will be a series of firsts – first time in the parks with a baby and a toddler, first time staying at a deluxe Vacation Club resort.. What makes this a bit odd to me is that until these past couple of years, I never went on a vacation until later in the year. When the kids were in school, we would head out in the heat of the summer – usually in August. When it was just Frank and I, we would go in the fall. After he died, I usually would take time off in December around the anniversary of his death. Looking back on it, I really wonder how I managed to make it all the way through the year without this break, relying just on long weekends here and there and the occasional bout with sickness to give me a respite from work. Of course, this works only as long as I can use my leave for vacation, that is one reason I have been careful to husband my PTO – I’m afraid that I will get sick and need to have the time for recovery.
so I have an extra incentive to stay healthy, neh?
Meanwhile….
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