Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
Contact Me Subscribe to this blog
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 15th day of the 5th month -- May is just speeding past, neh? It is also the 136th day of 2016 and there are only 223 shopping days until Christmas. Today we celebrate:
Feast day of Isidore the Laborer [celebrated with festivals in various countries and the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid]
Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Day [I guess that is what awareness days are for, to get us to google things]
International Conscientious Objectors Day -- you don't hear much about them anymore here in the US since we got rid of the draft
International Day of Families
International MPS Awareness Day
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Safety Dose Day
National Slider Day [just a slide to the left.... oh. Not that kind of slider. Move on, nothing to see here....]
National Tuberous Sclerosis Day
Nylon Stockings Day
Peace Officers Memorial Day
Pentecost
Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day [like I remember what that was?]
Stepmother's Day -- always found this to be a little off, if your stepmother has become your mother, then you celebrated her day on Mothers' Day. If not, you aren't going to celebrate at all
Straw Hat Day -- this is a bit of odd timing since the Fashion Police decree you cannot WEAR a straw hat until after Memorial Day.... Maybe the idea is that you are out shopping so that you have it in your stash when you can wear it?
Have you been missing the Romans? They are back -- In 495 BC a newly constructed temple in honour of the god Mercury was dedicated in ancient Rome on the Circus Maximus and to spite the senate and the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius. In 221 Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaimed himself emperor of Shu Han, the successor of the Han dynasty [he lasted for less than three years]. In 1252 Pope Innocent IV authorizes [with some limits] the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. In 1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patented the world's first machine gun. In 1836 Francis Baily observed "Baily's beads" during an eclipse. In 1940 fast food enters the scene – McDonald's opened its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. In 1957, Britain tested its first H-bomb over Christmas Island. And @NASAVoyager is 18 hrs 35 mins 35 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:136:120000:1L)
CEOExpress
