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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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 hump day, the 13th day of the 4th month and the 104th day of 2016:
National Bookmobile Day
National Peach Cobbler Day
School Librarians' Day
Scrabble Day – Alfred Mosher Buttswent created the game in 1948. Originally it was called Lexiko and then Criss-Cross Words
Thomas Jefferson Day ((his birthday))
Undiagnosed Children's Awareness Day
In 1111 Henry V was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. In 1204 Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire -- the territories were divided into competing Byzantine Greek and Latin realms until 1261. In 1970 Apollo 13 was crippled when a tank containing liquid oxygen burst [and no, before you go there, I checked and it was a Monday, not Friday the 13th] – I was surprised to find out that no one actually said “Houston, we have a problem”. And in 2016 @NASAVoyager is 18 hrs 35 mins 12 secs of light-travel time from Earth (2016:104:120000:1L)
Sometimes dates just make me pause – the year 1111 and that Apollo 13 had their crisis on the 13th both got me to thinking about dates this morning. The next year’s date that will look like that will be 02.22.2222, a date that I will not live to see since I would be 272 years old at that point. In fact, I have been having some odd reflections of late as I read about projects that are starting and will not be completed until 2035 and I have to face my own mortality because life will go on without me. This is one reason why people opt for cryogenics and get frozen – they have a hunger to see what the future looks like, an itch that can only be solved by actually trying to go there.
If you could travel in time, would you go backwards or forwards? As much as I would love history, I think I would go take a look at what will be rather than what was….
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