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Today is the 2nd day of the 6th week, the 5th day of the 2nd month, the 36th day of 2018, and:
- Adlai Stevenson Day – in 1900, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the American politician and diplomat, was born.
- Disaster Day
- Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
- Move Hollywood and Broadway to Lebanon PA Day because Lebanon Pennsylvania was once the home office of the David Letterman show so the logic is that if one media icon could make Amish country home, why not the rest of Hollywood or Broadway for that matter?
- National Chocolate Fondue Day
- National Weatherperson's Day
- Shower With A Friend Day
- Western Monarch Day
- World Animal Reiki Day
- World Nutella Day
Quote of the day:
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
On this day in ...
62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.[The famous eruption was on 24 August 79]
1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public
1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found 1.2 in below the surface, near the base of a tree on a slope leading to what was then known as Bulldog Gully in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 (AKA the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. The law imposed literacy tests on immigrants, created new categories of inadmissible persons, and barred immigration from the Asia-Pacific Zone
1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
1953 - Sweet rationing ends in Britain -- the rationing of confectionery ends after 10 years, with schoolchildren first in the queue for unlimited sweets and chocolate.
1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb [a 7,600-pound Mark 15 nuclear bomb] is lost by the US Air Force during a practice exercise when an F-86 fighter plane collided with the B-47 bomber carrying the bomb. somewhere in Wassaw Sound off the shores of Tybee Island, never to be recovered. The search was complicated by natural sources of radiation originating from monazite deposits
1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
And so it is another Monday
As always, the weekend seems way to short’ this “balance of life” thing seems sadly out of kilter as I spend about half of my life physically at work – and that doesn’t count commuting and getting ready for work either. This was a quiet weekend for me, unintentionally so as I curled up yesterday with a headache and hid from the icy rain. While I define “sleep in” as getting up anytime past 5:30AM, I do seem to lose a couple hours each day I am home to napping – I wonder if I would do so if I was home all the time? I wonder if this napping as to do with the delicate shade of mauve that tinges my spirit these days? Or is it that I am burning too much energy during the day by working full days? I don’t do that much in the evenings anymore, and I am not sure whether that is because of fatigue, inertia or again, that mauve tint. I notice when I am fully engaged, my mind stays alert and I do not fade into sleepiness as quickly, so do I need more challenges? Do I want more challenges? Or could my body be fighting off the effects of illness, or because I have been dilatory about medication, or am I just overthinking all of this when you come right down to it? For busy or not, the weekends seem to flit on past and we are left awaiting the next one….
And so it is, another Monday and another work week.
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