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Carol H Tucker
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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...
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yup, it's Monday
Today is the 2nd day of the 32nd week, the 8th day of the 8th month, the 221st day of 2016, and: - Assistance Dog Day
- Happiness Happens Day – brought to you courtesy of the Secret Society of Happy People [SOHP, founded in 1998], supporting people who want to share their happiness. Their mottos include “Happiness Happens” and “Don’t Even Think of Raining on My Parade”.
- International Cat Day
- National Dollar Day -- Congress established the US monetary system in 1786
- National Frozen Custard Day
- National Zucchini Day {AKA Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day]
- Odie Day [Garfield’s pal]
- The Date to Create
- Victory Day -- the 2nd Monday in August used to be a federal holiday in the US from 1948 until 1975, celebrating the end of WWII in the Pacific.
In 870 King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald sign the Treaty of Meerssen, partitioning the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions -- what would become Germany and France. In 1576 the cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory was laid on the island of Hven. In 1709 Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrated the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the king of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal. In 1876 Thomas Edison patented his mimeograph. In 1908 Wilbur Wright made his first pulic flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. In 1929 the German airship Graf Zeppelin began a round-the-world flight. In 1963 in England, a gang of 15 train robbers steal £2.6 million in bank notes [known as the Great Train Robbery]. In 1969, at a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photo that becomes the cover of the Beatles album Abbey Road. In 1974 US President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announced his resignation effective noon the next day. In 2000 the Confederate submarine HL Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
Apparently SOHP thinks there is a problem with folks not wanting to hear about other folk’s good news. Seems a bit silly to me – why wouldn’t you want to learn about good things happening? Jealousy? Envy? Just general nay-saying? An extension of the old saw “misery loves company” to mean that unless “I” am happy then no one could be? I don’t know, I always took happy things that happen to someone else as a hopeful sign that good things can happen just as unexpectedly as bad ones
After all, even Mondays have a positive side, neh?
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