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Carol H Tucker

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yup, it's Monday

Today is the 2nd day of the 47th week, the 20th day of the 11th month, the 324th day of 2017, and: 
  • Africa Industrialization Day
  • Beautiful Day
  • Future Teachers of American Day – I belonged to this club all through school because I was going to be a teacher and never knew it had its own holiday
  • Globally Organized Hug a Runner Day [aka GOHARD] – yeah, they engineered that name just to come up with a “cute” set of initials
  • Name Your PC Day – my PC is always called beladona, because that is who I am online.  Ah the days when you had to have a user name that was exactly eight letters in lower case
  • National Absurdity Day
  • National Peanut Butter Fudge Day – hands down my very favorite kind of fudge!  OC, NJ used to have several shops that made this – there was one that would do a layer of peanut butter fudge with a layer of chocolate on the bottom that was just heavenly
  • Transgender Day of Remembrance – there is a sad list of those lost to bigotry
  • Universal Children's Day – hmmpf!  My parents always told me that every day was children’s day, which is why we didn’t get a holiday like mothers and fathers
On this day:

1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. The ship sank, and the surviving crew were reduced to cannibalism before they were rescued.  First Mate Owen Chase returned to Nantucket on 11 June 1821 and four months later completed an account of the disaster, the Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex;  the cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson, became a captain in the Merchant Service and later wrote another account of the sinking, titled The Loss of the Ship "Essex" Sunk by a Whale and the Ordeal of the Crew in Open Boats.  Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.

1942 - US Army Corps of Engineers cut the ribbon on the 2451 km long Alcan Highway, running from Dawson Creek, BC, through the Yukon and on to Fairbanks, Alaska.  It is still pretty much the only way to drive from the lower 48 to Alaska.

1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child [AKA the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child] is adopted by the United Nations.  The document listed five things that "... The child that is hungry must be fed, the child that is sick must be nursed, the child that is backward must be helped, the delinquent child must be reclaimed, and the orphan and the waif must be sheltered and succoured....."

1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.  I'm still not 100% certain this was a good thing.  OTOH, it was definitely a monopoly -- bear in mind, we only had land lines at this time.  OTOH, the transition was both lengthy and painful and many prices for services went up dramatically.

1976 - Gordon Lightfoot's single, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, telling the story of the shipwreck of an ore carrier during a gale on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, peaks at #2 on the Billboard pop char

1980 – Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.  The resulting whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges [nine resurfaced later], many trees and 65 acres (26 ha) of the surrounding terrain.  No human lives were lost -- 55 miners were able to evacuate, the crew of the drilling rig got off in time and a local fisherman was  able to motor away from the maelstorm -- but three dogs were reported killed.

1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.  It seemed so unwieldy at first to those of us accustomed to DOS, but the mouse becoming more common equipment made a big differnce



Quote of the day
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"Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think."

~  Nixon Waterman (1859 - 1944) newspaper writer, poet and Chautauqua lecturer



So it is Monday.  I am lucky that I have a job to come to and can work at a salary that enables me to be fairly comfortable.  And it is a short week because I have off Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving, a luxury that many folks do not have.  Oh I would like to retire, and to travel more, but at least I don’t need a net income of $190,000 a year to pay a driver, a chef, and a housekeeper.  I guess my “happiness number” would be a gross reitred income of about  $200K a year to permit me to live the life that I would like to become accustomed to….

 

 

 

47 Mondays down, only five more to go for the year!
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