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Today is the 3rd day of the 14th week, the 3rd day of the 4th month, the 93rd day of 2018, and:
- American Circus Day
- Armenian Appreciation Day
- Fan Dance Day
- Find a Rainbow Day [AKA Share A Rainbow Day]
- Fish Fingers and Custard Day
- National Chocolate Mousse Day
- National Don't Go to Work Unless It's Fun Day (Author of book started holiday)
- National Film Score Day
- National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action
- Pony Express Day
- SAAM Day of Action
- Tweed Day
- Weed Out Hate: Sow the Seeds of Greatness Day
- World Party Day
On this day in ....
686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
1882 – Outlaw Jesse James was shot to death in St. Joseph, Mo., by Robert Ford, a member of his gang.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1888 – The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
1998 - The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 9,000 for the first time.
2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
Quote of the day:
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
~ E.B. White, writer
Yesterday was my birthday, and as the song goes, I’m “another year older and deeper in debt.” The national retirement age in the US [although it varies state by state] is around 63, but I think this is going to change significantly in the near future as those who do not have pensions hit retirement age. Pensions were guaranteed by your employer and after you retired the money kept coming no matter what the economy did. Now that employers have moved the market risk to the individuals by discontinuing the traditional retirement benefit in favor of the now ubiquitous 401K plan, getting a regular monthly income is just not that easy and folks are staying in the workplace. There are benefits to having to get up and get out every day, and the seniors bring a tremendous amount of innate, tacit knowledge to their respective industries that it could be a win/win scenario – as long as you have the energy and can find a job.
Sometimes I look in the mirror and I don’t see myself as an old woman – the brown eyes that stare out back at me look pretty much the same as they always have. And sometimes I obsess about the changes in my complexion and the hair loss, and wonder if anyone will ever find me sexy and alluring every again. Sometimes I think that I look an awful lot like my mother, and depending on the day I am or am not perturbed by that. I think of how incredibly OLD my grandmothers seemed to me and how as I was growing older they seemed to stay exactly the same as though they were timeless and I realize just how OLD I must look to my granddaughters. And I wink at myself in the mirror because I guess it doesn’t really matter how many candles I have on the cake as long as I get to add another one…..
See you all along the journey!
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