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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...
Today is the 4th day of the 18th week, the 2nd day of the 5th month, the 122nd day of 2018 [think about it – 1/3 of the year is now behind us and there only 236 shopping days left before Christmas], and:
Baby Day
Brothers and Sisters Day
Great American Grump Out
International Scurvy Awareness Day
National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day
National Day to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy
National (Deaf) Interpreter Day
National Fire Day
National Life Insurance Day
National Play Your Ukulele Day
National Truffle Day
Roberts Rule of Order Day
Take a Baby to Lunch Day
World Tuna Day
On this day in ...
1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.
1829 – After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
1863 – Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later.
1932 - Jack Benny's first radio show debuted on the NBC Blue Network. ((all he had to do was say "well" and audiences would crack up))
1941 - General Mills began shipping a new cereal called "Cheerioats" to six test markets. (The cereal was later renamed "Cheerios.")
1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.
1955 – Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1964 – First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
1969 – The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City.
1982 - The Weather Channel debuted.
1998 – The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy.
2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction.
Quote of the day:
“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Now that it appears winter has actually left and the A/C has been turned on, the annual start of Thermostat Wars is duly noted in the office with the hot house plants VS those of us who prefer a cooler environment