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Today is the 5th day of the 4th week, the 25th day of the 1st month, the 25th day of 2018, and:
- A Room of One's Own Day – one of the advantages of being an only child is that I didn’t have to share a bedroom with any siblings….
- Clashing Clothes Day
- Fluoride Day
- Macintosh Computer Day
- National Irish Coffee Day
- Opposite Day
- Robert Burns Day
- Women's Healthy Weight Day
- Thank Your Mentor Day
On this day in ...
1858 – The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia, and becomes a popular wedding processional.
1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1909 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra debuts at the Dresden State Opera.
1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1994 – The spacecraft Clementine by BMDO and NASA is launched.
1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 50 secs of light-travel time from Earth
It just recently occurred to me, as I was driving along and noticed the mileage on my 2005 Mercury Milan had hit 108000 miles, that I probably should be prepared to get a new car sometime soon. I found that a rather intimidating thought as I have only actually bought one other car in my entire life. The first was back when I was in the second year of college and it was the first car that I ever owned – a very old, well used VW bug, red and a convertible that set me back about $200 and was purchased from a fellow student. That would be about $1,360 in today’s dollars, so it was a significant investment for a kid trying to save up for college.. Back then there wasn’t much in the way of inspections, so the fact that the floor had just about rusted out around the gas and brake pedals wasn’t a big concern, the mechanic who looked it over for me just welded a plate over the spot for $50 and we called it a day. I got it in the spring and drove it all summer with the top down whenever I could – I was working at Fort Holabird that year and there wasn’t any bus service to there so I had to have wheels since I couldn’t use the Comet she had because she was working too. Looking back, it was a rattletrap and indeed, it broke down on the way to pick up the much new VW Bug that my father got for me because he was worried when he came in for Thanksgiving. After that? My husbands bought the cars since they seemed to care more than I did about the way they looked. It wasn’t until after Frank died, almost 37 years later that I found myself choosing my own wheels, but I went to the same dealership [which closed years ago] and salesman [long retired] that Frank had always gone to.
Meh – this car has been VERY reliable through the years…. with any kind of luck I won’t have to worry about car shopping for some time. Wonder if a ritual blessing would help?
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