Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
The Temple of Apollo at Daphne was destroyed by a mysterious fire today (362). Also, Juan de Montoro founded the city of Aguascalientes as a postal service rest stop between Zacatecas and Mexico City (1575), the Ladoga Canal was completed (1730), the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was chartered (1746), André-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump (1797), Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas (1836), 207 miners died in an explosion at Scotland’s Blantyre Colliery (1877), Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (1879), New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House opened (1883), a run on Knickerbocker Trust Company stock began a panic that would trigger a nationwide economic depression (1907), Toastmasters International was founded (1924), FBI agents shot and killed bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd (1934), President John Kennedy gave an Oval Office television address to reveal the Cuban Missile Crisis and his planned embargo (1962), Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded and declined the Nobel Prize for Literature (1964), The Supremes A’Go Go became the album by an all-female group to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, on the same day the Soviet Union launched Luna 12 (1966), the Soviet probe Venera 9 landed on Venus (1975), the Food and Drug Administration banned Red Dye #4 (1976), the Federal Labor Relations Authority voted to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1981), Tropical Storm Alpha formed in the Atlantic Basin, marking the first time the National Weather Service exceeded their list of named storms (2005), voters in Panama approved a project to expand the Panama Canal (2006), and India launched the Chandrayaan-1 lunar probe (2008). And the Australian Capital Territory passed the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act, the first jurisdiction in Australia to do so (2013).
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Yesterday on Campus
Morning Feature – The Squirrel with Sweet Home, Alabama State House
Midday Matinee – Tuesday’s Tale: Mutiny in the Bounty
Campus Question – Are Republicans losing the political battle over Ebola?
Today on Campus
Morning Feature – The Squirrel with 5 Reasons to Visit TPM Today
Midday Matinee – Linda Lee with I Was a Community Organizer
Campus Question at 6pm ET
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Good morning! It’s currently a cloudy 43 degrees, with a high expected to be around 50. Yesterday was mostly wet and cold, although not as cold as Monday was. We started the morning off with brush removal, and now have a pretty clear field of vision to our boat launch. I’m debating having a “spring fling” bonfire next year to get rid of it, since there’s a pretty sizable pile of brush out in the back area these days. After that, I decided to pull the last boat out. Given the weather report for the rest of the week (miserable) and our looming deadline to be out of the field, I decided it wasn’t worth it to leave it in for another few days.
Which is when the adventure started. After we winched it on to the trailer, we started towards our HQ. I heard an awful set of noises start about 25 yards out, and flagged my assistant to stop. An examination showed … we had a flat tire on the trailer, and it was falling off. We managed to get the boat & trailer up to our garage, where a couple of hours was spent getting it jacked up, removing the wheel, putting the tire on (again), running into town to inflate it, then reinstalling it. Not what we planned, and fortunately, it did reinflate. Then a few more hours spent cleaning out the boat. One of the points I constantly harp on to my staff is “clean out the boat!” Unfortunately, it’s yet another thing that they don’t listen to. Unbelievable amounts of junk in there, random screws/nails in the bottom, and so on. Then hosing out several years worth of dirt. So I ended the day being wetter and colder than the weather might indicate. However, said boat is now clean, and next spring’s rant will be “and it will be kept that way!” On today’s agenda is getting the boat off the trailer, tipped on its side, and cabled up for the winter. Then remove and store all the “boat supplies” we keep down at the launch, and maybe raise the dam some more.
Morning humor: Ever wonder what something non-tech would sound like if it were made like a tech announcment? Wonder no more, Introducing Carrot!
Introducing Carrot is a fun watch. 🙂 Thanks.
As for the boat being kept that way, good luck with that.
Introducing Carrot was simply darling. 🙂 Enjoyed it very much.
Sounds like a lot of work with the boat, and apparently Murphy was there to help. I’m with Linda, though. Good luck keeping it that way. 😉
Good Morning. Good canvassing time late yesterday afternoon. A “neighborhood watch” person stopped me. Once we established who I was and what I was doing it was okay. I had brief thoughts about George Zimmerman and was pretty aware of my whiteness. Not scary but I think had I been a person of color it might have been different.
This will seem an odd post. The Mormons have a YouTube video up on their temple garments. It is disrespectful to call them magic underwear. That is the main point if you can’t watch the whole thing.
How about “old fashioned underwear.” 😉 I’ve never called them anything, frankly. Other people’s undergarments seldom interest me.
Although I had a friend who converted to Mormonism before she got married because she wanted a Temple wedding. She got her Temple wedding… and a hair shirt to wear for seven years to atone for the years she hadn’t been Mormon. Considering she lived in AZ, I had some uncharitable opinions about that…which I kept to myself.
To each etc.
Glad you had a good canvassing. We had a rather dull one as no one was home. And it was hot. And humid.
Here’s a fun article to read (there’s video, too, if you can hear it) of the President handling a guy who told him, “Don’t touch my girlfriend.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/21/obama-jealous-boyfriend_n_6020756.html?ir=Politics
The President handles it very well. I’m sure if I were the young lady I’d be dumping the guy post haste.
Hugggs and good morning.
I’d guess that the young man might get a some comments from his friends.