The On This Day In History MMP

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1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Amhed II.

1825 Congress approves Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears.”

1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues General War Order No. 1, setting in motion the Union armies.

1900 Foreign diplomats in Peking fear revolt and demand that the Imperial Government discipline the Boxer Rebels.

1905 Russian General Kuropatkin takes the offensive in Manchuria. The Japanese under General Oyama suffer heavy casualties.

1916 President Woodrow Wilson opens preparedness program.

1918 Communists attempt to seize power in Finland.

1924 Lenin’s body is laid in a marble tomb on Red Square near the Kremlin.

1935 A League of Nations majority favors depriving Japan of mandates.

1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves the sale of U.S. war planes to France.

1941 The United States and Great Britain begin high-level military talks in Washington.

1943 The first U.S. raids on the Reich blast Wilhelmshaven base and Emden.

1959 NASA selects 110 candidates for the first U.S. space flight.

1965 Military leaders oust the civilian government of Tran Van Huong in Saigon.

1967 Three astronauts are killed in a flash fire that engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft.

1973 A cease fire in Vietnam is called as the Paris peace accords are signed by the United States and North Vietnam.

1978 The State Supreme Court rules that Nazis can display the Swastika in a march in Skokie, Illinois.

1985 Pope John Paul says mass to one million in Venezuela.

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 59 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 64 and sunny. It rained a lot from about sixish last night through the night. Nice sleepin’ weather!

Rosie I feel smarter just from readin’ your posts this week. :smiley:

shortdrum appropriate/inappropriate appendages crossed re the job. Skool is stressful. Least it always was for me. I made good grades and such but still much more stressful than irk. You’ll make it! After all you got Mumpers on your side!

Taters a haunted mansion! Tres :cool:

I have decided I’m goin’ to take a little time off this afternoon to go to DDS ( :eek:) and get a MVR and also go do the background check which involves goin’ by the designated place and gettin’ fingerprinted so’s a check can be run which takes three to five bidness days. No mention of a drug test but I just know there will be one. No biggie just wish I had the needed paperirk to go ahead and pee for a lab tech. I think I’ll call the potential new irkplace and ask about that. I’m all twitterpated in anticipation!

Now I shall seek out more caffiene and feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, irk purtification must commence. Ya know I am glad that current irk is flexible enough that I can take a couple hours off on Firday to do stuff.

Happy Firday Y’all!

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It sucks not being able to sleep in on your day off! Oh well, up and caffeinating.

Today will involve taking Dad to the dentist, running assorted errands, going out to lunch with Dad, making a pot of bean soup with a leftover ham bone, and happy hour at the neighborhood bar.

Tomorrow is my first day to volunteer at the Wildlife Center, and Sunday afternoon I go for Avian Feeding class. I’m really excited about this place! It will be fun.

Happy Firday!

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Well, I’m only following your lead, babe.

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congo, perhaps most professors assume (probably correctly) that quite a few students don’t actually read everything that is assigned to them.

Last night was pretty rough here. For the first time I was actually awakened because my knee was hurting so much. I’d rather it start feeling better instead of worse. :dubious:

Well, anyways, today is filled with appointments and errands.

Have a great Firday!

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That’s what I assume. Actually, it’s pretty clear that’s the case considering how many people in my chem lab didn’t have the slightest clue what was going on. I’d rather be prepared. There’s a girl in my chem class who is taking it again as a junior because she failed it as a freshman. She said that when she was a freshman she assumed that she didn’t have to go to class and do homework and stuff because college kids have more freedom. I think it’s possible a lot of them have that strange belief.

By the way, are you supposed to go for a followup on your knee?

Swampy - I don’t know how I missed it before but that’s so cool! Congrats on being headhunted. Nothing like that has ever happened to me. I’ve always felt that being headhunted is one of the signs that you’re really good at what you do.
rebo - I should have traded places with you. I slept in on my day off and shouldn’t have. I just got up. Now I have to do homework, go to the PO, go to the town hall, clean the house, go to the gym and I have 5 fewer hours to do it in than I should have.

When the heck is moooooooom getting back?

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Blurf. Since I skipped work on Monday, I have to work a full day today. And there’s a party tonight which is close to work, but since I want to get dressed up nice I’m going home and then back. That’ll kind of suck but the party should be cool.

Work is all buzz buzz because we have guests coming from China for something or other.

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Happy Anniversity, Taters!!!

If there were any Birfdays this week then Happy Birthday, Whoever!!!

Actually, my Mom’s birthday was yesterday, she’s 85 now.

We went out to dinner last night at one of the local upper crust restaurants. They’re having ‘International Thursday’ special dinners for a few weeks.
Last night was Caribbean food. We started with Pum Runch (rum punch) that contained an inordinate amount of alcohols. :eek:
Then we had appetizers of conch fritters with lime/mustard sauce. They could have stopped right there and just brought us fritters for the rest of the evening, they were so good.
But then we had a rock fish ceviche. Yum!
And then the entree was jerked chicken with highly spiced beans and rice and highly spiced broccoli. It was mavelous, dahling.
For desert was key lime squares. Shoulda been pie, but chef Martin (pronounced mar-teen) wanted to do something different. :smiley:
What was really cool was that there were about 30 people in the room and we knew at least half of them, so there was much talk and laughter. It was a good night. And, I got semi-drunk, which I never do. :smiley:

When we get wherever we’re going let me know so’s I can climb out of this handbasket.

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Thank you**, Bumba.**

It sounds like you had a great evening. The key lime squares sound good. I’m a real fan of good key lime. Spicy food not so much; it just tears me up.

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Well, crap.

My mom, the Rock of Gibraltar, got word yesterday evening that her oldest sister - in hospice, completely lost to Alzheimer’s, and unable to recognize a single soul - has slipped into a coma. She’s on comfort care only and has congestive heart failure, so this is the slide into home base.

I’m fine. I lost my emotional connection to my aunt when I was in my 30s and more and more skeletons fell out of her closet. She was a negligent, perhaps emotionally abusive mother to my cousin. She might not actually be my aunt (she might be my grandmother, but we don’t talk about that). She was a hypocrite and a two-faced coward. She was in so much denial about, well, everything, that she left an enormous mess for my mom, her other sister, and their brother to straighten out. The cousin is so messed up, she’s pretty much lost to the family.

My mom, on the other hand, has that silent, drawn look of someone who’s just taken a bullet to the abdomen. She’s holding very, very still, and occasionally, when she talks, tears start leaking from her eyes. She’s only said that she won’t be going out after the death, because there’ll only be a very small graveside service.

There’s all manner of tangled family alliances, secrets, assumptions, expectations, and unspoken rules in this, and she just doesn’t have the time, energy, or strength to deal with all of this.

All I can do stop gap stuff. I can’t fix anything. You know, I’ve accepted that large chunks of my life are never going to live up to expectations, but it pisses me right the fuck off that my mom has to deal with this kind of shit when she’s spent her whole life being brave, strong, and righteous.

(And the small part of me that has actually managed a little maturity has said, “stop complaining and figure out what you can do to make things better. ‘No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.’”)

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Damn Phouka. I’m so sorry.

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Afternoon all. I made it back from Arkansas safely last night and I are tahred today.

Whoohoo it is Friday!

Happy Taterversary!

Sorry for injured knees and school woes.

I am leaving work early and I believe I am going to go take a nap!

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I hung a door today. :waiting for all the snerks and jokes to clear: I’m now reveling in my carpentry skills, because this is the first time I’ve ever messed with hinges that weren’t pre-drilled and had the project actually work properly.

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Wow, roo, that stinks. Families can be so messy. Hugs.

I think **FCM **should be back in the next few days. It was a 2-week cruise, but I’m not sure if that was 2 calendar weeks or just 2 business weeks. Hopefully she’ll make it back in time to post to her own birthday thread.

Yay, it’s Firday!

Back later.

GT

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That sucks roo. Hope your’re mom feels better about it all soon. Family. Sometimes ya can’t live with 'em but it’s what ya get.

I got drug tested, fingerprinted and got a mvr from DDS. Believe it or not I was in and out of DDS in ten minutes! Pizza Hut made dindin. Oh and OYKW and I got haircuts. Big day. :smiley:

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The “throwing stuff I don’t need away” portion of my remodel project has begun. 7 large trash bags full. Now I’m all achy, but that may be more because I forgot my meds this morning than anything else. :smiley: <- sheepish grin

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Just came back from the gym. Some of the bikes let you race and do courses and stuff. While looking around the options, I found a game! You get different colored coins and then have to find a corresponding dragon for that coin. It’s a lot of fun!

Thawing some borscht for dindin.

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phouka, I’m so sorry. Hugs.

I went to the hospital this morning expecting a non-stress test for the babies (monitors strapped to me to make sure the babies are moving) and a blood pressure check. What I got was internal (:eek:) and external ultrasounds, blood pressure checks, and two totally failed non-stress tests because the babies won’t stop moving. So they keep getting away from the monitors.

So instead of forty minutes I spent four hours at the hospital. Grr. I would have liked to know that all that was booked before I arrived. I have to do it all again on Monday, because while my BP’s okay right now, they’re getting worried that one of the babies isn’t growing as well as she should be and might need early delivery.

If Monday’s test fails I’m going to ask my o.b. to cancel the damn stress tests- spending forty minutes being poked to find out if the babies are moving, when they can’t find out because the babies are moving, is stupid. Especially if I’m already having twice-weekly ultrasounds.

Bah.

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hehehehehehehehehehehe :D:D:D:D I’m not laughing at you, I swear. I’m laughing at them. That is so stinkin’ dumb.

I detest internal ultrasounds and I hope I never have to have one again. I can’t imagine having one with two practically full term babies in there too!