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Our Daily Thread 10-16-13

Good Morning!

On this day in 1829, in Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.

In 1869 a hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.

In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY. 😦  We all know how that’s turned out.

In 1923 Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.

In 1941 the Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.

And in 1987 rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The little girl had been trapped for 58 hours.

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Quote of the Day

“Thought is a strenuous art – few practice it, and then only at rare times.”

David Ben-Gurion

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Today is the day Albert Franz Doppler was born.

It’s also Jan Dismas Zelenka’s too.

And it’s John Mayer’s as well.

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Feel free to ask your own QoD.

Here’s mine. Anyone know what kinda bug this is?

liz 028

36 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-16-13”

  4. Good morning all. I am up bright and early. Another long day ahead. Sweet husband is painting the new house. He thought he was just going to put white paint over other white paint, but I campaigned for a color. He wasn’t thrilled but hasn’t said a word—just painted. He takes Lulu to the dog park in hopes of finding another big dog for her to romp and play with. It wears her out, then they go paint. I had heard about men like him, but I never had experienced one in my own life. My dad could and did fix things around the house, but his hands were so big it often involved blood and curse words, then there was the stop for the cigarette, and a little grumbling before he got back to it. There has been no blood and no curse words. Amazing! One thing I did take away from dating a builder is that I am better at “cutting in” the paint around the ceiling, baseboards, and other trim work than I had remembered.

    Time to wrap up my second cup of coffee and finish getting dressed.

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  6. In talking with a young women, probably in her early twenties, this morning at the Y, I realized that she didn’t know what the “Iron Curtain” was and that the Soviet Union had been an adversary.
    I’m slowly beginning to realize the reason we’re in the mess we’re in. Nobody knows where we came from and that we were once a free country. I wonder how much they can take before they realize that we can’t let government control every part of our lives.
    By then it may be too late.

    The discussion came up because we were both talking with a guy who had left East Germany for W. Germany in 1951 and came to the USA in 1953. She asked, “What’s East Germany?” That question started a discussion.

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  7. Donna, when you ‘re writing a story, be sure you cover all the important details.
    There’s an article in the Times-News that says the Smokey Mountain Nat’l Park will be open for five days. It goes on to tell how NC and Tenn. are providing money to operate the park for five days during the tourist season.
    Nowhere in the article does it mention which five days.
    :-(
    It’s an AP story.

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  9. Thank you NancyJill!

    I like your answer much better than KBells’. 😯

    We spotted it while at the park. I was curious because I’d never seen one before. But I’m gonna tell my daughter it’s a South American death bug first, just to hear her squeal. 🙂

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  10. Great news, Drivesguy. And is that your pretty Marine? She’s the best looking one I’ve ever seen!

    I’m home and trying to remember normal life. No phone for 10 days means I missed a couple important phone calls — like 10 people coming to dinner on Saturday night!

    Body clock, of course, is totally off. 5 hours of sleep after 28 up. So I woke up at 5:30. I go back to work today, would you want me there? 🙂

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  11. I have done my good deed for the day. I heard the sound of a back up beeper outside a bit ago. I looked out to see a flatbed truck delivering wood to a neighbors. As he was backing out of the too narrow for his truck road, he nailed my neighbors retaining wall. And then he didn’t even get out and look at what he hit, he just drove around to the back of the other house to deliver. I went out and checked the wall and he did quite a number on it.

    It really annoyed me that he just left and didn’t let anyone know what he did. It’s gonna cost quite a bit to fix, and why should my neighbor be stuck with the bill? So I called the fuzz. 🙂 They came talked to me, then went and talked to the driver who said he only tapped it and didn’t think he did much damage. I pointed out that he couldn’t know what he did because he never got out and looked.

    At least now my neighbor has an incident report and he will have the insurance info from the trucking company included. I don’t like when people bust up other peoples stuff and then flee. Someone hit my car at the store recently and it didn’t do much damage, but it annoyed me that they would just hit and run. I decided I would spare my neighbor that same feeling. It’s not cool.

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  13. AJ, I can relate.

    The lawn maintenance people from next door mow around a runoff containment area just above where I park my truck at work. The containment “pond” which is usually empty is filled with fist size rocks. Since they mowed with the discharge chute pointing outward, the mower picked up a rock with the blade and chucked it into the side of my freshly washed and waxed truck. It made quite a dent.

    Now you know it makes a heck of a bang when you catch a rock with your mower. And you know it had to make another band when that rock hit my truck. But did those fellows say a thing to me? Nope. Not a word.

    I discovered it one evening when I was walking back to my truck from the pizza store. I thought at first that someone had hit it with a car door. But the little nubbly indentations had chalky residue in them. I thought for several minutes where I’d parked recently, and realized the ONLY place I could have gotten hit by a rock would have been at work. The next morning I found the rock in the parking lot next to the retaining wall I park next to. It fit the indentations perfectly. I then noticed that there were several other smaller dents from the fragments of the rock that separated when it got hit by the mower blade.

    When confronting the Latin gentlemen who mowed the lot next door, they of course “no habla ingles”, and acted like they had not clue what I was talking about.

    And of course their employer does nothing.

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  16. AJ, that’s good you reported it.

    My last seven years in Chicago, I lived on the left side of a one-way street, and I made sure always to park on the left side. That was in case my car got hit, they wouldn’t get the driver’s door! Indeed, each of my Toyotas (I owned two while I lived there, a Tercel and a Corolla) got hit on the right side once, neither time reported. The damage to the Tercel was quite considerable; it was drivable, but not a good-looking car after that.

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  19. So michelle, 10 people just randomly called you while you were abroad and left voice mails saying that they’re coming for dinner Saturday night? 😉

    I need coffee this morning. Have to get in a tad early to catch a call from one of the county supervisor’s offices for a story that’s running tomorrow.

    Chas, good point about pertinent details in stories. 🙂 Sometimes we mess up the simplest stuff — ‘idiot’ moments. I put the wrong mayor’s name in a story recently and was banging my head on my desk (figuratively) when it was pointed out by one of the commenters. I knew perfectly well which mayor I meant, but still put in his predecessor’s name. Arrrgh. At least fixing those things online (and thus for posterity, as it were) is easy, but it all still requires a formal correction to be written for the print edition.

    Amazing someone hasn’t heard of the iron curtain, but then again … It’s been a while ago now. I suspect some of our history text books aren’t the best, either.

    So it’s now a countdown in Washington ’til midnight for some kind of agreement? What a mess. I’m not even following all the melodrama anymore at this point. 😦 Sigh.

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  21. Good morning Michelle. Cindi has fully recovered and keeping this old sailor in line. The new position would require a lot of travel during the week, but I told Cindi, I would just take her with me. She can take in the sights or visit our relatives around the country

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  22. Which is exactly what I did while my husband was on a business trip to the UK last week! I visited our young missionary friend in Edinburgh (she returned to Sicily on Friday), had a lunch meeting with the Oswald Chambers Association guy in Glasgow (tons of fun! And a good connection), took the train for a fantastic day in Oxford while my husband worked west of London. He went on to Ottawa last night while I came home to go back to work, but he declared it the best working trip yet since he had me to take out to dinner every night.

    The Paris end was all my research at the western front and since it corresponded to a holiday and he was going on to work in Canada, everything except the flight from London to Paris and one night’s hotel stay was a business expense. THAT’s why I went!

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  23. Church dinner; they didn’t have enough houses to host the dinner and I said if someone else arranged it, one group could meet at our house. I’d just forgotten I had volunteered . . . all I have to do is cook the ham.

    When I realized flying home how busy my life is going to be the next month, I went through all my photos and organized picture blogs I’ll be posting. Craziness. As usual.

    FYI, Tuesday’s blog got a lot of hits: The Nudist Colony Field Trip http://wp.me/p3HcoH-1gF

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  24. One last thing from me and I’m off. Black humor from a friend:

    The American Medical Association has weighed in on Obama’s new health care package.

    The Allergists were in favor of scratching it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves.

    The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the Administration had a lot of nerve.

    Meanwhile, Obstetricians felt certain everyone was laboring under a misconception, while the Ophthalmologists considered the idea shortsighted.

    Pathologists yelled, “Over my dead body!” while the Pediatricians said, “Oh, grow up!”

    The Psychiatrists thought the whole idea was madness, while the Radiologists could see right through it.

    Surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing and the Internists claimed it would indeed be a bitter pill to swallow.

    The Plastic Surgeons opined that this proposal would “put a whole new face on the matter”.

    The Podiatrists thought it was a step forward, but the Urologists were peed off at the whole idea.

    Anesthesiologists thought the whole idea was a gas, and those lofty Cardiologists didn’t have the heart to say no.

    In the end, the Proctologists won out, leaving the entire decision up to the @#$&%#@% in Washington .

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  26. Drives, I’m curious about your interview and “General Physics.” Did you mean you’d be teaching general physics or were you referring to a company called that? I ask because the company I work for was called that up until last year when the name was changed to GP Strategies.

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  31. Hey Guys. I got the Position with GP. To answer your question, Linda, I will be teaching Variable Speed, Variable Frequency and Motion applications with Drives. It will involve some physics but mainly it will involve Vector Algebra for Motion and Electrical Power Equations.

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  32. If only….

    I’d be a very busy man. 🙂

    Chas,

    I am the great and powerful blog administrator. I can do many things, and can edit any post at any time. But with great power comes great responsibility. So I am a benevolent administrator. For now. 😯

    But as you can see, I’m not all powerful, otherwise there would be a maniacal laugh feature for occasions like this. 😦

    Seriously though, I edit my own stuff, turns out I make a lot of spelling errors, (Yes, this was an edit, cool right?) but I try not to touch other peoples unless asked. In this case, I knew Michelle would want me too.

    And a face palm smiley. I’d have one of them too………

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  34. Michelle, that is priceless. This fiasco needs more humor. What a precious trip.

    This was almost a prayer request, but instead is a praise. I came home to no internet yesterday, found out that everyone else had it, so my problem. I rebooted, nope, checked all the connections, nope. Finally installed another router, nope, tried another router, nope (friends had given me some to bring back), okay, let’s add wireless to that router – viola I am on again!! So happy and pleased. I was about to carry my computer to school and use the wireless there, but that wouldn’t solve the problem. I even had to switch around power cords, since one didn’t work.

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  36. Now I found out that several others also lost dsl yesterday. But God had provided me with the extra parts to be able to set up something new. Blessed
    Looks like no one but Chas has posted since I went to school this morning. hmmm…

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