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Our Daily Thread 6-26-14

Good Morning!

On this day in 1483 Richard III usurped himself to the English throne. 

In 1844 John Tyler took Julia Gardiner as his bride, thus becoming the first U.S. President to marry while in office.

In 1917 General John “Black Jack” Pershing arrived in France with the American Expeditionary Force. 

In 1926 a memorial to the first U.S. troops in France was unveiled at St. Nazaire. 

And in 1979 Muhammad Ali, at 37 years old, announced that he was retiring as world heavyweight boxing champion.  

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Quote of the Day

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.”

Derek Jeter

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Today is Chris Isaak’s birthday.

And on this day in 1977, Elvis gave his final concert. But since I prefer his older stuff….

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Anyone have a QoD?

40 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 6-26-14”

  3. I have been awake for a while. Many things on my mind. Just a little over a week until the PA Meet Up.
    The woman who made the offer on this house, site unseen, wants to see it Sunday night at 6, The agent have requested we not be here and that they will want to stay a while. I asked if it could be any earlier. Of course it still needs to go through the home inspection. Who knows. I am finding that I really don’t like my life to be so upside down.
    On a more positive note, my class went well yesterday. I went to the monthly branch lunch with some of the agents. We went to The Jerusalem Cafe. I still do not like falafel, Fortunately there were other things on the menu that I really do like. One of the agents and I decided that falafel tastes like it could have almost been a hush puppy with just a little more seasoning. 😉

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  5. Kim, I was wondering last night how the class went. I had already closed down and was sitting on my porch watching the stars, -mostly clouds passing by. And I wondered about Kim’s class. I suspected it went ok.

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  6. Glad your meeting went well, Kim. You are a good teacher even if the students are adults. When we are in class to learn something we don’t know, in a sense we are like children using some of our brain that has not been filled before.

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  7. Blessed to know your class went well Kim…and you continue to be in my prayers..
    We sit on our porch at night too Chas…we can see the stars through the trees and the sunsets can be spectacular….but we don’t have lightening bugs…that is something I miss from growing up in Ohio…watching the lightening bugs on warm summer evenings 🙂

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  8. I just told them that a classroom of 30 third graders wasn’t as intimidating as a room with 8 adults. They took it from there…one wanted to know when snack time was, another when was lunch, another wanted to know where the potty was….these were the boys. The girls were more serious.

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  9. Sounds like a great class. They certainly got into the humor with you, that would be relaxing. Thanks for all your prayers, I am feeling better. Planning on actually leaving my home tomorrow and driving to aviation. It is only a mile or so outside our gate, but I haven’t been that far in over three months.

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  10. can’t sleep! This is crazy, my cold is slightly better, but now my rash is worse. It has rebroken out on my forehead and neck. very itchy. Can’t think of anything that I did that should cause this. I am not even washing my face, I am being so careful.
    Anyone want to talk in the middle of the night? oh, only 11:30pm

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  11. Jo, do you have any Melatonin?
    It usually works for me.
    A 3mg pill usually takes about half an hour to take effect.
    In the morning I feel a bit groggy at first, but am ok by the time I get dressed.
    It isn’t addictive.

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  15. I am finding that I really don’t like my life to be so upside down.

    I hear you. Yesterday someone came by the house at 8AM wanting to see it. He thought the house was empty. Don’t people realize a realtor sign in the yard means call the number on the sign and make arrangements? Anyway, we are hopeful since it’s his nephew who is interested, having driven by and liked it from the outside. Life while selling a house can indeed be upside down.

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  16. I can appreciate the unpleasantness of life out of control, in a sense. That is not an easy time.

    Jo, I am so sorry for your rash getting worse. I suffer from those myself and can never pin point much. Sweat does seem to be one culprit. Otherwise, it may be a combination of things, both airborne or eaten, which pushes my body beyond what it can bear. Allergies are like that. 😦 Praying it clears up fast and you feel your best again.

    Kim, I know what you mean about the difference between adults and children. The boys do sound like fun, though. The girls might have learned more, however. So funny.

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  17. Kim, it means the guys like you. Each has his way of expressing it because men have learned not to appear to like a woman in the work place. Remember this, if they didn’t like you, they wouldn’t bother with you.

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  19. Jo can’t sleep and I can’t wake up. We need to switch time zones this morning. 🙂

    Kim, good to hear about the class. And i can’t imagine having people traipsing through “your” house, knowing the upheavals ahead for you if they wind up buying it. Sounds like a good night to take in dinner and a movie I suppose, but Sunday night is usually the night to stay in and get to bed early.

    Chas, what a great picture of you sitting on your porch watching the stars. I have a nice sheltered front porch, up and out of the way, a distance from the sidewalk, but I don’t use it much. I am, however, enjoying my back patio on these early summer evenings when there’s still a bit of daylight when I get home. I head out there with my Bible and my journal. It’s very peaceful, a good way to unwind.

    There must have been a birds nest in one of my overgrown trees last week, I could hear all the babies chirping away, but couldn’t see the nest as the tree is so dense. Sadly, I found 2 (dead) on the ground over the next few days. But hopefully the others survived and managed to fly away. The tree is quiet now.

    And our cute duck couple have moved on from the fountain in front of our office building. Never saw any ducklings, maybe the nocturnal raccoons that hang out over there were too aggressive and stole the eggs?

    Did a story yesterday on another peacock that appears to have been poisoned — but he’ll survive. That makes 51 of them that have been either shot, poisoned, and otherwise killed (one with a bow an arrow) in the past 2 years with the incidents ramping up in the last 6 months. 😦 I talked to the investigator, though, who said they’re getting some good information through the public tip line & other means.

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  21. Seventeen year old had his job postponed due to rain so he stayed in and helped me process some crates of cauliflower and broccoli. I didn’t ask, that is just who they are. I love my children. Chas, that would be S.

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  23. Richard III always fascinated me – one of those characters in history that you suspect wasn’t quite as bad as they made out, although I did enjoy Shakespeare’s over-the-top villainous portrayal of him. I would read modern historians who doubted any contemporary accounts of Richard (as modern historians do with contemporary accounts of any historical events) – I wonder how they felt when Richard’s body was finally discovered, confirming the accuracy of those accounts of his physical deformity, method of death, and even, through forensic facial reconstruction, his portrait: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/04/beyond-reasonable-doubt-king-richard-iiis-remains-found-buried-beneath-england-parking-lot/

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  24. Michelle,

    I feel your pain sister. I’ve spent the last hour wrangling with my email and an Adobe pdf. Why can’t they just make it easy? I can convert it to word, but I don’t want too. I’ve highlighted it, named it, and saved it numerous times in a couple locations. But when I look for it to attach to an emai, it’s nowhere to be found. Arrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!

    Roscuro,

    I’ve wondered too if he really was as bad as he was portrayed by Shakespeare.

    If you ever get the chance to see this movie, you should. 🙂

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5-P0xHwjxiI

    And if he was that bad, under a parking lot seems fitting.

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  25. As to that autism post you directed us to yesterday, Michelle, always interested in ideas of what is happening and how to help. Little boy is doing amazingly well here. I don’t know if it is the diet or the activity or the people or the lack of certain activities (tv, computers, video games, etc) but he is much better at eye contact and empathy and things like that. Still microfocuses on surprising things but we sure enjoy him. Thanks for the post.

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  27. Michelle, what are you trying to paste? And from where? Some content online (such as Snopes and other .pdfs) are protected from copying, but once you’ve successfully copied something, you should be able to paste it into Word (I assume you know about ‘paste special’).

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  28. Michelle- You can’t paste into Word because Word is smarter than all of us and knows exactly what we want. It knows you really don’t want that text pasted there. Or you really want it in the format it gives you, and won’t let you change it to something else because it is smarter than you and knows exactly what you want, whether you know it or not.

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  29. I had to drive in the rain on the expressway coming home from the funeral. I remembered that dark sunglasses will cut the glare from roadway fog that is kicked up by trucks and can make visibility tough. I did not think they would help much, but they make a considerable difference.

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  30. I used sunglasses driving home at night after an eye exam when my eyes were so dilated .
    Cold still hanging on and the rash, but plan to actually leave the house today.

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  31. Purchaser can ONLY see the house Sunday night at 6pm. CANNOT come any earlier. She wants us gone and wants to be here a few hours.
    This is highly inconvenient for me.

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  33. We had the Lions Awards Dinner tonight. Prime rib and an interesting program. Boring for Elvera because she didn’t know the people involved. But she has learned to put up with that sort of thing. She had a nice time anyhow.

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  34. I was trying to copy and paste the England section of my novel into a fresh document, then add (by copying and pasting) the Egypt section of my novel into the same document. Even though they are written on the same computer, with the same Word program, often seconds apart, with the same formatting, by the same person (me), when I paste in Egypt, I lose all the formatting.

    It improved when I tried a different version of paste, but now all the indents are twice as deeply indented, which means I’ll still have to either manually redo, or beg my long-suffering husband to help (leaning toward the husband).

    Word 10. Of course.

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  36. I just got in from covering a meeting about how the city is hoping to make the main drag into our community beautiful and pedestrian-friendly with cute brick pavers and bike lanes and benches and public art. 🙂

    That will mean somehow transforming what’s there now — freeway-size billboards, a hideous hodgepodge of fast food and other signs, bumper-to-pumper traffic and graffiti.

    I’ll write the story tomorrow. I don’t mean to sound cynical, but this really is one of those things where I think to myself “Yeah, not in our lifetimes.”

    Some urban researcher will come across my story 50 years from now and have a good laugh.

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  37. Word just does not like us. Try putting a picture in, it will move to wherever it wants to. That’s why I do my newsletters in powerpoint and them save as a jpeg. A picture put into a powerpoint stays there until you move it.

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