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Our Daily Thread 1-19-15

Good Morning!

 And Happy MLK Day.

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On this day in 1764 John Wilkes was expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 

In 1793 King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine. 

In 1861 Georgia seceded from the Union.

1883 Thomas Edison’s first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ. 

And in 1953 sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of “I Love Lucy,” gave birth to a baby boy. 

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Quote of the Day

“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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 Today is Dolly’s birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pm1TxNiOhw0

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Anyone have a QoD?

79 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-19-15”

  6. Mornin’, Kim, and all! Interesting to read about Mobile Bay weddings. Sounds like a lot of hugging going on along with a pile of shoes looking for their mates on the sidelines of the dance floor 🙂

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  8. I feel like the Holy Spirit brings to mind God’s word when I need a response to people. It can be words from Scripture or a way to act on Scripture that would be better than what I would do on my own. I also feel convicted that I need to better take care of my body because it is God’s temple and should be reflective of the Spirit living inside of me.

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  9. Chas, Elvira might like to try a stylus with her phone. It makes it easier.

    Also, on my Smartphone, if you touch “Sym” on the keypad it brings up symbols. Then you will see a 1/2 key and when you touch that it brings up the additional symbol keypad so that I have two keypads full of symbols. Maybe your phone has something similar? That is where I have all these nice symbols:○●□■♤♡♢♧☆▪¤°

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  13. Lots of people put an “e” in Elvera’s name. Mostly from the song. A guy in our church in Virginia did it for fun. She didn’t care.
    I have all sorts of things on my smartphone. I even have emotocons. I don’t have a 1/2 nor a %.
    But I found one on my Kindle. I will try that later.

    today’s a holiday, if you didn’t know it. We went to the Y and then out for breakfast. That’s why I’m so late.

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  16. Isn’t today also the birthday of Robert E. Lee? I think I remember that some in the South resented the MLK holiday being on the third Monday, since the first year it was established it fell on January 19, like this year. Those who resented it probably were prejudiced against blacks and preferred not to have their hero’s birthday tarnished by celebrating the civil rights leader. MLK’s actual birthday is January 15, but I think the government didn’t want a Monday holiday so close to New Year’s Day.

    I also remember the Arizona governor getting in hot water. According to Wikipedia, “Former Arizona governor Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, created the holiday in Arizona by executive order just before he left office in 1986, but his Republican successor Evan Mecham, armed with an attorney general’s opinion that Babbitt’s order was illegal, rescinded it days after he took office.”

    It’s ironic to me that so many schools and universities have a holiday today but don’t take one on President’s Day, which originally was a combined celebration of Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays, when it was Lincoln who freed the African Americans from slavery.

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  19. It is ML KING holiday in Atlanta yet work is being done out on my street by someone. You would think that of all places, it would be quiet around Atlanta except for remembrance events. It must be contact work by the county. Most of our county government is run by blacks so you would think there would be requirements for contractors to observe holidays.

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  24. What Janice said. When the phone is connected to wifi in your house, for example, you’re not using up data. Is it a password problem? I think I had to get my wifi password off the router and input that to get it to connect, but you only have to do that once to set it up.

    New phones, computers & other gadgets always little hiccups until you get everything synched and running.

    And Apple is fanatical about passwords. 😦

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  25. Easter is in early April this year. I’ll have to watch NCIS-NOLA to see what they do with a Mardi Gras storyline — I’m guessing they’ll have a few.

    And while today is a federal holiday, we’re working. Disappointed because a couple friends at church — one who just retired, the other who’s a school teacher — were getting together for a hike today at 9 and asked me to come along. 😦

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  27. How can Elvera call her sister LD on wifi?
    We still use landline. Almost all of our cellphone usage is for.
    Where are you?
    I’m not coming straight home.
    The car won’t start.     –That sort of thing. Now that we can track each other, we don’t need most of that.

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  28. Worst-case scenario — If you have an Apple store nearby, Chas, I believe you can check online and see if they have any tutorial classes which I believe they offer Saturday mornings? At least they used to have that. They’re typically led by a 17-year-old with strangely-colored hair, an odd unisex name and a nose ring or two.

    Or you can just walk in and say you need help with your phone.

    I will say Apple’s customer service is excellent. But the stores are always mobbed …

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  29. Data is used when your using the phone as a computer — with apps, etc. You can download drudge and other news site apps for a quick look at headlines without turning your computer on; you can even come on here, as Janice does, and input comments via your phone.

    It’s easy to adapt to using it that way the more you play around with it. The thing I use my phone least for is … Making phone calls.

    Most of us at work now text rather than call, it’s more convenient and you know you’re not interrupting someone with a phone call.

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  30. You probably have more data banked than you need, though. And now most of the carriers are rolling over the unused data (along with minutes) month to month. I usually don’t go through mine.

    Listening to music on radio apps will eat data up, but most of us older users don’t really use our phones for that. 😉

    Oh, have you used the camera yet? That’s one of the handiest features of a smart phone.

    Handy tip: You can zoom in by using your fingers to widen the little square that shows up on the screen when you’re lining a picture up. Then you can edit (crop, brighten) and email it directly from your phone to, say, AJ. Send “full size” if you have a banner photo you’d like to submit.

    Perhaps a seasonal portrait of your pet rock?

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  31. Donna, Amazon would like for me to do all that.
    I only took two pictures with my cell phone. I likely won’t be using it as a camera.
    My December Amazon bill was $70.56
    My January Amazon bill was $212.96.
    There is no Apple store in Hendersonville.

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  33. Chas, I do not see any connection between taking photos on your camera and Amazon. Have you by mistake bought into some photo service through Amazon? Your camera should have the capacity to store a good many photos before that fills up. And you can get an extra storage card if you need more (I did that when I went to this new phone). Some people use the free Dropbox app for photo storage, too.

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  34. I was talking about the camera on your phone. Is your phone filled up with Kindle books from Amazon so there is no space for photos? If you spend that much on Amazon, could you do better signing up for Kindle unlimited?

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  37. Hmmm. My iphone bill (through AT&T) is about $80 a month. Not sure why you’d have an Amazon bill (which is connected to the phone somehow?) of $200+

    And there’s no *extra* charges for using your phone as a camera — it produces good-quality photos and is the most convenient camera you’ll ever have. You can shoot video, too, but that’s another story. 🙂

    There are even ways to order free prints — but they’re also very cheap through CVS or wherever, you just email the photo in to them and pick up the prints later — loose change is all it costs.

    My gas bill, on the other hand, was $100 last month. Because it was so cold in L.A. 😦

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  38. A couple of responses to Peter: “I think I remember that some in the South resented the MLK holiday being on the third Monday, since the first year it was established it fell on January 19, like this year. Those who resented it probably were prejudiced against blacks and preferred not to have their hero’s birthday tarnished by celebrating the civil rights leader.” Being against the federal holiday doesn’t necessarily equate to being prejudiced against blacks. It’s possible, for example, to dislike MLK as a person and not as a black person, and it’s also possible to think that he was not the single most important person in American history. (Since he’s the only person who has his own holiday.) And yes, it also is possible to think that putting a holiday on your own hero’s birthday is downplaying your hero, and one can think that without being prejudiced against blacks.

    “I also remember the Arizona governor getting in hot water. According to Wikipedia, “Former Arizona governor Governor Bruce Babbitt, a Democrat, created the holiday in Arizona by executive order just before he left office in 1986, but his Republican successor Evan Mecham, armed with an attorney general’s opinion that Babbitt’s order was illegal, rescinded it days after he took office.” Yep, I was living there and remember all of this. It was put to a vote, and citizens voted against it. The governor decided Arizonans must be bigots, and not smart enough to decide what holidays they need or don’t need. (As I recall, the biggest problem was people didn’t think it was right that Lincoln and Washington were being pushed together into one holiday while MLK got one by himself. Personally, I’d be OK with dumping Lincoln’s birthday and celebrating Washington’s–but if we celebrate just one person with his own holiday, then it should be Washington.) Mecham was right that if the people vote no, the governor is wrong to force the issue by executive order. But Mecham alienated the wrong people, and he was only in office a few months. My first-ever election was voting for Mecham, and I’m proud to have done so.

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  39. I found the % and my smartpone is now on wifi. Thanks for the suggestions everyone, You kept me at it.
    I don’t know why the bill so large either, Donna. I have lots of explanations on the bill, but I’m going to wait for the next to sort it out because I had lots of different activity during the initial process of just messing around with it. Including music, facetime, etc. This includes lots of things I will never use.

    You have been so helpful; consider this:
    I searched Columbia, SC on my map icon. Now it thinks I wants to go to Columbia. And I have Columbia, with no number on my phone directory.
    Question. How do I delete Columbia? I tried edition, but it didn’t work.
    I like the little arrow at the bottom of the map that tells where I am and orients to north.

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  41. I am still trying to figure out some things, Chas, especially regarding contacts. I am still helping my husband learn things about his phone. I don’t have an iphone. I have a GalaxyS5. My husband and son have the S4. We still have a flip phone that I charge up if we travel in case of emergency. We do not have a car charger for it and can’t get one. For those who love the older phones, I hope they keep working for you and you can get what you need to keep them functional. I was pleased with mine, but needed GPS and texting ability when son moved so far away. There are good reasons to go with a Smartphone. They sure can be agravating, especially at first when you are trying to figure them out.

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  42. When I worked at the Defense Mapping Agency (Now NGS- National Geospational Service), I had all the highest security clearances. And I knew most of the people in the security department.
    The day I retired, I went up there and turned in my badge. The lady, whom I knew well, escorted me out of the secure area. I was given a “Temporary” badge so I could go around and say good-by to all the people I knew on “the other side”, including the Technical Director. They knew I wasn’t going to steal some secret and give it to the Soviets.
    It was protocol. Nothing personal. I knew all that, but it really felt strange. Like an outsider.
    I was supposed to stay around till quitting time. But I left before rush hour. What were they going to do? Really, nobody cared what I did.

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  44. And as you all know, I have had the added burden of what I have affectionately labeled, “The Grems or Gremlins.” I don’t think most Smartphones are enhanced by that. It might have something to do with being a conservative in a Hotspot for liberalism. Then again, perhaps it is all a figment of my blessed imagination. 🙂

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  46. I Know!
    I didn’t have to work a month and a half as an “outsider”. But It wasn’t personal. It was protocol. Just don’t let it reach you Kim. Blame Protocol.

    Two new boys and two new girls???

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  54. From your token Southerner. I wish I could find a way to post this here but I will just tell you what it says. It has a photo of MLK in the background and printed over that it says:
    MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR DAY
    The only day the Left thinks we should celebrate a Christian who refused to separate his religion from the public sphere. Go figure.

    Wonder how long it will take them to remove his religion from his movement. After all African Americans had no other place to meet than the church so he had to pretend to be a minister so he could talk to the. Sarcasm off.

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  55. Thank you, Kim! No more auto correct here. If that is all it was, then from here on out I have to take credit for my mistakes. I will have to get use to capitalizing and spacing when i type I. 🙂

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  57. the new iphone actually seems better at word predictions than the previous model; i’m also getting faster at noticing, selecting or killing proposed substitute words that it wants to insert before “it” has a chance. 🙂

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  63. The header photo would seem to be a sapsucker. But I am surprised if it’s going for suet. ?? I don’t know, maybe they do. I’ve never seen one on the suet feeders, but then, I don’t know what they eat in the winter when they can’t get sap.

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  67. I had some nice tenderloin from one of our steers, some fresh lettuce and spinach from the window garden, green olives and sundried tomatoes to dress it up, and some brown rice.

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  71. I have a small steak from the store in the refrigerator. Dinner for dinna

    The dogs will get some hard-boiled egg in their kibble tonight.

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  72. Cheryl,

    Some older gentleman has been spreading suet on some of the trees at the park. He says he likes to watch them and that draws them in. I don’t mind either. When you see a tree with it on, you just wait a few minutes and something usually shows up. 🙂

    And he was eating it, I’ve got a pic to prove it. 🙂

    Today I went to target with the girls and I saw a beautiful, and HUGE hawk. I had my camera so the girls went inside and I went stalking the tree line in the field next door. I got some good ones for tomorrow.

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  73. Leftover turkey dinner at our house.

    Dinna, I always have to re-type my name when signing my emails – either misspell or miscapitalize or something – I’ve taken to just clicking the auto signature 🙂

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  76. I often leave off the l in Cheryl.

    I read the “l in Cheryl” part as “[capital i] in Cheryl” rather than “[lowercase L] in Cheryl.”

    Does that make sense? I thought, there’s no i in Cheryl. 😉

    IlIlIlIl

    See all those is and ls?

    Good night. 🙂

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  78. Brisk dog walk tonight, I realize with my new phone’s tracking my every step that I’m — cough, cough — somewhat below the # of steps I ought to be taking every day.

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  79. For our dinner iI did a stir fry of chopped celery, onion, carrot, green beans with almonds, and garlic with egg and steamed white rice. I had mine plain and husband had his with soy sauce. We both enjoyed it. I would have enjoyed it with soy, but i am cutting out salt. My blood pressure was lower today so i want to keep it going in that direction.

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