Happiness is a New Inspection Sticker, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Last weekend, the weather guessers had Grandpa all worked up.  He kept reminding me to check the weather and pick the best time to drive home.  The best time was any time, as all we had was a drippy drizzle all day, no storms.  I'm thankful it worked out that way.

Mr. J was away for the weekend.  Ms. A, Becca and i were thankful everything went just right anyway, i even managed to make her breakfast.

Also, i was thankful to receive good news about Becca's education.  As she is in a special class, she will graduate this May then be allowed to go back for 2 more years as a "helper" in the classroom.  In fact, she will even be paid!

Last Sunday and Monday Ms. GA and Mr. BA were out of town just overnight, but that meant i had to do cat care before getting to Carl's house at 6am.  I'm thankful i was up to it and wasn't late.

Ms. D  had a wedding invitation with something she's not had before, a QR code to scan to RSVP.  I was thankful for the built in reader in her camera on her phone, i was able to show her how to use it.

Also, i was thankful elbow grease got the hairspray gunk off the bathroom floors at her house.

Ms. JAI wanted a visit, and i was thankful to spend a while and get a bit of cleaning done while i was there.

Tuesday was a red letter day.  I'm thankful the lesson i taught at the ladies' circle meeting went well (they didn't tell me i've been exposed to too many Lysol fumes).  Also i not only got Brother-in-Law's taxes done, a huge thankful thing, i was finally able to transfer the last debt we are trying to pay to a no interest card.  We're aiming to have it almost totally paid off by the time the promotional offer ends.

Ms. G had us up, down and all around as well as under, as in under her RV.  I'm thankful she got the work under there done now, before the weather turns hot.

Thursday morning was a comedy of errors trying to get to Ms. SE's house and we will leave it at i am thankful we finally got Sweetie his coffee.

As for her house, it was a mess and we were thankful to be done with it in only 5 hours.

Kevin and Lenny came through again and by the hardest, GusGus Die Fledermaus passed inspection when i stopped on my way to the cat shelter Friday afternoon.

I was thankful for that and they allowed the inspection, i didn't know they usually shut that down at 3pm and i got there at ten after.

We had the wonderful problem of too many volunteers at the shelter Friday night.  It was grand.

Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Dyanne and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.   

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Today is:

Deep Blue Day -- the IBM computer defeats chess champion Gary Kasparov, the first such victory for a computer, in 1996

Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck -- Malta

Gold Record Day -- Glenn Miller is awarded the first ever Gold Record, for "Chattanoga Choo Choo", 1942

Losar/Loshar/Sonam Lhosar/Tamang New Year (Lunar New Year) -- Bhutan; Nepal; Tibet (this is Tibetan Year 2151, and it's dominant element is wood, and dominant animal is the dragon; note some years this is the same as the "Chinese New Year" and at other times, it's on a different date

Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year/Lhosar/Seol-Nal/Tet -- celebrations throughout Asia of the year of the Dragon, some before and some after this "official" Western date, some for up to a month; Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist celebrations

National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe -- Italy, especially in Trieste

Plimsoll Day -- honoring Samuel Plimsoll, the "Sailor’s Friend," who persuaded Parliament to have a maximum load limit on ships.

Scout Sabbath -- BSA (Boy Scouts are encouraged to wear their uniforms to synagogue tonight or tomorrow morning and represent scouting to their congregations)

St. Scholastica's Day (Patron of children in convulsions, nuns; LeMans, France; against rain, storms)

Try to Invent a New Jell-O Flavor Day -- it can't hurt to try

Umbrella Day

Anniversaries Today:

Poland is symbolically married to the Baltic Sea by Jozef Haller de Hallenburg, celebrating the restitution of Polish access to the water, 1920

Tom Thumb marries Mercy Lavinia Warren, 1863

Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saxe-Coburg, 1840

Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years' War (a/k/a French and Indian War), 1763

Academie Francaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu), 1635

Birthdays Today:

Lance Berkman, 1976

Laura Dern, 1967

Glen Beck, 1964

Lenny Dykstra, 1963

Cliff Burton, 1962

George Stephanopoulos, 1961

Greg Norman, 1955

Jim Cramer, 1955

Mark Spitz, 1950

Donovan, 1946

Frances Moore Lappe, 1944

Roberta Flack, 1939

Robert Wagner, 1930

Leontyne Price, 1927

Lon Chaney, Jr., 1906

Bertolt Brecht, 1898

Frances Margaret "Dame Judith" Anderson, 1898

Jimmy Durante, 1893

William "Bill" Tilden, 1893

Boris Pasternak, 1890

Samuel Plimsoll, 1824

Charles Lamb, 1775

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"My Friend Flicka"(TV), 1956

"Death of a Salesman"(Play), 1949

"Puss Gets the Boot"(Cartoon, first Tom and Jerry short), 1940

"Icebound"(Pulitzer-winning Davis' Play), 1923

"All the News That's Fit to Print"(Slogan of the New York Times), 1897

"Les Contes d'Hoffman"(Offenbach Opera), 1881  

"The Lily of Killarney"(Opera), 1862

Today in History:

St. Paul is shipwrecked on the island of Malta, 60

Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch, 1098

The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days, 1355

Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all the men in Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1676

Edmund Halley is appointed the second Astronomer Royal of England, 1720

The Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War, surrendering Canada to England, 1763

Simon Bolivar is named dictator by the Congress of Peru, 1824

The first US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane of Virginia, 1863

The YWCA is founded in NYC, 1870

Nathaniel Carr Goodwin becomes the first actor to perform in two different cities on the same day, in Boston for a matinee, and then in NYC for and evening performance, 1887

Nearly 11,000,000 acres of land, ceded to the US government by the Sioux Indians, is opened for settlement, 1890

The New York Times begins using the slogan, "All the news that's fit to print," 1897

Japan and Russia declare war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships, 1904

Britain's first modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" is launched, 1906

Baseball outlaws all pitches that involve tampering with the ball, 1920

New Delhi becomes the capital of India, 1931

The first singing telegram is delivered, by the Postal Telegram Company of NYC, 1933

Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, 1962

Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party, 1989

The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time, 1996

The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both, 2009

The Venezuelan government orders more than 100 malls to close early to save electricity, due to drought caused by El Niño, 2016

More than 30 bushfires are put out by the heaviest rainfall in 30 years in New South Wales, Australia, helping end one of the worst bushfire seasons ever, 2020

Astronomers confirm they've found the most distant planetoid in the solar system so far, four times further than planetoid Pluto, 2021

A World War II era bomb discovered in Great Yarmouth, England, detonates as a crew works to disarm it, causing no injuries, 2023