Incommunicado But Not In Delicto, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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This Thankful Day finds me almost incommunicado as my phone is about kaput.  I'm thankful for the spare phone although it is of limited use.

I'm thankful we are searching for ways to get my photos off of it in its current debilitated state.

After Daughter-in-Law's trip to the hospital the week before, i put off our Saturday jaunt to NOLA to clean Grandma and Grandpa's house until noon, so i could help with little Annie and give her more time to rest.  I was thankful Grandma and Grandpa agreed to the plan, although Grandpa fussed a bit about us leaving so late to go home.

Once we got into Slow-Moe for the trip to NOLA, the check engine light was on and i asked my Sweetie about it.  He said it was nothing, the gas cap had been loose when he went to gas up the car but now it was back on correctly and it should take care of the problem.  I'm thankful it did, the light went off when we were heading home.

I'm also thankful by powering through as fast as possible, we got their house cleaned in record time, all except being able to fold the towels which were still in the dryer.

Our church Sexton recently suffered the loss of his mother and this past Sunday he was not available as he usually is.  I was thankful to step in a move a table and chairs for an event sign-up, something he didn't have time to do.

Monday went well and i was thankful to get to see Ms. JAI.  She is so worried about our car situation, especially with me driving with no A/C in this heat, she was trying to figure ways to help us find a better car.  I'm thankful for her concern even if we can't act on it.

I very much enjoyed my Tuesday with our little Annie.  She and i had the best afternoon nap together, i'm thankful to be so close and get to be with her often.

Wednesday mornings i usually have a shift at the cat shelter but both morning shifts were taken, which is odd.  It meant they had nothing for me to do so i came home and got caught up on a few things, i was thankful for the extra time.

Ms. G and i were thankful to accomplish a good bit in the time i was there and next time, she wants to dust.  As much as dusting with her is not an exciting thing, i am thankful it's indoor work.

The children have been out of town all summer at Ms. SE's house and the house was very easy to clean Thursday morning.  My Sweetie and i were thankful to get it done so quickly and thankful due to an early start, i was in plenty of time for my pre-surgery check up with Dr. BowTie.

I'm thankful the check-up was routine and went well and i'm cleared for having the other cataract removed next month.

My partner at the shelter for the Friday evening shift had to be out this week, i'm thankful i was able to get her work and mine done in two hours flat!

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Today is:

Armed Forces Day -- United Kingdom

ARRL Field Day -- American Radio Relay League's most popular on-air operating event, in which amateur/ham radio operators practice and drill for communications during emergencies; through tomorrow     

Constitution day -- Ukraine

Festival of Terrible Poetry -- according to The Daily Bleed, and since there is some hilarious, if terrible, poetry out there, go find some, and bust a gut

Great American Picnic Day -- various dates given, with the most common being the final Saturday of June

Insurance Awareness Day -- now who do you think invented that!?!

International Body Piercing Day -- on the birthday of James Mark "Jim" Ward, "the granddaddy of the modern body piercing movement"

International CAPS LOCK DAY -- a parody holiday created by Derek Arnold, a user on Metafilter, in 2000

Mnarja / L-Imnarja Festival begins -- Buskett Gardens, Malta (folk festival for Sts. Peter and Paul, begins this evening and continues through the 29th)

National Ceviche Day

National Tapioca Day

Paul Bunyan Day -- the tall tale hero of the lumberjacks; celebrated at different times in some parts of the country, but most sites cite this date

Ra goes forth to propitiate the Nun -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Stonewall Rebellion Day -- now seen as the start of the gay liberation movement in 1969

St. Irenaeus' Day (Patron of Mobile, Alabama)

St. Paul's Feast -- Kato Paphos, Cyprus (religious festivities with the archbishop officiating and a procession of the icon of St. Paul through the streets, through tomorrow)

St. Peter's Eve -- English Christian tradition, night of bonfires and continuation of midsummer celebrations

Veteranendag -- Netherlands (Veterans Day)

Vidovdan (Festival for St. Vitus) -- Eastern Orthodox Christian, based on the traditional Julian Calendar date

     a recognized holiday in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anniversaries Today:

Harry S. Truman marries Bess Wallace, 1919

Birthdays Today:

Kellie Pickler, 1986

Steve Burton, 1970

Danielle Brisebois, 1969

John Cusack, 1966

Mary Stuart Masterson, 1966

Mark Grace, 1964

John Elway, 1960

Thomas Hampson, 1955

Alice Krige, 1954

Kathy Bates, 1948

Gilda Radner, 1946

Bruce Davison, 1946

Turkan Soray, 1945

Pat Morita, 1932

Mel Brooks, 1926

Maria Goeppert Mayer, 1906

Richard Rodgers, 1902

Clara Louise Maass, 1876

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712

John Wesley, 1703

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577

Henry VIII, King of England, 1491

Debuting/Premiering Today:

The Nutty Professor(Film), 1996

"Amos 'n' Andy"(TV), 1951

"Quiz Kids"(Radio), 1940

Today in History:

Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul, 1098

Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe, 1389

Guadeloupe becomes a French colony, 1635

The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1838

The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle, 1841

The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1859

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by young Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I, 1914

The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I, 1919

The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces, 1922

Israel annexes East Jerusalem, 1967

COMECON, as part of the last vestige of the Soviet Bloc, is formally disbanded, followed by the Warsaw pact 3 days later, 1991

Slobodan Milosevic is deported to ICTY to stand trial, 2001

The Republic of Montenegro is admitted as the 192nd Member of the United Nations, 2006

The U.N. reports 10 million people are effected by the worst drought in 60 years, 2011

A power company uncovers a Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England; it will become one of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters, 2018

For the first time since the position was created in 1343, Amsterdam elects a woman mayor, Femke Halsema, 2018

Due to lack of rainfall dropping the water level in the Mosul Dam reservoir, a 3,400-year-old Bronze Age palace from the Mittani Empire is uncovered on the banks of the Tigris River, 2019

AirCar, a prototype flying car capable of flying 1,000km (600 miles), at heights of up to 8,200ft (2,500m), completes a 35 min test flight between Nitra and Bratislava airports in Slovakia, 2021

Rocket Lab launches NASA's CAPSTONE from Mahia peninsula, New Zealand, to orbit the Moon, research for future Gateway and Artemis missions, 2022

A US Supreme Court decision clears the way for states to place bans on homeless people sleeping in public, 2024