Exciting Can Mean Different Things, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Things went back to being exciting here this past week, and not always in the best way, but at least by this Thankful Day we can say everything seems to have calmed down for the moment.

Not this past Thursday but the Thursday prior, poor Slow-Moe the car ended up at Kevin and Lenny's shop again, and this time it was a doozy.  The seal on the throttle body had broken.  The part itself, the seal, is a $40 part, but they were having trouble getting one.  If they could not, they'd have to order the whole engine cover, which comes with the part as a part of it.  Total cost for the engine cover, $900.

All this is without installation costs.

We were thankful by Friday they'd found the $40 part.  It wouldn't be in until Tuesday.

We were thankful Mr. JO loaned us his truck for the umpteenth time so we could go to NOLA.

Sweetie was thankful Brother-in-Law was able to take him to church on Sunday, since  i'm with Becca.

Sunday evening, #1 Son called to ask if someone could pick him up from Kevin and Lenny's on Monday morning and take him to work.  He wanted to go to NOLA and see Grandma and Grandpa on Tuesday (he goes every other week) and his car had started to make a high pitched squeal he wanted them to check before he drove it so far.

I was thankful Carl had work at 9am (his late start time), so i had time to go run #1 Son to work and get back and still get the job done by 11:30 am.  I was further thankful Ms. S and Mr. D were out of town, expected back late that evening, so i wasn't under any kind of time crunch to get them done.

Then came the real fun, #1 Son's car needed a major repair, stat.  I'm thankful between us we were able to cover it and then Grandpa stepped in and said he'd do it.  We're thankful they were able to get it done the same day so #1 Son, who lives on the other side of the town from us, could get his wheels back.

He was also thankful to get to go see Grandma and Grandpa, and they were thankful, too.

Tuesday was the first part of my annual physical, where i fast for 12 hours then go see Dr. BowTie's assistant to give blood and do a whiz quiz, test my hearing and sight, have an EKG and extremities checked for blood flow and etc.  I was thankful to get it done.

Then i was thankful to get to be with our little Annie.

She's been introduced to a splash pad and she loves it.

There was a cagebreak Tuesday night/Wednesday morning at the shelter and when i arrived, i was thankful i managed to find all 3 of them, especially the one that got itself stuck in the packing box with the cardboard carriers.  

On Thursday i had a tight schedule and lo and behold Ms. V actually got up early!  I was finished with the house and leaving by 1pm to meet up with my Sweetie and we were both thankful we didn't have to take separate vehicles, especially as mine has no A/C and it's blazing hot.

He and i were thankful the meeting with our retirement account representative went well and we arrived on time.  No, i won't be retiring soon (probably, just don't say never or The Good Lord will test you on it), but at least there's money in the account for later.

Friday was great, i saw a friend in Trader Joe's, got to swing by the bank so i don't have to do it today, and took care of the baby.  Daughter-in-Law got done with her shift early and i got to the shelter early, where we were thankful for great help and two adoptions.

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Today is:

Andorra La Vella Festival -- Andorra (through Monday)

Cowes Week begins -- Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK (the largest, longest-running and most prestigious international sailing regatta in the world; through August 6)

Day of the Airborne Forces -- Russia; Ukraine

Day of Azerbaijani Cinema -- Azerbaijan (anniversary of the 1898 showing of the first motion pictures taken in Azerbaijan)

Festival of Amen and Hapi -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (offerings to the god of transcendent powers and the god of the Nile to assure the flooding of the Nile; date approximate)

International Hangover Day -- always the day after International Beer Day, which should tell you something, and sponsored by the same group that does International Beer Day, which should tell you something more!

Lincoln Penny Day -- US (the Lincoln Cent entered circulation on this day in 1909, and is one of the longest running coins in continual production in history)

    Take a Penny/Leave a Penny Day -- if the US is really determined to keep the littlest coins, the least we can do is pool them together in the trays so conveniently found in stores and restaurants

Make Some Old Fashioned Lemonade Day

National Coloring Book Day

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

National Mustard Day -- US, sponsored by the National Mustard Museum 

Nuestra Senora de los Angeles -- Costa Rica (Feast of Our Lady of the Angels)

Shimizu Minato Matsuri -- Shimizu City, Japan (through the 4th, commemorates the reopening of Shimizu Port to international trade)

St. Elias' Day (Elijah the Prophet)  related observance

     Iliden -- Bosnia-Herzegovina; Ukraine; other Slavic countries where he is titled St. Ilia 

     Republic Day -- Macedonia

St. Eusebius of Vercelli's Day (Patron of Vercelli, Italy)

Tisha B'Av -- Judaism (begins at sundown, through tomorrow; fast in remembrance of the destruction of the First Temple in 586BCE and the Second Temple in 79AD)

Anniversary Today:

The first US Census is recorded, 1790

Birthdays Today:

Edward Furlong, 1977

Michael Weiss, 1976

Sam Worthington, 1976

Mary-Louise Parker, 1964

Victoria Jackson, 1959

Butch Patrick, 1953

Kathryn Harrold, 1950

James Fallows, 1949

Joanna Cassidy, 1944

Wes Craven, 1939

Lamar Hunt, 1932

Peter O'Toole, 1932

James Baldwin, 1924

Carroll O'Connor, 1924

Myrna Loy, 1905

Jack L. Warner, 1892

Elisha Gray, 1835

Pierre "Peter" Charles L'Enfant, 1754

Today in History:

Philip II of Macedon leads his army to defeat the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, which secured Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean, BC338

Hannibal leads his Corinthian army to defeat the superior forces of Rome, BC216

Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean, 1610

First United States Census, 1790

First parachute jump in the US, 1819

Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms, 1869

Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, 1870

Andrew Hallidie tests the first cable car system in San Francisco, 1873

Wild Bill Hickok meets his death; shot in the back while playing poker, his hand, a pair of Aces and a pair of eights, is now called "Dead Man's Hand", 1876

Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary) dies, 1903

Typhoon in China kills about 60,000, 1922

The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson, 1932

Pakistan is re-admitted back into the Commonwealth of Nations, 1989

Iraq invades Kuwait, setting the stage for the Gulf War, 1990

Two previously unknown works by Mozart - a concerto movement and a prelude, are performed in Salzburg, Austria, 2009

The U.S. Government estimates the Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 2010

The first footage of white giraffes (giraffes with leucism) is posted by the Hirola Conservation Program in north eastern Kenya, 2017

Great Britain’s Prince Philip, age 96, makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements, 2017

Apple becomes the first American publicly listed company to reach $1 trillion in value, 2018

Archaeologists confirm they have found the oldest library in Germany, in Cologne, dating back to 2AD and possibly holding as many as 20,000 scrolls, 2018

Saudi Arabia announces it is enacting news rules for women including allowing them to travel independently abroad without a male guardian's permission, 2019

SpaceX safely completes its first crewed mission when NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken splash down in the Gulf of Mexico in their Dragon capsule, 2020

Scientists confirm fossils found in the Ica desert in Peru are from a creature heavier than a blue whale, making this Perucetus colossus the heaviest creature which ever lived, 2023