Jan 30

I am going crazy. My Word program suddenly stopped working. My repair company isn't answering the phone. I can't access any of my word documents, including the blog format and the addresses I send this blog to. 
I'll try another way. Typing directly into the blog. Boring but will work.

NOTE: THIS TOOK WAY TOO LONG, SO UNTIL MY COMPUTER IS WORKING AGAIN I'M TAKING A BREAK. SORRY.

My thoughts:

The questions and answer part of the this impeachment thing are a great teaching tool for all Americans. Precise language is needed. Good orators are present. There are many views in this trial. I am also getting very tired of the 'in an election year, one can't...' We lived through the idiocy of that idea with Obama's attempt to appoint an Supreme Court Justice. Now the President's side is using it in the trial. Elections are very important. When anyone is elected to an office, they do not take an oath to work hard until one year before an election, then I will simply get paid, fill space, spend my time trying to get re-elected to this office. Nor do elected representatives take an oath that says: Now that I'm in office, I will begin fund raising today and promise to spend at least 50% of my work day raising funds. Sadly, that is where we are.

Puzzle:

I'm were yesterday follows today, and tomorrow is in the middle?

Historical Stuff for today

Janury 29, 1979 Texas Shooting: Teenager Brenda Spencer is considered the first modern day school shooter. In the midst of her shooting spree she actually answered a call from a journalist and said her reasoning was "[I] don't like Mondays. This livens up the day." She then resumed, killing 2 and injuring 9.

1790 - The first boat designed as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne.

1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes

1868 - Charles Darwin's book, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, was published.

1873 "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne is published in France by Pierre-Jules Hetzel

1948 - Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

1958 - The first two-way, moving sidewalk (1,425 feet long) was put in service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, TX.

1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps


1968 - The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong began the Tet Offensive

1972 - British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was commemorated by US with 1983's Sunday Bloody Sunday.

1973 - KISS played their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens New York.


2007 - Microsoft released Windows Vista.

2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor - 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil

2019 Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York

2019 Scientists reveal discovery of cavity six miles long, 1,000 feet deep under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, leading to fears it might collapse and raise sea levels by two feet

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.