Anyone who knows me knows what this day is…or should be, for me. The older I get, the more I realize however that this day is never going to be lived out to its fruition. That said, and in lieu of this revelation, I am planning for its next occurrence - Wednesday, February 29, 2012. The only question now is which/whom of the following would be most ( Read more... )

Can you believe it is has been 15 years since the ATF raid on the Branch Davidian compound? It seems so much longer since then.

My registrars meeting is over and my notes have been distributed so I now have no major work priorities to deal with until next week. That means I can spend the remainder of today and tomorrow reading and working on my ( Read more... )

Twas exactly at this moment, six months ago, that I was graced to be in the presence of Rafael Nadal. *sigh*
As you can tell, I still have yet to recover.

MAY 19, 1536, 8 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING

ANNE BOLEYN'S SPEECH AT HER EXECUTION

"Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die, but I ( Read more... )

ante diem iv nonas septembres

31 B.C. -- Octavian defeats Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra at Actium

Today is the anniversary of the day that changed history IMHO. Higher learning versus the war machine. Oh what a vastly different world we would be living in today had the outcome been reversed.

Whoever invented MP3 and the portable jukebox is currently reaching Apollo-like status in my eyes. I purchased a nifty new portable MP3 player - no, actually it isn’t merely an MP3 player it is a Portable Storage Device *revels in North American commercialism* I now have every single song I could ever want to listen to downloaded and still have ( Read more... )

A moment of silence to acknowledge the anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D. burying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae.