The sign says 08.09.2023. Soooo happy to have made it here. I’ve been on this road for 28,558 days. Not tired, don’t want to stop the trip. I’m loving it more and more every day. Life has been good to me. Today we can celebrate Book Lovers Day, International Coworking Day, National Hand Holding Day, National Polka Day, or National Rice Pudding Day. I’ll go with books. Now some history. On this day in 1173 construction of the Tower of Pisa began. It would take 200 years to complete it. On this day in 1803 the 1st horses arrived in Hawaii. This is the a in 1842 that the US-Canada border was defined by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. This is the day in 1898 that Rudolf Diesel of Germany obtained a patent for his internal combustion engine. Now you know how the diesel engine got its name. On this day in 1945 the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. This is the day in 1969 that the Manson family committed the Tate-LaBianca murders. In 1974 on this day Richard Nixon resigned as President. Finally, on this day in 2017 a giant inflatable chicken resembling President Donald Trump was placed outside the White House as a political protest. Today’s wise dead person is Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Jerry said, “You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.” “Too much of a good thing is just about right.” “Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.” “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” I’ll end this post with a quote from Jerry that resonates with me: “Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.” Abide.
