Banking on Tomorrow

 Today is he 6th day of the 36th week, the 5th day of the 9th month, the 248th day of 2024 [with only 110 shopping days until Christmas] and: Ants on a Log Day Bring Your Manners to Work Day Care Bears Share Your Care Day - celebrated since 2015, it is a day to share what you have and help others Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day International Box Wine Day International Buy a Priest a Beer Day International Day of Charity International Day to Protect Education from Attack National 401(k) Day National Be Late for Something Day National Cheese Pizza Day National Chianti Day National Food Bank Day National Lazy Mom's Day National Shrink Day National Teddy Bear Day Opposite Day - Do the Opposite of What You Normally Do.  According to SpongeBob Squarepants, breathing and living etc are exceptions to that Wear Teal Day World Samosa Day Wonderful Weirdoes Day And after launching on this day in 1977, Voyager 1 is ~23h 17m 41s of light travel time from Earth  Quote of the ...

  Sunrise over the ocean at Ocean City, MD  (Photo: Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums)

 Today is the 5th day of the 35th week, the 28th day of the 8th month, the 240th day of 2025 [ with only 118 shopping days before Christmas ], and: Crackers Over the Keyboard Day Dream Day Question and Jubilee International Cabernet Sauvignon Day International Read Comics in Public Day National Bow Tie Day National Cherry Turnovers Day National Power Rangers Day National Sport Sampling Day National Thoughtful Day Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day Radio Commercial Day - according to WikiPedia "WEAF in New York (now WFAN), aired its first paid radio commercial on August 28, 1922 for the Queensboro Corporation, advertising a new apartment complex in Jackson Heights, Queens, near the just-completed #7 subway line."  Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Red Win Day Thoughtful Thursday the moon is waxing crescent and Voyager 1 is ~23h 16m 07s of light travel time from Earth, or 25,113,000,000 km / 15,604,000,000 miles / 167.868 AU  Quote of the day: " There is much to learn f...

  Pico do Areeiro, Madeira, Portugal Bing wallpaper of the day 08.12.2025

On June 19th, I packed myself up as I was staying overnight at the house and then catching a morning flight back to BWI, and the airport was more easily assessable from there.  I booked a roundtrip as the plan was that I would come home, and settle things here.  I had to make new arrangements for Triscuit's care, show up at the office at least a couple of time, and then return on Monday the 30th and stay in the hospice with Tommy through his birthday.  We had set the room up so that I could work from there during the day so staying for a couple of weeks would not be an issue.   Tommy had decided he would see how things went staying overnight without company as a trial run - it was the only night he did because Bryan went and camped out while I was gone.   And so, that night as I left, I hugged my son, kissed him, and.... I remember I asked if he wanted me to sing his lullaby before I left, and he just chuckled and shook his head.  I remember that ...

Today is the 2nd day of the 34th week, the 18th day of the 8th month, the  230th day of 2025 [ 63% of the year is now behind us as only 135 days remain] , and: Birth Control Pills Day AKA World Contraception Day Cupcake Day [Australia] Helium Discovery Day International Delivery Rider Appreciation Day Mail Order Catalog Day National Bad Poetry Day National Badge Ribbon Day  National Fajita Day National Ice Cream Pie Day Never Give Up Day Pinot Noir Day Serendipity Day Stay Home with Your Kids Day the moon is at waning crescent, 25% of full and Voyager 1 is ~23h 14m 11s of light travel time from Earth, or 25,078,000,000 km / 15,583,000,000 mi / 167.636 AU Quote of the day: " The crime of loving is forgetting ." ~ Maurice Chevalier -  French singer, actor, and entertainer  The Bing wallpaper picture of the day is of the Matterhorn reflected in Stellisee, Switzerland.   This isn't the highest mountain in the world, nor the most difficult climb, but it wasn't s...