Day ? - a Monday masquerading as a Tuesday

((Trying to decide whether just to change the day # or go with the established pattern [even if it is wrong], in which case it would be Day #149))

Today is the 3rd day of the 22nd week, the 30th day of the 5th month, the 150th day of 2023 [with only 208 shopping days until Christmas], and:

• Loomis Day 
• My Bucket's Got a Hole in It Day
• Memorial Day (( the actual day not the federal holiday ))
• National Creativity Day
• National Marina Day - I mean seriously, where did folks keep their boats before there were marinas? 
• National Mint Julep Day
• Water a Flower Day
• World MS Day

On this day in:

• 1431 - Joan of Arc was burned at the stake - the Catholic church proclaimed her a saint and today is her feast day
• 1498 - Christopher Columbus headed for America for the third time with six ships
• 1536 - Henry KVII married his third wife, Jane Seymour
• 1539 - Hernando de Solo's expedition of 10 ships and 700 men landed in Florida 
• 1783 - publication of the first daily paper in the US by Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia
• 1821 - James Boyd patents the rubber fire hose
• 1848 - the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago expanded the US by adding the territory now known as New Mexico, California, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah for $15 million 
• 1848 - William G Young patents the ice cream freezer
• 1883 - a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse caused a stampede that killed 12 people
• 1906 - Hershey Park, founded by Milton S Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, opens
• 1927 - Walter Johnson, pitching for the Washington Senators, completed his 110th shutout game, the most in MLB history 
• 1935 - Babe Ruth's final game - he was out on an infield grounder
• 1964 - the Beatles 'Love Me Do' is #1 in the US
• 1965 - France does an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria 
• 1975 - The European Space Agency [ESA] forms
• 1986 - France does a nuclear test 
• 2003 - 'Finding Nemo' premiers
• 2020 - SpaceX is the first private company to launch astronauts into space, and the first orbital spacecraft launched from the US since 2011 [after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program].   The Crew Dragon Demo-2 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.

[ Apparently the Indianapolis 500 is run around today because the timeline was full of the results of different races thru the years! ]

Quote of the day:

"It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone."

~  Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer who most of us met through his segments on '60 minutes' over 30 years

It is this time of year that I start wondering how did I lose a month?  Was it when we did that stupid "spring forward" routine and somehow the cosmic clock got wound for a month ahead instead of an hour?  What happened to May?  How can June and the EOQ be right around the corner?

It just makes me feel, well old, that the world is starting to spin at too fast a pace for me to keep up...

Construction update:

Things don't seem to be moving very fast with the parking lot, and yet those workers are at it every day.  Today they seemed to be power washing the areas around the holes - not sure why because we certainly got enough rain over the weekend to wash away any sand or grit, I would think, but they spent the entire day doing that, at least judging by the noise.

It was the usual routine at work after you've been off for a couple of days.  Change your voice mail message because you're back.  Make sure the out-of-office assistant in OUTLOOK is off.  Wade through the accumulation of emails.  Answer anything that doesn't seem to have been forwarded to your back-up.  Catch up with anything that happened while you were out.

There was some news - the one credit analyst was let go after an accumulation of issues, but we are still a staff of eight because the new credit analyst [and the third woman in the office] starts tomorrow.  Bossman is back from vacation but was pretty quiet; the senior lender is off on vacation this week.  And on June 4th, I celebrate 14 years at the same place, which is a record for me!  Doesn't seem possible that I have been almost 40 years in banking/financial services.  I've worked at six different community banks [only one of which still exists] and two non-bank lenders [one of which still exists].  For about 10 years of that I functioned as a knowledge nomad, going from one organization to another, setting up processes and procedures, then moving to the next job when I was done.

 I started at Equitable on the teller line and left there when they sold the branch I was at.  I was at C&F [until they sold the bank] - started as a teller and left as Director of Loan Servicing.  I didn't last at Millennium because commuting from Randallstown to Reston just wasn't feasible [they were acquired a decade later].  MD Permanent was a job getting a bank off a C&D, after which I had worked myself out of a job.  They were sold later.  Landed at EagleBank, then was recruited by TWSB, stayed there until my position was eliminated as they got ready for to be acquired.  Went to MSL, was laid off [as they trimmed down for acquisition], and landed here at PBS where I am apparently going to finish out my career.  

That's a lot of Monday morning whining.....