Day 182 - rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

Today is the 7th day of the 26th week, the 1st day of the 7th month, the 182nd day of 2023....  Let's talk about that for a minute.  There are 365 days in this year and there are 183 days left - so are we halfway through the year?  I mean tomorrow will be the 183rd day with 182 days left, so the halfway mark had to be today around noon, right? Today is also:

  • American Zoo Day
  • blink - 182 Day 
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Day
  • Canada Day
  • Devotion to Duty Day
  • Drug Enforcement Administration Day 
  • Early Bird Day
  • Estee Lauder Day
  • Hop a Park Day
  • Independence Day - Burundi from Belgium in 1962
  • International Cherry Pit Spitting Day
  • International Chicken Wing Day
  • International Day of Cooperatives
  • International Joke Day
  • International Reggae Day
  • International Tartan Day
  • National Corn Hole Day
  • National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
  • National Financial Freedom Day
  • National Gingersnap Day
  • National GSA Employee Day
  • National Postal Workers Day
  • National Television Heritage Day
  • Resolution Renewal Day - so you get a second chance to follow through with your New Year's resolution[s]
  • Second Half of the New Year Day
  • US Postage Stamp Day - the very first postage stamp was issued on this day back in 1847.  Up to that point?  The recipient had to pay for the privilege of getting a letter from you.  
  • Zip Code Day - starting on this day in 1963, you had to use a 5-digit code to indicate your destination when addressing a letter to speed up mail delivery
  • The first day of Van Mahotsav, celebrated until July 7
  • and Voyager 1 is 22h 07m 03s of light travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break"
~ Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African renowned for his mathematical abilities

Today I was invited to participate in a ritual of long standing, familiar to every family, the introducing of a man your daughter [Frank's daughter who will be 60 this year] has been seeing to the family.  Both he and she held up very well for the two hour luncheon as the chaos of having eight people [complete with a 10 year old and an 8 year old] in a sit down lunch in a busy local restaurant as the conversation ranged from questions to him about his job and how they met,  to health issues suffered by varying family members, to eating habits, to visiting WDW, to my son-in-law's new job, to the differences in working hybrid schedules and going to work, to the proper order in which to watch the Star Wars movies, to childhood stories of getting lost, to Trekkies, and beyond.  

The test will be if he agrees to be subjected to the whirlwind of the entire family ever again.  He certainly seemed unfazed, which was a point very much in his favor. 

And Triscuit is determined to enjoy her Cateruday, and I hope that you all enjoyed yours as well.  

At least I don't have to face EOQ until Monday!





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