Dec. 7th, 2005

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Today in History
December 7
43 BC Cicero, considered one of the greatest sons of Rome, is assassinated on the orders of Marcus Antonius.
983 Otto III takes the throne after his father's death in Italy. A power struggle between magnates ensues.
1787 Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.
1808 James Madison is elected president in succession of Thomas Jefferson.
1861 USS Santiago de Cuba, under Commander Daniel B. Ridgely, halts the British schooner Eugenia Smith and captures J.W. Zacharie, a New Orleans merchant and Confederate purchasing agent.
1862 Confederate forces surprise an equal number of Union troops at the Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
1863 Outlaw George Ives, an alleged member of an outlaw gang known as the "Innocents," robs and then kills Nick Thiebalt in the Ruby Valley of what would become Montana.
1917 The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary with only one dissenting vote in Congress.
1918 Spartacists call for a German revolution.
1931 A report indicates that Nazis would ensure "Nordic dominance" by sterilizing certain races.
1941 Japanese planes raid Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack.
1942 The U.S. Navy launches USS New Jersey, the largest battleship ever built.
1946 The president of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis, orders all striking miners back to work.
1949 The A.F.L. and the C.I.O. organize a non-Communist international trade union.
1970 Poland and West Germany sign a pact renouncing the use of force to settle disputes, recognizing the Oder-Neisse River as Poland's western frontier, and acknowledging the transfer to Poland of 40,000 square miles of former German territory.
1972 The crew of Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1981 The Reagan Administration predicts a record deficit in 1982 of $109 billion.
1988 An earthquake in Armenia kills an estimated 100,000 people.

Born on December 7
1810 Theodor Schwann, German physiologist.
1873 Willa Cather, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (O Pioneers!, My Antonia).
1888 Joyce Cary, Irish-born novelist (The Horse's Mouth).
1888 Ernst Toch, composer and pianist.
1895 Sir Milton Margay, the first prime minister of Sierra Leone.
1896 Stuart Davis, painter.
1928 Noam Chomsky, writer, linguist and political activist.
1956 Larry Bird, basketball player for the Boston Celtics.
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Today I am writing procedure dox for the tracking system. This makes me happy. I am not, however, able to study for my exam easily. This makes me less happy. And in case you were wondering, this post has taken me all morning and some of the afternoon to finish.

OTOH, there was studying last night, and progress was made. Pizza was consumed, and kittens were laughed at. Well, kitten.

As of noon, no carbonated beverages had exploded in my trunk despite my managing to forget them there last night when I got home from studying. I am hoping that the direct sunlight is keeping the inside-trunk temperature high enough to keep things from really freezing, and then I zing home and put them in the kitchen before I run off to fail my exam.

And at some point before Friday at noon, I have to do necessary laundry, figure out my packing list, and then pack. And sleep.

The Switch "soda" (fruit juice and soda water) is tasty, but very expensive ($5.49/4 bottles or something like that). It's more expensive than beer. Although there is no drinking of beer during the workday. So I figure that soda water and fruit juice is probably a reasonable compromise. Perhaps get the frozen stuff, let it thaw, and then dilute the concentrate with soda water... Or the non-frozen concentrate would work just as well.

And I'm really sleepy.

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