So we started the month finally seeing Bob Seger 14 months late... oh wait, first we saw the opening act, The Record Company. |
Then we took the requisite concert ussie... |
Then we saw Bob Seger! Man is he old! But he still put on a great show! |
Shortly there after we saw 2 Cellos! Oh wait, first we saw the opening act, Jon McLaughlin. |
Because Johanna went with us there is no concert ussie, but there is a picture of me and Johanna... |
Then we saw 2 Cellos... their music was very romantic... they were very romantic... sorry you had to be there - actually they rocked! |
Then we got some snow... |
It looked like this... Then it all melted and we didn't even get a snow day out of it... |
This is just a cute picture of Buttercup... ain't she adorable?! |
For Harry's birthday this year we collected 100 stuffed animals for Doernbechers! |
I skipped my morning classes to go to the hospital and see Jan... |
And after dinner we wished Harry happy birthday and had some "grumpy cake" in his honor... |
To end the month we got some more snow... |
This time it looked like this and then it melted, but this time it was Monday and we missed a day of school... |
Don't worry. You don't have to hear about getting the car fixed any more... it has shuffled off this mortal coil and is no more... OK, technically it can't "shuffle off" because it never "shuffled on", and it really isn't gone - you can try to buy it for parts at an auction soon, but I have to not think about that because it makes me sad and I would rather think of it as having gone off to the farm where it can chase bunny rabbits and chickens...
Fourteen pictures this month for February 14th... you can go back to 2006 to see Harry's birthday pictures (after all, we all only have one birthday...)
I didn't have anything deep to say this month so I searched the web and did I find anything deep to say there? Of course not, it is the web for goodness sake! I did manage to find a site that will search for your birthdate in Pi and tell you that it didn't find it unless you simplify it considerably... by which I mean it couldn't find 021406 or 02142006, but it did determine that 21406 occurs 20091 digits in... Of course, I don't have any real way to verify that...
Wait a minute - if you believe "www.piday.org/million" is actually Pi to a million digits, then I can confirm that 21406 exists once and 021406 and 02142006 don't exist. I can also confirm that no form of my birthday exists, no form of Caroline's birthday exists, and no form of Lucie's birthday exists... I guess that makes Harry 1 in a million! Who says you can't find something deep and meaningful on the web? Oh - that's right. I said that.
In addition to being Harry's birthday, February 14th is widely remembered as the day Matthew Brady (no, not a member of the Brady Bunch) took the first photograph of a president in office. That president was, of course, Donald Trump... no wait - despite what he might claim, it was actually President James Polk...
Polk is considered by many the most effective president of the pre-Civil War era, having met during his four-year term every major domestic and foreign policy goal he had set. After a negotiation fraught with risk of war, he reached a settlement with the United Kingdom over the disputed Oregon Country. Polk achieved a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which resulted in the cession by Mexico of nearly all the American Southwest. He secured a substantial reduction of tariff rates with the Walker tariff of 1846. The same year, he achieved his other major goal, re-establishment of the Independent Treasury system. True to his campaign pledge to serve only one term, Polk left office in 1849 and returned to Tennessee. What a loser... sure, he may have met his goals, averted one war, won another one, reduced tariffs, and re-established the Treasury, but in the end he was just a quitter!
But I digress...
Maybe we should just remember Harry's birthday... Happy Birthday, Harry!