December: The month of joy, happiness, & a need to finish what you started in January
December: The month of joy, happiness, & a need to finish what you started in January
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December 11
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
A government inspector visits a morgue. There he sees three corpses, each with a great big smile on their faces. Curious, the inspector approaches the mortician and asks, "I noticed that each of these corpses have a big smile on their face. Who are they and what did they die from?"
The mortician replies, "The first body is that of a Frenchman aged 60, who died making love to his mistress, hence the smile on his face. The second body is an Irishman, aged 30, who won $10,000 in the lottery and spent it all on whiskey. He died of alcohol poisoning, hence the smile on his face."
The inspector then asks, "What about the third body?" The mortician says, "Ah, this is perhaps the most unlikely of all. That is Billy Bob, a farm boy from Oklahoma, aged 25, who was struck by lightning."
"Why is he smiling then?" asks the inspector.
The mortician replies, "Oh, he thought he was getting his picture taken."
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Release the Epstein Files
1620 - Mayflower Pilgrims come ashore in Plymouth Bay, traditionally thought to be at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
1792 - French King Louis XVI goes on trial, accused of high treason and crimes against the state.
1913 - Iconic painting the "Mona Lisa" is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.
1931 - Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada).
1946 - United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established by resolution 57(I) of the UN General Assembly.
1997 - Delegates from 150 industrialized nations attend a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, and reach an agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.
1940: Pop singer Dionne Warwick has a birthday today.
National Stretching Day - I cracked my knuckles today!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didnโt need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The โWeatherโ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to itsโ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became โWhy Nutts!!โ and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a โQuote of the Dayโ but transitioned that into โJoke of the Dayโ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester