Happy Spring or as I like to say 'Sneezin's Greetings!!'
Happy Spring or as I like to say 'Sneezin's Greetings!!'
All opinions in the Digest are expressed solely by the Digester and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Why Not Travel Store, its owners, or its wonderful staff
March 20 - First day of Spring
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
Several men are in the locker room of a local gym. A cell phone on a bench rings, and a man puts the phone on speaker and begins to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen.
"Hello?" says the man.
A woman answers, "Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"
"Yes," the man replies.
The woman continues, "Iโm at the mall now and I found this beautiful leather coat, itโs only 1,200 dollars, down from 1,900 dollars. Is it okay if I buy it?"
"Sure, go ahead if you like it that much," says the man.
"Oh, thanks so very much," says the woman. "I also stopped by the Mercedes dealership this morning and saw the new models. There was one that I really, really liked."
"How much?" asks the man.
The woman replies, "80,000 dollars."
"OK," says the man, "But for that price I want it with all the optional extras."
"Great!" the woman says, "Oh, and one more thing. The house that we looked at last year is back on the market." "Theyโre asking 1.5 million dollars."
The man replies, "Well then, go ahead and make them an offer, but no more than 1.25 million dollars. Love you, bye!" says the man as he hangs up.
The other men in the locker room are looking at him in absolute astonishment. Then he smiles and asks... "Anyone know whose phone this is?"
Happy Spring!! See you tomorrow!!
Slava Ukraini ๐บ๐ฆ, 'F' them Russians. Take it all back
Elbows Up๐จ๐ฆ
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1800 - Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London.
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published in Boston.
1854 - Republican Party formally organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1900 - Secretary of State John Hay announces that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an 'open door' policy in China have essentially accepted his stand.
1933 - Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
2016 - POTUS Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a three-day tour with First Lady Michelle.
1980: SNL member Mikey Day has a birthday today.
First Day Of Spring - ACHOO!!
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. In the lobby, they had a chalk board of 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 is still has the basic constructs I started out with. The โWeatherโ report was discontinued due to not having a viable good option for displaying current conditions and forecast. Perhaps that will change and the weather will be put back in. If it is, it would be better on the home page and not The Digest. But, 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.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!