I'm having an introvert party and you're all not invited.
I'm having an introvert party and you're all not invited.
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February 9
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Eleventh Year of Publication
Three passengers are on board a small twin engine plane when it develops engine problems. The pilot realizes that the plane will not be able to continue its flight over the mountains. With no place to land, he decides to put it on autopilot and talk to the passengers. Arriving in the passenger compartment, he announces that the plane is going to crash. He tells the passengers that there are only three parachutes on board and that he is going to take one of them. With that said, he grabs one of the chutes and bails out of the ailing plane.
The three remaining passengers look at each other and almost immediately one begins to speak. "I'm a CEO of three major companies. Many important projects worldwide are depending on me to manage them. I'm probably the smartest man on earth and therefore I deserve one of the parachutes." He then picks up a parachute and leaps out of the airplane.
The two remaining passengers, a priest and a boy scout, just look at each other. Then the priest begins to speak. I am old and have lived most of my life. I'm confident of my future and not afraid to die. Please take the remaining chute and jump from the plane before it crashes. The boy scout just smiles and says, "Don't worry, we're both going to be okay. Remember that last guy, the smartest man in the world? He just jumped out of the plane holding my backpack.
(Ba-dum-CHING!)
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See you tomorrow!!
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Release the Epstein Files!!
1540 - The first recorded horse race meeting in England is held at Roodee Fields in Chester
1775 - British Parliament declares Massachusetts Colony in rebellion.
1895 - William Morgan presents his new sport "Mintonette" to the world at Springfield College, Massachusetts, later renames it "Volleyball".
1904 - Japanese torpedo boats launch a surprise attack on Russian ships at the Port Arthur naval base in Manchuria, beginning the Russo-Japanese War. Japanese troops also land at Chemulpo (Incheon), near Seoul, Korea; in three weeks, they advance to the Yalu River, the border of Manchuria.
1943 - Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ending the epic World War II battle on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific.
1972 - British government declares a state of emergency after a month-long coal miners' strike.
1964 - First appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from New York; broadcast draws 73.7 million television viewers.
1971 - First gay-themed TV episode - All in the Family.
1987: Actor Michael B. Jordan is having a birthday today.
National Pizza Day - Mama mia!! I love great pizza. Shout out to La Casa Pizza in Omaha!! The Digester's favorite pizza!!

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