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🌼SPRING IS HERE I'M SO EXCITED, I WET MY PLANTS🌻
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April 26
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
Billy Bob and Bubba are fishing one afternoon. Billy Bob tells Bubba, "You know, I reckon I'm 'bout ready for a vacation, only this year I'm gonna do it different."
"Whaddya mean?" asks Bubba.
Billy Bob continues, "Well, the last few years, I been taking your advice 'bout where to go. Three years ago, you said to go to Hawaii, I went to Hawaii and Becky got pregnant. Then two years ago, you told me to go to the Bahamas, and Becky got pregnant again. Last year you suggested Tahiti, and darned if Becky didn't get pregnant again!"
Bubba asks, "So, what you gonna do this year that's different?"
Billy Bob replies, "Well, this time, I'm taking Becky with me."
See you tomorrow!!
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1859 - Congressman Daniel E. Sickles is acquitted in the murder of Philip Barton Key on grounds of "temporary insanity," the first time this defense is used successfully in the US.
1941 - A tradition begins with the first organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs).
1945 - Marshal Philippe Pétain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during World War II, is arrested for treason.
1956 - First modern container ship, the Ideal X, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
1986 - World's worst nuclear disaster: The fourth reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union explodes, 31 die and radioactive contamination reaches much of Western Europe.
1980: Fast and Furious actress, Jordana Brewster, has a birthday today.
National Help A Horse Day - Such beautiful beasts!!
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 didn’t 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 ‘Weather’ 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 its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!