Today is my mom’s birthday! Here are some interesting things that happened throughout history on January 25 (most found on this site):
1533 – England’s King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date)
1799 – 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
1802 – Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic
1851 – Sojourner Truth [...]

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I’d like to extend it to be inauguration week. And since this is my blog, I can do what I want.
I never get picked for anything. I never win anything. Ever. But on Tuesday, my number got called to sit on a jury, which I did for two days. Perhaps [...]

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The day we’ve all been waiting for: January 20, 2009. No, not because I have jury duty this morning. Today is the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States: Barack Hussein Obama. I won’t go on about how this is such an amazing time in our lives, I won’t go [...]

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So I’ve been neglectful. It’s not like anyone reads this blog anyway.
The Pie, Mowgli, and The Duck came to visit (with their parents) on the date of my previous post and stayed for a week. We did lots of fun things, such as playing Bingo at the Chanukah dinner at the shul, running [...]

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