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Happy Friday!

I see there is a 4 year gap on your resume. Did you work in the Trump administration?

Good grief…it’s been years!

On this day in 1957, The Silhouettes released their hit single: “Get a Job”. The song reached number 1 on both the pop and R&B charts and was later featured on the soundtracks of ‘American Graffiti’, ‘Stand by Me’ and others.

Posted by Tom in doo-wop, Humor

Thursday already

preparing for the new lockdown…

Blair Witch
So you bring a tree in the house, put all these shiny dangling things on it, then freak out if I go near it...

One week until the big day!

Thanksgiving COVID Rockwell 560x733

This day in 1964, The Supremes became the first all-girl group to have the number 1 single in the UK with this song:

Posted by Tom in Humor

Ten Years

As most of you are aware, for many years I’ve been sharing some of the brilliant web comics, xkcd, by Randall Munroe. In November of 2010, Megan, then his fiancĂ©e (now wife) received a diagnosis of stage 3 breast cancer.

During her eight months of treatment, Munroe posted several comics about her diagnosis and treatment. Here are a couple:

Tattoo
Emotion
Probability

So this month is the ten-year anniversary of the diagnosis and he posted this, which I think is wonderful. I’m sure many of you can relate.

Posted by Tom in Observations

Maybe Tuesday

The way things are going on earth, some people may want to leave. It’s getting pretty crowded up on the ISS though with 5 spacecraft docked there today.

Nov. 16, 2020: International Space Station Configuration
ISS Configuration
Sarcastic vintage photo parody.

Normally I ignore advice from celebrities, but Samuel L. Jackson has some good advice for all of us on how to beat, or at least mitigate, the current pandemic. Pay attention!

Today is the birthday (in 1938) of Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot. I suppose his biggest hit was The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Posted by Tom in Humor