My Daily Banana: 07/31/14

Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014

My Daily Banana

Photo of the Day:

The wind has changed from east to west and it's bringing the clouds and with them rain

Event of the Day:

31st July 1970

Black Tot Day

The last day on which the Royal Navy sailors becomes its rum ration.

The rum ration named Rum Tot goes back to the eighteenth century when the sailors had a ration of a gallon of beer daily; this was too bulky to store on board so the ration was changed to half a pint of rum a day. Over the years the rum ration was slowly reduced until 1970 when the British parliament ruled, that the ration be stopped

Birthday of the Day:

31st July 1932

Ted Cassidy

I'll bet no one knows him by his name, but everyone knows him as an actor in the part of Lurch in "The Addams Family"

31st July 1965

J. K. Rowling

The novelist who brought reading to many children and grown-ups with her Harry Potter series of books

I haven't read one, but they must be good judging by the amount of books that were sold. The fantasy books I read were the Tolkien books which I devoured back in the seventies, before the hype that came with the trilogy filming of Lord of the Rings.

Died on this Day:

31st July 1964

Jim Reeves

American country singer/songwriter died while piloting his own airplane at the age of forty. Here he is singing his most popular song I Love You Because

Thoughts:

At last, a day that seems to be going my way. I've had such a down the last days, when I'm in a mood like that nothing goes right either; so my programing was destined to fail. Today, with help from my colleague I found the fault and could revise it. The help was necessary because when I get into a rut I keep looking at the missing link without seeing it, the help looks at the work from a different angle and lucky me he saw it,.

Another hour and I'm off, Heike is going to Leck to meet our little daughter Lynda. I haven't seen her for weeks so I'll be heading on to Leck myself. .