Jack-Town

Welcome back to the insanity!! Yes sir, it's (Tuesday, Mangal-waar, Seshanbeh, yawm-ath-thalatha, Fidal, Setting Orange). The bad thing about going out of town for a couple of days is that your work starts piling up. So, you get back to work and find a pile of files in your chair about two feet high. FTS, America. I guess the show must go on. Time stops for no man (or woman). And many other proverbs. I got to see my son this weekend for the first time in over two years. That was pretty awesome. It wasn't enough time, but it was awesome nonetheless. That being said, I have no idea what's going on in the world right now. I've been in Michigan where it's cold and I was sober the entire time. Weird. So, right now I'm in a sprint to get today's blog done.

In 352 the first Council of Nicaea begun in Turkey. The result was the establishment of the Nicene Creed which is one of the most important Creeds in the history of Christianity and was the first step in establishing an orthodox church. In 526 an earthquake killed about 300,000 in Syria. In 685 the Battle of Dunnichen took place between the Picts and the Northumbrians in Scotland. Picts are a mysterious race of people that historians are not clear about. The term comes from the Latin "Picti" which means "painted or tatooed". In 1570 the first modern atlas was published by Abraham Ortelius. In 1609 Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published. In 1631 the city of Magdeburg, Germany was captured by the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants were slaughtered. In 1840 the York Minster was damaged in a fire. York is an amazingly quaint city and if you ever want to visit somplace that really feels like a medieval English village, you should go to York. And if you do, you should visit the Minster (cathedral) which is pretty interesting. In 1873 Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a patent for blue jeans. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off on the first solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight. Five years later, Amelia Earhart was the first woman to do the same thing. In 1940 the first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz. In 1965 a Pakistani Airlines flight crashed killing 119. And in 1989 the Chinese government declared martial law.

Two things: I need to get a divorce and I hate O'Hare. And one more thing, Detroit is the most depressing city I have ever been to.

Happy Birthday: Honore de Balzac; William Fargo; Jimmy Stewart; Jack Kevorkian; Cher; and Busta Rhymes.

Peace.