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Patti was a big help today helping select the below NATIONAL TODAY Holidays to share here.

Two were so called “No Brainers”.

They were numbers one and two on the NATIONAL TODAY Holidays for February the 10th.

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Number 1..

You simply cannot be too careful in this digital world

Get your modems going because February 10 is Safer Internet Day!

It’s important to be aware of the ever changing landscape of the Internet. Awareness of the evolving space should be a top priority for adults and children. 

Yes! We know the above.

BUT this Holiday does not actually get down into the nitty gritty of Internet Safety. 

Then again, here on dotnet we have posted a lot about Internet Safety! 

JUST YESTERDAY for instance we discussed Computer Safety!

You may want to check out the NATIONAL TODAY Holiday website by clicking onto the below link BUT you won’t find too much actual information!

https://nationaltoday.com/safer-internet-day/

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Number Two..

This is about the most famous seven words in all of the world of newspapers here in the United States.

The New York Times..

All the News That’s Fit to Print Day is a holiday that is celebrated annually on February 10.

Even I, who shuns reading newspapers, KNEW that..

The words “all the news that’s fit to print” are some of the most famous words in American journalism.

The words printed on February 10, 1897, have a permanent place in the upper left corner, or left “ear”, of the “New York Times” masthead. 

The below words say it all. 

The use of the slogan happened a few months after Adolph Ochs became the publisher of the newspaper. The company had been facing difficulties and nearly went bankrupt before Ochs took over. His mission was to try and elevate the quality of the paper’s reporting.

He believed this would distinguish it from the “yellow journalism” newspapers that were dominant at the time.

Those newspapers were usually filled with stories that tended to be lurid and sensationalized. Sometimes they carried information that was factually inaccurate or outright false.

Ochs coined the slogan “all the news that’s fit to print” as a way to sum up his vision for “The Times.” The slogan debuted publicly in October 1896 on a sign that Ochs had placed in New York’s Madison Square.

I enjoyed reading the above on the NATIONAL TODAY website..

https://nationaltoday.com/all-the-news-thats-fit-to-print-day/

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The next two, were numbers 6 and 7 on the list of Holidays, another pair we both liked.

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We are both Cribbage fans. It’s a fun card game. Fifteen two, four, six, eight and knobs is nine! Smiling at “The Cribbage Lingo!”

We celebrate National Cribbage Day on February 10.

Cribbage is one of the oldest and most popular card games.

February the 10th is the birthday of Sir John Suckling who invented the game in the early 17th Century, based on the old English game “noddy.

Patti and I enjoyed reading about it’s history..

BUT..

Unless you know the game, we don’t think you will get much out of reading the below NATIONAL TODAY website link..

https://nationaltoday.com/international-cribbage-day/

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Hello Kat our Chocolate Loving friend and associate for over three decades!

Patti herself picked the below Holiday!

National Cream Cheese Brownie Day is on February 10.

The basic brownie recipe has been around for more than 200 years!

Just in case you want to read more, just click onto the below NATIONAL TODAY website link..

https://nationaltoday.com/national-cream-cheese-brownie-day/

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Yes! There you have it.

Cap and Patti

E.R. Visit – Medical Update – Patti’s Fall ..

At 3pm this afternoon, one week after Patti’s very serious fall on Monday, February the 2nd, Patti had to have eight staples removed from her scalp. 

I myself had never ever heard of staples being used to close a wound and stop the bleeding.

Surgical staples are specialized medical fasteners made of titanium or stainless steel, used to quickly close skin wounds, incisions, or connect internal organs during surgery. They offer a, faster, often less painful alternative to sutures, particularly for deep or high-tension areas like the scalp or abdomen. They require specialized, temporary removal, but some, like those for internal organs, are permanent.

My Personal Victory Today..

I do not do well around medical procedures.

In the Autumn of 1964, in Coalinga, California, a fellow co-worker was telling me about her recent surgery. The next thing I knew, I was looking up at the ceiling of an Ambulance en route to a local hospital because as this lady droned on and on and on about her surgery, I fainted and my head hit the floor.

I have to lay down for blood draws. In August of 1988, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, during a blood draw, I broke the needle off in my arm and began to binge vomit all over the place. The Mayo medical staff told me to always lay down for future blood draws. I.. do.. 

So I had some “concerns” about today knowing I would be up close and about 12 inches away from the procedure because I knew I would be holding Patti’s hand. By the way, so far Patti has never looked directly at the needle going into my eye as the doctor injects medicine into my left eye for Wet Macular degeneration. 

It.. was.. not.. pretty.. and yes I saw it up very closely.. but.. I.. did.. not.. faint..

Written smiling to myself over my victory today.

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