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Not the Supreme Court, but its sure to end up there

January 6 is a wedding anniversary for two presidents: George Washington and George H.W. Bush. In 1759, a 26-year-old George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis. The recently widowed, Virginia-born Martha was an educated mother of two. George Washington–then a rising young officer in the colonial British army–moved his new bride and family to his estate at Mount Vernon. Washington soon adopted Martha’s two young children, Jack and Patsy. The couple was married until his death in 1799, a 40-year union. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6/two-future-presidents-marry-respective-sweethearts

The more things change.....

and just a few verses later 18 “‘Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.

If I can trust ChatGPT, Hendrix had done shorter versions of SSB before but not with all the effects. He claimed it was spontaneous. He was performing late Sunday night, early Monday morning after many of the concert goers had made their way out. He was also not performing with his regular band at the time, but with a transitional group he had put together. SSB was also at the end of improvisation after Voodoo Child, and he said it wasn't planned, just came in the moment

January 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-6?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0106-01062026

Or go 5 miles out of their way..

January 5 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-5?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0105-01052026

The Bear's season was similar to last year's Commanders. The Green Bay game may be winnable, I'm not sure about the rest. They're just as likely to regress next year, just like Washington. Remember the team is still owned by the McCaskeys, the family that can't find a city willing to fund their stadium

My son was a supervisor on the early part of the project. The firm he worked for at the time was in charge of the cleanup in the former Delray neighborhood. A lot of homes in that area were just bulldozed over, when the went to dig a lot of time they'd come up with a shovelfull of mattress.

Without checking I'm sure they were. They come from a long line of bootleggers. That's how they could afford to build the old bridge (along with tolls)

Not time to get cute. Keep playing smash-mouth FB

Start imposing taxes on U-S airline flights and cruise ships into countries like Greenland and Canada. Give Trump na taste of own medicine. Also remind Donald who paid for the Howe Bridge when it opens

All this talk and desire for oil, but maybe this is where real money is. And the Orange Mussolini holds a grudge because he's still in the 1950s

I've spent a bit of time in traffic in Indiana. Not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed when it comes to drivers

Meanwhile that same road construction has closed one of the 2 main entrances to the subdivisions around us. It only adds a few more minutes to the trip, just a bit of a pain traveling about 3 miles out of your way to get to the nearest grocery store. We're still in a bit of a shopping wasteland here. It seems longer, but its about a 15 minute drive to the Food Lion. While they do a good job, the increase in the nearby population takes a toll on availability and staff is constantly restocking. The next closest is another 15 minute drive. A real pain if your just looking for a few items

Our area has a combination of cameras on buses as well as speed cameras in school zones. The neighboring county has placed speed cameras along the interstate in the construction zone. Anyone clocked at more than ten miles over the posted speed limit gets a ticket in the mail. It's been quite profitable for them

The good news is it's an extremely slow time in CW. Most "passers thru" are hopefully vaccinated. Will probably carry a mask just in case

January 4 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/january-4?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0104-01042026

The initial British raid on Norfolk’s waterfront on New Year’s Day burned nineteen buildings, worth three thousand pounds (added to the thirty-two houses, worth two thousand pounds, Lord Dunmore razed while fortifying the town when the British were still in control of it). Howe & Woodford’s official communications will simply omit that it is Virginia & North Carolina troops who are responsible for destroying the eighth-largest town in the Thirteen Colonies, nor will they correct anyone who speaks or writes to them of British forces’ “horrid work.” The Virginia Convention’s initial investigation will be headed by Howe himself, and it will conclude, unsurprisingly, that it is the British who destroyed the town—a conclusion that Americans will simply accept. In 1777, after petitions from townsfolk, a further investigation will unearth the truth of matters, at which time the state legislature will compensate those victims who are not Loyalists. But the new investigation’s report will be kept secret. Not until the 1830s will the Virginia government make the report public, and even then it will be buried in a legislative journal. It will be the twentieth century before historians discover the truth of the burning of Norfolk.