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Date: 17 September 2008 19:31:37
Things are going very smoothly at the moment, a worry for all true cynics. If something goes right in my world then obvioously something must be going very wrong elsewhere.
Mini-Me has no left. The boss decided that it wasn't worth her seeing out her notice. We couldn't very well ask her to do work that required someone to oversee what she did, as that would just slow us down and waste time.
Work Colleague has decided that he is now back full time. He was supposed to discuss this with people but made the decision on his own. He has still not learned that things have changed and that he is only supposed to deal with certain customers - as we had agreed prior to his departure. It doesn't go down too well when he is asked to hand over files or quote requests to me.
Still there is no bad atmosphere thankfully.
History Today:
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie (The Young Pretender) enters Edinburgh and proclaims his father (The Old Pretender) James VIII of Scotland. No one seems to knows who The Great Pretender was.
1908: Lt Thomas Selfridge of the US Signal Corps becomes the first person to be killed in a plane crash. He was in a plane with Orville WSright at Fort Meyer in Virginia. Those pesky Wright Brothers.
1939: The Soviet Union invades Poland without declaring war, having made a secret agreement with Nazi Germany on the dismemberment of Poland.
1944: Operation Market Garden begins with the mass descent of allied airborne troops from Eindhoven to Arnhem.
1970: King ussein of Jordan launches an attack on the Palestinian guerillas all across Jordan, in what becomes known as Black September. Later to become a terrorist organisation and a film.
1972: M*A*S*H debuts on network TV in the US.
1978: The Camp David Accords are signed developing a framework that led to a peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. It brought an end to 3 decades of conflict between the countries. Following the signature of the peace deal Anwar Sadat & Menachim Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - 3 years later Sadat is assassinated for his actions.
1993: The British National Party wins its first council seat in a by-election in Millwall, East London.
2004: Cechen warlord, Shamil Basayev claims responsibility for the having organised the Beslanscool siege. 320 hostages, mainly children, were killed.