WEDNESDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2015 08:37 GMT

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (18th February 1945)
On the Russian Front...
Marshal Chernakhvosky, commanding Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front, is killed in action
Marshal Vasilevsky takes command of Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front and 1st Baltic Front as 'Samland Group'
Kriegsmarine cruiser Admiral Scheer, two destroyers, and two torpedo boats support German Army Detachment Samland as they attack around Koenigsberg
German 11th SS Panzer Army counterattacks around Stargard collapse in the face of strong Soviet resistance
8th Guards Army of Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front attack the encircled German garrison of Posen 
Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front is heavily engaged along the Bobr River 
German 6th SS Panzer Army counterattacks 7th Guards Army of Soviet 2nd Ukrainian Front around the Hron bridgehead 
German Army Group E withdraws from Mostar

Norway...
Kriegsmarine mine destructor vessel Sperrbrecher-139 is sunk by a mine off Lindesnes 

Germany...
Dr. Josef Mengele flees Gross-Rosen concentration camp disguised as a Wehrmacht officer to Saaz, entrusting his records on his medical experiments to a sympathetic nurse.

On the Western Front...
Canadian 1st Army attacks Goch 
US 3rd Army opens new attacks around Kesfeld, Grosskampenberg, Leidenborn, Cruchten, Hommerdingen, Stockigt, and Schwankweiler 
US 7th Army attacks around Oeting, Forbach, Etzling, Lixing, and Grosbliederstroff 

Italy...
10th Mountain Division of US 5th Army scales Sarasiccia-Campania cliff and takes German positions by suprise overnight

Algiers...
US President Roosevelt briefly stops in the port to brief various ambassadors and officials regarding the Yalta conference 

In the Pacific...
USN Task Force 92 bombards Paramushiru Island 

On Luzon, On Luzon, US 6th Army continues heavy artillery attacks in Manila and advancing into the Bataan peninsula 
Rock Force of US 6th Army with naval support assaults Japanese positions on Corregidor Island

USN Task Force 54 continues the air/sea bombardment of Iwo Jima - USN light minelayer Gamble is written off by Japanese aircraft 

Japan...
Final day of the air/sea raid by USN Task Force 58:
USN destroyer Waldron rams and sinks a Japanese patrol vessel
IJN auxiliary sub chaser Ayukawa Maru is sunk by USN destroyer Dortch
USN destroyers Barton, Ingraham, and Moale sink three IJN guardboats 

Burma...
Japanese forces continue attacks against British 14th Army bridgehead across Irrawaddy River opposite Myinmu west of Mandalay 
Indian 15th Corps completes clearing the area around Kangaw 

Today's Air Raids...
Antwerp, Belgium by seven V-2 rockets
Linz, Austria by US 15th Air Force
Wesel and Mannhein, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
London by 20 V-2 rockets
North Sea minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Po Valley, Italy by US 12th Air Force fighters
Truk Atoll by US 20th Air Force
Borneo on military targets by US FEAF
Okayama, Takao, Toshien, and military targets on Formosa by US FEAF
Haha Jima and Chichi Jima by USN aircraft from Task Force 58
Pinghan, Chiuchiang, Nanking, Lohochai, and Hsuchang, China by US 14th Air Force fighters 
Namsang and Ke-hsi Mansam bridges, and Japanese positions, supply dumps, and other targets at multiple locations throughout Burma by US 10th Air Force 

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping with Missus
Day out with Missus
Me Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION 
A day devoted to Missus - my preference would be to do better things with my life, but bottom line is I am her carer and she is Priority #1. I could easily tell Missus to bog off but this is an opportunity to make her happy relatively inexpensively, and I already enjoy exceptional freedom as husbands go so this is a small but value investment in the relationship.

Her being a loon, her idea of a good time is somewhat unusual. She likes shopping with me at ASDA and wants to go for tea and cakes at M&S Leeds. This makes her by female standards very easy to please. 

I would never have chosen to be a carer for a Psychotic as the basis of a marriage, but now all associated traumas have passed, it now suits me. I like the freedom of being both Master, housekeeper and "kept man" and the fact that Missus worships me. All I need to do in return is accept that I am a carer and conduct interventions as necessary to keep her illness under control, which manifests in hoarding, overspending and OCD.

Daughter has made this job harder by making no allowances for her mother's condition, threatening to worsen it through psychological cruelty and indeed actively exploiting it to extort money we don't have. However, last few visits by Missus have passed off acceptably. If Daughter could just be nice to her mother every time, I could happily forget her and get on with my life.

My somewhat unusual life suits me - which probably makes me weird, but enables me to fully experience and appreciate it, and most importantly, pass on the wisdom this character has accrued to other nodes of consciousness the universe manifests.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Is your ideal life your own idea or what other people tell you it is?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy throughout with a moderate south-westerly wind
Max Temp = 7 degC at 2pm
Min Temp = 5 degC at midnight
Sunrise at 07:21
Sunset at 17:22

Weathertrack: A weak weather front over Britain will produce only cloud

That's all folks! Out of time!