MONDAY 29th JUNE 2015 06:11 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (29th June 1945)
Ruthenia ...
The province of Ruthenia is formally ceded by Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union

Washington DC...
President Truman reviews plans for landings on Kyushu in November and Honshu in March 1946

Bougainville Island...
Australian II Corps is attacking Japanese 17th Army along the Buin Road

Borneo...
Australian 9th Infantry Division finishes mopping up around Beaufort
USN and RAN warships of Task Force 74 with air support bombard targets around Balikpapan

Luzon...
US FEAF aircraft attacks pockets of Japanese forces

Okinawa...
US 10th Army with air support continues mopping up operations

Kume Shima...
US 10th Army declares the island secure

Tokyo...
The Japanese government presents the Soviet ambassador a proposal about a new economic and military agreement

Off Japan...
Japanese vessel Kyokuto Maru is sunk and four others are damaged by mines

China...
Kweilin-Liuchow operations: 
With Japanese 11th Army withdrawing toward Kweilin, Chinese 46th Army recovers Liuchow
Chinese 46th Army pursues the retreating Japanese to Lapao and Linchiang

Today's Air Raids...
Balikpapan and military targets in Borneo by US FEAF
Shinchiku, Formosa by US FEAF
Sakishima Islands on airfields by USN aircraft
Japan on airfields on Kyushu by US 7th Air Force
Kudamastsu, Japan by US 20th Air Force
Off Japan minelaying by US 20th Air Force
East China Sea minelaying by USN PB4Y-2 aircraft
China on bridges at Chungmow, transportation lines, Japanese positions, and other targets at multiple locations by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
The Milk Run
Housework, including "ironing marathon"
Client prep and follow up
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 1,982 (down 1)
Non-followed eliminated = 1
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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
New Followers followed back = 0

Spammers not followed back = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

I seem to be needing a lot less sleep of late, getting by on around 5 hours, and an hour of meditation per day. I'm just kinda going with it an observing with interest. I think it's mainly down to being happy and stress-free. I sleep more when upset about something, as does Missus, though she still needs much more sleep than me.

The way to live in paradise and not self-sabotage it is, I have concluded, by treating each day like it was the last one, and expressing profound gratitude for all its blessings, where I was loved and I made a difference. It's then wonderful to get another one. I know full well that I am mortal and one day will eventually be the last one. That focuses the mind wonderfully.

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Do you regularly think of the things for which you're profoundly grateful?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry cloudy and mild throughout, with sunny periods around beginning and end
A light south-westerly will swing south-easterly in the late evening
Max Temp = 17 degC at 3pm
Min Temp = 13 degC at 6am
Sunrise at 04:39
Sunset at 21:42
Moon: 

Weathertrack: An anticyclone moving rapidly north-east from the Bay of Biscay to northern Europe will keep Britain dry today

Air Pressure: 1020 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

When I'm in a car wash, I like to close my eyes and pretend I'm in a car :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Bill Maher on unnecessary British accents

8. TRIVIA

The length of all Chinese defense walls built over the last 2,000 years is approximately 31,070 miles (50,000 km). Earth’s circumference is only 24,854 miles (40,000 km)

9. ZEN WISDOM

The biggest obstacles to our progress exist within our own lives in the form of cowardice and the tendency to give up. Breaking through these barriers will unleash a surging wave of change.