FRIDAY 17th JULY 2015 05:57 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (17th July 1945)
Germany...
Opening of Potsdam conference with Truman, Stalin, and Churchill
News is circulated among the US generals of the success of the atomic bomb test in the USA

Borneo...
Australian 7th Infantry Division is expanding and consolidating its beachhead in the Balikpapan sector

Okinawa...
General Doolittle arrives to formally open the US 8th Air Force headquarters for operations against Japan

Tokyo...
The Japanese government tells their ambassdor in Moscow it continues to desire to send a special representative for consultatons with the Soviets, but it will not accept unconditional surrender. They also decide that the Netherlands East Indies will be granted independence in September

China...
Chinese 29th Army recovers Huangmien

Today's Air Raids...
Amami-O-Shima Island by US FEAF
Kyushu Island, Japan on military targets by US FEAF
Tokyo by USN aircraft
Off Japan and the East China Sea minelaying by US 20th Air Force
Shanghai, China by US FEAF
China on targets throughout southern and eastern China by US 14th Air Force
Indochina on multiple military targets by US 14th Air force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Me Time/meditation
Shift 1 of the Weekend Job
Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

For most folks, a trip round Sainsburys is a chore. For Missus however, it is one of the best days out ever. Consequently I was able to make her day inexpensively just by walking round there with her, purchasing sanitary towels, which she uses as panty liners. Missus is mentally ill of course, but this sort of behaviour is harmless and nothing like what she'd be like without olanzapine. Thanks to me, Viagra and olanzapine, Missus thoroughly enjoyed her day, and it was an honour to be able to facilitate it.

Less encouraging was Daughter's behaviour and her needy insecure ARE YOU PAYING ME UNDIVIDED ATTENTION attitude towards her mother over the telephone. Her recent successes, academically, careerwise and in relationships, has made her personality no less ghastly, still treating her mother with the absolute absence of consideration and tenderness. Leopards don't change their spots I guess.

Considerably more expensive than the trip to Sainsburys was a quality bass guitar amp which I have ordered to replace the one I've borrowed from Son. I use it not for bass guitar playing but for sound mixing in the Consulting Room. Though expensive, its still cheaper than an actual sound mixer and does everything I would want a sound mixer to do. It's a one-off good investment in my Practice. 

Amused, Higher Consciousness looks on...

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU

Are you making the best choices for your happiness?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD

Dry and cloudy throughout

An initially south-easterly light wind will swing south-westerly from mid-morning and strengthen

Max Temp = 18 degC at 11am

Min Temp = 13 degC at midnight

Sunrise at 04:57

Sunset at 21:28

Moon: 

Weathertrack: A depression north of Ireland will send weather fronts east across Britain today, but the rain will be mostly confined to the north and west

Air Pressure: 1014 millibars and falling slightly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

My unusual name is the same as my father, Anonymous :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

George Carlin on Euphemisms

8. TRIVIA

Famous individuals who suffered epression include Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Peter Tchaikovsky, John Lennon, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Georgia O’Keefe, Vincent van Gogh, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Plath

9. ZEN WISDOM

Just as a spring breeze awakens tender new shoots of green, sincere encouragement can thaw a frozen heart and instill courage. It is the most powerful means to rejuvenate the human spirit.