MONDAY 20th JULY 2015 06:24 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (20th July 1945)
In the Marianas...
General Spaatz names Curtis LeMay as chief of staff of US Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific

South China Sea...
IJN guardboat No. 3 Kyoraku Maru is sunk by USN submarine Bumper

Balut Island...
A detachment of US 8th Army lands unopposed

Off Japan...
Japanese vessel Tatsutagawa Maru is sunk by a mine

Yellow Sea...
IJN minesweeper W-39 is sunk by USN submarine Threadfin

Burma...
Isolated remnants of Japanese 28th Army in the Pegu Yomas begin an attempt to break out toward the east

Today's Air Raids...
Celebes Island on military targets by US FEAF
Luzon and Palawan on Japanese pockets by US 5th Air force
Japan on military targets on Honshu by US FEAF
Hengyang, Wuchang, Changsha, China by US 14th Air Force
Phu Thuong and Vinh, Indochina by US 14th Air Force

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Me Time
Housework
Meditation
Quality Missus Time

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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

I have no regrets about a "Honeymoon At Home" but it is of course self-catering, which means I am also the chambermaid. While Missus is at her obligatory medication review at the doctor's, I will have a golden opportunity to get round the house with the vacuum. 

Whilst flicking through Tumblr this morning, obviously you stumble across the odd sexual GIF animation and I noted with interest that there's still a "response" down there, but not a particularly useful one - I get a "semi" that never manifests into an actual full-on boner and dies literally within a minute of being born.

My research is fully congruent with my experience - that though the sexual reflex remains healthy, the cells at the base of the penis controlling blood flow and hence erections do not fully respond to the nerve and hormonal signals they get - a purely physiological malfunction. They need a lot more "persuasion" to follow through, either physical by continual stimulation or chemical from Viagra.  

Though most men would be profoundly embarrassed by all this, my introspective scientific mind finds this oddly fascinating, observing the ageing process from within. However I am a lot more upset if having actually initiated lovemaking I'm unable to follow through. Now I've mastered how and when to take the magic blue tablets, this will not happen in future. I'm fortunate that this and long-sightedness, the other nuisance of ageing, can in this day-and-age be easily got round. 

Other ageing symptoms noted are balding, greying (but not yet on body hair) the decline of the ability to perform tasks subconsciously and the failure to recall names. This latter nuisance is also oddly fascinating. I meet or recall people I know perfectly well, often whom I have known for years, but the name has gone!! It's as if the name is stored in a separate and less reliable place in the mind from all the other memories about the person, which are kept in a more primal and robust place.

Amused, Higher Consciousness looks on...

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU

Have you embraced the reality that all things must pass?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD

Mainly dry and cloudy

A strong likelihood of isolated showers in the afternoon and early evening

A light south-easterly will strengthen over the day, swinging south-westerly in the evening

Max Temp = 18 degC at 5pm

Min Temp = 11 degC at 6am

Sunrise at 05:02

Sunset at 21:24

Moon:

 

Weathertrack: A depression west of Ireland and moving north will drive weather fronts across Britain today

Air Pressure: 1010 millibars and falling

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

If I owned a bar, I would pour myself shots every 15 minutes, , look in the mirror, wink and say "It's on the house." :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

Steve Hughes on snobbery in charities

8. TRIVIA

Because the movie Halloween (1978) was made on such a small budget, they had to use the cheapest mask they could find for the character Michael Meyers, which turned out to be a William Shatner Star Trek mask. Shatner initially didn’t know the mask was in his likeness, but when he found out years later, he said he felt honoured.

9. ZEN WISDOM

The worst mistake you can make is to give up on yourself and stop challenging yourself for fear of failure. Keep moving forward with a firm eye on the future, telling yourself, “I’ll start from today!” “I’ll start afresh from now, from this very moment!”