SATURDAY 11th JULY 2015 06:10 BST

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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (11th July 1945)
Berlin...
The Allied council meets for the first time 

USA...
Admiral Hewitt concludes investigation into Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, producing 1342 pages of documentation
General Henry Arnold departs for the Potsdam Conference

Tokyo...
Japanese government reiterates its orders to its ambassador in Moscow to meet with Molotov about new treaty proposals - the ambassador reports an inconclusive meeting with an evasive Molotov

Off Japan..
The Japanese lose two vessels to mines and two to submarines

China...
Chinese 94th Army recovers Tinglingao

Today's Air Raids...
Luzon and Negros on Japanese pockets by US 5th Air force
Shinchiku, Formosa by US FEAF
Japan fighter sweeps across Kyushu by US FEAF
Off Japan minelaying by US 20th Air Force
East China Sea minelaying by US 20th Air Force
China on transportation lines, river traffic, Japanese positions, and other targets around Nanchang, Kweiyi, Puchi, Tanchuk, and the Luichow peninsula by US 14th Air Force fighters

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

Twitter Followers = 1,980 (down 2)
Non-followed eliminated = 2
both untraced
Unfollowers eliminated = 0

New Followers followed back = 0

Spammers not followed back = 0

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

So Son whilst in Minsk has got officially engaged to his true-love and is generally head-over-heels. I am not going to openly piss on his bonfire, but the two of them have seriously got their work cut out just finding a way to be together. They're both going to have to come up with some serious cash to turn all this euphoria into a settled existence, and before that there's going to be some prolonged periods apart. 

Of course myself and his mother had a similar experience around the same age, but we were only a few hundred miles apart in the same country, not thousands of miles in two completely different ones. I guess being young and in love you just don't think about what it's gonna take. However I know better than to worry on their behalf. My role as father is to retreat to the background as the comforting presence to be consulted where needed. It's their own struggle and their own story.

Meanwhile, I need to forge ahead with my own life experience. My ambition is simply more of what I've already got and to relish every moment of it. I have a simple twin-focus - my Practice and Missus. The marriage is enjoying its Golden Age whilst my Practice after a recent resurgence has the potential to go viral if I persist with it. I also know that it's not the goal, it's achieving it where the fulfilment lies - the goal is the focus that makes the difference happen. 

Consciousness is now in the position to enjoy this movie!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU

What are you doing to reach your goals?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD

Mainly dry and cloudy with a window of sunshine in the late morning

A possibility of light rain showers from the evening onwards

A moderate south-westerly will blow throughout

Max Temp = 17 degC at 1pm

Min Temp = 14 degC at midnight

Sunrise at 04:50

Sunset at 21:34

Moon: 

Weathertrack: A ridge of high pressure over Britain will retreat south and allow weak weather fronts to move in from the west

Air Pressure: 1014 millibars and static

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

I tried to donate blood yesterday, but they had too many questions about where I found it :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!

George Carlin on American shopping malls

8. TRIVIA

On January 31, 1945, Private Eddie Slovik was shot for desertion, the first American executed for the crime since the Civil War and the only one to suffer this punishment during WWII

9. ZEN WISDOM

People who live a life of tenacity and challenge break through all the obstacles they face just as water eventually carves a path through rock. Be strong like constantly flowing water, ever moving forward