October 7th - Yo-yo'ing with pretzels on the moon

 For a long long long time within human history, we'd only ever been able to see one side of the moon.  Yet, in 1959, thanks to the USSR's Luna 3 space probe, humans got their first glimpse of what the other side of the moon looked like.

Interesting.  You'd almost think that the moon would spin as it orbits, but no, it's always facing us that one way.  Which is good as it's got a lot of craters on that side taking the asteroids hits for us.

[did you know it's still Space Week?]

The famous Yo-Yo Ma was 4 years old when they first got that photo.

Maybe he was already practicing that cello at that age. [he was]

Celebrate his birthday with a chocolate covered pretzel, as it's that National Day in the US. 

September 13 - The Law & Order of Chocolate Scooby Persian Snacks

 September 13th and I'm back in the office baby... that being said, we're still doing all of our meetings virtually, so I still need these sweet backgrounds.

One of the nice things about being downtown again for work is the proximity to snacks... mm.. I do love chocolate, and it is WORLD CHOCOLATE DAY.

As I think I remarked earlier in this blog, Chocolate Day has many days, but this is recognized by the US Chocolate Confectioners as it's the birthday of Milton Hershey (born September 13, 1857).

As much as I love chocolate, in Thunder Bay, when it comes to snacks you just gotta nosh on a Persian.

So, a "Persian" is a special cinnamon bun style pastry with a strawberry (or raspberry) icing that was invented here - and legend has it - named after a certain Commander John J. "Black Jack" Pershing who visited a local bakery.  Cmdr Pershing was born September 13th, 1860.

Know who else loved a good snack?  Scooby Doo.

A scooby-snack could get him to do anything, and the first episode ever of the show aired on September 13th, 1969, "What a Night for a Knight".

Man that seems like a long time for a show to be on, but we're still watching them today.

Another show that seemed to go on forever, and I just couldn't get enough of it is Law & Order.  The originals... man, now my favourite era has to be Briscoe & Logan.  Great stuff.

It's first episode was September 13th, 1990.  And it spawned off tons of other series too.

July 28 - Coffee & Chocolate, I'm sure Garfield approves

 In the US they celebrate milk chocolate day on July 28th (which I always find a bit harder to find in the states, whereas it's the more popular here in Canada).

And what goes well with chocolate?  Well, coffee of course.  

The USA during the war had rationed coffee, and today they ended the coffee rationing.  

WHEW.

Coffee and Chocolate... stuff I'm sure Garfield would approve of.

Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, turns 76.

July 7 - It's World Chocolate Day

 July 7th is World Chocolate Day.

I found this odd as typically, one of the calendars I checked didn't mention it at all.

Then, via the Wikipedia page (usually my last resort to find something) it turns out that page I was using was American, and the US folks observe international chocolate day on a different day to coincide with Mr. Hershey's birthday.

Oh the US, just gotta be different eh?

Dark chocolate and Candy Canes for Zoom

Well he's having Candy Canes, that's one of their 4 food groups.  I don't know how chocolate fits in ...