Day 245: The Revolution & The Reunion

 

September 2nd, 2011I knew from the beginning September was going to be a great month, and today has continued that trend with the prospects of revolution on the verge, as well as a reunion. I went to EHS in the morning, and worked at 401, with my boss telling me he already submitted my time sheet. How kind of him. Apparently he wants me to peel some corn husk really badly in 2 weeks for the annual EHS beach party. Fun Fun Fun in the Sun, but not for my skin.

Afterwards, Alex Goetz picked me up and we got some lunch together at none other than the delicious Pho Phuong Trang. With the soothing soup in my mouth came discussions regarding Alex’s future in graduate school. We got some dessert at Yogurt World on Convoy before making plans to go to Coronado on Monday. YEEEEE. She dropped me off, and I picked up my Ron Paul merchandise in the mailbox: in the form of 1 t-shirt and 2 wristbands. THE REVOLUTION IS STRONG, ALIVE, AND KICKING! Afterwards, was a REunion, with me busing to BJ’s to meet up with former ThinkTogether coworkers Berkelee, Alex, and Dominique. It’s sad the others couldn’t join us but we had a blast reminiscing about our past job as well as discussing our potential futures. Out of all four of them, I’m the only one with a potential future career in teaching. Good stuff. We all ordered different pizzas, and pazookies, which I snapped a delicious picture of. We took a reunion picture before Berklee graciously dropped me back at my place (even though I said I could bus having done so so many times before), awaiting Michelle to come over. She came, we watched two episodes of Degrassi (which she hated), and said our goodbyes because her time in Summer Session II is up. By the end of the night, I watched several episodes of the Glee Project (as recommended by Berklee and Dominique). The End.

On this day in 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail. Several inventors worked on early versions of a cash-dispensing machine, but Don Wetzel, an executive at Docutel, a Dallas company that developed automated baggage-handling equipment, is generally credited as coming up with the idea for the modern ATM. Wetzel reportedly conceived of the concept while waiting on line at a bank. The ATM that debuted in New York in 1969 was only able to give out cash, but in 1971, an ATM that could handle multiple functions, including providing customers’ account balances, was introduced. SO CONVENIENT OMG 🙂

Ron Paul briefly traded the campaign trail for a bike trail on a beautiful sunny Friday here in Granite State. The congressman from Texas, who recently celebrated his 76th birthday, took reporters on a 6-mile bike ride through the woods and claimed his health is just fine. Before shoving off with a couple of print reporters in tow, Paul tooled around on his bike and confidently chatted about his campaign prospects in New Hampshire.Ron Paul briefly traded the campaign trail for a bike trail on a beautiful sunny Friday here in Granite State. The congressman from Texas, who recently celebrated his 76th birthday, took reporters on a 6-mile bike ride through the woods and claimed his health is just fine. Before shoving off with a couple of print reporters in tow, Paul tooled around on his bike and confidently chatted about his campaign prospects in New Hampshire. YAY STILL IN PERFECT HEALTH. THE REVOLUTION IS STRONG AND ALIVE.

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