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Go visit a museum today!

Time to catch up on those dirty dishes that have been piling up on your counter all week.

This would be a perfect day to have a family reunion or to make plans to visit family you have been saying you should go visit.

Get out and enjoy some sunshine today! Don't forget the sunscreen!

This day can be celebrated on the 18th or the 19th. It celebrates the accounting profession and encourages young people to consider making it their profession.

Towel Day is a tribute to the author's A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  It was originally held two weeks after his death which was May 11, 2001.

In 1930, Richard Drew, an engineer for 3M invented Cellulose Tape which we now know as Cellophane or Scotch Tape.  It was promoted as a way to 'make do' during the great depression as folks used it to make small repairs to household items.  It was promoted as an attractive way for grocers and bakers to seal packages.  I like 'brown paper packages tied up with strings' as much as the next person, but tape sure is handy for the…

With summer just around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, it's time to look to sunscreen to protect your skin from the harmful effects of the sun. Check the SPF for UVB protection. The SPF number indicates how well a sunscreen protects against ultraviolet B (UVB) rays. If you’d normally get a sunburn in 10 minutes, an SPF 15 extends that by 15 times. So you could last 150 minutes before burning. How high an SPF do you need?  The…