So was yesterday the worst day?

[Thornir Alekeg]

I personally think he was off a day (or maybe the calculations are different for the UK vs. US). Yesterday was not great, but today has been completely awful. NOTHING I have needed to do has gone right, everything I have accomplished has led to more problems. Last Friday was really good, I would like to go back to that day, please.

 

[Torm]

OTOH, we didn't have 6 billion people in 1918. I don't know the number, but it can't be more than 4 billions and it was probably substantially less. Assuming 4 billions, that would be 1%.

1,011,697,761 - estimated population of Earth on January 25, 1918 by Berkeley's population calculator.
A good rule of thumb for this that I learned in 6th grade Social Studies - doesn't work all the time, but works pretty darn well for most purposes - is that the planetary population has doubled every 33 years. Using that, it puts the population in 1918 at 1.08 Billion. Pretty close.

 

[Richards]

Yesterday was my youngest son's birthday. He'll be real thrilled to know that his birthday is associated with so much negativity.

Johnathan

 

[AuroraGyps]

It had it's crappy moments... and carried over to today

Pleas see my thread about writing a closure letter to see how yesterday was. Today was just about as bad. I forgot to set my alarm and overslept, so I couldn't make any phone calls (not that I really wanted to), nobody returned any of the phone calls I've made, my package from Amazon is somewhere (could be delayed by the weather), & my whole body hurts from yesterday's slogging through the snow (that uses muscles that I didn't know I had). I also still have to go to the grocery store, which I've been saying I was going to do for the last two weeks. Hopefully I'll make it tonight... less traffic, so I don't have to worry so much about getting run over.

 

[Uzumaki]

Yesterday was a bad day for one of the denizens of the preserve I work in: a barn owl got stuck in an outhouse. Probably got peed on a few times, too, to compound the mass of poo, urine, and decomposition chemical it had been standing in all night.

 

[Nifft]

Yesterday ruled: I got (some) free drinks at a nice bar, hung out with friends, and eventually hooked up with a cute girl. And work went well.

-- N (*knocking on wood*)