Good morning! 
It’s Monday, 25 January 2021 (W4/D25)
Today is:
I kid you not - today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. Celebrated on the last Monday in January, this popping day allegedly began when a local radio station once inadvertently unwrapped bubble wrapped microphones on air. Listeners loved it, and the tradition stuck.
Bubble Wrap ® was originally formed in 1957 from two shower curtains being sealed together. The inventors, engineers Marc Chavannes and Alfred Fielding, tried to market this as wallpaper. Then they tried to market it as greenhouse insulation. Thankfully for bubble popping appreciators both of these efforts were largely unsuccessful.
Then, in 1960, the inventors established the Sealed Air Corporation, and perfected the Bubble Wrap manufacturing process. A year later the IBM Corporation, sensing an opportunity, became the first major company to use the product to protect their IBM 1401 computers during shipment.
Since, the largely unchanged product has been used to protect countless products in transit and storage in its air-cushioned embrace. And of course, it’s provided thousands of people hours of pointless, yet somehow therapeutic, popping fun.
I hope you don’t need too much Bubble Wrap to get through Monday. Have a great day! 