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April 18, 2024
International Jugglers Day 2024
juggler    
I've only known one juggler in my life. He was the son of a chiropractor and into muscle control, was a practicing exhibitionist — and sometimes was quite a bit obnoxious so juggling never became something I looked forward to watching.

The earliest recorded juggling was around some 2000 BC in Egypt. The images were taking from murals within the crypts there. Some 1500 years later juggling appeared in Greek art.

I think the coordination and dexterity are admiral as long as you don't drown it in a multitude of distressing social habits as did my former friend.

Today is International Juggler’s Day.

The day is held under the auspices of The International Jugglers Association since the mid 1980s.

The day is held each April 18 annually. It is all about juggling and its many accomplished practitioners.

Not being a prop comic as such I personally would only be interested in juggling the more exotic objects ...

Just for their shock value. You know, axes, lit torches, knives, etc.

So if you're so inclined go gather a few props and practice your skills until they are presentable. Try to keep your objectionable traits under wraps when you perform.

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April 17, 2024
Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2024
    Homeless little girl
I feel for the homeless.

My life has never involved personal homelessness and for that I will always be grateful.

The thought of a homeless child with no place to go and be safe and warm is a harrowing thought ...

And it brings shudders to my soul for the victims of this predicament.

Today is Youth Homelessness Matters Day.

Since 1990 it happens on the third Wednesday in April making it April 17 this year.

Held under the auspices of the woke ass Australians.

It's purpose is to raise awareness and public discussion of those homeless young people in ann effort to devise innovative solutions which can be maintained to meet their need.

It seems that youth homelessness goes hand in hand with domestic and family violence and this gives added impetus for that need to devise readily available relief mechanisms.

Anyway, I consider homelessness to be a universal problem.

The fact that you're hopelessly woke and Australian should not be a qualifying factor in this instance.

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April 16, 2024
National Orchid Day 2024
orchids


I like orchids. I like the delicate flowers suspended from long stems and the leave tufts at the bottom. Take a pot,

•  add really good rich soil of varying consistencies based on the variety of orchid,
•  adequate sunlight — but not too much,
•  keep them close to 65-75° during the day and 55-65° at night
•  feed quarter strength 20-10-20 fertilizer and
•  water them weekly, sometimes with ice cubes
•  in a room with a humidity of 50-75%
•  Note that the different species have varying requirements.

This is how we did it at my job with the incorporated municipality.

Today is National Orchid Day. It is observed on April 16 each year. The day is associated with honoring the memory of our loved ones and others dear to our hearts.

The day originates here in South Carolina in 2015 under the auspices of a couple, Mike and Faith Young who lost a daughter whom they had decided to name 'Orchid' the previous year. Such a sad tale regarding the day for such a beautiful flower.

Anyway, when you see those orchids in the stores wrapped in cellophane you might nab one or a few and give it a shot at growing them. If you give them adequate attention and stroke their leaves you may find yourself surrounded in tropical beauty.

Happy Orchid day and rest in peace, Orchid.

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April 15, 2024
Federal Tax Deadline 2024
April 15 is tax day    
Monday, Apr 15, 2024 marks the deadline for filing your federal income tax return.

There have been years when it was later but this year it seems to have been returned to it's original time.

Time to let the dastardly democrats collect your money to give to all the illegal aliens they have brought to the country.

By golly Mom and I filed in February. The only disconcerting aspect of this surrounds the updates to the H&R Block tax software I used after the returns were mailed. Sometimes I don't think software vendors think or care about their products very much.

Mom got her refund already — in record time I might add. I didn't get any refund. I didn't pay anything either.

Retirement fundage is pretty tight on both ends of the equation.

I'm glad it's over for another year !

See Also:

Taxes Filed for 2024
The Taxman Cometh 2023
IRS reminders about April 18 deadline
Tax Day in the US 2021
Tax Day 2018

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April 14, 2024
Another birthday ...
birthday cake


So here I embark on the sixty ninth anniversary of my birth. The the advent of my 69th year finds me retired, leisurely, and bored out of my ever loving mind.

If I didn't have a sophisticated server cluster on a 5 node public network to keep me busy I really would go crazy.

Everybody keeps telling me how I'm not "really" old. People are mistaking me for being 20 to 30 years younger than I actually am. I'm afraid that all of this simply is not sinking in to say the least. However ...

Happy Birthday to me.

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April 13, 2024
Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day 2024
    Trump
Unfair prosecution used to be the purview of European tyrants and their sycophants.

Unfortunately, the brigand democrat party and their stupid boot licking voters have pursued the opposition candidate in the 2024 election unfairly in a weponized judicial system which has become known as "lawfare" and what began in the Obama administration has carried over to his senile vice president Biden in his own STOLEN administration.

Know this, democrats:

You have incurred the wrath of more voters than JUST me.

It is our mission to vote you out of office by any means necessary.

You are the curs who would engage in unwarranted criminal prosecution for political ends and New York in particular is going to regret their New York Attorney General the Soros whore Letitia James and Soros acolyte Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr.

This will never be over.

New York will always be remembered as the state without fairness and the weaponized center of unfair prosecution upon the earth as will Fani Willis of Atlanta Georgia.

Thus we hold our own day of remembrance for the aggression against candidates in communist New York, in their event called the Unfairly Prosecuted Persons Day which is observed each year on April 13.

We will remember your shoddy treatment of a patriot and will never go away you three democrat whores of Babylon and George Soros, the enemy of the free world.

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April 12, 2024
Day of Silence 2024
coffin    
Ah, our continuing LGBTQ mess. It's likely been around since people have been around.

Time was it was kept in the closet where it belonged.

Nowadays, too many want to flaunt their aberrant sexuality inappropriately incurring the wrath of a lot of "straight" people in their midst.

Today is the so-called Day of Silence. It has been around since 1996 and is held on April 12 this year.

Ostensibly, it is meant to provide a reason to whine about the rejection LGBTQ pervs feel regarding their level of acceptance in society and wonder why the sicko immoral unscrupulous vote grubbing democrats are the only ones who "accept" them.

So while I remain a staunchly "live and let live" person and stay out of the personal affairs of others, LGBTQ individuals may wish to consider just how much some of us would like to silence permanently those we consider to be deviants.

Happy Day of Silence you debauched, debased, profane, vitiated human beings you. Diverse that fudge packers and carpet munchers. Hopefully, at least you're not so stupid as to think you can be the opposite sex just because you "want" to regardless of your chromasomes.

See Also:

Man Day 2024
Use Your Common Sense Day 2023
The left and other political predators
Transgender Day of Visibility 2023
Dain Brammage
Man Day 2023
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2022
Yet Another National Coming Out Day
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia 2022
International Women's Day 2022
Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021
Assuming homosexual rights
Our Trans Freak in Healthcare
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2020
World Menopause Day 2020
National Coming Out Day 2020
Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020
DNA Day 2020
Transexual Dolls ... for the discriminating human in denial
National Coming Out Day 2019
I Remember Rock Hudson
Trans persons offense and perception of rights
Stupid is too stupid for self realization
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 2019
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2018
National Coming Out Day 2018
celebrating trangender youth in the mainstream media
Transgender Day of Rememberance 2017
President Trump bans Transgender Military Personnel
You Can't Always Be What You Want ...
Transgender Day of Remembrance 2016
Sometimes consequence are difficult
People can be Mean
Something it ISN'T

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April 11, 2024
Jonathan Winters passed 11 years ago
    Jonathan Winters
A longstanding favorite comic of mine was Jonathan Winters.

I used to revel in his antics as a character actor on television when I was a much younger man. He could phase through character after character while being interviewed.

His performance spheres included characters, improv, — and his spots on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show became the stuff of comedic legend.

Jonathan Harshman Winters III was born November 11, 1925 in Dayton, Ohio. He married Eileen Schauder and they had two children.

He served in the US Marine Corps from 1943 through 1946 and attained the rank of corporal. He passed on this day in 2013 at Montecito, California at age 87 of natural causes having an active career from 1949 until his death.

He received many awards for his work over the course of his career but I feel that the esteem of his audience is the grandest testament to that who he was, the consumate comedic professional.

There have been many others who have come and gone and others who likewise were great at their crafts but none surpassed Jonathan Winters for versatility and downright funniness at every turn.

I hope he and Robin Williams are in the eternity sharing a few memories and laughs.

Rest in peace.
Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams

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April 10, 2024
Encourage a Young Writer Day 2024
Young Writer    
When I was young I did a lot of writing. Poetry, short stories, plays and such. It went pretty much unnoticed and without encouragement as nobody except my mother was really interested in me during those years.

I underwent a year or so of intense English grammar and syntax study due to my mother's dissatisfaction with my grades in a couple of areas. As time progressed this cascaded to my writing skills which improved as well as my general grasp of the English language.

Later in life I found myself at work writing things others published under their bylines and it was a frustrating world of stolen work and others assuming credit for things they could never do.

The words used were "let us use your writing because it's so much better than ours and after all we're all on the same team". I should have told the thief NO and quit. However, I relented resulting in their copyright being placed on my work and it becoming claimed as their property.

Today is Encourage a Young Writer Day. It is an annual April 10 occurance which is meant to inspire the natural storyteller in children.

It naturally cultivates vocabulary, creativity, imagination, and the discipline required to write. It is a time for ideas and dreams to come to life on the written page.

I hope you can take the opportunity to assist a young writer in their endeavors at becoming the next Samuel Langhorne Clemens or J K Rowling.

Happy Encourage a Young Writer Day to you.

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April 9, 2024
Appomattox Day 2024
    Appomattox Courthouse 1865

One of the woke penchants of late is the revisionist history, changing what actually was to follow the narrative of the idiotic woke individuals touting these alterations.

Today is Appomattox Day, an annual April 9th ocurrence. It commerates the end of the Civil War, a conflict of four years duration in which too many Americans lost their lives to others of their own country.

On April 9, 1985, General Robert E Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Lt General Ulysses S Grant and soldiers from the Union army at the McLean House and thusly the terrible war was ended.

This sad history has been preserved as a reminder that we who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

The stupid democrats will see to it.

See Also:

Appomattox Day 2022
Jefferson Davis Birthday 2022
Confederate Memorial Day 2022
Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi Confederate Memorial Day
Confederate Memorial Day 2021
 

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April 8, 2024
Solar eclipse 2024
total eclipse of the sun from north america    
Today a total solar eclipse will take place across North Ameria.

An eclipse happens when the moon passes between the earth and sun overlaying the sun's image when viewed from the earth.

Totality in an eclipse infers that the perceived diameter of the moon exceeds that of the sun whereby all sunlight is blocked in the photosphere essentially turning daylight into darkness.

There is a lot of folklore and mess surrounding the portents of the total eclipse of the sun. I personally feel the bulk of it is a bunch of bunk.

A goodly amount of this is circulating presently.

I was able to view the last eclipse but will not have the experience with this one due to our position on the globe. It really doesn't faze me to miss the event in person. I have broadcast events I may follow as I desire.

Hopefully, you may get a glimpse of totality — and I hope you enjoy yourself ... but be careful as to the optical hazards of gazing directly into the sun.

I've caught a few eclipses over the years. I've always been careful and they have never failed to provide an interesting interlude in current events.

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April 7, 2024
World Health Day 2024
the WHO is death
The World Health Organization — like it's parent, the United Nations — is a group of miscreant would-be world rulers out to usurp the sovereign rights of nations in favor of rule by decree from the:

☠  incompetent World Health Organization,

☠  the moronic United Nations,

☠  the overstepping World Economic Forum, and the

☠  insipid vision lacking Club of Rome.

The stupidity of those who have allowed these morons to control them is becoming the stuff of legend.

The Canadian government under Klaus Schwab's butt boy, woke ass Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is undergoing that discovery process which will be his (and their) downfall.

Canada is unjustly controlled by persons outside their jurisdiction who are ruling by decree — and many Canadians resent it to the nth degree.

These self ascribed EU "rulers" are neither qualified nor eligible to rule and enact governance with the quick, unchallenged dictate of law by a single entity without legislative approval. These stupid people do not rule the United States and the moron Biden will not be in office long enough to hand things over to them as he too wishes in all his incompetence and immoral criminality.

Then there will be subsequent a administration which will eliminate all the vast harm he has done to the Republic.

What stupid people to believe they could ever be in total charge of the planet as though posesssing some divine right of Kings.

Eurotrash. You will be squashed like the bugs you think we need to eat.

So April 7 is World Health Day. Death is headed your way courtesy of the UN, the WHO, the WEP, and the Club of Rome. Long, slow, painful and from the standpoint of serfdom.

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April 6, 2024
Tartan Day 2024

Johnston plaid getup    

Tartan Day is all about Scottish heritage.

It concerns the cultural contributions of Scottish and Scottish-diaspora throughout history.

There are games and strength competitions native to the highlands of Scotland.

There are food and textiles on display.

The name refers to tartan, a patterned wool cloth associated with Scotland.

The event began in Nova Scotia, Canada back in 1987.

It has spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora and Scotland itself in the 1990s to 2000s.

Being of Scottish derivation myself, my only issues with present Tartan Day is the contamination of the Scottish soil by invading migrant foreigners who have turned the country into the woke piece of crap it has become.

These foreign people need to be deported and their gd muslim surnames stricken from the Scottish records.

Boo foreign invaders of Scotland.

You ruined the country and the locals don't seem to have what it takes to evict your asses.

Sooner or later some braveheart is bound to come to the rescue of the Scottish lands and reclaim them from the infidels.

I intend to be a part of the reclamation of my Scottish heritage from the nasty interlopers.

See Also:

Tartan Day 2021
Tartan Day 2020
National Tartan Day 2019
Tartan Day 2018
Tartan Day
 

Celtic

 

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April 5, 2024
National Flash Drive Day 2024
    SanDisk 512GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe
I use a lot of flash drives in my activities anymore. My workstation maintains two permanent installs of SanDisk 512GB Ultra Dual Drive Luxe drives which I use for tertiary backups. These replaced the two 256GB Ultra Luxe drives which I relocated to an adjacent storage location.

I notice the performance of the half terrabyte drives to be somewhat lacking. The throughput is often choppy and delayed. I don't know if it's Sandisk or Microsoft ... but they're both pretty lame organizations as far as I am concerned.

The flash drive is a spin off of flash memory, invented by Dr Fujio Masuoka who was working for Toshiba.

The actual flash drive device is the brainchild of Israeli scientists working for M-Systems: Dov Moran, Oron Ogdan, and Amir Ban and they are the inventors of the chip which became the flash drive device itself. The name is derived by the quick erase properties of the memory such that it displaced other removable media such as the floppy.

April 5 as the official National Flash Drive Day which pays homage to that improvement in storage brought by these devices.

I think it's essential to pack a flash drive for those items I like to have access to when away from my machine. It is much less tedious than the plastic boxes full of floppies I used to cart around.

I hope you'll take a moment on this National Flash Drive Day to consider the benefits of this technology.

Happy National Flash Drive Day to you !

See Also:

National Flash Drive Day 2022
National Device Appreciation Day 2023

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