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- October 1, 2023
- World Sake Day 2023
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Yesterday we celebrated my good friend's birthday at Inakaya Watanable restaurant off of Jamil Road. We were there several hours and we laughed and carried on.
The food was good and plentiful and the sake flowed for several of the participants.
I don't partake of sake these days as I once did in the past.
The ravages of age have left me needing to avoid alcohol altogether and this is the ONLY reason.
I recall a time when I would down a fur box filled to the brim with the house brand there and I was particularly fond of Gekkeikan Sake's "Tiara over the Moon" which at that time was sold in a fantastic white decorative bottle.
I think the brand I drank most was called Haiku by the same company. We would toast one another by saying Kampai ...
Haiku was the smoothest sake I have ever known. I would still have a drink if the opportunity arose but with the sushi I typically drink water these days.
In conjuction with the annual rice harvest in Japan, today is World Sake Day. It goes down each year on the first of October and coincides with the beginning of sake production.
It all began in 1978 when Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association decoded to mark the day.It is a recognition of sake as a part of Japanese culture and promotes the beverage as the treasure it is.
I hope you'll take the opportunity to enjoy sake a few times to gain an appreciation for this fine rice wine.
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- September 30, 2023
- Diaster Recovery Completed 2023
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Yeah, the web server crashed and burned about the 3rd of the month.
Today is the 30th of the month. I've pretty much shot the entire thing with those festivities associated with recovery.
Today I completed the disaster recovery operations.
I'd like to say it was a walk in the park, but it wasn't.
While there are things far worse than a down server for we who have to make things right the duties are manifold and the background work is massive.
I'm up on the latest version of the operating system with every thing else as it was at the time it failed.
So now I get to resume the blog and this is what I intend to do.
Happy disaster recovery to you too !
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- September 3, 2023
- National Pet Rock Day 2023
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Yeah the 1970s certainly was the decade for fools. I was a fool. The clothes designers were all fools. Our transition from the psychedelic 1960s to the tacky 1970s was not without it's victims to say the least.
The pet rock was created by one Gary Dahl in April 1975. He was an advertising executive with a rationale to emulate PT Barnum and encounter as many fools as humanly possible.
Yeah, the pet rock. Dumbasses bought these things left and right. Likely they knew it was a joke.
It is said that Mr Dahl made a nice profit on the idea.
Playing your fellow man as a fool works like gangbusters more times than not.
I could never take advantage of the mentally deficient ... I would hope.
Any I never owned a pet rock. I never wanted a pet rock. I never thought it to be clever nor cute nor a worthwhile endeavor. I saw it all as the trendy froth of nothingness that it appeared to be.
Luckily for Gary Dahl the markeplace in 1975 begged to differ with me.
Happy National Pet Rock Day. Fool.
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- September 2, 2023
- National Live Fearless Day 2023
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Fear is that distress you may feel as the result of impending danger.
If often triggers a response called 'fight or flight' where you defend yourself or run off in the name of self preservation.
Fearlessness is a virtue up to a point whereby it crosses the domain of foolishness.
If you are confident in the face of danger and hardships you may be known as 'fearless' in your own right.
Today is National Live Fearless Day.
It was created by a lady named Landry Champlin in 2020.
It goes down each September 2nd in the name of promoting a fearless attitude which reflects throughout your existence.
I'm pretty fearless for a 68 year old lout. Someday it my bite me in the butt too. Regardless, I invite you to discard your fears in the name of that which you feel is appropriate and live fearlessly ... if only for a day.
Happy National Live Fearless Day to you !
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- September 1, 2023
- Lily Tomlin birthday 2023
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When I was a child one of my most favorite performers on the small screen was Lily Tomlin.
Something about her humor appealed to me.
But that was then and this is now.
Since she "came out" as a lesbian I no longer enjoy her performances.
They are overshadowed by this vision I have of her rooting out in the crotch of every fugly tee shirt and blue jeans wearing bull dyke she encounters —
And it's simply too much for me personally.
Inasmuch as I view homosexuality as a character defect we see that her course has run out in my life and yet today she has another birthday.
I think it's time to give it all a rest, Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin.
Seeing how you won't live your life in accordance with my wishes; why don't you go kill yourself with the rest of your woke ilk and make the world a more heterosexual and therefore normal place in which to live?
Homosexuality is abnormality.
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- August 31, 2023
- National South Carolina Day 2023
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Today is National South Carolina Day. I only learned of this day a couple of days back. Having lived here for in excess of 60 years I find that a rather dubious claim to fame on my part.
Aside from the fact that I don't know the subtle nuances of my state — likely due to a lack of personal interest cultivated over the years and I am apalled that my impetus simply wasn't there.
Boo.
So the day is supposedly about our "unique" landscapes, historical background, and individuals associated with our progression through the years. The native Americans of the region are the Catawbas and Cherokee tribes. Those battles fought in the revolutionary and civil wars left war dead and lingering attitudes. Our social profile remains beyond my grasp as I do not indulge most of the cultural aspects of the state.
Regardless I hope you have a happy National South Carolina Day and enjoy much more of our state than I regularly do.
People wonder why my enthusiasm wanes for my country and state in the presence of all that patriotism I display otherwise. I personally view South Carolina and the United States of America as lands of interlopers and foreign invaders from places like Mexico, South America, India, and South Dakota taking jobs from the native persons of the United States and South Carolina in particular — who simply stand by and let it happen.
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- August 30, 2023
- Frankenstein Day 2023
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When I was a child I was all about monsters.
Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, and oh the list went on.
It was a rite of passage I believe.
I portrayed many different characters on super 8mm film by the 50 foot roll.
Frankenstein Day is held each August 30 and celebrates the novel from which the iconic character became part and parcel of my youth.
Mary Shelly published Frankenstein in 1818 and it has been part and parcel of my imagination my entire life.
Victor Frankenstein's creation still is a memorable part of my childhood and I miss those times in which he was at the forefront of my interests and pursuits.
The book became a franchise with the advent of Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein which were sequels which sprang forth from the story line.
I hope you'll take a moment and consider the fun of those monsters I have cherished as a child and remember as a man.
Happy Frankenstein Day.
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- August 29, 2023
- Individual Rights Day 2023
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John Locke was an English philospher whose works form part of the foundation of modern philosophical liberalism. He was way before the stupidity and mendacity of the democratic party's woke platform — much less the 'defund the police' and other ill advised aspects of the failure the left vigorously pursues. He inspired the enlightenment of the Europeans as well as Constitution of the United States.
He was an advocate for freedom and propriety in government affairs and the stark results of that ruination brought onto the United States by the idiot democrat party would likely not sit well with his ideology based on "then" and "now".
He is known as the "Father of Liberalism" and little did he know just how perverted liberals would become over the years. It's as though there has been a failure of brain function in the democrats as a whole.
The cannot even police their own members towards reason and justice. They remain an abominaton upon the land.
So today is John Locke's birthday and his teachings are celebrated on this Individual Rights Day each August 29.
It's a sad state of affairs when the stupidity runs rampant in a philosophy he once defended for the betterment of all.
Now it's just a get over tactic by a bunch of unskilled buffoons claiming to be a political party when they are nothing more than a festering boil on the collective ass of humanity.
Happy Birthday John Lock.
Happy Individual Rights Day.
Boo criminal democrats.
Boo Biden criminal family.
What a sorry state of affairs in the United States. Just where are the death squads when you really need them ?
See Also:
Individual Rights Day 2022
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- August 28, 2023
- Anhedonia 2023
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void
I purused numerous sources of historical data only to determine that there was nothing significant to me on this day. At least, nothing about which I care to write !
adjective
Containing no matter;
empty;
Not occupied;
unfilled;
Completely lacking;
devoid;
empty.
In all my lack of interest in the blog, mom and I took a brief excursion to Big Lots in an attempt to dull the disappointment of it all.
So as I pursue the rest of my day appearing as though I smell poop I can only say ...
Anhedonia you have arrived.
As far as I am concerned, the entire day may as well not have happened.
Boo !
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- August 27, 2023
- International Lottery Day 2023
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The lotteries in my life are mostly Megamillions and to a MUCH lesser degree, Powerball.
I don't play much Powerball anymore because I have come to think the game is run by crooks out to change the rules continuously.
It has really turned me off.
As a rule I don't do scratchers at all. This is only because I am pursuing much larger prizes. I seem to be in the minority around here, however.
So twice a week I post a Megamillions play using two sets of number of my choice then three addtiional quick picks. If I have winnings, I usually practice dividend reinvestment by spending the money on more plays. Occasionally there is a buck or two left with which I tip the vendor ...
But that is far and few between the many plays in which I engage.
That pursuit of karma is a big part of the superstition indigenous to games of chance and fate such as the lottery. I mostly play in the hopes that lightning may strike and lay something big on me for a change. Not much of that happening, however.
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- August 26, 2023
- National Toilet Paper Day 2023
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So there are conventions of hygiene to which I adhere and the use of toilet paper is one of them.
I consider it an essential item ...
So much that I purchase 64 roll cases when the idiot Biden administration broke the supply chain in the country which caused shortages in the local stores.
Although I am not really a user of public restrooms, you never can tell how much you really need something as when you arrive at a place where there is none.
Not owning a bidet, it is pretty much my only link to civilization. Just ask Beavis.
Now get out there and wipe some ass !
Happy National Toilet Paper Day to both you and your heinous anus.
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- August 25, 2023
- Ivan the Terrible was born in 1530
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Ivan IV Vasilyevich, aka Ivan the Terrible was the grand prince of Moscow and first tsar of Russia. He was born on August 15, 1530 in Kolomenskoye, Russia and died in Moscow on March 28, 1584 at age 53.
I had moments where I wondered just how he became known as "terrible" ... if it was a very deserved moniker or just something attached to him frivolously.
His father Vasil died when he was but 3 years old and his mother when he was 8. This in and of it self could cause a severe personality but to make things worse he was the object of power struggles between various contemporary members of the Shuisky and Belesky families — who were nobility out to self aggrandize and assume wealth and power for themselves.
So there was widespread murder and intrigue while Ivan and his brother Lurii were continually mistreated and used as pawns.
Two primary events have been identified in history which "sent him over the edge" so to speak.
The first was betrayal by his good friend Prince Kurbsky who defected to the Lituainians and participating in a defeat of Russia with Poland and Sweden. The second was the death of his wife whom he believed had been poisoned by his enemies. This belief was corroborated by lab tests done upon her bones in the 20th century.
So Ivan went from a reasonable ruler to a tyrant. When the ruling council found it impossible to maintain order they begged him to resume control. He did so under the conditions that he could seize the lands of those who had betrayed him and execute anyone he suspected of treason
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Execution methods of the day included boiling alive, impalement, being roasted over an open fire or being torn limb from limb.
The use of the word "Terrible" in his nickname really wan't much of a misnomer. The actual Russian word meant "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; powerful". Close enough for government work.
Be all of this as it may Ivan was terrible if you crossed him. I personally feel the title to be appropos.
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- August 24, 2023
- National Knife Day 2023
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I have a collection of knives. A few of them are used in food preparation. Those remaining are weapons acquired at various times during my lifetime. I have a set of hand made knives with deer horn handles and a 16 inch bowie knife I confiscated from a confronting adversary who thought he was all that. Seems that his noggin was no match for a direct strike from a mattock handle.
There are distinct characteristics between all my knives as well. I am not one to engage in knife fights as a rule. I also pack a .357 magnum loaded with hollow points for those more confrontational moments ... Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
Today is National Knife Day.
It is observed each August 24 since around 2011 and is an homage of one of humanity's first tools. Being one who typically uses knives several times during the course of a typical day I am pretty much one with this observance.
The knife has been present since the stone age and the durability of these implements has increased over the eons. While you should celebrate the day with flashy displays of chopping and slicing accumen I prefer just to be more laid back and not get too froggy with public displays of wielding cutlery.
My knives are essential to certain duties I perform for myself such as food preparation and sometimes opening those difficult plastic clam packing thingies people like to sell their products in these days. Regardless, I hope you can appreciate the value a knife brings to your existence for those capabilities they provide. If you can't then I might have to cut ya.
Happy National Knife Day.
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- August 23, 2023
- Find Your Inner Nerd Day 2023
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Today is my sister's birthday. She is not a nerd. She can hold her own at a computer keyboard as required. Thusly, today is also Find Your Inner Nerd Day.
The idea originates in one "Beth Z" who engages public speaking, has authored various things, and is a self ascribed and proud denizen of Nerdvana that domain of perfect nerddom to which we all have aspired at one point or another ...
I'm not one to pursue that nerd that dwells within me. My career has pretty much shouted volumes toward that end and I have a lot of war stories and historical data to spare.
I don't subscribe to anything too nerdy because those technical pursuits in my CV say it all.
Also, the cutesy cutsey aspects of being a nerd hold little interest as well.
Maybe if I were younger. I started out in 1979 and therefore predate the personal computer by a number of years. I was immersed in minis until the micros hit the scene. Yet still while I engaged CP/M and the IBM-PC came out the following month.
Needless to say, you won't find me all gushingly praising microsoft because the brains in that organzation died with Paul Allen. Bill Gates bought an operatings system from which MS-DOS was developed.
For that reason in particular the entire microsoft line remains a low tech abomination for both the initiated as well as the technically savvy.
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