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- July 8, 2023
- International Skinny Dip Day 2023
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I remember the few times my compadres were skinny dipping. I recall everyone else abruptly disrobing and getting into the water then being the only one remaining fully clothed both times.
The first time was in Rosmon, North Carolina with Leroy and Joe Dodson et al. We were at a very cold mountain river and everyone shucked off their clothes and jumped in. Everyone except me that is. The second time was in Salley, SC with my dad and brothers and a few cousins. As in North Carolina I declined to disrobe in public in South Carolina as well.
Skinny dipping is not meant for we who are bashful. I had absolutely no desire to traipse around showing off all that I don't have.
It was an embarrassment and I was very careful to pick and choose my venues more carefully after that. All of a sudden I wasn't so quck to join anyone for a trip to the river. They all noticed this as well.
International Skinny Dip Day comes each July 8. Skinny dipping goes back long ago. Some famous people have decided it was appropriate to shed all garments and jump in the water ...
Shamlessly exhibiting their packages and parcels in public. Some people think nekkid is beautiful. I'm just not one to go on display.
It just wasn't anything in which I cared to participate. It also created a sense of avoidance in some social situations. I don't just accompany anyone for swimming at the ponds and lakes anymore. Cart your boorish exhibitionist ass elsewhere.
Happy International Skinny Dip Day to all of you with no shame.
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- July 7, 2023
- Alas poor Firewall I knew him well, Horatio
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Yeah, I've had to go all CSI Miami and lock down the web server with the firewall.
I was so hoping to leave it open but there simply isn't any modicum of resistence to exploit attempts even in the presence of no chance in hell of them getting through.
Luckily when I took it down I didn't discard the rules set.
Of the intruders, stupid php programers are the worst of them all. Not only are they unskilled but they don't even exhibit good judgement.
Also, too many seem to think wordpress is the only web cms interface in use. Someone sees a URL with 'blog' in it and they automatically think it's a wordpress construct. Think again camel breath,
I like something in a more custom and less decipherable back end if you please. I also have an addiction to tooling various maintenance and trapping subroutines. There is nothing more gratifying than throwing up a nice impenetrable exception in some exploiter's face.
Not much going on in the coding world these days as far as I can see. Just a bunch of oopers and AI clients it appears to me. Drag and Drop addicts.
While I'm all for the IDE in production environments I think the likes of powerbuilder are not the way to go. Call me fickle. I must have been raised compiling at a command line interface and debugging in notepad.
My fellows don't appreciate the fact that you can insert custom filters all over the place when you have a penchant for coding. I'm reaching the point where the blog may become by invitation only. Exploit attempts remain infuriating even though unsuccessful. No respect.
The stupidity of the tech community continues to run rampant. Must be googleitis ignoramus or microsoftosis dotnet vulgaris. Don't you wish you had been educated instead of indoctrinated ?
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- July 6, 2023
- National Hand Roll Day 2023
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I am a big fan of sushi. Early on I often felt as though I could never eat anything raw.
Then one day I was taken to the sushi bar for a feast and then all bets were off.
Sushi has a lot of different forms. Some are regional and others universal. Temaki, or The Hand Roll is a form which incorporates ingredients arranged in a seaweed roll called noori.
I was amazed at the varieties of sushi available and I find Temaki to be one of the more convenient to eat ... but would point out that it is perfectly good etiquette to eat sushi with the fingers. Some would balk at this notion up front.
I have never been one to manner up in the presence of others — but have made efforts to appear somewhat "worldly" when dining at the local sushi bar at Inakaya Watanabe.
After all, sushi is about community and when you dine at a sushi bar there are many others in your midst checking out both your order and your handling of it. I am often asked what certain sushi in my order are called.
National Hand Roll Day is celebrated each July 6 annually under the auspices of Sushi Nozawa Group.
Ah, the flavors, the colors, the textures. It's truly a wonderful experience to dine at a good sushi bar. I have been known to range from The Ginza in Tokyo to several places in New York and Chicago to the local ones here in South Carolina. I have yet to have a bad experience.
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- July 5, 2023
- Mechanical Pencil Day 2023
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I believe my mechanical pencil era was in high school. It was then I thought a nice mechanical pencil eclipsed the dull and commonplace wooden number 2 with a pink pearl eraser hands down.
I know in the intervening years I have periodically owned other pencils. By and large I am a Bic Clic Stic man myself preferring black and blue ink medium points. Actually, the majority of my work for quite some time now entails a keyboard and various applications into which I make entries.
Today is Mechanical Pencil Day. It is observed annually on July 5 internationally.
The day celebrates the invention of the mechanical pencil and promotes that lost art of writing with pencils.
The Mechanical pencil has found it's place in both the classroom and the workplace. Draft works are made for pencil entries which permit those all too frequent corrections.
I recall how aghast I was to learn that public schools no longer teach cursive writing. This is just how far the educators have failed academia. They no longer educate, they indoctrinate. Then they decline to teach those skill which will carry a person through hard times.
I believe that regardless of the sorry state of education and educators in the United States in ALL their woke promoting dumbness that the mechanical pencil is here to stay.
Happy Mechanical Pencil Day !
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- July 4, 2023
- Independence Day 2023
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Another celebration of our independence from Great Britain is upon us. Time to reconsider the hardships endured by our ancestors in the name of freedom for the colonies which ultimately became the United States of America as the result of their resistence to rule by decree.
In this day we have freedoms unheard of in many nations. Unfortunately, those persons who would allow their emotions to overshadow facts and science has been a detrimental effect of the result of this freedom. These people say men can be women and women can be men. They cannot. They attempt to revise actual history with contrived versions supporting some fantasy narrative. They wish to teach psychosocial pseudoscience and portray it as having been subjected to the scientific method when it has not.
Their idiotic rantings are not the way.
On this day I wish you a happy holiday and urge you to resist all things woke. They are synonymous with stupidity and perversion. It would be a happier day for me personally if our nation weren't drowning in stupidity, perversion, and law breakers gone astray and running rampant such as those constituting the US democratic party.
Happy Independence Day anyway.
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- July 3, 2023
- National Stay Out of the Sun Day 2023
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Avoidance of the sun has been a constant in my life.
To cap it off, ever since I sustained second and third degree sunburn back in 1975 I've pretty much learned my lesson.
Perhaps it was the stern brow beating I received from my good friend, the late Dr William G Alderman in the Richland ER regarding the dangers of skin cancer as well as that intense pain and suffering I endured as well.
Today is National Stay Out of the Sun Day.
It happens each July third in an effort to encourage a much needed break from the UV radiation damage inevitable in those who pursue sunshine actively.
A "sun seeker" is someone I have neither been nor pursued.
In actuality, relationships have ended over this characteristic because I cannot go out in the sun and cook all day for some perceived chance at social interaction later. It's simply not worth it.
So regardless of whether you actively pursue sunshine or not — today is a day to give it all a rest in the name of reduced skin damage.
Suntans result in skin damage. Sunburns are much more severe in that regard. Go there if you like. Been there done that.
Happy National Stay Out of the Sun Day.
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- July 2, 2023
- World UFO Day 2023
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I believe that UFOs both exist and have been captured or appropriated or back engineered with surreptitious deals with extraterrestrials made beginning with the stupid Eisenhower administration as a continuation of the ground work done in the equally dullard Truman administration.
I believe the so-called "shadow government" has murdered citizens toward this end.
There is something to be said about a government which would consign it's citizens over to aliens of the planet earth for all manner of research even in the absence of an honored agreement supposedly set into place beforehand. I believe the Greada treaty which was declined by the Nordics and accepted by the Greys was entered into then ignored by the species Eisenhower who allowed them to abduct us in specified numbers in the name of procuring technologies in the best traditions of the Nazi party and their technology acquisitions.
Our elected officials bartered using taxpayers. Duh.
I believe the "Majestic Twelve" (MJ12) exists and is a criminal organization responsible for the murder of James Forrestal who wanted disclosure, and Phil Schneider over disclosure of the Alien Agenda and in particular the Dulce base on the Archuleta Mesa. I also feel that the Schneider was one of many transgressions which began with the strong arm military handling of Roswell and other recovery operations. The military should have never threatened a single taxpayer of the United States ... but they did.
The MJ12 confiscates the taxpayers money and then declines to disclose the nature of projects we the people are funding. This should be brought to a swift end but the congress is as spineless as everyone in the biden administration.
The New World Order is based on the Alien Agenda that idiotic leadership set into place then couldn't control because they appointed traitors to be in charge of it.
These shadow governement people control these undisclosed black operations projects saying it is for national security when it's really about personal gain and vendors supplying the military industrial complex.
I feel that we need to rout these individuals and remove them along with the shadow government and deep state from the nation by any means necessary. The cowardice of the elected officials of the United States is culpatory in this scenario.
They want to kill most of humanity then place a one world government into place to control everyone left.
Finally the false flag attempts to portray UFOs as attacking entities when they are far from it. These contrived attacks are an attempt to control the masses by the traitors in the shadow government and deep state.
I really don't appreciate the excuse that the general public can't handle the truth in these matters. Why has the world been allowed to devolve to such a totally stupid place ?
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- July 1, 2023
- International Chicken Wing Day 2023
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Ah, the chicken wing. All my life I have enjoyed this particular piece of the bird. I recall it being my preference at the dinner table from childhood through the mass quantities I consumed at various wing joints all over. This being said, not all chicken wings are created equal.
I once went to a place called Wingstop a block or so from my home. The taste was rancid and I learned later that all they do are "frozen precooked wings" and this in itself is quite self limiting and disqualifying.
Then I want to a place called Tasty Wings and Seafood another block farther. They served me extremely mediocre wings in a container filled with liquid. This too was disqualifying and I never returned.
Zaxby's — across the street from Wingstop — makes a half way decent wing and I have been known to order them from time to time.
The chinese joint Number 1 China next to Tasty Wings and Seafood used to be my favorite. However, my last order prepared under the new management regime was decidedly dry and lacking, as if it were entirely too old to be served to a valued customer so I don't know if I'll ever eat their wings again either.
Suffice it to say, the world of chicken wing consumers is quite fickle with one false move and it's over. I even bought a gas range with a built in air fryer as a contingency.
I would like to point out that my current favorite establishment servinng chicken wings is Wild Wing Cafe on Lady at Gadsden Street in Columbia SC ... although I must confess that I haven't dined there since I departed my employment with the city. I once frequented their lunch buffet until they closed it one sad day. I returned when they reopened it.
Regardless I continue to pine for those ever so crispy wings frequently.
Today is International Chicken Wing Day. It is observed on July 1 annually. The day is about eating chicken wings. All kinds of wings.
The first International Chicken Wing Day was declared in 1977 by one Stan Makowski, the former mayor of Buffalo.
Happy International Chicken Wing Day. Go forth and scarf down a couple dozen for me !
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- June 30, 2023
- Social Media Day 2023
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I pretty much stay off of social media sites, opting for my own presence under my own terms. My site is available to those I choose and I don't have to care what anyone thinks about the content or me personally.
Facebook is owned and operated by a outrageous overstepping jerk named Mark Zuckerberg who is a manipulator of that which you see as a mechanism for trying to control what you think and propagate a politcal agenda specified by his masters, the democrats. I personally feel that anyone on Facebook is an idiot subjected to his whims by their own choice. If I were in charge he would be executed — public and messy.
Twitter used to be predominately run under that cookie cutter treachery, deception and attempt to control what you think and exert it's political agenda when it was a Jack Dempsey et al abomination. His leftist libtard censors would exact heavy handed cancellation of accounts at their stupid freedom of speech squashing whims. The purchase of the site by Elon Musk has resulted in improvement, a migration of the criminal element from their midst ... but he too is not without his poor decisions and censorship inclinations. Luckily his malicious false narrative promoting crybaby censor staffers departed shortly after he took over.
Bottom line here is social media should NEVER impede free speech. The left has convinced a lot of people that it is "necessary" and I maintain that dissent is the healthiest thing in a country dominated by stupid dullards like the Biden Administration and that entirety of the woke left and stupid transsexuals in particular.
The jury is out on Musk. Zuckerberg is a cancer on the world which should be excised and incinerated.
Instagram, youtube, google, and all things alphabet are just as bad and underhanded as Zuckerberg and his clown show. They too should be terminated with extreme prejudice.
You can indulge social media all you want. If you can tolerate that control of what you think and what you say and being led around like some swine with a ring in your nose then more power to you.
I, for one, cannot.
Today is Social Media Day. It began June 30, 2010 under the auspices of Mashable, a site I used to read regularly. I simply don't feel that the vast bulk of social media outlets have the interests of the populace at heart. They simply want to censor and control you. Seig Heil fools.
Boo !
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- June 29, 2023
- Hug Holiday 2023
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One of those universal expressions of affection is to squeeze another person tightly in one's arms — hug them.
It is a real time form of endearment to share with others those notions floating around in your head regarding them.
Hugging expresses affection which crosses boundaries. It can be friendly, intimate, familial — even casual.
It may be a hug of another. It might be a group hug. There is no set duration.
I personally have a problem with hugging because I don't like to be touched. I have been working on the issue for years and have made great strides.
Animals in nature even engage in behaviors resembling the hug. However, the emotion behind that hug itself actually sets people apart from othe other species engaging in such feelings.
It is said that hugging releases oxytocin, which among other things is called the 'cuddle hormone' which may exercise part of strengthening social bonds between individual.
Today is Hug Holiday. It is celebrated each June 29.
Time to reach out and hug another for all those reasons you feel are relevant. There are worse things than expressing the fact that another is dear to you.
Get on out there and show some love !
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- June 28, 2023
- The National Day of Joy 2023
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I've had a few episodic instances of joy in my existence.
Joy is a feeling of immense pleasure and happiness which results in rejoicing. It is also that feeling of well being, fortune, or success by getting some of those things you most desire. I suppose it can be summed up as a feeling of delight, happiness, or felicity and ...
Joy is the nickname my late stepfather gave to my mother.
Today is The National Day of Joy. It is marked on the last Wednesday of June each year ... making it June 28th in 2023. The National Day of Joy began in 2019 under the auspices of Comfort Keeper who are a company of caregivers for senior citizens.
It is said that joyfulness in senior citizens is essential. Personally, I think it helps those of all ages AND ...
I suppose some of us were meant to be excluded.
I try to observe and be grateful for "the small things" in life that typically bring joy. However, in actuality I rarely pause to smell the roses.
I suppose I feel that I am too busy otherwise and it will just have to wait. About the only thing that really brings me joy anymore is a good sketch or a finely tuned phrase in the blog ... but heck — this is also the sum total of what I do anymore.
I remember days into which were much more diversely involved.
So regardless of your situation I hope you get each and every moment of joy you can squeeze into your remaining years. I'm trying to do the same.
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- June 27, 2023
- National PTSD Awareness Day 2013
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PTSD is an abbreviation for post traumatic stress disorder which is a complex issue triggered by the experience or witness of severely traumatic life experiences.
The symptomatology include, but are not limited to hypervigilance, recurring and involuntary flashbacks of the trigger, mood swings, and avoidance.
It is said that trained professional intervention is required for adequate evaluation and therapy. Some of us never seek treatment beyond the diagnosis opting for reality therapy and our own faculties of the mind such as willpower to overcome that which we feel as the result of traumatic life experiences.
This is National PTSD Awareness Day — as well as National PTSD Awareness Month as passed by the Senate. It is held under the auspices of the National Center for PTSD.
What was once called "shell shock" is now well known among fighting forces, but the condition is also found in people who have been subjected to trauma off the battlefield ... like having the misfortune of attending Goose Creek High School or other environments rife with the exceptional cruel hostility and that degradation which may surround one in certain environments.
The notion of PTSD therapy has been given exceptional thought and research and what was untreatable is now typically a temporary state for those victims of the many types of injury which may cause it.
I was spotted due to a characteristic called "the clench" and those causes identified and treated. While I still periodically engage "the clench" the pain of PTSD has long left me and now I function with high order thinking skills and creative inclinations which surpass some in this day of woke idiocy. My good friend Sam was the only person to ever figure it out by observing me. He called me on it one day at work and I came clean.
So if you think you suffer fron this broad spectrum disorder you should seek treatment. Proper handling will make the fear and anxiety go away for most.
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- June 26, 2023
- Forgiveness Day 2023
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Forgiveness doesn't come easily for me. Yes, I do claim to be Christian and yes, forgiveness is one of the main tenets BUT ...
I tend to retain harsh feelings for those who push me so far that they incur my wrath.
I also realize that I may be called upon to answer for this characteristic of my being before the White Throne. All I can do is be the best person I can and let the cards fall where they may.
Consequences. They are a fact of life and eternity.
Today is Forgiveness Day. It is observed every June 26 since 1994 under the auspices of The Christian Embassy of Christ’s Ambassadors (CECA). This is not Global Forgiveness day held on July 7 WHICH is actually an off-shoot of Forgiveness Day.
I think that the concept of shedding grievances or grudges and forgiveness of those who have wronged us is an absolutely heavenly concept.
From antiquity forgiveness has been a concept mentioned in religious texts and the benefits of achieving this are the stuff of legend from secular, religious, and even scientific domains. Needless to say I will continue to evolve toward that higher self I envision as being within my grasp — and hopefully I won't be cast into the lake of fire when all is said and done.12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Romans, Holy Bible, King James Version
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- June 25, 2023
- Color TV Day 2023
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Once upon a time I too was a teevee addict.
I recall my first television program in color and where I was and what grade I was in. Dad came home and set it up and Hogan's Heros was just beginning. I saw the snow and boots and everything was very vivid in my mind. It was a far cry from the black and white Sylvania it replaced. Thus began my initial immersion into color television.
Yes, I would sit before the tube like a cabbage simply taking it all in. You could have just called me 'slaw'. These days find me before a computer screen much more than any television screen but I must say that were the programming better perhaps my attitude toward the format might be as well. I am so put out with television in general that my mama had to save my television which was about to be smashed on my sidewalk. We took it into her new home and there it sits now in all it's streaming and broadcast television no cable glory. Yawn.
Today is C o l o r TV Day. It happens each June 25 annually. The technology is pretty much standard fare in these times but I recall a day when black and white television was the only thing available to me personally.
This day commemorates color television and it's role in our information exchange and entertainment since those first sets went on public sale in 1953 with the first consumer version by RCA model number CT-100 with it's high price and low quality.
However, everything has a starting point and the present technology known as OLED and it's MLA (multi lens array) improving that quality who knows where the pinnacle will end up ?
Regardless of whether you absolutely love television or can do without it you likely keep a set around for those moments when it might be signficant to your existence so Happy Color TV Day to you !
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