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- March 11, 2022
- National No Smoking Day 2022
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Smoking is bad for your health.
If you like so many of us in the United States are overweight — it further compromises your cardiovascular system beyond that imposed by the extra corpulence you may be carrying.
Today is National No Smoking Day. It focuses on awareness regarding the dangers of smoking.
This day attempts to spotlight resources that are available to help people decide to try and quit as well as trying to offer encouragement and support in a useful and non-judgmental way.
Trying to convince others that you don't smoke when you do is quite a bit on the unscrupulous and immoral side of the equation.
My sister smokes and INSISTS that she doesn't as if she didn't reek to high heaven from the habit.
If you don't smoke don't start. If you do smoke stop.
☠ Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways and the small air exchange sacs called alveoli found in your lungs. ☠ Lung diseases caused by smoking include COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer. ☠ Smoking makes you look older, imparting facial wrinkles and premature aging of the skin. ☠ Smoking damages your teeth and yellows both them and your fingernails. ☠ Smoking leads to gum disease and ulcers as well as dental infections which can result in tooth loss. ☠ Smoking imparts odor to you that remains in your hair, clothes, conveyance, and home. It precedes you when you enter a room so everyone knows you smoke even if you lie about it vehemently as does my sister. ☠ That smokers cough results in phlegm and can lead to chronic bronchitis. ☠ Many smokers develop COPD. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is common and some 80% of cases of COPD are the direct result of smoking. ☠ Smoking affects your immune system and restricts your ability to fight off infections. Smokers have more respiratory infections than non smokers. ☠ Nicotine causes constriction of the blood vessesl and increases risk for high blood pressure, stroke, and heart attack. ☠ Smokers increase their susceptibility to heart disease with smokers accounting for 20% of all deaths from heart disease and 70% higher mortality from coronary heart disease compared to those who do not smoke. Smoking a pack a day doubles your risk of a heart attack. ☠ Smoking increases insulin resistance in diabetics. It causes a rapid increase in the progression of type 2 diabetes. If you smoke and are diabetic you become increasingly at risk for kidney disease, eye problems, and heart attack. ☠ Smoking increases your chances of developing cancer. Not JUST lung cancer, but throat cancer, mouth cancer, kidney cancer, esophageal cancer, and bladder cancer. ☠ Smoking negatively affects your family's health. Second hand smoke accounts from 37,000 to 40,000 deaths each year. Children become at risk for chronic respiratory conditions when they are subjected to second hand smoke. Bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, and ear infections all increase in those exposed to second hand smoke. Infants are more at risk for SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.
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- March 10, 2022
- Festival of Life in the Cracks Day 2022
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One of those things I've noticed over the years is the propensity for plants to flourish, sometimes in the apparent absence of soil.
I've seen plants growing in the cracks in rocks and even on the sheer rock faces of cliffs.
My beloved mother had a driveway which would spring forth with greenery despite my efforts to do away with it.
Today is the Festival of Life in the Cracks Day and notes first hints of spring weather like various sprouting plants erupt from the cracks in sidewalks.
The day celebrates rebirth and renewal in life promotes beauty and life on the planet.
Festival of Life in the Cracks Day meant to promote sitting inside, but is a time for the sojourn either alone or with others and experiencing that beauty in life ...
Even if it is found in cracks on the ground.
You can celebrate the day by going outside and looking for life in the cracks.
Springtime is bearing down upon us and the greenery of plant life should be just starting to sprout.
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- March 9, 2022
- Amerigo Vespucci Day 2022
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I remember Amerigo Vespucci from my primary education as a young child in Virginia Beach, Virginia as well as Hanahan, South Carolina.
However, I never really thought much about other than America was named for him. I was always under the impression that his purview was derived from the military and not commerce.
I was always interested in him because the topic of "America" and "American" have always been dear to my heart.
Amerigo Vespucci as it turns out was an Italian navigator, explorer, and merchant from the Republic of Florence in what is now italy.
The name "America" is derived from his name and it has been stated that he was the first European to set eyes upon the new world.
In 1497 he made his first voyage of the Age of Discovery in the name of Spain.
In 1504 he participated in a second voyage of the Age of Discovery, first on behalf of and then for Portugal
He is known for proving those in Europe that the New World was not Asia as was widely believed — but a fourth previously undiscovered continent.
He was born March 9, 1454 in Florence, Italy. He died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain. He was married from 1505 through 1512 to one Maria Cerezo. They had no children.
In the world while the left would attempt to revise the facts of the past; some must remain fast in our memory and that is the ones of Amerigo Vespucci.
On March 2, 1959 Governor Nelson A Rockefeller of New York declared the holdiay called Amerigo Vespucci Day. His reputation came to suffer at some of his radical ideas whereby he thought the common citizen to be "expendible" and could just "be killed" for wanting to know too much in the way of technology and private deals made by the government.
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- March 8, 2022
- International Women's Day 2022
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International Women’s Day is held each March 8. It is claimed to be a global day celebrating the historical, cultural, and political achievements of women.
The day also observed in support of taking action against gender inequality around the world.
Societal contributions of the female of the species are the crux of the observance.
Now then, we have freaks of nature ... the so-called "trans" sexual human beings who think they can be something beyond their chromosomal configurations simply because they choose to do so.
Deranged human beings such as trans swimmer Lia Thomas a University of Pennsylvania student who is a man masquerading as a woman on the woman's swim team, prancing and traipsing around the locker room naked with his penis on full display making the genetic females uncomfortable simply because his stupid institution embraces his so-called right to be delusional.
The institution should be made to pay. Were he doing this in the presence of one of my young female relatives I would make it my solemn duty to take him out of her picture by any means necessary.
It is a collective insanity of the left to discard science in the name of feelings. I don't care how he feels. He is a man and should be treated accordingly. Period.
Freaks should not be celebrated unless attending a circus sideshow — which is what the woke world has become.
This business of embracing of a total fallacy is why International Woman's Day should be cancelled. Too many so-called women today aren't really women.
Before our idiotic woke culture finally gets it we will likely devolve to a collective of these safe space seeking slobs who cannot accept who they are gracefully much like some whiny screaming mixed race bitch Yale student demanding the resignation of someone presenting a little logic in their presence.
XX = female
XY = male
the only normal variant is called mosaic aka "intersex" which combines XX and XY into various other configurations
XY individuals are not female.
XX individuals are not male.
Transexuals who claim to be female are not women.
Transexuals who claim to be male are not men.
Those who support them are just as deluded as they are.
Institutions that embrace the delusion exhibit faulty logic and corrupt actions.
If you're a parent expressing pride in your little poof of a boy that thinks he's a girl you should be taunted public and messy for your failure to instill effective role modeling on your little deviant pervert offspring.
Likewise, if you are one of the other tolerated deviants professing "rights" you need to be efficiently and permanently disposed of by society.
You are what you are and you is what you is stupid trans people. I decline to accept your stupidity. The characterless gullibility of the stupid leftist and progressive libtards never ceases to amaze me.
. . .
Do you know what you are?
You are what you is
You is what you am
(A cow don't make ham . . . )
You ain't what you're not
So see what you got
You are what you is
An' that's all it 'tis
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You Are What You Is
Frank Zappa
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- March 7, 2022
- National Be Heard Day 2022
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Hear Ye Hear Ye ...
Today is March 7th and is therefore National Be Heard Day a day for small business owners and those aspiring to be owners to get out and make their voices heard.
Now then, this day celebrates small businesses and encourages those operating them to stand up for themselves and their ideas and lay claim to their share of the market.
I was once a small business owner in the form of computer consultancy. The issues therein for me personally were those clientele who wanted to control the environment and the product such that I was sometimes placed in hardware and software environments for which I had contempt.
I decided I didn't want the money. I wanted the stupid individuals making the bad decisions to go away. I wanted the customer's employees to stop bothering me with their low end consumer grade equipment seeking upgrades.
So now, I pick and choose and have a discriminating set of criteria which set me and moreso YOU apart should I not wish to be bothered.
It is appropriate to discriminate against the stupid who wish to force their faulty ideas and impressions upon you.
In these, my latter years I can still wire up a CAT6 network, configure routers and switches, wired or wireless — sit at a keyboard and tie everything together over IP ...
Then fix things should the inevitable issue arise.
Even though this is the very day to toot your own horn, I maintain a simple web presence with a secure contact form and call it a day.
My presence is known to those with whom I work.
All the little seo stooges and other would becontent consultants who like to bypass my spam filter by utilizing my online forms just get blocked at the server as required.
The fine art of firewalling interlopers is not lost upon me either !
So if you are not like me and already have more work than you can do such that you are actively pursuing clientele; today is that day to make yourself known to the world !
I hope your pitch is refined to a tee and good luck to you all.
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- March 6, 2022
- Namesake Day 2022
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So today it is Namesake Day aka March 6th, a day set aside to acknowledge and recognize those from whom your own name was derived.
I was told I was named after President Dwight David Eisenhower and my maternal grandfather Johnnie Ray Johnstone.
Then I went to the hellhole known as Goose Creek High School for an excruciating year and learned
"Ray is a nigger name."
Lewis MillerMiss McAllister's 9th grade history class
Goose Creek High School
circa 1970Later I learned about Eisenhower and his 1954 Greada Treaty with the gray aliens permitting them to capture and experiment on us in exchange for technology while claiming to be gone having emergency dental work. The absolute short sighted nerve of this idiot. The grays never intended to honor the treaty and didn't do so.
Thusly, I'm not too keen on my namesake and therefore Namesake Day in general.
We have long traditions of naming people after other people.
Our heritage imparts some family members, some famous people, some who have lived their lives with particular distinction to be those for whom some of us find ourselves named.
Bear in mind though that which we are forced to experience by way of history may sometimes sully those choices made for us by others responsible for these aspects of our existence.
Happy Namesake Day ... and I hope your namesake hasn't been sullied as mine was at the hands of those unrelated to me.
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- March 5, 2022
- National Absinthe Day 2022
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On infrequent occasions I have had a snootful of Absinthe, the potent green alcoholic spirit made from the wormwood shrub and flavored with aniseed. It is much easier to procure these days compared to the early 1980s when I was having a taste now and then.
The LA scene lent itself to herb, blow, ludes, other pills, and of course ... Absinthe.
The paraphernalia involved in the ritualistic aspect of exotic sugar cubes, spoons, water drips, glasses, saucers made for an experience that was a bit on the frou frou side from my perspective. I personally would prefer a straight shot — slam it and maybe chase it.
This never happened in my experience however.
It is said to be some dangerously addictive psychoactive drug and hallucinogen of Swiss origin becoming popular in the early 20th century France. It was particularly favored by artists and writers.
Aka “the green fairy” which is likely a reference to both the color and the buzz copped by some who imbibed regularly with it's licorice like flavor and bouquet.
Absinthe has an experience surrounded in the mystique of bohemian culture and I personally feel that that the trace amounts of a chemical compound called thujone is likely contributory to the adverse medicinal claims of it's detractors.
National Absinthe Day is observed each year on March 5th — although I cannot state the nationality marking this day.
It has been my experience that those in my circle of friends know little to nothing about it at all.
It was banned for a while in western Europe and the United States, but as we now know, that stupidity which is the government is quick to involve itself in matters it neither knows about nor is competent to judge.
Notable individuals known to drink Absinthe include:
Charles Baudelaire the French Poet
George Gordon, Lord Byron the English Poet and Peer
Aleister Crowley the nastiest human being to ever live
Vincent van Gogh the artist
Ernest Hemingway the author
James Joyce the Irish Novelist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec the French painter and print maker
Amedeo Modigliani the Italian painter and sculptor
Pablo Picasso the Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer
Edgar Allan Poe the American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
Marcel Proust the French novelist, critic, and essayist
Arthur Rimbaud the French poet
Oscar Wilde the Irish poet and playwright
among others ...
Absinthe has not been proven more dangerous than other spirits. Studies have shown that absinthe's psychoactive properties have been exaggerated and are precisely those of alcohol consumption.
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- March 4, 2022
- National Day of Unplugging 2022
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I am not a technology freak anymore.
Time was I wanted immersion in everything available for personal communications and the smart phone was like an extension of my hand.
I'm happy to say that those days are gone.
Now I use a flip phone.
I try to avoid texting.
I don't have this incessant need to be in the loop these days.
March 4 is said to be the National Day of Unplugging.
It is ostensibly for you to set aside your electronics and engage life more in the foreground than you might do otherwise.
Those valuable moments in our lives sometimes transpire unnoticed at the expense of some smartphone screen.
Social media, microblogging, and other aspects of the cell phone monster controlling you may inhibit other things which might color and add meaning to your meager existence not to mention interpersonal failures and inability to unplug, reflect, consider your existence from a human perspective and connections with loved ones.
National Day of Unplugging requests 24 hours to excavate that person you really are — perhaps rediscover the outdoors, and reconnect in person for a change.
You have nothing to lose except your technical isolation at the hands of that smart phone monster which sometimes controls your very existence.
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- March 3, 2022
- National Anthem Day 2022
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March 3rd brings us National Anthem Day and commemorates those songs nations have adopted to represent their national identity internationally .
“The Star-Spangled Banner” is the song chosen by the United States to represent our identity.
The lyrics were from a poem written by Francis Scott Key and the tune is derived from "The Anacreontic Song" written by John Stafford Smith.
Together, they became "The Star-Spangled Banner" following the War of 1812. In 1931 it was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America.
The Star Spangled Banner
O say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd
At the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?
Lyricist: Francis Scott Key
Composer: John Stafford Smith
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- March 2, 2022
- Salt Free Popcorn ... why bother
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I had been nursing an addiction to Orville Reddenbachers Ultimate Butter microwave popcorn.
It seems that the product also has ultimate salt and had resulted in lower leg swelling as noticed by Mrs Goodfoot at my last pedicure.
It was a sobering experience to make the switch to a salt free brand of microwave popcorn.
After consuming two servings I came to the bleak conclusion that the salt free product was without merit from a standpoint of taste.
So now I have another 4 bags of the stuff and I suppose I will simply cultivate a tolerance — if not a taste for this dismal salt free product.
I'm very disappointed. I have to eat a product detrimental to my health for it to be enjoyable.
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My left lower leg is a little swollen
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- March 1, 2022
- Refired Not Retired Day 2022
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I was not expecting to retire for another 20 years but then my job took an unfortunate turn I found utterly unacceptable.
They wanted me to do this microsoft infirm office automation crap called sharepoint because they're a bunch of microsoft lamers — and I absolutely could not stand the thought of working on something so brain dead as this microsoft vaporware not to mention being the bitch of a bunch of technoidiots ... such as those populating the the sysadmin group.
So I talked it over a smidge then abruptly quit. Then I filed for social security and found it met all the bills with about $250 a week to spare and voila all of a sudden I am quite unexpectedly retired.
Now then, this all being whined the first of March brings us Refired Not Retired Day.
It is said that if you find yourself newly retired (such as I am) then this day is for you.
The day was created by one Phyllis May after an unplanned early retirement at the age of 55 which corresponded to a concurrent divorce resulting in her relocating to the Gulf Stream (Atlantic) side of Key West.
She devised the day in order to turn that narrative of boring retirement around.
It is said that retirement can be exciting if you can put hte stresses of working behind you nad focus on those things you've always wanted to do.
Me ... I'm not quite that lucky. I have a modest place with a 5 node public facing network and server cluster to keep me occupied and I suppose this will have to suffice.
I'm already bored to the nth degree and if I didn't have the home network it would be far worse.
I'd like to start throwing in a little regular exercise at the earliest opportunity.
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- February 28, 2022
- Another February Ends
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Ah another February Ends and with it meaningless celebrations.
It would be okay with me if February were simply stricken from the record never again to see the light of day.
What a separation of history to magnify all the racist narratives.
Yet another stupid woke waste of time with awards to imbeciles for nothingness.
I'll likely just stop observing February at all.
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- February 27, 2022
- Vendors without Check Out As Guest
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I have a problem with ecommerce sites that lack CHECK OUT AS GUEST.
You're not getting my business.
Nothing will make me depart from an ecommerce site more quickly than to load up a cart and then be required to add an account.
Too many vendors think we owe them a username and a password and a permanent presence on their site.
It's as though stupid store sites believe that the little X in the upper right corner to simply close the browser is suddenly disabled and that the customer somehow remains at their beck and call.
We don't.
I'd just as soon go elsewhere morons.
I am content to fill out all the demographics and payment information at each transaction and I don't ever guarantee repeat business.
Thank you very much bitches. Terms? What Terms? It's my payment card not yours.
No Checkout as Guest Option
According to a study conducted by Baymard, 35% buyers abandoned their shopping carts because the website forced them to register before placing the order. If a potential buyer wants to buy a dress and is searching for the right colour, design, and brand, the quest can lead to different ecommerce websites.
After adding prefered items to the shopping cart, registering on different ecommerce websites to place an oder can add to the misery of a buyer. Not all buyers want to register with different ecommerce websites for a single purchase.
https://www.fatbit.com/fab/reasons-behind-high-shopping-cart-abandonment-rate-solution/
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- February 26, 2022
- Letter to an Elder Day 2022
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Over the years I have devolved into a poor correspondent.
Early on I was a man of letters and during navy boot camp at Orlando in particular I kept up with everybody and everything via the US postal system.
Alas, in our 21st century schizoid world all I can usually do anymore is squeeze out a sentence or two in an email and call it a day.
Today is February 26 AKA National Letter to an Elder Day. It is one of those many unofficial holidays and celebrates sending the elderly a handwritten letter of love.
National Letter to an Elder Day was initiated by Love For Our Elders. They are a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting loneliness with love among seniors.
This day comes annually and honors the age old art of writing letters as a way to send ideas one communique at a time!
Bear in mind that although I am quite a bit on the elderly side I don't require any letters — of love or otherwise.
I don't know when I lost the lovey dovey thing, but I have both accepted that fact and moved on.
You are encouraged join in the celebration of Letter to an Elder Day on or before February 26th.
Plenty of those around who could use a kind word and interaction.
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