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- December 13, 2021
- Something I always regret
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I did an additional play slip in the last megamillions lottery and the next day, as usual, I regreted it.
I've decided that the quick picks aren't any worse than my picks even though they are equally dismal.
When the powerball butt holes changed the rules yet again I dropped out of their game entirely.
When the state of South Carolina dropped lucky for life even though I was playing happily I was forced to do the same.
The weekly diminished lottery plays have increased my savings account by $50 weekly.
All being said — to me the lottery is simply this fantastic pipe dream.
I keep thinking that there is some mystery pattern I could learn to recognize, but there isn't.
After all, I suppose random is random.
So the plan is to continue with the megamillions plays and maintain my boycott of the powerball crooks.
Truth be known I wish the state would rejoin the lucky for life game.
Actually, I wish they had never forced us to leave.
I often have the thought that the lottery is somehow rigged.
Perhaps it's merely the astronomical odds.
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- December 12, 2021
- Today is Mayim Bialik's 46th Birthday
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I've been watching Mayim Bialik hosting Jeopardy with Mom lately. I have been a fan of hers since Amy Farrah Fowler appeared on The Big Bang Theory.
The character took me by surprise and I learned to enjoy that which she represented and of course that ran over into my interpretation of the actress doing the portrayal.
Prior to that I watched her a few minutes on Blossom, but that never floated my boat due to the age differential between that series and me ...
I was working the local school district at that time and one of the locations I supported Northside Middle School had a photograph of Blossom on a small bulletin board adjacent to the office desk.
Mayim Chaya Bialik was born December 12, 1975 and is an American actress, game show host, and author.
She has been hosting Jeopardy since August 2021 along with Ken Jennings who we have been watching as well.
I try to let Mom decide what we watch in an effort to provide adequate entertainment ... seeing how I don't really care what is either on air or streaming myself.
Her name is said to mean 'water' in the KJV Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon.
I like her. She is 20 years younger than me and this always makes me think of her portrayal of one of the Wallace Kids on Pumpkinhead when she was 12 years old. Then I was 32.
Young stuff. Young smart educated stuff.
Today is Mayim Bialik's birthday. Now she is 46 and I am 66. Good gracious !
Happy birthday to you !
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- December 11, 2021
- International Mountain Day 2021
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Some of the most exciting moments in my life have involved the travel of mountains. There were the clouds enveloping the Grand Tetons in Wyoming when Dad took us all to Yellowstone from Blackfoot, Idaho during my childhood.
There was the time Jerry Landry and I rode down the 281 returning from liberty to the ship from a trip down the Blue Ridge Parkway and came alongside a cliff on a two lane road with a sheer drop of several hundred feet separated from us by a 3 foot stone wall.
Mountains are a function of geologic changes in the Earth, many taking eons to undertake. They are spectacular formations by and large and I enjoy traveling them when I can.
This is International Mountain Day. Go ride down a mountainside if you can !
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- December 10, 2021
- Dewey Decimal System Day 2021
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My last encounter with the local county library was years ago and turned me against them altogether. Were I a violent man I should be in prison right now ...
Had I not attained that modicum of control I sought immediately following the incident.
I went to the library ostensibly to use their computer to look for work and the dickhead bald male reference librarian decided he was going to 'discipline' me for some perceived infraction of his protocols.
Rather than break his pencil neck geek cervical vertebrae — which HAD crossed my mind — I departed never to return again.
I don't need the library, their assets, or their insipid lip giving punk ass librarian.
The porcine appearing caucasian white girl sporting the brown afro in all her jewish appearing pseudointellectual engaged ass wasn't any better.
December 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day. The day commemorates the birth of Melville Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System of library classification. ... The system, first published in 1876, organizes library materials by fields.
Go to the libary and look at the arrangement. Maybe you won't get abused during YOUR visit. I might have returned but I was afraid I might kill somebody.
I'm just way too pretty and have entirely too many responsibilities otherwise to go to prison.
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- December 9, 2021
- Thinking of Joan Armatrading on her birthday
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Since that period right after high school I have been a fan of Joan Armatrading and her music.
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, CBE was born December 9, 1950 at Basseterre, Saint Christopher and Nevis, British Leeward Islands.
She is a lyricist and guitarist second to none.
There have been moments when she has brought comfort to me though I was thousands of miles away from home out at sea in the North Atlantic doing 70 degree rolls.
She touched my soul at a time when I was unapproachable by most others.
Now that I am old that allure of her sounds still beckons me to stop and listen.
I don't really agree with her lifestyle nor do I care what she pursues in that aspect of her existence.
I am content to allow her to be her and be myself and enjoy those things we have in common.
She is a musician and I am a lover of good music.
Today is the birthday of my chanteuse muse.
Happy birthday to you !
Somebody Who Loves You
I don't know what you're thinking
Should I stay or say goodbye
You blow smoke on the ceiling
You don't wanna look into my eyes
You've got somebody who loves you
But now I wanna see you fan the fire
Wrap the sheets around you
With me hugged up inside
I wanna see you fan the fire
Come on stoke the blaze
And don't run for cover
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you
Cozy corner your arms around you
So tired of one night stands
Left with longing from misspent passion
With one more human to despise
You've got somebody who loves you
Don't mine for gold in the dim lit cafes
And as the gypsy once foretold
Love is dark but no stranger
Mistaken shyness can be costly
Too hasty a goodbye
Then you've lost me
You've got somebody who loves you
Somebody loves you
I wanna see you fan the fire
Come on stoke the blaze
And don't run for cover
Mistaken shyness can be costly
Too hasty a goodbye
Then you've lost me
I wanna see you fan the fire
Joan Armatrading
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- December 8, 2021
- First confirmed case of Wuhan COVID-19 in China in 2019
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On this day in 2019 saw the first confirmed case of the Wuhan COVID-19 virus in China.
Chinese victim. Chinese virus. Chinese point of origin.
Trump had it totally correct from the beginning. He fought the naysayers tooth and nail.
While all too many elements of the deep state played pc with calling things what they were a lot of people died.
Had we legislators and executive administration who could do without the payola from red China perhaps they would be more attuned to the health of the taxpayer.
Shame on us for allowing a stupid element of the governement to take charge.
Unscrupulous, immoral, without redeeming virtue thy name is democrat.
We were much better off with the Trump administration.
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- December 7, 2021
- National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day aka Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day or Pearl Harbor Day, is observed each year in the United States on December 7.
The day memorializes and honors 2,403 Americans who were killed in the unprovoked and unanticipated Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
This attack led to the United States declaring war on Japan the next day.
Thus the United States of America entered World War II.
Pearl Harbor Day was selected as the day upon which my late biological father would be interred at Clinton United Methodist Church cemetery in Salley, South Carolina.
It has and always will be one of my most profound days of mourning for that reason.
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- December 6, 2021
- Memories of Joyce Kilmer
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When I was an idiot child in the seventh grade my English teacher had me rise before the class and read Trees, the poem by Joyce Kilmer.
Since that day Mr Kilmer and his work have held a special place in my heart. He was born December 6, 1886 and passed away at war on July 30, 1918.
This being his birthday, I view it personally appropriate to remember him and his work.
Over the years I have taken a moment to read Trees in those times I am collecting my thoughts and waxing sentimental and/or philosophical.
The poignancy relevant to me personally is the tragedy which was the fact that Joyce Kilmer was killed while fighting in World War I.
He was a prolific poet and worked as a journalist, literary critic, editor, and lecturer.
He was a devoutly religious family man with a wife and five kids.
Sadly, much of his work goes unknown by many these days. I consider myself lucky to be chosen by Mrs Robinson to read his poem Trees that day in seventh grade English.
Trees
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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Arbor Day 2020
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- December 5, 2021
- Learning to live with the lameness of SSDs
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My new workstation arrived with a high-falutin NVMe solid state disk installed. It is presently the system drive and is just like the one installed in Mama's Intel NUC.
My machine's manufacturer, in their infinite wisdom, fail to realize that SSDs are for people who don't do anything ... given their finite NAND writes even in the presence of overprovisioning.
While I admit this particular SSD is more efficient in it's ability to maintain operational stability ... it remains better suited for Mom who does everything she likes and more while I would tear it up with my workload in less than a year.
I am a user who does a whole lot in the way of heavy graphics and markup, code, versioning, experimentation, and those pursuits which have killed several SSD predecessors prematurely when I mistakenly installed SSDs in the servers on my network ...
Suffice it to say that when it comes to my workstation, a fast server grade magnetic SATA is more my speed given the re-writeability in general and toward that end I have been migrating both applications and their associated profiles with other aspects of application immediate storage to the 4 tb WD Gold I slapped into the case of my new workstation when I received it.
I cannot get past the tremendous server failures I experienced secondary to SSD utilization. I'm not selling this new NVMe ssd boot drive short by any means I just cannot allow my assets to depend on it as I did with other SSDs in the past.
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
I don't intend to allow my enterprise to again be damaged by inadequate provisioning.
If the SSD fails I have a strong magenetic HDD up and running already and can simply apply an operating system install should the need arise.
We do what we must do.
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- December 4, 2021
- Remembering Daddy
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Jim Williamson, Jr
Master Chief Machinst Mate (MMCM, USN)
Avid Gardener, Mechanic, Builder,
Maker of great piles of yard debris,
Son, Brother, Husband, Father, Grandfather, Uncle, Cousin,
January 29, 1932 - December 4, 2001
https://crackerjackdata.net/rip/daddy/
We have all missed you every day.
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- December 3, 2021
- National Roof Over Your Head Day 2021
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When I was early in my career it became obvious to me that I would likely be a lifelong apartment dweller. One of the happiest moments of my life was when my late dear old daddy helped me into the home in which I live today...
Even through the disappointment of entrusting a friend to the renovations ... that he could never had handled and in that clarity of retrospect I should have known ...
Since that time I have remained here. The house has seen me through the refinance of hundreds of thousands in bad credit card debt and I'm happy to say that aside from my remaining mortgage I was freed from all other debt through the efforts of my beloved late step father who took me as his own. I'm a lucky man for both of these influences in my life.
Today is December 3 and this brings us National Roof Over Your Head Day. It marks the significance of having a roof over your head in a world where the woke culture has caused so many to lack this necessity. The aim I think is contentment and being thankful for what you have regardless of how much or how little that may be without worrying about things which may remain unacquired.
Homelessness in America is one of the true pandemics the democrats choose to ignore in the presence of their control freak manipulations of the populace who believe the main stream media in all their ignorance to the tune of 100 million people.
Happy National Roof Over Your Head Day and I hope you're thankful for what you've got.
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- December 2, 2021
- First Artificial Heart Implanted this day in 1982
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I remember the early days of heart transplants, implants, and such heroic measures in the presence of those approaches pioneered to save us from the ravages of heart disease.
The news was rife with such information back in the day and I was pursuing a medical career and while very interested, I remained detached from the developments given the life span of those who participated in early trials.
It seemed that the 'second chance' touted by Louis Washkansky upon his own transplant were short lived at best and I was personally afraid to be too hopeful at those beginning stages.
Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart in a Seattle dentist who became a medical pioneer Dr Barney Clark.
Dr Clark suffered from severe congestive heart failure and was considered too ill for a heart transplant.
This made implantation of an artificial heart his only viable option.
He received The Jarvik-7 artificial heart designed by Robert Jarvik.
On March 23, 1983, Barney Clark died 112 days after becoming the world's first recipient of the permanent artificial heart.
He remains a hero of the highest order in the annals of cardiopulmonary health care and research toward that end.
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- December 1, 2021
- World AIDS Day 2021
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Never meant to be as crass as I was at the start of the AIDS epidemic. Being primarily the purview of those gayboys I detested — and I was was quite okay with the thought of their horrible painful deaths as the consequences of their actions and "just desserts" if you will.
So, as many do I evolved over the years and other populations were affected and even I relented in my stupid callousness which was not just uncalled for ... but downright mean at times.
Particularly the jokes in which I reveled so often.
Anyway I still have my insensitive moments, just not those which surround deadly disease processes, lifestyle or not.
Today is World AIDS Day. It brings attention to the scourge of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. I don't ridicule people with AIDS nor those persons who are HIV positive either.
The kinder, gentler Dave was a result of my continued understanding secondary to close indepth study — and evolution as a person more attuned to humanity.
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- November 30, 2021
- Smack that ass day 2021
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November 30 is (unofficially, of course) said to be a day to smack as many asses as possible. The guidelines are simple: you simply have to smack every ass you encounter, no matter how large or how boney. Ideally, you maintain a count as well.
It is said "So go smack some ass my children".
Let the count begin !
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