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- November 24, 2021
- National Sardines Day 2021
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Sardines are an acquired taste for me personally. In my childhood I could not even bear the thought of eating a fish whole, but over the years I have amassed those experiences which amend themselves to new and exotic things. With those experiences came the enjoyment of sardines.
I certainly would indulge them in a variety of ways even though I may not have tried them. To date, my favorite form of the delicacy has to be those fresh sardines served at restaurants on the Amalfi Coast of Southern Italy ... for breakfast no less.
The memories are still fresh in my mind.
Today we have another National Sardines Day. The day is designed to have people take note of sardines and their nutrition as well as the deliciousness one might not readily recognize or acknowledge.
Suffice it to say I could eat them several times weekly.
While I enjoy the fish on crackers and such most of all I also indulge them cooked in a variety of ways. I have even partaken of them raw at the sushi bar. At each encounter I have enjoyed sardines more and more.
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- November 23, 2021
- Piddling Around
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So I've been looking for something to break the boredom to no avail.
I tell you, some of the venues are really pathetic.
Take Craigslist. They have a bunch of people allegedly seeking employees but the headlines and ads are fraught with misspellings and poor grammar.
It makes me wonder just where the heads are on these individuals ... likely up their stupid asses.
Too many seeking specifics and I am a generalist.
When you can adapt to most any situation it doesn't leave you a lot of ways in.
Might as well continue to draw my check and watch television. Likely that is all I'm good for anymore.
I'm very fortunate that job seeking is a desire and no longer a requirement.
The benefits of oldfartdom sparkle brightly in this matter.
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- November 22, 2021
- Go For a Ride Day 2021
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November 22 marks 'go for a ride day' ...
Where you get up and go for a ride or take someone else for a ride.
What you do once you get there is another matter.
It's an effort to reduce sedentary lifestyle and end that couch potato thing so many of us have going.
The mode of transportation doesn't matter.
Just the act of taking yourself or a companion on a ride.
It can be a fun way to kill a day !
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- November 21, 2021
- World Hello Day 2021
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I'm not what you would call 'bubbly'.
Not effusive, or gregarious, or even particularly friendly anymore.
Suffice it to say I'm tolerant and that's about it.
Today is World Hello Day.
It is said to be a secular observance in 180 countries marked each November 21 to illustrate the importance of personal communication for preserving peace.
It was originally created in 1973 by Arizona State University graduate Brian McCormack and Harvard graduate Michael McCormack as a direct response to the Yom Kippur War.
On this day, people are encouraged to participate by simply greeting 10 people.
I suppose greeting others is not too much to ask. It just isn't something I would initiate by and large ... see
Google and gmail keep pissing me off at the rest of you.
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- November 20, 2021
- Sometimes Topics Escape Me
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This is another period of that intermittent difficulty in blogging resulting in a situation where I don't really care to engage anything that enrages me or make fun of something or paraphrase a concept as an exercise in diction.
While I might attribute this to 'writers block' I find the droll summation of that all too insufficient in the great beyond that surrounds me with the wokeness and the stupidity of leftist culture.
I used to have innumerable references which have fallen by the wayside as I now view them as repositories of liberal drivel ...
Those sites like the drudgereport.com, wikipedia.com, nytimes.com, latimes.com, news.google.com, and news.bing.com — those that I used to think were valid news outlets now I view as biased as the dirtbag hairball leftists that operate them.
There's just too much without merit on the web anymore. The mainstream media with their government controllers are the issue. I don't want news concocted and paid for by some governement operative with sights on slanting the truth away from factual reality. Spin doctoring ... this is ALL that goes on now.
Suffice it to say that my search mode has been revamped to exclude those complicit lemmings like CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, and ABC. These sources become increasingly irrelevant with each passing day and it's their own fault.
The truth. The facts. Notions that escape the mainstream media have rendered them irrelevant in my existence. I prefer the truth and maintain a list of sources toward that end that does not include the mainstream media.
Luckily I can always draw upon my experiential world inventory to come up with topical data if push comes to shove. It's just a need for current events which sully the mix with BLM, antifa, and other irrelevant marxist overbearing presence.
I want to join the local militia and get some payback for all the lies and stupid mendacity placed before the world as part and parcel of the left and their idiotic notions.
Adieu !
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- November 19, 2021
- The fallacy of cookies and tracking
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It is said that web sites may track you via cookies. These are small text files, encrypted or not — placed on a computer or other device when visiting a web site with a browser. Sometimes multiple cookies may make their way to a machine during the course of activities.
The data stored is information derived during a 'session' or period of time at a site. It may be trivial or substantial information and may be persistent based on a number of factors.
Here's where I come in. My browser permits cookies. When my session is over all cookies are deleted upon exit of the browser session. I have a TSR (terminate and stay resident program) in core (memory) which ensures that:
1. Cookies only go where I permit them and
2. Cookies are removed when I terminate the browser
I find the notion of tracking me via a second visit to a non existent cookie to be somewhat dubious and I make no apologies for removing cookies from my machine even though the 'terms of service' state I must allow them.
Suffice it to say that you can leave a cookie but don't expect it to be there should I return. I expect that VPN connections I frequent further thwart the tracking of my web visits as well.
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- November 18, 2021
- The Utah monolith
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On this day in 2020 The Utah monolith which was likely built sometime in 2016 is discovered by working state biologists of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources pursuing long horned sheep.
I recall a piece on the television series Paranormal Caught on Video regarding the so-called "Utah monolith" which was a metal pillar erected in a sandstone area in Utah some 9.8 feet tall and constructed with metal sheets riveted in a triangular prism looking structure.
The television program intimated the possibility for an extraterrestrial origin of the construction but I initially found this rather dubious and learning of riveted construction just screams "man made" to me personally.
Nobody knows who set the structure into place but it stood unlawfully on public land until it was discovered and removed likely by persons unknown.
I have never had much interest in it due to my initial opinion of it being a hoax and those clones which appeared thereafter simply fortified my disdain for the thing.
Be all of this as it may it was an interesting 15 minutes on television from my perspective but I find it quite well and good that it is set aside at this time.
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- November 16, 2021
- Fast Food Day 2021
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Part of urban human history in these United States is fast food. Some of my earliest memories surround stopping at some burger place and getting a lunch consisting of burger, fries, and a chocolate shake.
Dad was always there to provide the earthly delight when we were traveling and it was something I looked forward to at those times.
November 16th brings us Fast Food Day. The observance has been around since the early 20th century and originates in the United States.
The concept has grown over the years starting from a rather dubious beginning in a population who felt eating food away from home and the family environment was wrong to mainstream acceptance and I would even call preference based on the multitude of idiots who get in the way and tie up traffic at the McDonalds on Sunset Boulevard at Chris Drive in West Columbia, South Carolina.
I made the mistake of going in there on three separate occasions and each time was the absolute worst dining experience of my life with rude stupid employees and food that had been sitting there retrieved from plastic drawers. Ugh !
The McDonalds across the river at 434 Gervais at Hugee is even worse with their black ass fat stupid cretin manager named Paris with five inch fingernails who tosses your food on the floor then expects you to eat it. As if THAT was ever going to happen.
I wish they would tear that place down.
The White Castle burger joint opened it's doors 1921 in Wichita, Kansas and is credited as the point of origin for most of what has become modern day fast food chains. I believe it was them that wrought the terrible dining experience called "McDonalds".
So Happy Fast Food Day if you like nil nutrition tossed on the floor then put in a bag and handed to you.
I HATE McDONALDS and PARIS their gd stupid no class or scruples asshole manager.
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- November 16, 2021
- The Trouble with Open Source Software
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I had been using a check writer of my own design using Apache's Open Office with a database and several merge field forms I wrote up one afternoon years back.
All was idyllic in the presence of a single checking account until that fateful day I needed to add a second one.
Thinking all that needed to be done was clone the original install and use the new data ... WRONG camel breath.
Nothing worked at all.
So I went ahead and bought a canned check writer with unlimited accounts which does everything my scripting did as well as operate properly in the presence of multiple account iterations.
The moral of the story is free software is typically supplied "as is" and they could really give a rip if there is trouble with anything you want to do that falls outside the "community support forums" which proved totally ineffective and quite infuriating in my particular case.
The secondary moral is "you get what you pay for".
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- November 15, 2021
- Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day 2021
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It is November 15 and that makes it Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day.
The day meant to clear out your fridge of all those suspicious foodstuffs which may be growing colonies ... or worse.
Hygiene is not solely a bodily function. It is important to maintain environmental hygiene as a matter of health maintenance.
So when that pitcher of tea has the appearance of pond scum or that old bowl of guac seems to be growing larger and greener or those orange slices seem to be active penicillin cultures it's important to dispose of them and any other products which may be assuming a life of their own in the cold dark reaches of the fridge and wipe those surfaces down which may have become innoculated in the process.
Being somewhat of a germaphobe in the finest Sheldon Cooper tradition I rarely allow anything to linger long enough to fester and spoil in my fridge.
Besides, I typically have the stuff eaten long before any danger is even possible.
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- November 14, 2021
- World Diabetes Day 2021
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I have metabolic syndrome X aka 'adult onset diabetes' according to the International Classification of Diseases.
This refers to a bunch of health conditions appearing in conjunction which increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and also diabetes ... but sharing the same ICDA code makes me call it all the same thing.
This metabolic syndrome includes high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol levels and is said to increase a person's risk for heart attack and stroke.
The waist enlargement not withstanding, the entirety of the disorders do not have a lot in the way of symptoms.
The prescribed path of treatment includes weight loss, exercise, a healthy diet, and stopping of smoking. Medications are typically a part of the treatment regimen.
Today we have another World Diabetes Day which is the primary global awareness campaign focusing on diabetes mellitus and is held under the auspices of the International Diabetes Federation. Metabolic syndrome, adult onset diabetes, and juvenile diabetes are all under the umbrella of this awareness.
So if you find yourself diagnosed with any of those conditions which may be classified in the realm of diabetes you should be under the care of your healthcare professional and follow their instructions.
During the interim, have a happy World Diabetes Day if there is such a thing.
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- November 13, 2021
- World Kindness Day 2021
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Today we have another World Kindness Day.
This international observance happens each November 13 since 1998 under the auspices of the World Kindness Movement which is a coalition of nations.
It is observed in a multitude of countries and that participation is increasing over the years in support of the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.
In my existence I can think of much less worthwhile pursuits. Love is kind.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
Holy Bible
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- November 12, 2021
- Happy Hour Day 2021
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I used to be somewhat of a barfly. Yes, in my Navy days I used to go to the EM club on the base and get schnockered. I used to throw down the brewskis with the best of them ... even after an exceedingly late start. That was then. This is now.
I haven't had much alcohol to drink over the past 24 years. This corresponds to the passing of my good friend Dewitt with whom I normally had the occasional snootful. Nowadays I don't keep much in the way of alcohol in the house due to the infrequent visits of an alcoholic friend who can turn up an entire bottle and guzzle it down before my very eyes.
Today is Happy Hour Day. Happy hour refers to a period of time during a day when establishments sell drinks and food at a discount.
Originating in various barrooms, nowadays many restaurants are also known to hold happy hours and offer drinks and appetizers at reduced prices. Usually, a happy hour includes multiple drinks and appetizers for the price of one.
I have a few acquaintances who track happy hour locations, times, and offerings to my amazement. One fellow in particular is a walking and talking encylopedia of happy hours and similar events in the local area. He also reeks of alcohol on occasion. I sometimes think it exudes from his pores.
I get offers to join in from time to time. I don't recall many episodes of attendence in recent history — likely a whole decade or more. Many countries ban happy hours in drinking establishments due to the fear that it will encourage binge drinking and alcoholism.
I care little for drinking anymore and therefore my participation in happy hours is nonexistent after never being much to 'write home' about. However, in the spirit of 'to each their own' I don't hold imbibing against anyone and your participation in happy hour is totally your option as far as I am concerned.
So to all you liquored up lushes have a grand Happy Hour Day !
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- November 11, 2021
- Happy Veterans Day 2021
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I am a navy veteran. I didn't like the Navy when I was in and lord knows I could have done a lot better ...
But I've made my peace with the lackadaisical enlistment and until their sorry ass Treasurer pissed me off I was contributing to the USS MacDonough Reunion Association monthly in an effort to make further amends.
Some of my cohorts at work whined about being veterans and not being off for Veterans Day.
I told them that the incorporated municipality did not honor veterans because of other chosen official holidays.
Veterans Day was once called Armistice Day. It is a federal holiday in the United States observed each November 11 in the name of honoring military veterans discharged honorably.
For those of you who are veterans I'm happy to wish you a happy Veteran's Day whether you work the day or not !
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