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- November 28, 2025
- Happy Birthday Alan Ritchson
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Alan Ritchson was born lan Michael Ritchson in Grand Forks, North Dakota on November 28, 1982.
He is a military brat and therefore was subjected to frequent relocations in accordance with his father's career.
He is an actor, producer, and director and — as far as I am concerned — most importantly the lead role in Reacher.
He has other roles but none that struck me quite like the one of Jack Reacher.
Others have played the part but none of those left me totally awe struck like that of Ritchson's portrayal.
In the television program he portrays one of the hardest hitting most powerful good guy action heroes of my lifetime.
He is also a singer and song writer so I pretty much feel he can handle anything thrown at him on the artistic front.
This is no ordinary man and today is his birthday.
Happy birthday to you !
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- November 27, 2025
- Happy Thanksgiving 2025
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The Thanksgiving holiday commemorates the harvest festival celebrated by the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. It is now held in the US on the fourth Thursday in November.
The day became a national holiday in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday during the Civil War.
This was mostly due to the efforts of writer and activist Sarah Josepha Hale, who also authored the poem "Mary had a little lamb" in 1829 which was published in her book, Poems for Our Children.
Let us give thanks.
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- November 26, 2025
- Thanksgiving Eve 2025
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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.
Today there are a multitude of meal preparations and holiday festivities in the planning. Mom and I will travel to Rebecca's house down Platt Springs Road to indulge in a Thanksgiving feast. It will be good to see all of the children again. I don't get enough company of the children these days.
So like that turkey which hasn't second guessed it's fate I remain content to view the world from my position in life and get on with it as I may.
I hope you have a great Thanksgiving tomorrow !
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- November 25, 2025
- Changes due to my Urban Existence
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Time was I took my trash to the local pickup point on some remote intersection and that was that. Nowadays I have to conform to the city's requirements for this.
It includes a recycle container as well as a trash one and there is a schedule published appertaining to the ins and outs of moving the waste and recycle product in a predictable and efficient manner.
As in keeping with all of this I will change the pickup day to Wednesday in lieu of the Thursday usual in the name of observing Thanksgiving.
This requires checking the city schedule for such events as they occur — and this pops up around major holidays on an infrequent basis.
So rather than the open and casual dumping of the trash I have to get all formal in the name of being the good citizen in the modern American urban jungle.
In accordance with these requirements I will comply as I do and have done for as long as my feeble mind can remember anymore. Thirty years in the city will do this to you regardless of how countrified you may have once been.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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- November 25, 2025
- National Parfait Day 2025
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One of those delicious things I partake of infrequently is the parfait.
Indeed my first taste was one of those indulgences I could have never imagined. It was a fresh strawberry shortcake layered with whipped cream and was oh so tempting that I thought about the flavors a good while afterward.
The parfait originates in France and it's native meaning is ‘perfect’. It has a number of variants but is mostly a semi-frozen dessert served in a tall glass which dates back to the late 18th century.
Over the years it has been reimagined as a layered dessert served in a clear glass.
In France, it is made with ingredients that may include sugar, syrup, eggs, and cream. Though it is a dessert, parfait may or may not be sweet. It has a custard-like texture, and it must be stirred while freezing to get the texture.
Today is National Parfait Day.
It is held each November 25 marking an item available as a breakfast, lunch, snack or dessert served up in layers. So get on out there and serve some of this exquisite dish to those you find most worthy.
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- November 24, 2025
- FTP Servers and Exploitation
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Yes, I keep reading the logs of multihomed escapades enacted by those who would breach my FTP server in the name of conquest and lo ...
They are simply not cracking the (rather extensive and specific) rule set in place to protect the assets of those authorized to utilize this service.
You cannot gain access to a resource which requires both an account as well as specific access permissions just because you see it out there. Yeah, the port is open. YOU are the problem.
Also, there is specific and essential control accessibility only available from a console keyboard.
Yet, here I get these copious log entries of little hacker dudes (and possibly dudettes) trying to cross my patio daddy-o without adequate credentials. And to think I went to all this trouble to lock things down. I sometimes feel as though others truly believe I am as stupid as they are. Nice try, but no.
Stop trying to hack a resource which is not for you. It's very unbecoming of a technical type individual. It looks especially bad in light of the rights, permissions, and specific subnet entry specifications required of your attempts. Or ...
Come back when you have attained sufficient rights and permissions to gain access and we'll see how you fare.
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- November 23, 2025
- Contaminants make key fob Dysfunctional
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I've had a recent spate of stupid errors with key fobs for my new F150 Super Crew truck. It seems that if you get the key wet it tends to stick inside the FOB mechanism. If you allow it to dangle from a lanyard around your neck into the cat's milk it behaves far more badly. The worse you treat it the worse it performs from then on ...
After brainstorming the problem to no avail I went to the local Ford dealership on a mission of discovery. I had a brand new factory key made for the truck. I ended up spending $500 on something I could have done myself for about 20% of the dealership cost to me.
Be all of this as it may — I have finally discovered the answer to the key malfunction in the fob.
I utilize a high grade aerosol electronic contact cleaner in copious amounts while opening and closing the key inside the fob mechanism. Then I apply compressed air in a similar fashion while working the key mechanism again.
After this regimen voila the keys all work as designed. There has to be some adhesion going on from the contamination secondary to dipping the keys in various liquids. Even water causes the problem as evidenced by the accidental bird bath dipping one of them received. The keys don't really care if I didn't mean to contaminate them. My intent was totally irrelevant. Only the solution mattered.
So now, I have 3 fully operational factory keys at my beck and call. The attached lanyards were highly contributory in this mess scenario as well.
I have enjoyed the overkill of all this troubleshooting but I tell you "getting here" was a bit of a vexation beyond my personal ability to cope. Whine ! I was quite the unhappy camper for a few days. However, my antics did stimulate that subsequent overpowering resolve to bring the matter to a satisfactory close once and for all.
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- November 22, 2025
- The Murder of JFK 1963
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I was in the fourth grade at Aragona Elementary School, Virginia Beach, VA. Mrs Munyon's class. Abruptly late in the morning the radio began playing over the intercom. News of The political murder of John F Kennedy, the 35th US president (1961–63). He was shot and killed after being struck in the neck and head in Dallas, Texas while riding in an open car along Dealey Plaza.
Reports of his motorcade in Dallas, Texas going to Parkland Memorial Hospital were announced. Much later in my lifetime I learned that the man was actually DOA and there was no manner of heroics which could have saved him from the devastaing head shots he sustained. He was pronounced officially at 1 pm. Texas Governor John Connally was in the same car and was seriously wounded. Vice President Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One later that day at 2:38 pm.
One Lee Harvey Oswald who was a former employee of the Texas School Book Depository from where the shots were said to be taken was arrested by police shortly after the shooting. He was subsequently murdered by Jack Ruby who was a terminal cancer patient and the plot did nothing but thicken and stagnate.
The investigation and forensic evidence were followed by the so-called "Warren Commission" which like so much else in government had the appearance of a total farce.
I am not a democrat but I feel that John F Kennedy was mistreated as President of the United States and that all things could have been handled differently and better than they were because too many had too much to hide.
I feel at a personal level that the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963) was the official end of my innocence as a child. Watching my mother cry over the President's death had a profound effect on how I felt about many things which linger to this day.
Boo!
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- November 21, 2025
- The Mayflower Compact signed in 1620
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On this day in 1620, 41 male passengers on the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact prior to landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. This alliance was an agreement by the signees to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish.
It is significant because it was the first document establishing self-governance in what would become the United States. It created a system where colonists agreed to form a "civil body politic" including their own laws for the "general good".
It was an experiment in participatory democracy, based on consent of the governed and majority rule.
It formed the foundation for later American democratic principles and instruments, including the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
Agreement Between the Settlers at New Plymouth: 1620
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.
IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620
John Carver
William Bradford
Edward Winslow
William Brewster
Isaac Allerton
Myles Standish
John Alden
John Turner
Francis Eaton
James Chilton
John Craxton
John Billington
Moses Fletcher
John Goodman
Samuel Fuller
Christopher Martin
William Mullins
William White
Richard Warren
John Howland
Stephen Hopkins
Digery Priest
Thomas Williams
Gilbert Winslow
Edmund Margesson
Peter Brown
Richard Britteridge
George Soule
Edward Tilly
John Tilly
Francis Cooke
Thomas Rogers
Thomas Tinker
John Ridgdale
Edward Fuller
Richard Clark
Richard Gardiner
Mr John Allerton
Thomas English
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- November 20, 2025
- Joe Poopy Pants Biden Birthday
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Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr was by hook and crook elected president of the United States from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025 by a voter pool consisting of democrats and their illegal alien cohort.
He used his office to enrich himself and his worthless culpret family including his wayward tardboy son who he ensconced on the foreign energy board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company — though he was totally unqualified and without skills or knowledge of the energy industry. This was misuse of the power of his office for personal gain for which there were no consequences.
It has been debated as to whether he pooped his pants at a D-Day celebration; but I personally feel that given his level of grasp and inability to function in public so often during the waning months of his administration that he most certainly did. After all, the main stream media and democrat party have done nothing but lie and mislead the public regarding his entire tenure in government and there you have it. Thusly it is so in keeping with the rest of that nothing which was the Biden Harris administration that all that existed was primarily part and parcel confabulated reality of his reprehensible manufacture.
His so-called "Dr Jill" bung hole of a wife is a typical dumb ass ignorant educator touting everything she is not as though she were actually a worthwhile endeavor. All she could do is lie about her husbands skullduggery and piss poor performance otherwise in office as though it were a badge of honor or something.
He was born November 20, 1942 and God only knows why he was allowed to live this long. Talk about worthless crook ass democrat assholes and their malefactor families. What an utter crook is this senile old freak girl child sniffing leech on the taxpayers. Defenders of this villain will hopefully and ultimately get what they deserve.
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- November 19, 2025
- International Men's Day 2025
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Being a heterosexual purist I am naturally more interested in the female form and involving the female in my life rather than other men by and large. Yes, I have men friends but they are not in possession of that true allure which drives me to seek that which is not the same as me.
Vive la difference !
Today is International Men's Day.
The purpose of the day is to promote positive male role models and to celebrate the positive contributions made by men to society.
The emphasis is on community, marriage, child care, and the environment. The official theme for International Men's Day 2025 is "Celebrating Men and Boys". The act of promoting open conversations about men's physical, mental, and emotional health as well as challenging those negative stigmata surrounding men's well being have long been passe talking points for me personally.
I personally work toward making contributions toward cultivating a positive world as best so then I can and call it a day. The activists of the world could move in that regard as far as I am concerned — but all too many don't. I'm too old to take a stab at reinventing society. Go there all you wish.
Happy men's Day to you.
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- November 18, 2025
- National Mickey Mouse Day 2025
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Today is National Mickey Mouse Day.
It is celebrated every November 18 to commemorate the first appearance of the character in the 1928 animated short, "Steamboat Willie".
The day also represents Mickey Mouse's birthday and recognizes his status as a symbol of The Walt Disney Company.
The day is in celebration of the debut of Mickey Mouse in that animated short, Steamboat Willie, which was released on November 18, 1928.
It honors the character's popularity.
They say that you may celebrate by watching a Mickey Mouse movie, visiting a Disney park, or throwing a Mickey themed party. You poor no taste or life having human being.
All things Disney have been ruined by grandaughter of Walt Disney, Abigail who inherited everything then proceded to embark on it's ruination by changing long standing characters to pathetic woke empty versions of themselves with catastrophic failure of long standing plot lines and underlying stories.
Hold your breath til I ever celebrate Mickey Mouse again Abigail Disney..
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Die woke idiot die. You ruined so much of cinema that wasn't even yours with which to meddle.
Roll over in that grave Walt Disney.
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- November 17, 2025
- National Take a Hike Day 2025
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I've taken quite a few hikes in my day. Most of them were voluntary. Others not so much.
Today is National Take a Hike Day.
It is held each November 17.
The day is a motivation to get out there and walk a few trails. The opportunities are endless and the 60,000 miles of trails pretty much assure an endless supply of healthful activity and scenic wonder.
Local, state and National Parks support hiking events on this day. A good pair of shoes are essential. Snacks are also a wise option. It is my personal opinion that bringing a buddy will enhance the safety. So get on out there and enjoy the fresh air, scenery, and partake of the exercise as well ! Those majestic vistas not withstanding it is simply good for the body and soul to get out there and do a bit of walkabout on the domestic front. There is a lot to offer if you care to partake.
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- November 16, 2025
- Check your Wipers Day 2025
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Windshield wipers guard your safety in bad weather. They are an essential component of good driving and should be checked for wear and tear at regular intervals.
Today is Check Your Wipers Day.
It is necessary for optimal visibility in rain, sleet and other precipation you may encounter while driving.
Michelin came up with the idea in 2021. It is a good idea to check those blades as a part of regularly scheduled maintenance:
Squeaking or other racket may indicate that the wipers are not connecting with the screen just right. They might simply need to be adjusted or replaced.
Streaks or scratches may indicate damaged rubber which does not effectively contact the windshield.
Cracks in the rubber are a further indication for excessive wear.
Bent wiper frames are an indication of physical damage — perhaps caused by wear, wind, or debris.
I typically go for the top of the line Bosch wiper blade or something similar as I have had good performance from them and that is what I value most in a consumable product.
If you are acquainted with others who are wiper blade challenged you might extend help to those in need of checking their wipers out during this time.
Happy Check your Wipers Day and be safe out there.
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