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- May 5, 2020
- Cinco de Mayo 2020
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The fifth of May commemorates the Mexican Army victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla May 5, 1862 under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza.
The battle is celebrated each fifth of May as a great victory for freedom in Mexico.
Some of the locals erroneously called it "Mexico's Fourth of July".
I used to like to be out in the crowd taking it all in for hours on end.
It was really a fete to behold on the West coast.
I was known to make merry late into the night at San Juan Capistrano some 6 miles down interstate 5 from my apartment in El Toro, now known as Forest Lake.
Anyway some of those waters passing under the bridge include what I view as an invasion facilitated by the government of Mexico until President Trump made them the offer they couldn't refuse.
My continuing issues surround those motivations which caused them pretty much to escort invaders to our border prior to that time.
I even stopped drinking Coranitas because they reminded me of those happy times late into the night in Southern California.
Will I ever regain the esteem Mexico and specifically Tiajuana, land that I loved once held in my heart?
I simply don't know.
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- May 4, 2020
- International Firefighters Day 2020
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Today is International Firefighters Day when the personnel of the fire departments of the world are remembered and honored.
St Florian, who lived from 250 – c 304 AD is the patron saint of firefighters and the style of his cross is known as the 'Florian cross'.
This shape is used among many of the fire departments with which I have experience.
St Florian is invoked against fires, floods, lightning, and the pains of purgatory.
A famous Church named for St Florian is located in Kraków.
His veneration has been particularly intense since 1528, when a fire burned the neighborhood without destroying the church.
His feast day is May 4.
The firefighter ribbon worn to signify firefighters and their activities is both red and blue.
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- May 3, 2020
- Adventures in Medicare
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Having reached the ripe old age of 65 I signed up for medicare on the social security web site.
I wish I could say things went totally smoothly, but I'm afraid that simply wasn't the case.
It seems that their 'select' credit history questions involved individuals with whom I did not know from past dealings, necessitating an interview of sorts from the social security administration office in Chicago, Illinois.
Anyway after a couple of misses on the phone we connected Friday and she had a few questions derived ostensibly from reading from my social security report on her computer screen.
She asked for my date of birth and I told her and we touched on how it had just passed.
She asked for my mother's maiden name and that was certainly no issue.
She asked me the city and state of my birth and that question came and went without any problems.
She asked me about my first job and I passed that question with flying colors as well.
Then we went on to discuss the level of medicare for which I had applied and it became obvious to her that I was indeed the individual who had completed the online application.
So the lesson here was just because you don't think something is going well perhaps all it needs is a little personal interaction whereby you can prove yourself and ... voila !
Now I'm offically a new card carrying old fart.
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- May 2, 2020
- Topical Considerations
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I was looking for something to write about for today.
I'm afraid that the pickings were somewhat sparse to say the least.
It is the anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden ... But while he remains a lesson in picking your friends and allies he remains really old news.
Bob Clampett's death went down on this day but Beany and Cecil have been passe for so long they remain in the annals of golden oldies yet not really germane current events.
That poof J Edgar Hoover died on this date too and I am so disturbed by the revelations of his debauchery, thievery, blackmail, and all manner of underhanded doings based on his penchant for maintaining dossiers and diddling his girlfriend Clyde Tolson his memory is simply so much flatus in the wind.
So I just decided to mull over those criteria which make an individual or their memory suitable topical content for a blog entry.
I even went so far to consult various style guides and they were even more hoity toity and missing of the point than the actual regurgitated historical elements I would include otherwise.
So ... nothing and nobody really interested me today.
Therefore, you're stuck with this.
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- May 1, 2020
- May Day 2020
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I was never a big fan of May Day celebrations, dancing around a pole winding ribbons, nor getting all dressed up for such displays.
Indeed, my last encounter with a May Pole was at Aragona Elementary School in Aragona Village in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
I believe I was in the second grade or so.
So this is yet another May Day ...
A public holiday celebrated on May first.
It is known as an ancient Spring festival with observances in the Northern hemisphere.
I believe it to be primarily a manifestation of European cultures and involves song and dance as well as cake and the making of merriment.
It has been sullied in the United States since the late 19th century when May Day was selected as the date for International Workers Day by the Socialists and Communists in Chicago.
International Workers Day is also referred to as "May Day".
However, it is not a traditional celebration but an abomination of the communists and socialists who should all be deported by any means necessary.
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- April 30, 2020
- Honesty Day 2020
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In this day and age honesty is certainly suffering. With the subterfuge and underhanded manipulation by the democratic party leadership of a stupid section of electorate ... called the "registered democrats" we are left with an erosion of that which is The United States of America.
That socialist impetus they would impart upon us with the underlying goal of controlling all aspects of our lives and redistribution of wealth we are headed for a fall unless more begin the journey of understanding just what is going on.
That liberal libtard constituency — part and parcel and controlled by the democrats is leading the rest of us down the primrose path of death and destruction of everything the founding fathers fought and died for:
• Life
• Liberty
• Happiness
Theirs is a world where the wealth is taken from the worker and given to the shirker.
Today is Honesty Day, invented by one M Hirsh Goldberg and celebrated at the end of April to facilitate honesty and straightforward communication in relationships, politics, consumer affairs and historical educational pursuits.
Let us hope that honesty prevails over the lying moral turpitude which has become the hallmark of the democrats and their pervasive vendetta against conservative values and goals.
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- April 29, 2020
- Happy Birthday Jim 2020
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- April 28, 2020
- Workers Memorial Day 2020
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Every so often you hear of some poor soul who is killed while on the clock during their workday.
Sometimes the person is known to you. Such was Ted Yandle, a student of mine who was enrolled in the SCDOT Site Manager training program at York County Tech so very long ago.
Ted was a strapping young man with dark hair, that ruddy complexion you get from being out in the sun for much of the workday, and a personality that would reach out and grab you with his patented friendly persona cultivated in the South.
Anyway, I was pretty taken with the guy and enjoyed his company and witty reparte for the week.
That happy family man that he was shone through the days we worked together.
I was dismayed to learn that he was struck from behind by a young man driving under the influence on August 16, 2001 while Ted was working the Peak exit.
My mood became solemn for several months after receiving the news. Thoughts of his two daughters and the rest of his family and their great loss punctuated my days long afterward.
Today is Workers Memorial Day aka International Workers Memorial Day aka International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured.
It is held internationally each year on April 28 and is a day of remembrance and action for workers killed disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work.
Canada observes the day as the National Day of Mourning.
So on this day I hope you'll remember Mr Ted C Yandle, his widow, and two daughters. He was a happy proud husband and father, a good man, and he should still be here.
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- April 27, 2020
- Server Downtime
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Alas, the web server went down hard when the SSD failed. It seems that there are a finite number of rewrites on an SSD and I had reached that threshold over the extent of the disk ...
Likely due to firewall reconfigurations.
Anyway, after collecting my stuff and provisioning for linux access on windoze 10 so I could retrieve a few items after the fact we're back up on a new drive new installs and newly restored scripting and data.
The frustration level never rose above ... oh 6.5 or so I guess.
Anyway, it was a good tough exercise in DR and I passed.
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- April 26, 2020
- World Intellectual Property Day 2020
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Once upon a time I had intellectual property.
Massive documentation projects that took me hours to produce and refine. Illustrations included which were even more difficult than the text.
Stolen by my "so called" director who put her own copyright on my stuff ... just because I worked there.
Intellectual property is work or invention derived from creativity like manuscripts or designs to which rights may be applied via patent, copyright, trademarks and so forth ...
Today is World Intellectual Property Day.
Observed each year it is meant to raise awareness of how protection mechanisms like patents, trademarks, copyrights, and such are valuable additions to society and the creation of properties which are more abstract than might be usual in the workplace.
People will rob you blind when they think they own you.
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- April 25, 2020
- DNA Day 2020
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It's National DNA Day, a US holiday celebrated on April 25 commemorating the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA.
Whereas the day is about the discovery ... the facts and science of DNA as it relates to human existence is largely behind the scenes.
We have companies which engage in mass karyotyping of human DNA sequencing but alas, according to PEW Research, they share data among each other.
Also, it is foolhardy to think that this information might never be used against those from whom the samples are derived when it comes to insurance, treatments, and more or worse.
Given the unscrupulous and immoral nature of the United States since the advent of the National Security Act which enabled the country to do whatever it likes in the supposed name of "national security" — confiscation, incarceration, and even murder you are much better off avoiding these surreptitious incursions into your privacy.
We are not the nice people a lot of us think we are.
DNA deoxyribonucleic acid, a fundamental component of nearly all living organisms is the main constituent of chromosomes which bear the genetic information for living things.
The ersatz so-called "trans" individuals are attempting to attribute validity to "how they feel" saying that men can be women and women can be men fall outside the configuration mechanisms which exist for sex assignment as a human being.
The bottom line is your genetic makeup determines your sex as a person and what you "think" doesn't even matter in the actual equation.
With the democratic party gone bat crap crazy and the deep state and shadow government needing removal by any means necessary it's bad enough that we've become evil as a country.
We don't need to cultivate stupidity at the 'transsexual' level as well.
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- April 24, 2020
- Arbor Day 2020
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Trees have been special to me since about the seventh grade when Mrs Martha Robinson at Horace O'Bryant Junior High School in Key West, Florida had be stand beside my desk and recite the poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer.
I considered the imagery.
I looked at the photo of this rough soldier in uniform with gigantic hands and the same name as my mother.
I thought about the farm in Salley, South Carolina nestled in trees and my grandmother Ida and how much I loved and missed her.
Finally I thought about what trees do with their provision of shade and cleansing of the air via their method of respiration.
So today is Arbor Day 2020.
Go out and plant and dedicate a tree to someone who is special to you.
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- April 23, 2020
- The Great fireWall of China 2020
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So I just completed firewalling the entirety of China proper.
This is a geographic based IP exclusion and does not include all of the various subnets they've purchased on networks outside their country because so many people hate their lying ass Wuhan COVID-19 coronavirus guts.
I am actively pursuing those networks supplying them access outside of China and firewalling them along and along.
The subnets are many and the complicient ISPs can run, but they can't hide.
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- April 22, 2020
- Earth Day 2020
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Yeah it's another Earth Day. Time for the whack jobs to come out in full force and spout a lot of unscientific nonsense making claims which simply aren't real.
So while you all gather around Greta Thunberg as she goes off on another globalist idiotic rant I hope you'll take a moment to consider just what she's saying and what her qualifications are.
Using an individual with a sophomoric world view is pretty much the hallmark of the leftists anymore and as such we should reject both them and their claims.
The general consensus is that we are headed for another ice age instead of a continuous global warming that is being the present hysteria driven false science propagated to the ignorant masses.
Brief warming then extended cold.
Educational institutions are becoming renoun for their applications of false science in the name of twisting the public's opinion via false information.
There was Harvard University's bought nutrition propaganda which ruined the food industry.
We have teachers touting how boys can have babies and girls can impregnate as long as this is "how you feel".
There was Colorado's "Condon Committee" which did nothing except promote false information regarding celestial events. The government still refers people to these lies for information regarding close in astronomical phenomina.
At some point the pursuit of profit needs to take second seat to the pursuit of science. This simply does not happen in the United States due to the nature of our failed educational institutions.
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