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- April 9, 2025
- National Gin and Tonic Day 2025
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A day featuring my long time favorite drinks has arrive.
I was a Gin and Tonic man when I was that drinker seeking watering holes in and close to Naval Bases internationally.
I had been known to down quite a few screwdrivers before landing on Gin and Tonic and found it was a refreshing bitterness that matched much of my attitude at that time.
So today is National Gin and Tonic Day and I pay homage.
It is celebrated each April 9 in observance of that vintage drink featured so prominently in my past.
I'm quite sure that during that time I had consumed so much quinine that I was immune to malaria.
Indeed I never suffered from it though I was in areas of the world which found it flourishing.
I'm sure the Navy had intervened otherwise as well.
So happy National Gin and Tonic Day.
If you're so inclined throw one down for me.
So many fond memories of the drink and the times.
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- April 8, 2025
- Jay North RIP
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Jay Waverly North Jr was born August 3, 1951 and passed day before yesterday on April 6, 2025.
He was an American actor. His career began in the late 1950s, and he went on to appear in eight TV series, two variety shows and three feature films.
He portayed Dennis Mitchell on the CBS comedy Dennis the Menace (1959–1963) which was based on the Hank Ketcham comic strip and was a staple of my television entertainment during that time frame.
He was 7 years old when he began and I was unable to suspend disbelief at that early age and thought I was actually interacting with him and the other characters of the show.
I recall his relating having to suffer cruelty at the hands of his aunt and uncle. I read of his struggles to overcome those feelings and a later reunion with Jeannie Russell, who portrayed the character Margaret on the show. She grew up to become a chiropractor in North Hollywood, California.
I recall watching Jay North in various other television programs, most notably Maya which concered him and a friend along with an elephant. However, I don't think it grew on me as I didn't watch it religiously as I did Dennis the Menace.
Jay North died of colorectal cancer on April 6, 2025, after a battle lasting several years.
Rest in peace.
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- April 8, 2025
- Draw a Bird Day 2025
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It's not an "official" holiday but one meant to stimulate that creative aspect of our personalities such that we set hand to various media and formulate an artistic creation of the avian kind.
I have participated in this observance as often as I can over the years because I view the premise as a good use of my time and effort.
It is also in-keeping with my never ending promotion of the arts in humanity and especially for children.
So, in that spirit of the day I give you the Kingfisher.
It's a bird.
I drew it.
Happy Draw a Bird Day.
See Also:
Draw A Bird Day 2023
Draw a Bird Day 2022
Draw a bird day 2019
Draw A Bird Day 2018
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- April 7, 2025
- World Health Day 2025
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Beware.
Today is World Health Day.
This is the day the World Health Organization chose to try and hide the fact that they are a bunch of third world incompetents incapable of taking over the world as they would like and continually have attempted in the recent past.
The world stage does not need the dumbass WHO or it's parent the United gd Nations.
They are both yet another stupid globalist view without any relevance to the nationalistic nature of world governments.
They want to kill you and take your property via their Agenda 2030.
They want to rule you as though they own your slave ass. They want to control you within your own borders with their own so-called "Peacekeeper" thugs.
What they claim to be is not who they are.
Toss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the rest of his third world charletain scoundrels out of your jurisdiction with extreme prejudice.
Boo !
See Also:
World Health Day 2024
World Health Organization Pervert Paradise
The Montreal Protocol 2021
World Health Day 2021
Last Year on this date China held a supposed day of mourning
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- April 6, 2025
- Filed my 2024 Taxes
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Not much to report.
Little income.
No tax owed.
No refund due.
Pretty much the same as last year.
Alas, retirement here you are in all your
below subsistence level mediocrity.
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- April 6, 2025
- I'll take a whitebox any day ...
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Whitebox.
Those custom computers manufactured by third parties in lieu of some mass produced bunch of nothing like an Acer or a Dell or much worse ...
A trip to Best Buy or some other worthless vendor offering pseudo and unskilled support.
Dell manufactures their own motherboards to spec.
Give me a gd break.
So it's rapidly becoming time for a new workstation and I will NOT make the mistake of calling some sand nigger representing Acer for anything.
I'm headed up the street to a little computer business and letting them handle it.
The two servers they built for me some time back have been MOST satisfactory.
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- April 5, 2025
- National Recommit to Your Fitness Day 2025
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In a week I'll be 70. I have no designs on resetting my fitness goals. I am continually hearing how "your're as young as you feel".
I'm feeling somewhat like the crypt keeper.
So no, I don't see any changes in what I'm all about unless the hormone replacement therapy is all that.
There was a time when I was all for the daily jog and the tossing around of the kettlebells in an attempt at keeping up with the changes of aging.
I fear I have lost that battle.
Today is National Recommit to Your Fitness Day. It is an April 5 observance held under the auspices of F45 Training, who push group workouts.
Anyway, while I consider the concept of National Recommit to Your Fitness Day quite the admirable endeavor, those practicalities of who I am and what I'm about otherwise cannot be ignored.
So I'm going to try and get back into the groove again. I may not be the champion powerlifter of my old Venice Beach, California days but here's to the thought. Life is a journey, not a destination.
Happy National Recommit to Your Fitness Day to you.
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- April 4, 2025
- 13th Annual Tartan Day South 2025
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13th Annual Tartan Day South
Highland Games & Celtic Festival
Thursday to Sunday
April 3 - April 6, 2025
Columbia Speedway
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- April 4, 2025
- World Rat Day 2025
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I once had a total aversion to rats. This abated over time as I grew to utilize them in school and though I never became the owner of any pet rats ...
I could tolerate them quite well.
Today is World Rat Day.
It is observed each April 4 in an effort to curb the very bad reputation they have acquired since say ...
The bubonic plague or so.
Rat enthusiasts seek tolerance for the species and Rodentia Rattus is likely to be here after we are all gone.
They are intelligent and cunning as far as animals go and the rat, unlike other rodent pets will go out of it's way to entertain and interact with you. Contrast this with the gerbil, of which I have owned many — which will sit there, look at you, and cohabitate while eating your food and shunning you otherwise.
So hate them or love them the rat is here to stay and today is their day.
Happy World Rat Day.
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- April 3, 2025
- Val Kilmer RIP
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Val Edward Kilmer
December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025
American actor
We mark the passing of one of my personal favorites, Val Kilmer.
My favorite of his portrayals was that of Doc Holiday in Tombstone.
Beginning on stage he became a leading man in film of a wide spectrum of genres."I'm your huckleberry."
Doc Holiday to Johnny Ringo calling him out
Jim Morrison,
Doc Holiday,
Admiral Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky,
Batman,
Madmartigan
... need I say more?
We'll not see another like him anytime soon. Say hello to Bill Paxton and I'll see you when I get there.
Rest in peace.
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- April 3, 2025
- Google Riff Raff
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So I tried to allow google back on my network over the weekend. I don't intentionally block them but as many earnest efforts go this one too was a dismal failure.
You see, in addition to the google bots you have to permit the various riff raff that utilize their networks with impunity to steal and tresspass so guess whose back in the firewall rules ???
I suppose when you're the single most evil company on the planet this is to be expected.
Yes, google. IP Tables are kind of like nuking from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. You can add all manner of mod rewrite to apache and the lamers still get it all wrong.
You tell IP Tables to prevent access and it's a done deal.
I'm happy that at least some things are dependable. I just wish google would prevent riff raff from attacking web assets like it's some extant requirement.
Imagine the nerve of thinking yourself that entitled ... but they do.
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- April 2, 2025
- National Walking Day 2025
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I have a long history as a person who walks.
I used to walk for exercise.
Early on it was to get where I wanted to go.
Then I got my first automobile and from then my walking days were pretty much over.
Then my early 20s arrive and I began the transformation into power lifter.
That phase lasted until I left California and then I came back to South Carolina and resumed my Kentucky Fried Chicken addiction and all those gains were lost.
I used to enjoy the impromptu "going for a walk".
The rest, as we say — is history.
Today is National Walking Day.
It is observed on the first Wednesday in April making it April 2 this year.
You really can't overplay the health benefits of walking.
Sometimes the most beneficial impact is "low impact".
It favorably affects most lifestyle diseases and adds to your cardiovascular integrity.
It is my personal belief that everyone should get out there and walk as much as they can.
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- April 1, 2025
- National One Cent Day 2025
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April Fools Day is April first. It is also National One Cent Day. The intersection of these days lay in the fact that serious consideration has been leveled toward ending the use of the penny in US commerce. I agree the penny coin likely doesn't get the use it should.
I also have this sense of nostalgia tugging at my heart strings. The penny was the first coin I was ever given as a child. I had a lot of nickles, dimes, and quarters as well over the years but the first coin I ever received was the penny.
The US first issued the one cent coin, designed by Benjamin Franklin. On one side, the coin read "Mind Your Business", and on the other side, "We Are One". It was hand crafted without machines and larger — made of pure copper unlike the alloy adulterants used in much of the coinage of today.
In 1793, on April 1, a new one-cent coin was introduced into the market. These new coins were a symbol of the Statue of Liberty. The other side showed 13 chains representing the 13 colonies.
I have a lot of pennies I have collected over the years. I have indian heads, wheats, as well as the more modern versions. Perhaps therein lay part of the problem. Maybe collectors have made the cent unuseful to the government.
I know a lot of people who don't use bank cards — or even visit banks — and wonder how they will fare if we ever phase out currency totally in favor of other commerce instruments.
Happy National One Cent Day to you and the penny.
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- March 31, 2025
- Transgender Day of Visibility 2025
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Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.
It represents that opportune time to take these perverts out with dispatch, accuracy, and extreme prejudice.
The transgender population consists of sick people who think their genetic gender is incorrect.
We have men who claim to be women and women that claim to be men.
They think we should embrace their illness and not seek to cull them from the population.
I don't think the transgender community should be discriminated against so much as eradicated.
Fewer mentally incompetent people will ultimately make for a better world.
So when you see that transgender flag I hope you'll do your part and eliminate their blight from the landscape.
I love the smell of charred transgender carcass in the morning. It smells like victory over sick birds invading the country thinking they have a divine right to be stupid.
Happy Transgender Day of Visibility. They'll go back under cover soon so act now.
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