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In my personal case, reading isn't really what it is for most recreational readers. I stopped reading recreationally shortly after my hitch in the Navy was up because I became immersed in the path to subject matter expertise in an effort to earn a living post military service.
First it was anatomy and physiology for a long while. Then it became LAN, WAN, client-server, AI, 4GLs, and expert systems for the duration. That which began evolved to something totally different.
Today is National Read a Book Day. It happens each September 6 as a vehicle for all book lovers to indulge in their favorite hobby allegedly without guilt. I would never feel guilt as a consequence of reading.
Reading for pleasure is a strange notion for me given the fact that everything on my bookshelf is highly technical and without wands, fantasy, or lovey dovey.
While I consider recreational reading a fine diversion and endeavor it simply has not ever been a luxury for which I had adequate time. The last recreational reading I did was aboard the USS MacDonough somewhere in the North Atlantic reading Stephen King's Salems Lot.
It scared the crap out of me.
Everything since then has been something I needed for a certification exam or to teach a class.
Yes, required reading makes Dave a dull boy otherwise. I find I relate less to others because we have increasingly less in common due to those pursuits essential to my life. That in a nutshell would be the reading of some technical tome.
I don't read for others. Oprah and her book club couldn't get the time of day read to her by me. She is just another dullard who preys upon the public to their squeeling and grunting delight.
Happy National Read a Book Day. I hope you get to read everything you do because it's something you want, not something you need.
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Until about a week ago I was a very charitable human being. This was prior to my good nature being taken advantage of by a hispanic female. She defrauded me in the checkout at Walmart and I will never return there for this reason.
Yes, I should have been much more careful, but I was ignorant to the ways of these hispanic invaders. I am now much more aware and ...
Decidedly less charitable.
The Walmart parking lot has become a place for exploitation of their customers.
They do not protect the customer from panhandlers. We must protect ourselves. Then I find out that it is not illegal to panhandle in South Carolina. Therein lay the problem in toto.
Today International Day of Charity. It originated in Hungary via a civil society initiative marking the death of Mother Teresa.
It's been picked up by the United Nations who are the biggest exporter of illegal aliens on the planet. This coupled with the lying ass black UN bastard Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who would just as soon misrepresent himself and the World Health Organization as look at you make for evil bedfellows who should be shunned by the world.
The UN thinks the rest of the world should take in the riff raff from all other countries. The democrats hold this as well. I for one will never come under their purview. I doubt that I will ever be the kind, gentle, caring charitable individual I once was. You asked for it. You got it.
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Yeah, I've been known to have a second helping of dessert periodically.
I don't really need a special day to do it. Depending on what the dilection is makes or breaks the deal. I have been known to sit and eat the better part of a serving dish full of bannana pudding in all my glorious gluttony.
While the formal definition of 'dessert' refers to a sweet eaten at the end of a meal, the unabashed Dave dictionary says the dessert is merely a sweet to consumed ... whenever.
The origin of Eat an Extra Dessert Day remains unknown. Only those results which we illustrate when we partake of those meal toppers prepared for us either with or without a preceeding meal.
Cake, brownies, pie, cookies, ice cream, and the more exotic varieties are all there to tantalize the consumption of everyone.
Some of us are even blessed with natural born cooks, bakers, and confectioners in our midst as well.
Desserts are a food which has been around tantalizing our taste buds since time immemorial. Sometimes the memory of a particular taste attracts us most of all.
Sometime the spectacular visual appeal of that construction of ingredients is the attraction. Regardless they are there and we are here so get out there and eat some fattening dessert foods when you can.
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So I'm done with Walmart
I'm tired of the marginal products sold by rip offs who allow panhandlers to take undue advantage of their customers payment cards.
I am also seriously considering banishment of all persons who shop with Walmart so you may wish to keep it a secret if I am known to repair your computers from time to time.
Suffice it to say this company is unscrupulous, immoral, and I personally feel populated with employees who were born of parents who are siblings.
Keep your panhandlers to yourselves and try to hire people who aren't so stupid as to aid and abet their payment card fraud.
Die Walmart die.
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Lemons are a healthy fruit grown on trees indigenous to the tropics.
My good friend has grown a few of these trees immediately adjacent to a brick wall of her home and they seem to weather the winters here just fine.
The acidic nature of the fruit makes for a pucker here and there and I must say that the taste of a cold lemonade in the Summer makes for an enjoyable interlude.
Today is National Lemon Juice Day. It is observed each August 29th annually.
The juice of lemons is said to have detoxifying effects on the digestive tract.
Lemon juice is added to various drinks, even alcoholic ones. The rind is used as decorative additions called "twists".
There was a song called "Lemon" released by U2 back in November of 1993 inspired by Bono's late mother in home movies wearing a yellow dress which was a favorite of mine for a long time.
All in all I like to pick up a 5 pound bag of lemons at the Chef Store when I can.
It makes for a number of refresing pitchers of lemonade.
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Harold Thomas Finney II was born in Coalinga, California May 4, 1956.
Sadly, he died as the result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka motor neurone disease aka Lou Gehrig's disease on August 28, 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona at age 58.
He was a software developer and the first Bitcoin recipient.
Early on in his career he was credited as lead developer on several console games.
He later worked for PGP Corporation. He was a noteworthy cypherpunk advocating widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change. He was the main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP
Hal Finney was a cryptographer and the main author of PGP 2.0 and the core crypto libraries of later versions of PGP. He was the designer of Reusable Proofs of Work (RPOW) in conjunction with the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
He was an early Bitcoin contributor, and received the first Bitcoin transaction from the currency's creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Upon his passing he underwent cryonic processes and preservation at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Who knows, the world may see this talented human being once again.
Rest in peace ... and maybe we'll see ya later !
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