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- October 24, 2024
- National Bologna Day 2024
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I have always liked bologna sandwiches. This has been since early childhood. Later in life I became more of the bologna connoisseur and this has caused me to favor the brand Wunderbar when it comes to bologna because it is a less fatty more well rounded flavor in a cold cut.
Today is National Bologna Day. As processed meat goes I do enjoy it but those nitrites contained therein have been a cause for caution in my dietary habits. I try to quell the propensity for nitrosamine formation by increasing the vitamin C and taking other nutrients which aid toward that end.
I don't eat bologna because it's bad for me. I eat it because I like it.
Bologna is named after the Italian city Bologna. There it is known as mortadella — a sausage with bits of lard and peppercorns in it.
A fried bologna sandwich and beverage makes for a wonderful meal. If you don't care for cold cuts you don't know what your missing. Again, I strongly recommend Wunderbar bologna. It's simply the best.
Happy National Bologna Day to you !
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- October 23, 2024
- National Slap Your Coworker Day 2024
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Today is one of those contrived holidays in which you might find me participating.
The coworker can sometimes be a taxing issue in the office. Sometimes their needs are said to outweigh your own whereby they will interrupt what you have going on to pursue their requirements as a priority. There is also a propensity for some to gab all day long, pop bubble gum, clip frabbid fingernails and of course — suck up to the boss whomever he or she might be.
Today is National Slap Your Coworker Day. It happens each October 23 and is that time to take matters into your own hand upside someone's head and thwack that annoying coworker who may be bugging you. Go all Power Slap on them.
Yes, sometimes the only solution is to bitch slap someone's bitch ass. I would be the very FIRST to do it. This is that day you've been awaiting ever since the annoying coworker came to work there.
So I hope you'll take the opportunity to set someone in their place posthaste. After all, they've been asking for it. May as well give it to them. Make them spit teeth.
Happy National Slap Your Coworker Day.
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- October 22, 2024
- International Caps Lock Day 2024
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Today is international Caps Lock day. Don't ask me why.
This joke even gets observed twice annually, once on October 22 and then again on June 28.
The day is ostensibly a warning against the efficacy of email crafted in all upper case.
It is written that the day began in 2000 by an Iowa software developer named Derek Arnold.
I feel that Mr Arnold panders to the stupid ... which is something I decline to do for a long time now.
Caps Lock controls the case of letters on computers and typewriters and as such is a purpose action driven mechanism.
The entire notion that the case of letters can convey anger, shouting, or anything else beyond the meaning of those words written fails to register in my mind anymore — though I did hear the notion presented early on in my career.
I thought it dumb then and still do. What a dumb ass notion for a so-called holiday. Just think ... with this stupidity you EVEN get a two-fer. Good grief.
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- October 21, 2024
- National Check Your Meds Day 2024
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One day I began to question my mother's compliance with her prescriptions. This brought about a change in the way we handled her daily requirements for health care. Now each morning I prepare all the items she is supposed to take for health maintenence and at 5 pm that day we do a recheck and take any remaining medications.
We have found this somewhat more tolerable than those questionable practices whereby I think she would go days without taking any of her meds. I then added a few nootropics and some other OTC metabolic health items I thought might help.
Today is National Check Your Meds Day. It happens annually on October 21 under the auspices of the National Community Pharmacists Association. It was established in 2017 by the US Department of Health and Human Services who I view as a bunch of irrelevant politically motivated ninnys anyway based on their handling of so-called 'plandemics' like COVID and Bird Flu which are being used as an attempt to control we tax payers. In theory this day is for patients to bring their prescriptions to their local pharmacists for review.
Now, while I think this is well and good I have reviewed her meds with her physician and I am sure she is taking those medications prescribed. Since she is on Express Scripts pharmacologic consultations are really not ideal any way.
Pharmacists can remove any prescriptions that have expired, update prescriptions as necessary, and answer consumer questions. If nothing else, it’s a rare chance for consumers to get free medical advice. I don't feel the need for pharmacists in my life. I should be able to go and buy those medications I want to take off of the shelf. This does not happen in a medical industrial complex out to control what you may or may not do. Thusly, there is a dark web and black market whereby you may skip these controls. The only problem with this is having the wherewithall to insure you get what you pay for. This additional vigilence in acquisition also adds to the cost. Caveat Emptor: let the buyer beware
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- October 20, 2024
- International Chef Day 2024
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I used to watch chef programs on television in a younger day. It all started out with Julia Child on ETV in South Carolina and migrated to Emeril Legasse, Justin Wilson, and of course, Mario Batali. This went beyond to America's Test Kitchen and the ensemble chefs and testers and I think they were my favorite.
I was always intrigued by food preparation but it was the presentation aspects which took longer for me to fully grasp.
Today is International Chef Day. It is an October 20 observation held annually since 2004 under the auspices of one Dr Bill Gallagher of the World Association of Chefs celebrating the chefs of the world with a focus on healthy eating. They go with a theme and I think that seeing how much I enjoy food and fine dining I should have been paying more attention over the years.
So here's to the Chef. If you like to eat they are your kind of people too. I like the dynamic chefs with a presence you remember like Emeril's "BAM !". I can sit and listen to a chef discuss food preparation all day long. Alas, though I would gladly claim those bragging rights I am no chef. I squeak by with various dishes I prepare but lack that requisite knowledge to cook on the fly.
Gordon Ramsay would have a field day yelling at me. Happy International Chef Day and I hope you are able to go out for a fine meal as often as you like.
See Also:
Remembering Mario Batali
The ChefStore in Columbia
National Food Service Employees Day 2022
Culinarians Day 2021
Chef Paul Prudhomme
Remembering Ms Julia Child
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- October 19, 2024
- Evaluate Your Life Day 2024
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H H Holmes (1861–1896) was an American con artist and serial killer. His full name was Herman Webster Mudgett, aka Dr Henry Howard Holmes aka H H Holmes killer who was active between 1891 and 1894. He was executed by hanging on May 7, 1896 at Moyamensing Prison for murder.
I've sometimes wondered if incorrigible psychopathic / sociopathic types ever evaluate and reconsider their lives at any point. Indeed, I likely followed some of those same paths myself during my life time but the act of collecting my thoughts and asking "just who am I anyway" gave rise to a more social comportment and that realization that you attempt to avoid all behaviors which lead to more severity down the road ...
My activities of living have evolved to a much higher order thinking skills required as evidenced by how I conduct my personal affairs and provide myself with that self care essential to being healthy in this world where the government will intentionally try to kill you through both acts of commission and acts of omission. While everyone else is whining about COVID I simply eradicate it from my system. Those things that are most effective and do the best job are frowned upon by orthodoxed medicine because it renders them "less necessary".
Today is Evaluate Your Life Day. It is an annual event each October 19 under the auspices of Thomas and Ruth Roy who are the founders of Wellcat Holidays. It offers a time to reflect on that which you are in the hopes of evolving into something better. I believe that all people change over time. Whether that change is for the better (or not) is a function of being able to benefit from past mistakes.
We are not the sum total of the best or worst thing we do in life. We are all works in progress.
Self-evaluation and self-assessment are the end goal for progressive removal of any "bad" and distressing issues with which we may deal. It's not my place to judge you regarding who you are. I have a right to my opinion which I may express periodically but you ultimately make your own way in this world.
Evaluate Your Life Day provides a mechanism for cultivating a positive outlook and ascertaining if morality is where you are or headed. Kindness is not judgement and knowledge is power.
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- October 18, 2024
- National Chocolate Cupcake Day 2024
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I am a 'chocoholic'. I like chocolate to excess. I have eaten it even beyond that period of my life when it does metabolic damage.
Over the years I attempt to curb my craving for a taste of chocolate but it always reaches a point where I just go for it.
Today is National Chocolate Cupcake Day. It is an annual ocurrence each October 18 and celebrates the chocolate cupcake.
It is written that chocolate cupcakes first appeared in a 1796 cookbook called American Cookery and they have become increasingly more popular since then. The name 'cupcake' began around 1828 in another cook book.
You never had to convince me about the deliciousness of a chocolate cupcake.
Chocolate is my favorite flavor of cake in general.
So if you get the opportunity I hope you can indulge. I continue to work on my avoidance in an effort to keep my metabolic syndrome at bay — but it's a difficult matter.
Always has been.
Happy National Chocolate Cupcake Day to you.
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- October 17, 2024
- Returned from Hattiesburg
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Just Returned from Hattiesburg, Mississippi where I attended my late cousin's funeral. The trip was long and arduous simply for the milage and that was all. I pulled into Hattiesburg around 5 pm and called my cousin to get some directions. She directed me to the home of her late parents, my beloved Bill and Glenda Gore and the Air B&B their home had become.
Little did I know that I was both being rescued from a strange place and offered a luxurious place to sleep as well. I've never been rescued in such a exquisite manner before. They had a place for the family and friends to meet which didn't entail everyone getting a hotel. I slept like a log and arose the next moring ready to hit the ground running.
The affair was at once somber and celebratory of her life and legacy and not entirely without a bit of friction and social drama seondary to behaviors witnessed ... but that's all part of being human.
My other two cousins were in and out of grief and socializing at the wake. The tears flowed and would ebb then return later. I felt a sense of emotional support and that their tears were not to be endured but to be understood. Episodic as it was the grief was palpable and I learned things about my late cousin I never knew.
I learned a lot of things about my kin the Gore clan. I reminisced about moments with my late loved ones gone on before as though it were yesterday. I viewed the first back yard in which I ever truly played. This was one of the most meaningful and personally satisfying trips I've ever made. When you are related to others it is important to know something about them. Understanding what they feel is important and their attitudes towards life and living.
I told them that I felt like I was family and they said I always was. This certainly how they always treated me. I feel like I know them all more and am left wishing I had spent more time with my two cousins who are now passed. Distance is a poor excuse for absence. I will now endeavor to be there for them whenever it is possible. I miss you Bill, Glenda, Greg and Sherrie. I am sorry we were separated by such distance.
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- October 15, 2024
- Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity 2024
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I have typically been a 'qualified' pro life person. While I don't see this "My body my choice" endless progression of abortions by slutty types thinking they need to lay around and breed then abort the products of conception — although I do feel that a woman who is having health issue regarding a pregnancy or if an unborn child has birth defects of sufficient severity should be allowed to abort that pregnancy without asking permission from some elected numbskull.
Today is Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity and it happens annually on the third Tuesday of October under the auspices of one Bryan Kemper since 2004.
It is said to be a day for us to remain silent in remembrance of the children who have lost their voices as a result of abortion.
Again, sometimes I feel abortion is justified. This being said, I don't think some feminist asshole should be able to abort a pregnancy as a convenience item to promote slutting around. If you get in my face say "my body my choice" I will likely strike your whore ass down closed fist and simply accept the consequences.
Yeah. Abortion should happen in certain cases.
However, I don't feel it is some sex addict or judge or legislator's purview as to when and where is appropriate. After all with the advent of democrat libtard judges all over the place I would go so far that in some instances abortion should be retroactive.
Think what you will. I'll do the same.
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- October 14, 2024
- National Native American Day 2024
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I have interacted with very few native Americans in my lifetime. Among those few times I recall being told that native American was preferred over "indians" and that females of the species are not referred to as "squaws" because that was a name the white men of the movie industry imparted and it was considered derrogatory.
I used to watch a program on ETV in Charleston called 'Happy Raine' where a local woman portrayed an native American. It was a regional favorite and hers was a child oriented show with a lot of laughter and various antics and informational spots. It was just something which was always there for me ... and I indulged the program frequently.
National Native American Day. It is celebrated on the second Monday of October and is said to honor the traditions and accomplishments of various native American tribes. I understand it is not observed in all 50 states and in some states it is observed on a different day.
People have this false notion that the native Americans should not be allowed to conduct enterprises not permitted to everyone in a given area, such as casino gambling. My personal belief is this is the least we can do for a group of people so badly walked upon by invaders to their lands.
Somehow the white person thinks that they own any land they encounter in their travels. Instead of staking this interlopers out and teaching them the lesson they deserved, the native Americans relented and went to those reservations the white man ordered them to and even that wasn't good enough all the time.
I agree with the native Americans that their people have suffered genocide at the hands of the United States government who went around 'acquiring' their lands for it's use.
1990 is said to be a year of reconciliation between native Americans and caucasian people resulting in Columbus Day becoming Native American Day but in the end will this ever be enough. You think I have an attitude.
There are native Americans around with far worse feelings of being down trodden than I.
Happy Native American Day.
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- October 13, 2024
- Navy Birthday 2024
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I enlisted in the Navy in my 24th year. It was pretty much an attempt to right my failing course of action and redirect my life toward something practical and forward looking. I did 14 weeks in boot camp due to my inability to run. The cause and effect relationship here was morbid obesity and smoking. I had lost 168 pounds to make the weight requirement for enlistment. I had stopped smoking when I disembarked the airplane at Orlando ...
Then it was on to boot camp.
Suffice it to say my efforts at rehabilitating myself were way too little, too late on both the weight and smoking accounts. They took us out to the pool and 4 am and threw us in. I passed the swimming test fine and dandy. Then we came to the running test and I simply didn't have what it took. I remember my peripheral vision going dark and feeling as though I had left the body. This caused me to stop running whereby I failed and entered a process called "recycle" whereby the seal slavemasters took me out every day and ran me. Eventually I passed only to fail the next test. I didn't seem able to catch up on the physical requirements but I did lose a person from my frame during the interim.
After boot camp I went to Basic Electricity and Electronics doing courses at Orlando and Great Lakes Illinois. Then there was Fire Control Technician Class A School phases I and II. After that I went to the AN/SPG55-B track transmitter training and finally made it to the fleet.
I served aboard the USS MacDonough along with a great many persons with whom I went to boot camp. This was after they told us during boot camp we would likely never see each other again after departing there. They were all there on my ship as well when they finished their training.
Aboard the 'Mighty Mac' I attempted to be "squared away". I didn't want any reports getting back to my daddy, Master Chief Williamson regarding any misbehavior so I pretty much towed the line without incident and was known as a "4-0" sailor by those in charge. It was there I met Chief Wayne J Mead, one of the finest human beings I'd ever met. He always wished me a happy birthday whenever the Navy's birthday came up aboard ship.
October 13 is the Navy's birthday. Time to recognize the active duty heroes serving the country in the capacity of sailors.
I would not have liked the Navy much had it not been for Wayne Mead and those others who tolerated and indulged my rude ass so well during my time aboard ship. It has left me sorry that I didn't endeavor to be the best sailor I could be while on active duty. I have since attempt penance and I support Navy causes vigorously for this reason.
Happy birthday United States Navy.
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- October 12, 2024
- National Motorcycle Ride Day 2024
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Motorcycles are a widely utilized mode of transportation here in the United States. Sometimes these personal conveyances are better left at home in favor of something more appropriate for where you are and what time of day in which you are traveling.
I once had a good friend named Emmett who went on an excursion which left him in traffic at 10:00 pm in a bad area for traveling on a motorcycle.
The state of South Carolina has seen fit to terminate the driver's education program, so now we have idiots driving around without a shred of training and no insight or intellect on top of every thing else. All the highway patrol can do is check to see if you're wearing a seat belt.
Duh! Everybody seems to think they have the right of way anymore.
Emmett impacted a white van which pulled out in front of him at the intersection of Broad River at Beatty Road and was killed. His wife was riding behind him and he diminished her impact somewhat but still she suffered serious injury necessitating a protracted stay in intensive care and pretty much lost her husband and that lifestyle she enjoyed very much.
The sad tale is left dangling by the fact that there was no funeral nor formal obit for Emmett so this marks the end of his story from my perspective.
Today is National Motorcycle Ride Day.
It is observed the second Saturday in October.
I don't have much to say regarding this holiday except be careful. There are two children who lost their father and a wife who lost her husband because he chose to ride in a bad area at a bad time of day on a motorcycle. The people on the road really don't care if you have the green light or not. Emmett had the green light and look at what he received.
##### FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
07/30/16 5:20 PMCONTACT: GARY WATTS, CORONER
(803)576-1799
RICHLAND COUNTY, SC
Richland County Coroner Gary Watts is releasing the name of the individual who was killed last night after being involved in a two-vehicle collision at 10:25 p.m. The incident occurred on Broad River Road at Beatty Road, Columbia, SC.
Emmett Eugene Tolbert, date of birth 10/13/1972, of Leatherwood Drive, Lugoff, SC, died at the scene when the motorcycle he was driving collided with another vehicle. An autopsy conducted this morning indicated the cause of death was due to blunt force trauma to the head. Mr Tolbert was not wearing a helmet at the time of the collision.
The SC Highway Patrol is investigating the incident#####
Rest in peace.
See Also:
National Bacon Day 2023
Cruel Fate
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- October 11, 2024
- The Incomparable Angela Lansbury
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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE was born October 16, 1925 in London, England to Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury.
She passed October 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at age 96.
She was a British and American actress and singer whose career spanned some 80 years and incorporated various roles across film, stage, and television. She was a citizen of United Kingdom, United States since 1951, and Ireland since 1970.
She became internationally famous as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote. It ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest running and most popular detective drama series in television history. A longstanding favorite of my Mom I might add.
• She earned six Tony Awards
(including a Lifetime Achievement Award),
• six Golden Globe Awards,
• a Laurence Olivier Award, and
• the Academy Honorary Award, as well as
• nominations for three Academy Awards,
• eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a
• Grammy Award
She was quite a talent in her day and her characters live on in syndication and remain a part of my mother's life on
streaming television.
Rest in peace.
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- October 10, 2024
- Yes, my satire is harsh
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Harsh stupid times like the candidacy of idiot Kamala Harris and the moron Tim Walz call for just such harsh handling of ideas and consequences.
I for one will not tolerate these imbeciles in the manner their stupid supporters propose.
They are both without merit and liars regarding their records and deeds.
Kamala Harris proposes she can handle issues she hasn't been able to take care of in her present administration.
Tim Walz is to busy lying about everything and everyone to be concerned with reality at all.
So yeah, send me your hate email. I'm ready show you just who is made of what.
The left is the party of child abuse, illegal immigration, insecure borders, undeserved entitlements, and stupid entertainers like Robert crybaby asshole De Niro who think they know things they don't.
I don't need them nor will they silence me.
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