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- December 30, 2024
- National Resolution Planning Day 2024
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So the new year rapidly approaches. Time for those resolutions by you who are resolute. Whereas I once did resolutions annually nowadays I usually just skip it all because I haven't been good at keeping them and they become obscured in that mist of daily drudgery which life becomes for some of us.
The idea is to attempt to formulate some viable self help list of good ideas which adapt themselves to you personally.
You can prepare for a change in yourself, your attitudes, you psyche. You should attempt to set attainable goals. Don't go crazy with a lot of resolutions. A few well aimed ones are far better than some exhaustive unrealistic list.
Your ideas for self improvement should be specific to you and your situation. You break down large goals into smaller ones. They need to be written down and shared as appropriate. If you have mechanisms of automation at your disposal they will improve the process.
Trying new foods, reading more, making yourself available to friends and family, volunteering, donating, exercise, and being more kind are all admirable pursuits. I doubt that I will be going there but you should feel free.
Today is National Resolution Planning Day. It happens on December 30 in the name of getting that headstart on setting attainable goals for next year. The success rate for new years resolutions hangs at a dismal 10% or so. Regardless, a fresh start can never hurt. New years resolutions were began by the Babylonians and continued by the Romans. So that precedent for self improvement has been around a long time now ...
Eons in fact.
The term new years resolutions is said to be first coined by a Boston newspaper in 1813. If you view self-help and improvement a priority I hope you'll get out there and make yourself better in accordance in those areas you feel are important.
Happy National Resolution Planning Day.
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- December 29, 2024
- The fourth day of Kwanzaa 2024
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- December 28, 2024
- Pledge of Allegiance Day 2024
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When I was a child we dutifully stood before the flag, placed our right hands over our hearts and recited the Pledge of Alliegiance each day prior to commencing our lessons.
We displayed patriotism. It wasn't something we viewed as a chore nor unpleasant. It was something we did to feel united with the nation.
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
These days we have people who claim residence yet dare to sully the pledge of allegiance as though it's not their flag. As far as I am concerned you can show the respect it's due or move your illegal alien carcass back to where you came from at your own expense.
I for one am tired of those who would trivialize our patriotism just because they don't feel it.
I'm perfectly satisfied to start making them pay. Athiests be damned say the pledge or leave. Exercise extreme caution in your disrespect in the name of your own well being. We are in a different time now. A different place. You will not be tolerated and the Pledge of Alliegiance isn't going anywhere heathen interlopers ...
You are.
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- December 27, 2024
- National Fruitcake Day 2024
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In keeping with the holiday season, today we mark National Fruitcake Day.
Yeah, some of us are more "cake and nut" centric in this regard while I am a full blown fruity fruit cake kindo guy !
I like a booze soaked chewy rich cake full of dried fruit, nuts and such drenched in some nice brandy wrapped in a white sheet and a plastic bag over time ...
This dense confection has been a favorite of mine since young childhood. Mama used to make fruitcake in this manner when I was a kiddo.
Fruitcake is generally served around the holidays which is the likely origin of my love for them.
Whatever your pleasure, the straight "nut cake" or the full blown "fruit cake" I hope you get the opportunity to indulge this holiday season.
Happy National Fruitcake Day.
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- December 26, 2024
- National Thank You Note Day 2024
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The humble thank you note. Displayer of appreciation. Creator of consensus.
I have opted for thank you notes occasionally in business to universal benefit. Those who mark an event with a brief appreciatory token are bound to endear themselves to others at some level.
Sometimes, decision on the edge are pushed to one side or the other by the thoughtfulness of a thank you note.
Today is December 26. This makes it the Feast of Stephen and National Thank You Note Day. Sometimes the written word is more effective than a phone call.
We don't know how or why this day was created. We can only recognize the efficacy of giving thanks in general ... plus the fact that a lot of gifts get received on December 25th !
Regardless, happy National Thank You Note Day and get out there and display your grattitude.
See Also:
The First Day of June
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- December 25, 2024
- Christmas Day 2024
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- December 24, 2024
- Christmas Eve 2024
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- December 23, 2024
- Festivus 2024
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Another Festivus is upon us. This secular holiday is celebrated on December 23 as an alternative to the perceived pressures and commercialism of the Christmas season.
It is the brainchild of one Daniel O'Keefe who is an author. Festivus became mainstream upon being featured in the 1997 Seinfeld episode entitled "The Strike" in which O'Keefe's son, Dan O'Keefe, co-wrote.
The non-commercial holiday's celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23 and includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the "airing of grievances" and "feats of strength", and the labeling of easily explainable events as "Festivus miracles". The episode refers to it as "a Festivus for the rest of us".
It is described as a parody and form of playful consumer resistance.
It is also said to be the perfect all inclusive holiday gathering.
Regardless of whether you have love or scorn for Festivus, the efforts of the late Frank Costanza has assured it will be around for quite a while.
Happy Festivus and let the airing of grievances and feats of strength begin ! A little Festivus miracle or two is appropriate as well after the Festivus dinner.
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- December 22, 2024
- National Short Person Day 2024
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Today is National Short Person Day. It is a time to celebrate our more diminuative fellows and try to have a little fun in the process. The short people in your life have an advantage from a standpoint of general accessibility and even get carded much more frequently. I remember when I used to get carded at bars. It used to infuriate me. Nowadays it's an honor and a distinct pleasure that some one would even think I need to present identification for any manner of age verification.
"Short People" is song by Randy Newman from his 1977 album, Little Criminals. It was vastly overplayed during it's run because people try to be as stupid, "trendy", and faddish as possible at times. I had a former friend who was both redhead and had about the most bodacious set of ta ta's imaginable who was all about pop culture who thought this song was "the best" — and I hope I never see her again. Though it is said to present satire regarding prejudice all I can say is I hate the song and Randy Newman ... I don't know; he just never impressed me in my entire life.
Being short is relative to your culture. There are entire nations with short people. If you are 5 foot 7 and most everyone else in your environment is 5 foot 2 then you are not "really" short at all. I am about average. I am 6 foot or so and exist as this raging bald maniac with a white beard. I have been mistaken for Santa Claus in recent history.
So if you're short this day is for you. Now get out there and flaunt your stuff shorty !
Happy National Short Person Day.
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- December 21, 2024
- The discriminating gift
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The holiday season has me wanting to bestow some of the various tastes of the world on certain individuals in my midst.
Should you be a gourmet, I would likely choose for you a rare or particularly tasty food item from some premium specialty house I trust.
If your tastes include fine spirits you might get a nice bottle of Aberlour 16 year old single malt Scotch whiskey.
It's one of those superior personal items from which you get to partake for a while until it's gone.
Then you sit back and wait for my next inspirational holiday to come your way.
Bear in mind that you must first attain that pinnacle of my esteem — and that is an adventure in and of itself ...
But once you arrive, you are there for life. I am said by many to be fiercely loyal to my familiars.
So in this joyous Christmas season I hope you'll consider your gift to another and attempt to make a statement.
I am known for what I do and how I gift at the holidays. It is simply part and parcel of who I am.
A very merry Christmas to you and I hope you get everything you desire.
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- December 20, 2024
- 5 days til Christmas 2024
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- December 19, 2024
- Look for an Evergreen Day 2024
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My fondest memories of Christmas surround my Daddy going out into the woods and returning with a fine dense bushy evergreen for us to decorate and with which we got all festive.
Sometimes it would be a spruce, other times a pine, and occasionally even a fir.
Regardless, it added to the happy times each successive year of those memories added to my existence.
Now daddy is gone and we have a high falutin fiber optic tree in place of the natural ones he used to bring to us and oh how I yearn for yet another Christmas with him but alas, it can never happen.
Today is Look for an Evergreen Day.
Time to go out and fetch that magnificent tree like Daddy used to do to begin our Christmas season on Hollow Creek.
The literature states that the first evergreen tree ever decorated was in 1510 in Riga, Latvia.
It appears that the notion took in the mindsets of the populace because the practice continued from the 18th century onwards with all the jingle bells, tinsel, ornaments, fairy lights, and garlands which became seasonal decorations.
Still I remember the past and those memories are warm and vivid — and I yearn for it all again from time to time ...
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- December 18, 2024
- Flake Appreciation Day 2024
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Another Flake Appreciation Day is upon us. Each 18th of December we get to express appreciation for snowflakes. I am simply one of many who like them, their form, their uniqueness, their symmetry.
They occur with some 35 categories of shape. No two are exactly alike.
Snowflakes form when water vapor in clouds freezes around dust particles due to humidity. Their shapes are impacted by elements like dust, temperature, humidity, and currents. Typically hexagonal, snowflakes can sometimes take the form of flat, needle-shaped particles.
This day was primarily the influence of one Wilson Bentley of Jericho, Vermont. He authored articles and books about his microphotographic findings and donated some of his photographs to the Smithsonian Institution. He was the world’s leading snowflake expert called "The Snowflake Man" until he died in 1931.
See Also:
Flake Appreciation Day 2023
Yes, it snows
Wintery Weather
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- December 17, 2024
- National Device Appreciation Day 2024
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I feel as though I've had my fair share of gadgets.
Yes, consumer electronics have held a certain affinity for me personally from my childhood until now. I'm afraid that lately that interest has indeed wained in favor of certain elements, for example I am much more at home at the keyboard of a strong desktop workstation configuration than a notebook as I was in the past.
Today is National Device Appreciation Day time to cultivate that appreication for those devices which aid and abet your lifestyle as it were ...
Those that hold personal importance to your existence.
This year, the Day is sponsored by the a company called Traverse which is a fully mobile insurance platform for Texans that provides customizable coverage in under a minute for your new or old mobile phones, laptops, bicycles, and so forth.
Traverse is affiliated by the Travelers insurance company which has been around for some 165 years.
I have never been one to subscribe to this notion that anyone "needs" insurance. I think it's just another confidence game employed by the governement in an effort to control us. So the day is about the gadgets not the insurance and I hope you'll engage those devices which you enjoy and add functionality and meaningfulness to your existence.
Personally, I just want my own sentient robot. I'm not too keen on those robotic love dolls either. I think they speak volumes for failure to grow as a person. Happy National Device Appreciation Day.
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delusions of grandeur
Oh our carnal whims
You make me feel like a natural ...
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