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the doldrums

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Today is the 5th day of the 8th week, the 20th day of the 2nd month, the 51st day of 2025 [ with only 307 shopping days until Christmas ], and: Clean Out Your Bookcase Day Discover Girl or Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Hockey History Day International PechaKucha Day   Love Your Pet Day  National Cherry Pie Day National Comfy Day National Day of Solidarity with Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Immigrants National Handcuff Day National Leadership Day National Muffin Day National Student Volunteer Day Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day - supposedly standing outside, shouting "hoodie hoo" to the sky while flapping your hands will help drive away winter and usher in spring The Great American Spit Out - a campaign against smokeless tobacco, which includes loose-leaf chew, plug, and snuff.   World Day of Social Justice last quarter of the moon at 12:32 PM EST and Voyager 1 is ~23h 03m 54s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day: “ Everything you do - with ...

It's really only been a week....

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Today is the 3rd day of the 5th week, the 28th day of the 1st month, the 28th day of 2025 [ with only 330 shopping days until Christmas ], and: AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Day Daisy Day Data Privacy Day Global Community Engagement Day International LEGO Day National Blueberry Pancake Day National Gift of the Ladybug Day National Kazoo Day National Pediatrician Day National Plan for Vacation Day Pop Art Day Rattlesnake Roundup Day Rubber Duckie Day - well it is Ernie's birthday.... Speak Up and Succeed Day Thank a Plugin Developer Day the waning crescent moon 1% of full [tomorrow is the new moon at 7:36 AM] and Voyager 1 is ~23h 04m 26s of light travel time from Earth Quote of the day: " Predication is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. " ~ Niels Bohr - Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work with atomic structure and quantum theory.    Even though this is not a political blog, I have to acknowledge that the firehose that has been blasti...

Never again

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  Quote of the day: “ I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ” ~ Elie Wiesel (Holocaust Survivor; Nobel Laureate), Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1986

#SilentSunday for 01.26.2025

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  The Great Falls on a Saturday morning after the snows Capital Weather Gang photographer Kevin Ambrose.

just rambling

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 Today is the 5th day of the 3rd week, the 17th day of the 1st month, the 17th day of 2025, and: Ben Franklin Day - his 319th birthday.  By all accounts he was a bit of a lecher and tippler, albeit a brilliant man and statesman.  I wonder how he would fare today with all his little slips on full display?    Cable Car Day  Customer Service Day Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day Hat Day International Fetish Day International Mentoring Day Judgement Day - Created by a married couple, who argued that you don't have to wait until you die to measure whether or not you measure up to your diety's standards - just look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.    Kid Inventors' Day National Bootlegger's Day National Classy Day National Hot Buttered Rum Day National Hot Heads Chili Day National Rye Whiskey Day Popeye the Sailor Man Day - celebrating his debut appearance back in 1929 and forever enshrining the value of spinach and " I yam what I yam " . ...

#SilentSunday for 01.12.2025

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  posted by  https://universeodon.com/@bryanhansel@mstdn.social the Lake Superior basalt shoreline in March