Day 184 - the Monday that should not be

 Today is the 2nd day of the 27th week, the 3rd day of the 7th month, the 184th day of 2023, and:

  • American Redneck Day
  • Disobedience Day
  • International Drop a Rock Day
  • International Plastic Free Day
  • National Chocolate Wafer Day
  • National Compliment Your Mirror
  • National Eat Your Beans Day
  • National Fried Clam Day
  • National Independent Beer Run Day
  • Stay Out of the Sun Day
  • Superman Day
  • The start of the Dog Days according to the Old Farmer's Almanac but not according to established meaning in most European cultures 
  • Voyager 1 is 22h 07m 18s of light travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty."
~ Colin Powell, American politician, statesman, diplomat, and US Army officer who as the 65th US Secretary of State.

When my kids were growing up, like every other parent, I was used to hearing the plaint  "but that's not fair!"  Invariably, to their complete disgust, my response never varied:  "Life's not fair - cope."

So when my daughter saw this t-shirt in the Disney's villain collection, she was thoroughly amused, and had to get it for me.  I did my best to look like Scar in the snapshot....

And today was the perfect day to wear it.   You see, anyone who possibly could took off today and made it a four-day weekend as we all have off tomorrow for the 4th's festivities.   I have the leave available, but I also have the EOM/EOQ reports that have to get churned out this week, so here I am, working.

At least I could work from home today!



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