Day 215 - at least it's not another Monday

 Today is the 5th day of the 31st week, the 3rd day of the 8th month, the 215th day of 2023, and:

• Airplane Crop Duster Day - yes they are still active
• Clean Your Floors Day - I remember when commercials constantly warned if you used the wrong product, you would have yellow, waxy buildup  
• Esther Day - because it is Esther Earl's birthday 
• Friendship Day
• Grab Some Nuts Day
• Independence Day - Niger from France in 1960 - okay, I didn't know it was so recently a French colony.  That explains the hostility from the country directed towards France's comments about the recent military takeover
• India Pale Ale Beer Day
• National Georgia Day 
• National Hair Gloss Day
• National Watermelon Day

Quote of the day:
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

~ Winston Churchill 

We are undergoing just such a quarrel at the moment in the United States.  Our kids are facing book banning, library closings, and revisionist history that borders on propaganda at best and mind control at its worst.  Of late, I have been very grateful that I didn't actually get that teaching job because I don't think I'd last long in this environment.  What are we doing to our future citizens?  How will they learn in such an environment, and understand the value not only of consequences but of critical thinking?

There is such a disconnect between the folks waging cultural warefare that think this is what should be done and those who are aghast at what is happening that I do not have the foggiest notion how to bridge the gap, or to even have a conversation.  I mean, what do you say to someone who believes that there are two sides to the Holocaust and that slavery was beneficial?

How is the work going?  The EOM reports are done now, but I can't even find $5.08 in a reconciliation!  I gave up this morning after Accounting asked me when I could send it out and I told them I hadn't had time to search for it.  My contact laughed and told me to send it, they'd find it, so I did.

At home or at work, receiving this message is equally perturbing.  

First thought is not that it's a typo, the first thought is "OH MY GOD SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK INTO MY ACCOUNT!!!"

Easy for them to say that one can "safely ignore" the message!  

Chrome is acting a bit wonky these past couple of days - social media locking up as I scroll past posts, crashing unexpectedly, that kind of thing.  Of course when I am at work, IT is gearing up to block personal browsers in the name of security, so glitches aren't surprising I guess.  The latest and greatest is that our organization is going to a password manager because they are so much more secure.  I don't remember the one I started using at one point, altho I was uncharacteristically slow about getting all my online accounts on it.  Good thing too because it was hacked within a year, and I had a mess straightening things out after that.  Fortunately my accounts and identity were not hacked, but they could've been.  So even tho the company is offering to let us put our personal browsers under the same protection [but in a separate vault] , I remain skeptical.  

Apparently I have only two facial expressions - slightly manic looking and rather dour.  I chose the manic one and deleted the rest [clue to the wise:  duck lips look ridiculous, at least on me].  Unlike my daughter who can take a candid selfie and look radiant, I have never ever been photogenic.  This one was an attempt to show off my new glasses, but with the hair rumpled and windblown, it wasn't terribly successful even after I combed it.

I like the new frames tho and needed the new lens.  

And it's not Monday, and it's not too hot, so that's three wins right there