285 - a nice fall day

 Today is the 5th day of the 41st week, the 12th day of the 10th month, the 285th day of babbling, and:

• Asgardia's Anniversary - it's been seven years 
• Columbus Day - the traditional date.  Back before federal holidays were all moved to Mondays, this was the day we had off
• Cookbook Launch Day
• Day of the Six Billion
• Drink Local Wine Day
• Fossil Day [for cephalopods] 
• Freethought Day
• Harry Potter Book Day
• Independence Day - Equatorial Guinea from Spain in 1968
• International Day Against DRM
• International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
• National Farmer's Day
• National Gumbo Day
• National Savings Day
• National Vermont Day
• Ombuds Day
• Pulled Pork Day
• Stem Cell Awareness Day
• World Arthritis Day
• World Sight Day
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 25m 24s of light travel time from Earth 

Quote of the day:

"We read books to find out who we are."

~ Ursula K Le Guin, The Language of the Night

To me that makes a lot more sense than "you are what you eat'".  After all, you might not have much of a choice of what you eat, depending on your situation and environment.  

Of course,  you might not have much choice about what you can read, or at least that would seem to be the goal of a certain mindset that believes in book banning and burning....

Last night was panic time when I couldn't log into CeoExpress.  That got resolved with a long overdue password set, but it appears that I am about to lose my former blog posts for good as the website is going away, and there doesn't appear to be any way to back it up.  My first post there was 03.03.2011 and fittingly called "and so it begins".  In it I lament the disappearance of the three former blogs [one professional and two personal] and the 45 page  WIKI that I wrote and maintained.  Now another blog, full of pictures, and some rather personal stories, not to mention pictures, is about to become naught but a memory.

Last night I learned my daughter and grandson had to put a beloved pet, a dog they had for the past 15 years, to sleep.  

This morning, I read quietly as someone I know told me they were about to become homeless.  I know the back story, understand exactly why they cannot seem to hold a job, and cannot protect them from the consequences of their own actions.  

And don't get me started on the news

Today is one of those days when I am just weary, tired to the bone and achy.  The EOM / EOQ stuffs on top of getting the current month's processing done - not to mention answering sixty eleven nitpicking questions from the auditors -- is weighing heavily and I don't know why everything just seems ten times more difficult than usual.   I'm in the kind of mood when I feel like it is a very good thing that I live alone because the slightest thing might trigger a meltdown that could be relationship-damaging

If I hadn't made the commitment to write every day in 2023, I would go radio silent at this point - you have no idea how tempting it is even knowing I only have 80 days/posts to go to fulfill my obligation to myself.