day 277 - in the office again

 Today is the 4th day of the 40th week, the 4th day of the 10th month, the 277th day of 2023, and:

• Balloons Around the World Day
• Banned Websites Awareness Day
• Blessing of the Animals Day
• Cinnamon Roll Day [Kanelbullens Dag] 
• Coffee With a Cop Day
• Dick Tracy Day - the daily comic strip was first published on this day in 1931 and was very popular.  The movie?  not so much.  It was a nice area in WDW's Hollywood Studios for a while after the film's release though, back when that land was more about making movies 
• eDay - your guess is as good as mine, but googling it turned up a lovely Scottish island
• Feast of Saint Francis of Assisi 
• Improve Your Office Day - well, after being pushed by HR, I put up all the posters regarding labor, unemployment, and workman's comp in the file room this morning, but I'm not at all sure it was an improvement
• Independence Day - Lesotho from the UK in 1966 [it is a small landlocked country, a sovereign enclave, in South Africa]
• International Ship in a Bottle Day
• International Toot Your Flute Day
• International Walk to School Day
• National Golf Day
• National Kale Day - I have tried kale in every way shape and form, and I just do not like the taste
• National Pumpkin Seed Day
• National Ships-in-Bottles Day
• National Taco Day
• National Vodka Day
• Random Acts of Poetry Day
• Ten-Four Day
• World Animal Day
• World Child Development Day
• World Child Health Day
• World Financial Planning Day 
• the first day of World Space Week
• and Voyager 1 is 22h 23m 56s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:

"The most precious gift you can give to the one you love is your true presence." 
~ Thich Nhat Hanh, “Love is Being There” 

That's the only issue with living a 2nd life - the time and attention you devote to it are taken from your real life.  There have been reams written on the subject of whether or not forming relationships in world constitutes infidelity to your real life partner, and on that topic, I have consistently made one observation:  

The heart knows no difference between "real" and "second" lives.  Love is an infinite resource, flowing from a faucet of your being, and you can truly love more than one person without lessening your love for another.  Time and attention,  however, are finite resources, and the time/attention you lavish on your second life relationship is directly taken from your real life relationship.  Be aware that you are making a choice and choose wisely

I actually joined Twitter when it first hit the scene back in 2006.  I immediately started friending all the people I had come to know in Second Life - and caused an issue as my daughter's friends were in that group.  My daughter expostulated with me "Mom, I need ONE social network without my mother reading over my shoulder!" and I agreeing with her, I deleted my account.    I checked with her again some six years later, and she agreed I could get on the platform with the caveat that she was not going to friend or follow me, pointing out that she had changed accounts in the intervening years and making me promise not to search for her.  

It is very sad to see the changes that have been brought about in the past 1 1/2 years since it was sold and I don't know how much longer I will remain on the site.

Bossman is on vacation, one lender decided to work from home [because he felt the traffic was too bad] and the other took a very long lunch.  All of the support people are here.  As for me,  I am still mired in the third quarter reports and will be there for a while yet - and I have to admit I am not really "engaged" with my work today....