day 4

 Today is the 5th day of the 1st week, the 4th day of the 1st month, the 4th day of 2024, and:

  • Congress Assembles 
  • Dimpled Chad Day - when Florida decided the results of the 2000 presidential election by throwing out paper ballots  
  • Free Flower Basket Day
  • Independence Day - Myanmar from the UK in 1948
  • National Spaghetti Day
  • National Trivia Day
  • Ogoni Day - this people reside in the Niger Delta, Nigeria 
  • Pop Music Chart Day
  • Tom Thumb Day
  • World Braille Day
  • World Hypnotism Day
  • The first school shooting of 2024 on the first day of school - altho schools have been open here since the 2nd , it was their first day back from the holidays
  • the eleventh day of the Twelve Days of Christmas
  • and Voyager 1 is 22h 34m 34s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
~  Abraham Lincoln

11 pipers piping

The news today is just bewildering - school shootings.  A do-nothing Congress.  Political grandstanding of the worst kind

At work:  we were informed today officially that one of our credit analysts has tendered their resignation and that one of our loan officers contracted COVID over the holidays [he's doing okay but staying isolated].  And they are doing fire alarm testing in the building

Oh and there will be a major nor'easter this weekend.  Will we have snow or sleet or just freezing rain this weekend?  Who knows? 

It's hard not to go all gloom and doom - I mean even Federation history has 2024 as being pretty grim - but all I can say is that I never want to hear anyone asking  "how Germans could let the Nazis take over" or calling any other country a "banana republic" ever again.  

Meanwhile, like so many others, I am just taking it day to day.  There were three of us in the office today, and the EOY reporting is slowly progressing.  

I wonder how many people are looking at the calendar and trying to plan vacations as an offset to the end of the holiday down?  

Not that I would do that when there is stuff to be done, of course.  Not at all.  Nope not distracted even a little bit while at work.  

*coughs*   

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