back from the holidays

 Today is the 5th day of the 1st week, the 2nd day of the 1st month, the 2nd day of 2025, and:

  • 55 MPH Speed Limit Day
  • Happy Mew Year for Cats Day
  • National Buffet Day
  • National Cream Puff Day
  • National Motivation and Inspiration Day
  • National Personal Trainer Awareness Day
  • National Run It Up the Flagpole and See if Anybody Salutes It Day
  • National Science Fiction Day - celebrating the birthday of Isaac Asimov, who started publishing his sci fi in 1933
  • Pet Travel and Safety Day
  • Stop Spam Day
  • Swiss Cheese Day
  • World Introvert Day
  • the 9th day of the Twelve Days of Christmas - the feast days of St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen, or nine ladies dancing if you are singing along
  • and Voyager 1 is ~23h 04m 13s of light travel time from Earth

Quote of the day:
"I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
~ Dr Seuss


The day after New Years is a bank holiday in Scotland and a public holiday in New Zealand.  I could support it becoming a federal holiday hereabouts.  I'd settle for a "close the office and everyone work from home" day actually, by which statement you may be able to discern that like the day after Christmas, I sat in our office alone again wondering what was the point?

So the new year could've started out on a more positive note for me.  My son went to the ER with difficulty breathing and was admitted.  My daughter's household is just not a very peaceful place right now.  And there were two terrorist attacks and a spate of shootings and stabbings and injuries from fireworks

Somehow this photo just seemed to very aptly sum it all the fears I harbor of 2025   

Of course I have been thinking about resolutions for 2025.   Some life style changes I implemented during last year, and I want to stick to them.  I've gotten casual about staying in touch with those that I care about, and I want to do better by them this year.  I want to blog/journal more.  I'm asking myself about the posts that I share on social media and have deliberately stayed away from sharing the political articles that I have read today as I assess just how informative my sharing has been.  I wanted this year to be kind - what can I do to make it so?

I'll let you all know what I figure out.

Meanwhile, I hope your day goes well for you and yours!

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