I Would Gladly Pay You Tuesday - 28 July 2021 - Plague Journal Day 503

Micah 6:8
Psalm 107:8-9  James 2:15-16
Yes, your life matters.

We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?

Today is National Hamburger Day! What a wonderful thing to celebrate, no? There are so many ways to make them, so many ways to top them, but only one way to eat them - with relish! (No, not necessarily that chopped sweet pickle type stuff (and especially not that neon abomination folks in Chicago use on their hot dogs!), but rather with enjoyment, don't you know.)

You might well think we'd be celebrating with some delicious hamburgers here at Cleveland, but you'd be mistaken. Tonight's menu had been determined before I learned of this occasion - beef tenderloin, cilantro-lime rice, and a corn & black bean salad. I don't think I'll miss the burgers, but it would have been fun.

At any rate, I would gladly pay you on Tuesday ....

Keep Calm and Don't Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.

02 September 2020 - Plague Journal Day 173

Micah 6:8
Psalm 90:12-17
Yes, your life matters.

We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?

Today is Calendar Adjustment Day. It commemorates the shift in Great Britain and her colonies from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, thus matching the calendar used by most of the other European nations (who were generally the Roman Catholic countries). Had you been there in September of 1752, your calendar would have skipped ahead from the second to the fourteenth with no days in between. That sounds like a bizarre couple of weeks, doesn't it? (By the way, the write-up in the link has the date of adoption in Great Britain wrong by a century - it really was 1752, not 1852.)

This probably seems like nothing to folks who were born on February 29. Skipping a few days once in a lifetime is hardly worth a thought compared to trying to figure out how old one is, or on what day to celebrate. It's so emotionally and psychically taxing that you'll find those people seem to age about four years for every birthday they have. Please, have some compassion on our leap-day-born friends, won't you?

After all that, though, I guess the question is, does anybody really know what day it is? Does anybody really care?

(Apparently the fun trivia answer to Chicago's title question is 3:17. You're welcome.)

Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
The mental health issues related to our lockdown and the pandemic are especially hard for people with depression. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, has a 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264.