This is fantastic.
So here's the question, would be happier to skip the "celebration"? I put celebration in quotes because it sounds to me as if it is far from a celebration for you.
If you would be happier skipping, if your mental health would improve due to avoiding all you mention, then your responsibility to yourself is to make your excuses and not attend.
I love days where I get unexpected and fascinating history lessons.
All of them.
I have a small bit of hope. The Morning Joe people appear to have maybe learned something. It may be too early to tell yet.
Holy smokes what a fascinating read. Thank you.
Many years ago I saw Sick Puppies open for Evanescence. They absolutely blew the doors off the headliners that night.
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. This series should keep me busy for a LONG time.
In June we moved from the Fried Chicken to the chef's nostrils. Now we are boogers
I love this so much. I hate where software has gone.
Me in the winter of 1979, halfway through my sophomore year of high school. I'm taking a sheet-rocking class and can't stop coughing and sneezing.
What can I transfer to?
Well we have this new class about computers?
I dunno what the fuck that means but I can't keep sheetrocking.
I walk into a room full of DecWriters and teletypes.
To connect to the computer you dial this phone number when you hear this weird noise you push the phone into these rubber cups.
You talk to that computer using this thing called BASIC. You can actually get the computer to do things!
I remember my first guess a number program, and printing it out to show my dad. He didn't understand it but thought it was cool I did.
45 years later I'm still making computers do things through code. All thanks to BASIC.
I'm 100% omnivore, but I fully support the alternative "meat" companies, hell I sometimes eat them cause they're tasty. I think it sucks that some groups are seeking to paint them in a bad light. Compete on the quality of your product. You didn't need to pay disingenuous games to do that.