Tom

Feb

2022

Carmen Variations

Take a few minutes out of your hectic day to listen and watch as the amazing Yuja Wang plays the Horowitz variations on Carmen.

Feb

2022

it’s……….FRIDAY!!!!!!!

February 11th is National Foundation Day (Kenkokukinen-no-Hi), a national holiday in Japan. It marks the traditional date on which according to legend Emperor Jimmu founded Japan in 660 BC.

Ummm, what’s going on down there North Carolina?

Gift idea.

More aunt control…

We need to stop enabling Saturn, you guys.

Signs!

Another one of those great eighties music videos…

Feb

2022

could be THURSDAY, I think

Today is the Feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck in Malta – a public holiday. The is the first major feast day of the year and it commemorates when St. Paul was shipwrecked on Malta in 60AD.

The real monsters are hidden among us, members of the community. Even your own family can cause unspeakable psychological damage. Sleep well now.

Here’s another great eighties music video – I really like this one.

Feb

2022

and just like that it’s WEDNESDAY

Today is the feast of St. Maron. This is an important holiday for Lebanese Maronite Christians who account for about 22% of the total population of Lebanon.

crochet and cross stitch

And never underestimate the power of cardboard —

Here’s another one of the music videos from the eighties…

Feb

2022

Today is Prešeren Day, a public holiday in Slovenia. This holiday commemorates the death of France Prešeren (1800 – 1849), a Slovene poet who is regarded as the greatest Slovene classical author. The day also serves as a time to reflect on all Sloven cultural achievements. You can read one of his poems HERE.

Bada Bing!

I read the nutrition facts on a box of cookies. I found out I need to eat 83 cookies to get 100% of my daily protein.

I got drunk last night and decided to do my own taxes. I’m getting back four million dollars this year!

If you’re 40+, it’s time to leave the young girls alone and get a woman that understands the signs of a stroke.

For her birthday, I took my wife to an orchard and we stood there looking at the trees for half an hour. Not the Apple Watch she was expecting apparently.

A lot of people don’t realize that the actor that played Wilson in Castaway is the same actor from the volleyball scene in Top Gun.

The English language is so crazy with silent “K”s. One silent K in “knot”. Two silent K’s in “knuckle”. Three silent K’s in “republican”. Four silent K’s in “knickknack”.

I, for one, like Roman numerals.

*airhorn sound* *second airhorn sound *Me: This isn’t deodorant!

Person giving me directions: You can’t miss it. Me: You wanna bet.

I wasn’t planning on going for a run today. But those cops came out of nowhere.

Parenting!