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15 Feb 2025, 12:51 pm

Presidents day Monday

Library closed

Mondays I don't work

Bus on Sunday schedule

No rain forecasted where I live

Zero "friends" and "family"

Decomposing and rotting in my cage



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15 Feb 2025, 11:39 pm

Oh well, I don't go out much these days anyway except for my daily half mile exercise walk. I usually do that by going to Walmart for groceries, and the website says they'll be open for business as usual. They haven't managed to commercialise president's day yet AFAIK, so I doubt it'll get in the way of my shopping. I don't go to the library these days, as I got out of the habit when the Tories in the UK shut most of them down. I just find free reading material online instead. I'm not sending or expecting any mail for the time being. As for buses, they don't exist where I am. So I'll probably not notice it at all.



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16 Feb 2025, 7:14 pm

One of the grocery stores I sometimes go to is closed presidents day

No mail. That could be a good or bad thing

Mostly missing the library. Computer, printing, photocopy, check out books. But whatever. Can go to the library on Thursday

Mostly I hate being bored and nobody to be with and nothing to do but whatever. It's just one day.



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16 Feb 2025, 8:34 pm

Wonder if anybody is going to be Protesting Presidents considering the Current State of Our Gov.? .?


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17 Feb 2025, 9:26 am

I've just discovered that there's an official song for this glorious day - “Hail to the Chief.” Here's a very enthusiastic page about the whole thing:

https://www.primerrily.com/post/5-easy- ... idents-day

Reminds me of the Soviet Union's brainwashing antics. Patriotism in the US far exceeds anything I ever saw in the UK, where we usually either hate and lampoon our leaders or at least retain a modicum of dignity about our qualified approval of them. Don't get me wrong, I get that it's logical for a group to exhibit some kind of cohesion and solidarity in order to promote its survival, but when the thing is overblown to that degree, isn't it a tad counterproductive? Or is it actually working?



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Yesterday, 12:36 am

When is Canada going to have a Prime Minister's Day.


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