Favorite Dates

Hebrew Calendar
10 Tishrei: Yom Kippur.  Fast one day, be forgiven of all your sins of the year
25 Kislev - 3 Tevet: Hanukkah. I just love this holiday.

Christian Calendar
January 2: Everything Is Back To Normal Day.  The last day of the "holiday season" that drives me nuts.
Third Monday in January: Martin Luther King 3-Day Weekend. Usually great Florida weather to boot.
January 31: Everything Is Back To Normal Day.  The last day of whatever "one month" experiment I committed to on January 1.

February 2: It's Groundhog Day Again. Get to binge watch Groundhog Day and is the shared birthday of my two best friends, Phil and Jaron.
February 14: Valentine's Day. I love my wife and get to make a day dedicated to that.
Third Monday in February: Presidents Day 3-Day Weekend.  Good Florida weather and a chance to travel for my birthday.
Saturday to Tuesday In the Seventh Week Before Easter.  Mardi Gras starts on Saturday if you're local to New Orleans.  I'm local-related, so it sometimes is contagious.
Wednesday in the Seventh Week Before Easter to the Thursday before Easter. Lent is a great time for focus even if it's not my religion.
February 20: My birthday.  I am awesome.
February 29: Leap Day.  It feels like you have an extra day like it's a present!

Random Tuesday in February or March: Everything Is Back To Normal Day/Super Tuesday. When the primaries are really decided and all the ads come down.

March 14: Steak and Blowjob Day. The flip side to Valentine's Day.  She loves me and makes a day dedicated to that.
Forth Friday in March: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. Lent ends.

April 1: April Fools Day. My anniversary with Mrs. Awesome!
April 10: Mom's Birthday. She is awesome.
April 15: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. Everyone shuts up about taxes for eight months.

May 7: Kiri's Birthday. She is awesome.
Second Sunday in May: Mother's Day. They are awesome.
Last Monday of May: Memorial Day. Unofficial first day of Summer, which means Florida starts getting crazy.

June 19: Father's Day.  I am awesome.

July 4: Observed Meeting Kiri Anniversary.  Not the actual day, just when I have everyone fire fireworks to celebrate it.

First Monday in September: Labor Day. Unofficial last day of Summer, which means Florida starts getting insane.  (Summer used to have more holidays, but Florida heat burned them alive)

October 1-31: Halloween. It is a month-long celebration.
October 24-31: Fantasy Fest. A Key West festival I dream of attending.

November 1: Everything Is Back To Normal Day. The world hasn't turned full Christmas yet because they're taking down Halloween.
Second Tuesday in November: Everything Is Back To Normal Day/Election Day. When the new high chancellor is elected and the ads stop.
Fourth Thursday in November: Thanksgiving. We focus on food, friends, and thanks!  Lovely day.

December 24: Christmas Eve. I see you shiver with antici-
December 25: Observed Proposing To Kiri Anniversary. -pation
December 25: Christmas. Despite my reputation, I don't hate Christmas.  I hate the 60-day immersion into a culture you can't opt out of, that makes no sense, and that you are looked down on if you, not even don't participate, but don't participate enough.  Christmas, as a day with an eve, is awesome.
December 31: New Year's Eve. I love resolutions. I love the sound they make when I eat them.

Star Wars non-spoiler thoughts

So I wanted to talk about The Force Awakens.  No spoilers, promise.  Just talking about music and direction and stuff in general.  But if you want that to be a surprise too, then don't read.



First off, it's a great movie.  Really amazing.  I'm sure someone will post all the plot holes that I don't see right now one day or Family Guy will do a special but for now it's just about perfect.

It had a very Avengers feel to it because it was established characters being pulled together with cameos and in-jokes.

Everything is turned up to 11.  It was like someone took each piece of Star Wars, chose the thing that made it badass and turned that specific trait of that specific piece up.  It was like Star Wars if Star Wars ate Star Wars.

It has the easiest drinking game in the world.  Every time a stormtrooper makes you laugh, drink.  And every time a stormtrooper horrifies you with brutal Nazism, drink.

Not about the movie, but I sat next to grandparents who had camped out and seen all 7 movies on their opening showings!  So fun to talk to them.

The dialog is like Hot Fuzz.  At one point I was telling myself "I won't argue that it wasn't a no-holds-barred adrenaline-fuelled thrill-ride, but there's no way that you could perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork."

I thought it felt like Joss Whedon more than JJ Abrams.  Kiri disagreed.  George Lucas seemed to have nothing to do with it as far as I can tell.

How does the Wookie get so many good lines?  He doesn't even talk!

Roughly 14 wild cheers from the audience.  I actually think the characters are silent after each fan service to allow for the outbursts.  Good planning.

You can expect a lot of Key and Peele skits in the future.  Jordan Peele looks and acts like Finn.  He even sometimes came off like he wasn't a member of the universe, but was sucked in from our world through some kind of Last Action Hero subplot.  It's awesome.

Funniest of the Star Wars films.  Possibly the most action-packed.

No big musical score?  No Imperial March.  No Duel of the Fates.  Absent enough that it seemed like a conscious choice to omit.  Maybe JJ thought it would take us out of the moment.

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Amazon
Bing
Chase
Drive (Google)
eBay
Facebook
Gmail
HappyClicks.net (Toddler games)
Imgur
Joe's Crab Shack (Don't even like them but they eliminated tipping and raised staff wage to $15/hr)
KittyConvict.com (Jaron linked me to this.  I visited only one time like Joe's Crab Shack.)
Lowe's Build and Grow (Workshops for boy)
Merriam-Webster
Netflix
Oglaf (Dirty webcomic)
Papa John's
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Reddit
Sign-in For Work
Twitter
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Virginia Health Department (I once had to look up VA's child seat law)
Walmart
Xnxx (Porn)
YouTube
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