One of my favorite holidays is Presidents’ Day. Or President’s Day or Presidents Day or Washington’s Birthday depending on where you’re from.
I’ve made fun of this grammar lesson many times before, but never with my son.
Until today on Math and Musings.
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I think Valentine’s Day is a pretty overrated holiday, especially for those on the north side of 27 or so.
But this particular Valentine’s Day closes out a string of days not likely to be repeated any time soon.
Saturday, February 10… Lunar New Year.
Sunday, February 11… Super Bowl.
Monday, February 12… Lincoln’s Birthday.
Tuesday, February 13… Mardi Gras.
Wednesday, February 14… Valentine’s Day.
I should note that today is also Ash Wednesday, but come on, if I’m giving Valentine’s Day about a C-Tier rating Ash Wednesday is down there with brussel sprouts.
Another snow day tomorrow, anyone?
The title of this post was to be “Just like the first time.”
The first Super Bowl I watched with genuine interest was January 28, 1990… Super Bowl XXIV. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos that day to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
The final score was 55-10. Dad said championship games aren’t usually this one-sided.
Dad was right. Most games are like the one last night, which pitted said 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Most of the game it looked as though San Francisco would win, and I would have had a nice sappy footnote to put on the victory.
Alas it was Kansas City who came out on top, and the Chiefs now call themselves back-to-back champs.
Though I had no actual interest in the result I found myself pulling for the 49ers, and the heart-wrenching way they lost kind of made me wish the game had ended 55-10.
But most championship games usually aren’t so one-sided.
Dad’s usually right about these things.
Singapore, Bhutan, Brunei, Malaysia… Loudoun County, Virginia. These are places celebrating Lunar New Year today. Actually it’s only Lunar New Year’s Eve here, as Lunar New Year proper falls on our calendar’s 10th of February. But those other countries are also like 14 hours ahead of us in time zones so I guess it balances out.
Point is, we’ve got the day off today, and one never looks a day off in the mouth.
And for a greater recitation of these details, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.
Today’s math class bellringer: How many years is 500 months?
Bonus: What was the date 500 months ago?
If you can’t answer either of these questions you’ll have to repeat the first decade of this blog.
I’d been looking forward to Season 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm since the moment Season 11 ended fourteen months ago.
I knew it’d be good, and it was.
Here’s an example, from last night’s premiere, of why Curb is both topical and timeless: in the same episode I can get a modern-day crack about “DTM” (doing too much), then minutes later get a centuries-old Yiddish insult, “farbissiner.”
My goal today is to squeeze both of those into conversation.
A random Wednesday two weeks ago… not a flake of snow had fallen yet my son and I got the day off from school.
No questions asked.
But for a further explanation, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos premiere I’m making it my mission to rewatch every single episode.
First off, why not?
And you gotta do something when it’s cold out, right?
And if someday I’m trying to remember when this occurred and all my journals have burned and that section of my autobiography has not yet been completed, I wanted it noted for the record.
Someday I’ll be asked to pinpoint the exact moment of man’s downfall and I will think of the day I purchased a Twinkie latte.
That is all.
For some ungodly reason today in Northern Virginia the high temperature will be about 70 degrees.
That’s quite a difference from last week.
If you want to hear what winter actually sounds like, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.