A happy and prosperous New Year to you, too! This year, we hope to get our house sold and we hope to move out of this bad apartment. Sadly, it feels more like home than our house does, but we won't shed any tears over leaving the junky place, our humbler abode.
I don't know what else will go on this year, except Caitlin will no longer be a kindergartener and Ian will be in third grade in the fall. I may try to speedwalk a half-marathon in May. We'll see. Mel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin G. McCormick Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 12:16 PM To: Just Chat; Where Anything Goes ... Almost! Subject: Re: It's really quiet I hope everybody had a merry and Happy Christmas this year. Here we are on Day 363 of the year 2013. If you have a Mac or other unix-based computer, you can tell which day of the year it is by running the terminal and typing date +%j That gives you something called the Julien Date. On leap years, you can get the satisfaction of typing that in on December 31 and seeing the number 366. All other years give you 365 as your response. Astronomers will ardu that the real Julien date starts at Noon, not Midnight. I went up and took down the Christmas star on Saturday which is a little earlier than I usually do but we reached 61 degrees F or about 14 degrees C with Sunshine. That was a good day to get it back down. Today at about eleven O'clock in the morning, it is 24 Fahrenheit or about -4 Celsius, windy and cloudy. It may get somewhat warmer around New Year's Day, but I am glad to have struck while the iron was, let's say, Sun-warmed. The year 2014 is going to be interesting for me. The powers that be are really hot to trot on getting our new IT building finished and us in those Orwellian cubicles. I am hot to trot to find some other job that is in a more progressive environment than the one we have evolved in to. I'm not angry at anybody but sometimes, we must not stay too long at the fair. Work has just started on the new site but they are hoping to be done by mid August. These things usually take longer than planned, but I figure by this time next year, we'll be listening to each other's noise and swapping colds via the aerosol method in our new little boxes. If you can, listen to the Pete Seeger early sixties song, "little Boxes." It is from around 1963 and as far as I am concerned hits the nail on the head. I'll let you know if anything good happens. Actually, you'll hear me shouting with glee without the aid of any electronic enhancement. A happy and prosperous New Year to each of you Martin ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
