January 2025 archive

Day 22,418

Evie Day 687 Good morning, and a happy last day of the Western work week to you all. It is also the last day of the first month of 2025, 31 January. Friday, Friday, Friday! I closed out my class yesterday on a high note, with some comradery and pleasant banter at the end of …

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Day 22,417

Evie Day 686 Good morning, and a happy Thursday to you all. Today is 30 January 2025. I got to see Evelyn yesterday. It was a good day. Gracie and Evie showed up yesterday afternoon. Gracie was getting a little bit of cabin fever, and I guess Evelyn told her that she wanted to see …

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Day 22,416

Evie Day 685 Good morning, and welcome to Wednesday. Today is 29 January 2025. Today would be my dad’s 84th birthday. He was born in 1941. I remember my grandmother telling me about window shopping for Christmas in downtown Sioux City on December 7, 1941, and she was pushing my dad around in a stroller, …

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Day 22,415

Evie Day 684  Good morning, and once again, a very happy Taco Tuesday to you all. Today is 28 January 2025. Hey… I got the year right on the first try! Woot! Minor victory time! Lucy, the senior dog, is over by Lisa at the dining room table trying her best to bark her way …

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Day 22,414

Evie Day 683 Good morning, happy Monday, and welcome to another week. Today is 27 January 2025. I’m in a pretty good mood, although I must admit to a bit of “champion’s guilt”. I’m a Chiefs fan, and they are going back to the Superbowl for a possible three-peat, which would be the first in …

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Day 22,411

Evie Day 680 Good morning, and a happy last day of the Western work week to you all. Today is Friday, 24 January 2024. In five more days, I’ll reflect on my dad’s birthday. I’ve taken the month of January away from alcohol, and on my dad’s birthday, I’ll toast his life and his memory. …

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Day 22,410

Evie Day 679 Good morning, and a happy Thursday to yo all. Today is 23 January 2025. Every time I write the year correctly the first time, it’s a minor victory. I had an exchange on LinkedIn I would like to share. A former coworker posted a note on LinkedIn, the professional social network, that …

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Day 22,409

Evie Day 678 Good morning, and happy Wednesday to you all. Today is 22 January 2024. It seems this month is flying by. It’s funny. I invested so much time into passing that exam I took Monday. I studied over my Christmas vacation, took the exam, and missed it by that much. I learned more, …

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Day 22,408

Evie Day 677 Good morning, and a happy Taco Tuesday to you all. Today is 21 January 2025. Make a plan, and get some tacos later. You’ve earned it. Yesterday was a pretty dark day, in my opinion. A felon was sworn in and started issuing executive orders. First, apparently, was an EO to raise …

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Day 22,407

Evie Day 676 Good morning… I almost wrote “good moroning”… that’s not until noon. Welcome to another week in 2025. Today is Monday, 20 January. Years ago I was building a new system to help me learn cloud technologies and some other applications in the Microsoft 365 application suite. I was trying to devise a …

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