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Just A Short Rant I love football--High School, College and especially the NFL. I suppose with the diverse membership around the world, many may not feel me with this. That's Ok. What happened to the days when the NFL football week was a Thursday night game, a Monday night game and the remaining games were played on Sunday? Now in their pursuit of the almighty dollar, the NFL schedules games on every day of the week (except Tuesday this year). Games get flexed (changed) with a week's notice to the teams involved. There used to be one game on Thanksgiving--now there's two or three. Don't get me started on Christmas games. There's a lot of NFL chatter about looking out for the safety of the players ... and then schedule a team (Kansas City Chiefs) for three games within 11 days. KC, by the way, has played scheduled games this season on six of the seven days of the week, something not done by another professional team since the 1927 Yankees. Saturday used to be for College games; Sunday for NFL. Now that regular season college games are done, let's slide the NFL to Saturday now and get some more of that advertising money. And now you have to be especially prepared to search for your team's game. Will it be on a local cable channel, ESPN, NBC, CBS, Fox, YouTubeTV, Prime Video, Paramount +, Peacock, and of course, NFL + or Redzone. Guess I'll watch the two games scheduled for today. Yeah, I'm hooked! |
| It seems like a lot of members traveled to some exotic places last year. Are you planning any trips this year? And to where are you going? I'll start: My wife and I are planning a trip to visit Ireland this May, AND a Fall Foliage cruise from Quebec City through the Maritimes to Portland, ME in October. I'm really beginning to like being retired.  |
Cancun in February, arguing over Bordeaux region in France (my vote  ) or Portugal end of summer. |
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! As you begin the final year in the first quarter of the 21st Century, do you wonder where all the years have gone? It seems like we just went through Y2K. Dang. Time needs to slow down.  Looking forward to great things to come. |
A quick call for action! Our good friend and Moderator, THANKFUL SONALI Love my family  often posts in one of our forums whenever a Moderator has a WDC Anniversary. I was struck by two Mods specifically who started their WDC journey in December, 2008. In a nostalgic bent, and since I joined in 2008, I wondered how many more Mods joined in the Class of 2008. If you're a Moderator and joined WDC during 2008, please post your anniversary date in this Newsfeed post. Again, I'm curious. Just Mods for this post; tomorrow I'll do one for Preferred Authors. |
 Five and a half years after the tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the church has been re-opened to the public. I'm amazed at the work needed to repair and restore the burned church. The skill of all those who worked on the restoration is superb. Above is a picture I took of Notre Dame while visiting Paris while stationed in Europe as a young Lieutenant. |
Remembering December 7, 1941 . The beginning of deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States alone was more than $341 billion (approximately $5.8 trillion in 2023 dollars when adjusted for inflation). Source: Britannica, Casualties of World War II But one could never summarize the complete chaos and ... we could never come up with enough negative superlatives to describe the utter waste that that second "war to end all wars". I'd like to think we've learned a lesson from that debacle. But I wonder.... |
Sadly, I've closed this contest until further notice. At least, until I can find a way to make it more enticing to the members. I'm still committed to finding and consoidating How-To items for "The File Cabinet"  . Thanks to all who participated. More to come on this in the future. |
To Better Things to Come. On this last day of November I want to say how thankful I am for all those in my life, including the members on Writing.Com, and for all I've been given and yes, lost. Everything makes me who I am. I also am glad this month is ending--it's been trying at best. I hope for a better future and good things to come. Happy belated Thanksgiving, and for those who are already celebrating, Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas, |
| Hey, want to make some extra money this Black Friday instead of spending it? Fill your cart with those "must have" items and wait until they're all gone. Discreetly announce near the displays that you'd be willing to part with your item for a small finder's fee. While I'm not sure this is strictly legal, and is probably frowned upon by the store, remember: "Fortune favors the bold." |
Only two more days to enter .... |
Today is my wife's and my 11th Anniversary. What a ride it has been. So, I asked her, "Shall we try for another 11? We can start with minutes and see how that works." That was when the trouble started. |
| Some things I never learn. Failing to write down a story idea when it come to me ... though that only happens during the night. Once again, I had an idea in the middle of the night. But rather than write the idea down on the notepad that's on my nightstand beside the bed, with the pen that's on the notepad, I decided NOT to turn on the light and possibly wake my wife, believing I'd remember in the morning. NOT!! How many of you have received the gift of an idea during the night and found it gone with the sun's rays in the morning? |
Yes this happens to me too - in fact I have all sorts of wonderful insights about life in the middle of the night, I don't know what happens to them  |
| Yes. My muse has a habit of slapping me upside the head at 2:00 or 3:00 AM and shouting, "Get up, Dummy! We have work to do." in the voice of Fred Sanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a4RPMvejao . |
Regarding:
November marks the 12th month that this contest has been run. Some months have had a number of entries submitted while three had no entries at all. The latter surprised me as over the years I've been here, I've read loads of How-To articles about some feature on WDC. So, effective 1 Dec, I'm shelving this contest. If you still wish to enter November's contest, you have until the 30th. I'm not giving up on creating "The File Cabinet" of How-To articles. But I'll be pursuing those items in a different way. More to come.... |
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