And today is........

It's either June 31st, or July 1st, depending on how anxious you are for your life to flash by, I suppose.... I've always found our calendar with its various months containing unequal numbers of days quite awkward. They ought to be all the same with maybe just one of them different, to allow for the uneven length of our year. The ancient Egyptians had a system involving decans, and a decan was ten days, so three of those were roughly equal to one of our months. Maybe we could do something with that concept.... What we've got now reminds me of the old saying that goes "The camel was the result of a committee charged with the task of redesigning the horse."  It's not a pretty sight.

And today is Canada Day. Prompting me to ask, "Should countries have Birthdays?" Do countries have individual personalities, like people?  What sort of personality would you say your country has? Actually, that tends to change with the changing populations and differing attitudes. A person only lives for a given number of years, but a company or a nation can go on practically forever as long as it is sensibly managed by its leadership. So in that respect, nations aren't like people. But in other respects, they are like people, and like people some of them need better hygiene and better manners, and for some, a more comprehensible language would be nice, too. 

And yes, I'm glad I'm living here in Canada, in The Great White North, 'Our Home On The Natives' Land', because I'd have a hell of time accepting orders from the Poobah of Bunga Bunga or some befeathered chief in a black-assed African fiefdom, with a bone in his nose, and a sacred amulet around his neck, standing at the head of a raggedy-assed band of spearchuckers outside a smelly mud hut on the flatlands somewhere a little southwest of nowhere.....and just remember, Kiddies - there's really only two kinds of people in this world of ours:
The Lion Tamers, and The Lyin' Bastards. You're either one or the other....