Well, the Chinese aren’t the only culture with a moon-based calendar still in operation. There’s Judaism and Islam readily coming to mind. Then I’m stumped after these three. It is odd how none chose to adopt the more accurate 365.24 day setup or figured it out given their love of Science and contributions. With the two wrapped around religion, I can only say their mistrust of the Ancient Egyptians and the Romans who adopted it, overrode the need for accuracy. OR…they developed the additional-adjustable month to compensate sooner than I know.
The Header for Chinese New Year is a collection of rabbits from popular culture (from upper left to right and repeat left to right with the lower):
- The logo for the VW Rabbit, the US name for the Golf until the Nineties.
- Jaxxon from Marvel’s Star Wars comics in the Seventies, Lucas hated him.
- Roger Watterson from The Amazing World of Gumball.
- Judy Hopps from Zootopia.
- The Playboy magazine and club logo. There was a time it wasn’t tied to sleaze.
- Peter Rabbit from the Beatrix Potter books many a Generation X know.
- The imaginary Harvey from the 1950 movie of the same name.
- The “beast” rabbit who kills some knights in Monty Python’s Holy Grail.
- Bongo as Maggie’s toy but was a main character from Life in Hell.
- Obviously Bugs in the center.
Beyond some superficial changes on the site and stories I wrote with scheduling releasing later (not all), I’ve been sick again as in I encountered difficult with my medication…again. The side effects I fought near the end of 2022 came back, ergo, 2023 already has a word of the year…akathisia. It means I continued to deal with the jitters which usually appeared as my right leg bouncing up and down, sometimes the left. Plus I couldn’t sit still and there was this panic to do something yet no idea what. The doctor and I are trying a different medication. Is it working better? I think so but it needs a bit more time due to half lives and minor lifestyle changes, namely how this stuff can make you fall asleep quickly after ingesting it in 30-45 minutes alongside me actually being groggy in the morning. These days, I wake up 90% of the time like a shot. I hope to get back on track ASAP.
On to the elephant in Texas and it isn’t the logo for the American Fascist Party, the ice storm! In my 29 years of living in Austin, I have never seen it this powerful. Believe me, I remember past ones and they crippled the area for a couple days via the roads. This one generated a slug of ice to pull down power lines and tree branches. Practically half of the city is without power. The roads were only nasty around overpasses. A tree I never liked in the back yard snapped a major branch. Missed the house easily. Good thing I bought a chainsaw last Spring!
The whole mess was supposed to be over today by noon. Then NOAA and others said this morning, whoops! It will be tomorrow by 10 AM. Fingers crossed. I know I won’t have any interest in what the Groundhogs say. The immediate forecast matters more. How much longer Winter will be has to wait until the weekend. I remember how cranky the six-week thing made my dad. He’d always say, there’s always six weeks of Winter remaining on February 2nd! I guess the tradition was trying to say how rough those last weeks will be.