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Parmesan Potatoes, MARK II!!!!!!
Not much to say except this time
1) I used a baking pan
2) I used sweet potatoes
3) I didn’t crowd the pan
They came out so good!
And they were even better reheated the next day.
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SOUP QUEST 2025!
My list of soups that I have eaten so far on my SOUP QUEST! Any homemade ones I have linked to a recipe.
Will be updated through the year!
Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup
Chestnut soup
Leek and Potato soup
Indonesian Sweet Potato Soup
Chicken, Potato, and Leek Soup
Campbell's french onion soup
M&S cream of tomato
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my quest for 2025 is to find a singular vegetable i like (not potato)
my issue with them is that they are mostly all very bitter. and i don't fuck with that.
but im eating a salad for the first time in many many years right now. my body may go into shock.
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Rules : Tag 10 (or less) people that you want to get to know better :
Thanks @questing-wulfstan for the tag!
Let's get to the questions :
relationship status : I do not have the spoons
favorite colour : tie between yellow and green
song stuck in my head : Look What You Made Me Do by Taylor Swift (it's a grumpy day)
three favorite food : chocolate, potatoes, cheese
last song listened to : The Man by Taylor Swift (also on my grumpy playlist)
dream trip : a long trip that has a lot to do and see but still time to relax, with good friends and no stress
last thing I googled : star wars celebration 2025
tagging: @dreamlingnation <- does that count LOL
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Holidays 2.8
Holidays
Air Force Day (Iran)
Boy Scout Day
Call Everyone Dave Day (UK)
Colorism Awareness Day
Culture Day (Slovenia)
Day of Release (Elder Scrolls)
Day of Russian Science (Russia)
Devil’s Footprint Day (UK)
Gas Execution Day
Hold Onto Your Head Day
International Day of Prayer & Awareness Against Human Trafficking
International Septuagint Day
Kelp-Koli Death Day (Shamanism)
Kite Flying Day
Korean People’s Army Foundation Day (North Korea)
Laetitia Asteroid Day
Laugh and Get Rich Day
Leadership Success Day
National Black Women Physicians Day
National Iowa Day
National Tina Peters Day
National TV Safety Day
Nick Nolte Day
Opera Day
Prešeren Day (Day of Slovenian Culture; Slovenia)
Prison Service Day (Poland)
Propose Day
Rebel Day
Rodney Smith Jr. Day (Nevada)
Science Fiction Day
Smiles Are Contagious Day
Tako-ichi (Kite Fair; Tokyo, Japan)
Wear Orange Day
World Marriage Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Cheesecake Day
International Pisco Sour Day
International Scotch Day
National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
National Girl Scout Cookie Day
National Molasses Bar Day
National Potato Lover’s Day
Piscola Day (Chile)
Nature Celebrations
Camellia Day (Japan)
Saxifrage Day (Deep Feelings; Korean Birth Flowers)
Independence, Flag & Related Days
Byzantium Novum (Declared; 2010) [Unrecognized]
Constitution Day (Philippines)
Ramadan Revolution Anniversary Day (Iraq)
2nd Saturday in February
Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]
International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
Salad Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]
Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]
Satirical Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]
Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]
Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning February 8 (1st Week of February)
Getting Dizzy Week (thru 2.14)
Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week (thru 2.14)
Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week (thru 2.17)
Festivals Beginning February 8, 2025
Annie Awards (Los Angeles, California) [International Animated Film Association]
Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) [thru 3.16]
Carnival of Ovar (Ovar, Portugal) [thru 3.4]
Carnival of Viareggio (Viareggio, Italy) [thru 3.4]
Death By Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)
Directors Guild of America Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Family Style Food Fest (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Goya Awards (Granada, Spain)
Ice Fishing Derby (Glasgow, Montana)
Invictus Games (South Africa) [thru 2.16]
Joriad North American Truffle Dog Championship (Eugene, Oregon)
Marlborough Wine & Food Festival (Marlborough, New Zealand)
Melodifestivalen (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Panama City Beach Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Panama City Beach, Florida) [thru 2.9]
Producers Guild Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Royal Hobart Regatta (Australia) [thru 2.10]
Super Chili Bowl Cook Off (Orange Beach, Alabama)
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (New York, New York) [& 2.10-11]
Yukon Quest (Canada)
Feast Days
Avoid Artichokes Day (Pastafarian)
Candle Spell for Springtime Wishes Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Cuthmann of Steyning (Christian; Saint)
Elffled of Whitby (Christian; Saint)
Elfleda (Christian; Virgin)
Ganymede’s Day (Pagan)
Gerolamo Emiliani (a.k.a. Jerome Emiliani; Christian; Saint)
Get Naked Day (Pastafarian)
Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo (a.k.a. Hard Kuyo or Festival for the Broken Needles, day of rest for needles; Japan)
Jerome Emiliani (Christian; Saint)
John of Matha, founder of the Order of Trinitarians (Christian; Saint)
Josephine Bakhita (Christian; Saint)
Juventius of Pavia (Christian; Saint)
Kevin Koala (Muppetism)
Maha Shivaratri (Festival to Lord Shiva; Hinduism)
Meingold of Huy (Christian; Martyr)
Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Vinterfestuka; Norway)
Niceties (a.k.a. Nizier, of Besançon (Christian; Saint)
Nirvana Day (a.k.a. Parinirvana; Mahayana Buddhism)
Paul, Bishop of Verdun (Christian; Saint)
Praxiteles (Positivist; Saint)
Star Festival (China; Everyday Wicca)
Stephen of Muret (a.k.a. Stephen of Grandmont; Christian; Saint)
Teletubbie Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Vartan (Christian; Saint) [Armenia]
Lunar Calendar Holidays
Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 11 (Wu-Shen)
Day Pillar: Earth Monkey
12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Destruction Day (破 Po) [Inauspicious]
Holidays: Special Working Day
Secular Saints Days
Elizabeth Bishop (Literature)
Samuel Butler (Literature)
Neal Cassady (Literature)
Kate Chopin (Literature)
George Dawe (Art)
James Dean (Entertainment)
John Grisham (Literature)
Guercino (Art)
Robert Klein (Entertainment)
Halldór Laxness (Literature)
Jack Lemmon (Entertainment)
Franz Marc (Art)
Audrey Meadows (Entertainment)
Dmitri Mendeleev (Science)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (Art)
Vince Neil (Music)
Nick Nolte (Entertainment)
Dan Seals (Music)
Bruce Timm (Art)
Lana Turner (Entertainment)
Jules Verne (Literature)
King Vidor (Entertainment)
John Williams (Music)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [9 of 60]
Premieres
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2005)
Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2005)
Better Call Saul (TV Series; 2015)
Billion Dollar Boner (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)
Birth of a Nation (Racist Silent Film; 1915)
Blackbeard’s Ghost (Film; 1968)
The Black Mountain, by Augusta Holmes (Opera; 1895)
Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky (Opera; 1874)
Box-Office Bunny (WB Cartoon; 1991)
The Bull Fight (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)
The Carpenters (Columbia Favorites Cartoon; 1951)
The Cat Came Back (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)
Catwoman: Hunted (WB Animated Film; 2022)
Charley’s Aunt (Silent Film; 1925)
Collateral Damage (Film; 2002)
College of William and Mary (School; 1689)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean (Broadway Play; 1982)
Disney California Adventure (Theme Park; 2001)
The Dissatisfied Cobbler (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville, recorded by R.E.M. (Song; 1981)
Duel Controls or Put It in Second (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 343; 1965)
The Early Bird and the Worm (Happy Harmonies MGM Cartoon; 1936)
The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Fleischer Cartoon; 1923)
Flora, by Marco da Gagliano and Jacopo Peri (Opera; 1735) [1st Opera performed in US]
The Fog (Film; 1980)
Fortune Hunters (Gandy Goose Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)
The 42nd Parallel, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1930)
Good Times (TV Series;1974)
The Grocery Boy (Mickey Mouse Disney Cartoon; 1932)
Hamlet (Film; 1991)
The Harder They Come (Film; 1973)
Heaven Help Us (Film; 1985)
Hello Aloha (Goofy Disney Cartoon; 1952)
House of Magic (Meany, Miny, and Moe Cartoon; 1937)
In Bruges (Film; 2008)
In the Post-War Era (Speaking of Animals Cartoon; 1946)
I Saw Her Standing There, by The Beatles (Song; 1964)
Katy Perry, by Katy Perry (Album; 2004)
Killer Queen, by Queen (Song; 1975)
Ko-Ko Beats Time (Fleischer Inkwell Imps Cartoon; 1929)
Lambert the Sheepish Lion (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
L.A. Story (Film; 1991)
Legion (TV Series; 2017)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Animated Film; 2019)
Little Darlin’, by The Diamonds (Song; 1957)
The Magic Toyshop, by Angela Carter (Novel; 1967)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (Film; 2019)
Marquee Moon, by Television (Album; 1977)
A Message to Gracias (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
Midnight Madness (Film; 1980)
Mischief (Film; 1985)
Nearlyweds (Famous/Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1957)
Needy, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2019)
Nobody Love, by Tori Kelly (Song; 2015)
No, No Song, by Ringo Starr (Song; 1975)
On the Ice (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1928)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Radio Free Europe, recorded by R.E.M. (Song; 1981)
Razz Berries, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)
The Robot (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Film; 1991)
She Was a Lady (a.k.a. The Saint Meets His Match or Angels of Doom), by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1931) [Saint #8]
Stars & Stripes (American Expeditionary Force weekly publication; 1918)
Stop in the Name of Love (Song; 1965)
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Symphony; 1908)
Taxi Driver (Film; 1976)
They Didn’t Pick Up Our Option or Show Down (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 344; 1965)
Time of the Season, by The Zombies (Song; 1969)
Traces, by the Classics IV (Song; 1969)
Witness (Film; 1985)
Today’s Name Days
Hieronymus, Josefina, Josefine (Austria)
Jerko, Jeronim, Jozefina, Mladen (Croatia)
Milada (Czech Republic)
Corintha (Denmark)
Taalo, Tali, Talis, Talvo (Estonia)
Laina (Finland)
Jacqueline (France)
Elfrieda, Hieronymus (Germany)
Zacharias (Greece)
Aranka (Hungary)
Giacomina, Girolamo, Jacqueline (Italy)
Aldona, Anatols, Blazma (Latvia)
Daugvilė, Dromantas, Honorata, Saliamonas (Lithuania)
Åshild, Åsne (Norway)
Gniewomir, Gniewosz, Honorat, Jan, Ksenofont, Lucjusz, Paweł, Piotr, Salomon, Sebastian, Żaklina (Poland)
Teodor, Zaharia (Romania)
Maria (Russia)
Zoja (Slovakia)
Jerónimo, Josefina (Spain)
Dick, Rikard (Sweden)
Beula, Beulah, Clay, Clayton, Cleve, Cleveland, Clive, Clyde (USA)
Today’s National Name Days
National Zack Day
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 39 of 2025; 326 days remaining in the year
ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 6 of 2025
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 11 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]
Coptic: 1 Amshir 1741
Druid Tree Calendar: Poplar (Feb 4-8) [Day 5 of 5]
Hebrew: 10 Shevat 5785
Islamic: 9 Sha’ban 1446
Julian: 26 January 2025
Moon: 83%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 11 Homer (2nd Month) [Praxiteles)
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 50 of 90)
SUn Calendar: 9 Gray; Twosday [9 of 30]
Week: 2nd Week of February
Zodiac:
Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 20 of 30)
Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 29)
Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 14 of 27)
IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)
IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 21 of 28)
Calendar Changes
ʾAmshīr (a.k.a. Meshir) [أمشير ] (Coptic Calendar) [Month 6 of 13]
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Holidays 2.8
Holidays
Air Force Day (Iran)
Boy Scout Day
Call Everyone Dave Day (UK)
Colorism Awareness Day
Culture Day (Slovenia)
Day of Release (Elder Scrolls)
Day of Russian Science (Russia)
Devil’s Footprint Day (UK)
Gas Execution Day
Hold Onto Your Head Day
International Day of Prayer & Awareness Against Human Trafficking
International Septuagint Day
Kelp-Koli Death Day (Shamanism)
Kite Flying Day
Korean People’s Army Foundation Day (North Korea)
Laetitia Asteroid Day
Laugh and Get Rich Day
Leadership Success Day
National Black Women Physicians Day
National Iowa Day
National Tina Peters Day
National TV Safety Day
Nick Nolte Day
Opera Day
Prešeren Day (Day of Slovenian Culture; Slovenia)
Prison Service Day (Poland)
Propose Day
Rebel Day
Rodney Smith Jr. Day (Nevada)
Science Fiction Day
Smiles Are Contagious Day
Tako-ichi (Kite Fair; Tokyo, Japan)
Wear Orange Day
World Marriage Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Chocolate Cheesecake Day
International Pisco Sour Day
International Scotch Day
National Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day
National Girl Scout Cookie Day
National Molasses Bar Day
National Potato Lover’s Day
Piscola Day (Chile)
Nature Celebrations
Camellia Day (Japan)
Saxifrage Day (Deep Feelings; Korean Birth Flowers)
Independence, Flag & Related Days
Byzantium Novum (Declared; 2010) [Unrecognized]
Constitution Day (Philippines)
Ramadan Revolution Anniversary Day (Iraq)
2nd Saturday in February
Global Movie Day [2nd Saturday]
International Purple Hijab Day [2nd Saturday]
International Snowmobile Ride Day [2nd Saturday]
Salad Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]
Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]
Satirical Saturday [2nd Saturday of Each Month]
Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]
Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]
Weekly Holidays beginning February 8 (1st Week of February)
Getting Dizzy Week (thru 2.14)
Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week (thru 2.14)
Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week (thru 2.17)
Festivals Beginning February 8, 2025
Annie Awards (Los Angeles, California) [International Animated Film Association]
Carnival of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) [thru 3.16]
Carnival of Ovar (Ovar, Portugal) [thru 3.4]
Carnival of Viareggio (Viareggio, Italy) [thru 3.4]
Death By Chocolate (Appleton, Wisconsin)
Directors Guild of America Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Family Style Food Fest (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Goya Awards (Granada, Spain)
Ice Fishing Derby (Glasgow, Montana)
Invictus Games (South Africa) [thru 2.16]
Joriad North American Truffle Dog Championship (Eugene, Oregon)
Marlborough Wine & Food Festival (Marlborough, New Zealand)
Melodifestivalen (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Panama City Beach Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Panama City Beach, Florida) [thru 2.9]
Producers Guild Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Royal Hobart Regatta (Australia) [thru 2.10]
Super Chili Bowl Cook Off (Orange Beach, Alabama)
Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (New York, New York) [& 2.10-11]
Yukon Quest (Canada)
Feast Days
Avoid Artichokes Day (Pastafarian)
Candle Spell for Springtime Wishes Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Cuthmann of Steyning (Christian; Saint)
Elffled of Whitby (Christian; Saint)
Elfleda (Christian; Virgin)
Ganymede’s Day (Pagan)
Gerolamo Emiliani (a.k.a. Jerome Emiliani; Christian; Saint)
Get Naked Day (Pastafarian)
Ha-Ri-Ku-Yo (a.k.a. Hard Kuyo or Festival for the Broken Needles, day of rest for needles; Japan)
Jerome Emiliani (Christian; Saint)
John of Matha, founder of the Order of Trinitarians (Christian; Saint)
Josephine Bakhita (Christian; Saint)
Juventius of Pavia (Christian; Saint)
Kevin Koala (Muppetism)
Maha Shivaratri (Festival to Lord Shiva; Hinduism)
Meingold of Huy (Christian; Martyr)
Narvik Sun Pageant Day (Vinterfestuka; Norway)
Niceties (a.k.a. Nizier, of Besançon (Christian; Saint)
Nirvana Day (a.k.a. Parinirvana; Mahayana Buddhism)
Paul, Bishop of Verdun (Christian; Saint)
Praxiteles (Positivist; Saint)
Star Festival (China; Everyday Wicca)
Stephen of Muret (a.k.a. Stephen of Grandmont; Christian; Saint)
Teletubbie Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Vartan (Christian; Saint) [Armenia]
Lunar Calendar Holidays
Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 11 (Wu-Shen)
Day Pillar: Earth Monkey
12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Destruction Day (破 Po) [Inauspicious]
Holidays: Special Working Day
Secular Saints Days
Elizabeth Bishop (Literature)
Samuel Butler (Literature)
Neal Cassady (Literature)
Kate Chopin (Literature)
George Dawe (Art)
James Dean (Entertainment)
John Grisham (Literature)
Guercino (Art)
Robert Klein (Entertainment)
Halldór Laxness (Literature)
Jack Lemmon (Entertainment)
Franz Marc (Art)
Audrey Meadows (Entertainment)
Dmitri Mendeleev (Science)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (Art)
Vince Neil (Music)
Nick Nolte (Entertainment)
Dan Seals (Music)
Bruce Timm (Art)
Lana Turner (Entertainment)
Jules Verne (Literature)
King Vidor (Entertainment)
John Williams (Music)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [9 of 60]
Premieres
Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (WB Animated Film; 2005)
Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2005)
Better Call Saul (TV Series; 2015)
Billion Dollar Boner (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1960)
Birth of a Nation (Racist Silent Film; 1915)
Blackbeard’s Ghost (Film; 1968)
The Black Mountain, by Augusta Holmes (Opera; 1895)
Boris Godunov, by Modest Mussorgsky (Opera; 1874)
Box-Office Bunny (WB Cartoon; 1991)
The Bull Fight (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1935)
The Carpenters (Columbia Favorites Cartoon; 1951)
The Cat Came Back (WB MM Cartoon; 1936)
Catwoman: Hunted (WB Animated Film; 2022)
Charley’s Aunt (Silent Film; 1925)
Collateral Damage (Film; 2002)
College of William and Mary (School; 1689)
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean (Broadway Play; 1982)
Disney California Adventure (Theme Park; 2001)
The Dissatisfied Cobbler (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1922)
(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville, recorded by R.E.M. (Song; 1981)
Duel Controls or Put It in Second (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 343; 1965)
The Early Bird and the Worm (Happy Harmonies MGM Cartoon; 1936)
The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Fleischer Cartoon; 1923)
Flora, by Marco da Gagliano and Jacopo Peri (Opera; 1735) [1st Opera performed in US]
The Fog (Film; 1980)
Fortune Hunters (Gandy Goose Terrytoons Cartoon; 1946)
The 42nd Parallel, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1930)
Good Times (TV Series;1974)
The Grocery Boy (Mickey Mouse Disney Cartoon; 1932)
Hamlet (Film; 1991)
The Harder They Come (Film; 1973)
Heaven Help Us (Film; 1985)
Hello Aloha (Goofy Disney Cartoon; 1952)
House of Magic (Meany, Miny, and Moe Cartoon; 1937)
In Bruges (Film; 2008)
In the Post-War Era (Speaking of Animals Cartoon; 1946)
I Saw Her Standing There, by The Beatles (Song; 1964)
Katy Perry, by Katy Perry (Album; 2004)
Killer Queen, by Queen (Song; 1975)
Ko-Ko Beats Time (Fleischer Inkwell Imps Cartoon; 1929)
Lambert the Sheepish Lion (Disney Cartoon; 1952)
L.A. Story (Film; 1991)
Legion (TV Series; 2017)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (Animated Film; 2019)
Little Darlin’, by The Diamonds (Song; 1957)
The Magic Toyshop, by Angela Carter (Novel; 1967)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (Film; 2019)
Marquee Moon, by Television (Album; 1977)
A Message to Gracias (WB LT Cartoon; 1964)
Midnight Madness (Film; 1980)
Mischief (Film; 1985)
Nearlyweds (Famous/Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1957)
Needy, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2019)
Nobody Love, by Tori Kelly (Song; 2015)
No, No Song, by Ringo Starr (Song; 1975)
On the Ice (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1928)
Planet of the Apes (Film; 1968)
Radio Free Europe, recorded by R.E.M. (Song; 1981)
Razz Berries, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)
The Robot (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Film; 1991)
She Was a Lady (a.k.a. The Saint Meets His Match or Angels of Doom), by Leslie Charteris (Novel; 1931) [Saint #8]
Stars & Stripes (American Expeditionary Force weekly publication; 1918)
Stop in the Name of Love (Song; 1965)
Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, by Sergei Rachmaninoff (Symphony; 1908)
Taxi Driver (Film; 1976)
They Didn’t Pick Up Our Option or Show Down (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 344; 1965)
Time of the Season, by The Zombies (Song; 1969)
Traces, by the Classics IV (Song; 1969)
Witness (Film; 1985)
Today’s Name Days
Hieronymus, Josefina, Josefine (Austria)
Jerko, Jeronim, Jozefina, Mladen (Croatia)
Milada (Czech Republic)
Corintha (Denmark)
Taalo, Tali, Talis, Talvo (Estonia)
Laina (Finland)
Jacqueline (France)
Elfrieda, Hieronymus (Germany)
Zacharias (Greece)
Aranka (Hungary)
Giacomina, Girolamo, Jacqueline (Italy)
Aldona, Anatols, Blazma (Latvia)
Daugvilė, Dromantas, Honorata, Saliamonas (Lithuania)
Åshild, Åsne (Norway)
Gniewomir, Gniewosz, Honorat, Jan, Ksenofont, Lucjusz, Paweł, Piotr, Salomon, Sebastian, Żaklina (Poland)
Teodor, Zaharia (Romania)
Maria (Russia)
Zoja (Slovakia)
Jerónimo, Josefina (Spain)
Dick, Rikard (Sweden)
Beula, Beulah, Clay, Clayton, Cleve, Cleveland, Clive, Clyde (USA)
Today’s National Name Days
National Zack Day
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 39 of 2025; 326 days remaining in the year
ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 6 of 2025
Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 19 of 28]
Chinese: Month 1 (Wu-Yin), Day 11 (Wu-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]
Coptic: 1 Amshir 1741
Druid Tree Calendar: Poplar (Feb 4-8) [Day 5 of 5]
Hebrew: 10 Shevat 5785
Islamic: 9 Sha’ban 1446
Julian: 26 January 2025
Moon: 83%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 11 Homer (2nd Month) [Praxiteles)
Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 3 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 50 of 90)
SUn Calendar: 9 Gray; Twosday [9 of 30]
Week: 2nd Week of February
Zodiac:
Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 20 of 30)
Sidereal Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 29)
Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 14 of 27)
IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 20 of 28)
IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Capricornus (Day 21 of 28)
Calendar Changes
ʾAmshīr (a.k.a. Meshir) [أمشير ] (Coptic Calendar) [Month 6 of 13]
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Gaming log for January 27 2025
Regressed to age 11
Nintendo Switch Lite
1. Pokemon Violet- started a file and chose Sprigatito
2. Banjo Kazzoie- started a file got my honey energy upgraded and got the first jiggy in grunty's lait
3. Super Mario 64- got the star from beating king bob bomb in bob omb battlefield
4. Yooka Laylee- unlocked tribal stock tropics got the rolling move and got the pagie from rescuing the skeketon in the pot
5. Super Mario 3D World Bowsers Fury- beat the charging chucks and got a green star in the main game and beat shadow Luigi and got a cat shine in bowsers fury
6. Super Mario Odyssey- got a multimoon from beating the fat rabbit lady
7. Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life- started a file gave gifts to Gordy Rock and Marlin saw Molly and Cececilas heart events ordered a chicken some chicken feed and some good fodder planted watermelons tomato's apples and oranges and completed gordus quest
8. Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town- started a file planted some cukes harvested some turnips and sold them hit some stones foraged and gave a gift to the harvest goddess
9. Harvest Moon One World- started a file deployed my farm planted yellow peppers turnips and potatoes learned how to take care of animals met Braden met the animal dealer and foraged met the shipper and shipped some stuff
Online Mobile PC
1. Neopets- did the usual and got some Gothic nc items from a gram I. Sent to myself
New Nintendo 3dsxl
1. Nintendogs plus cats golden retriever and friends- did 2 lure coursing trials 2 disc trials and got a black male cat and named him Jack
Nintendo GameCube
1. Harvest Moon Magical Melody- gave gifts to Joe and Kurt mined shipped some limestone got the treasure hoard note and the destruction note watered my crops and foraged
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Goals for 2025
I used to be a little unhealthily into new years' resolutions--the allure of a fresh start is always strong, and I'd fall into the trap of thinking I could wake up on January 1st and be a whole different person. I also had a tendency to set goals that were like "do X thing every day," which meant as soon as I slipped up once, I'd ruined things for the whole year. (Yes, this was back when I was in a severe depressive episode and not managing my anxiety very well, why do you ask.)
Anyway, for the past few years, my tradition has been to wait until the first MBMBaM episode of the year drops, and put in on in the background while doing goal-setting for the year. Makes it a little more fun, and gives me some breathing room since on actual new year's day I'm usually recovering from partying and/or holiday travel. I have a looot of goals for 2025! But here are my ten main ones; I try to go for a mix of Big Important Life Things and stuff that's going to be fun/interesting.
Get a better job: Currently I'm freelancing which means I'm technically employed but in practice it's wicked unstable in terms of how much I'm actually making month-to-month, and I would like that to not be the case! Right now I'm in a dry spell with freelance work, so job-hunting is my full-time job and I'm being so brave about it.
Apply to grad school: For the maybe 2 people who've been following this blog since I made it, you may remember the period of time when this was a studyblr while I was doing an MFA, and then I dropped out due to various life reasons. It's been a couple years and I've thoroughly enjoyed not being in school, and also I really miss it! I'm aiming to get it together to apply to some local grad programs this fall.
Be on top of STI testing: It's one of those things that I've been a little too cavalier about honestly, and while I've gotten lucky so far in terms of not getting sick, I know I should be a responsible adult and actually get tested regularly.
Learn about different cooking oils and smoke points: This one came out of intense Christmas dinner planning with my sibling about the best way to roast potatoes. I'm not working in food service anymore (and hopefully I'll be able to avoid going back) but I still want to keep expanding my cooking knowledge and this feels like a next step for leveling up.
Do @batmanisagatewaydrug's reading bingo: Someone else already put it on Storygraph which is a slay. I want to get back into not only reading, but reading critically, so I'm going to try and write lil reviews of the books I read as well as hitting as many bingos as possible.
Finish first draft of novel: I have a plan I have an outline I have a scene breakdown I have weekly targets to hit surely this will be the year I actually finish a draft (← has never finished anything)
Ride every L line: I just moved to Chicago so this seems like a fun challenge to explore the city more! I use 2, maaaybe 3 lines in my daily life so I'll have to plan little quests to make use of the other ones!
Move to a bigger apartment: contingent on goal 1 of getting a better job, or maybe getting lucky and finding people I could be roommates with (I have the sensibilities of one of those fucked-up shelter dog that needs a home with no other pets or all their hair will fall out from stress) but I am really really hoping I don't have to renew my lease on this shoebox.
Keep in touch with long-distance friends: I made a lot of good friends through my seasonal job that I've now retired from, and I want to be more proactive about staying in touch with everyone since I won't be automatically seeing them every day for 5 months out of the year :(
Improve relationship with social media: This always feels tough because it's not as cut-and-dry as just reducing screen time; I genuinely feel like I get a lot of worthwhile stuff out of social media (see above point about long-distance friendships). I think my focus this year is going to be a) using social media more intentionally, i.e. no mindless scrolling on the instagram explore page, and b) no using my phone as a distraction while doing another task--I want to be able to just watch a TV show without scrolling at the same time.
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Selected Clippings from Various News Sources, 25-26 December 2054
I. Source: Harris, Jordan. “Lucidity: An Unexpected Sea Change.” News Idaho. 25 December 2054
Just hours ago, the world received an unsolicited Christmas Present in the form of a guerrilla Lucid Event.
Compelling Keynote presentations for new technology have been the norm for 80 years, since Steve Jobs first took to stage to present the Mac in 1984. Rarely since then, however, have many CEOs and entrepreneurs been able to stand up to Jobs’ legacy.
Enter Lex Lucid and his company, Lucid Labs: The 20 year king of paradigm shifts in industry and technology.
There’s no need to recap the ways that Lucid Labs has changed the way we go about our lives. If you’re one of the 75% of Americans, or 87% of New Idahoans with Augmented Reality Lenses, you have seen it for yourself (and if you’re not, feel free to watch today’s Lucid Labs Keynote to jog your memory). If the Lucid Lens was his iPhone moment, now, 20 years later, Lex may find a moment of world-changing integration that Jobs only hoped for, only one year younger than Jobs on the day he died.
It’s Christmas Day, 2054, and Lucid Labs has announced “Lucidity”.
Lucidity is an earth-shattering technology that few of us saw coming. Lucidity is a small patch containing a computer that is (allegedly) so sensitive to brainwaves that it can essentially read your mind.
So what can you do with this powerful new technology? During the event, Lucid discussed three applications that you will be able to find on the device upon it’s release in February:
-Lucid Dream: The flagship application for the device. Lucid Dream can already record and playback the user’s dreams. Further updates are expected to integrate the software with the Imaginary Friend capabilities that have been evolving with augmented reality for the last 20 years. After that, you can finally be with the girl of your dreams. Literally.
-Lucid Creation: A native software package for Lucid Labs technology since the Lucid Mask in 2024, Lucid Creation is expected to take strides right along with the new Lucidity hardware. During the keynote, Lex Lucid hinted at what was already in the works, including an update to Lucid’s animation and music software that allows the user to simply “think” his or her creation into existence.
-Lucid Idea: Lucidity’s messaging application. Exactly how close we are to legitimate telepathic communication was unfortunately missing in the Keynote, but the promise is there.
Lucidity is a computer unprecedented in power and sensitivity, providing expansive fertile territory for new explorers of the technology. The new era of PCs and VR have passed—Lucidity is the new wild west for developers.
And so far, it would appear Lucid wishes to allow and encourage developers to work to his newest computer’s level: Lucidity was rolled out with a guaranteed shelf life of five years. God knows what you’ll be switching to in the sixties.
In these early days, it’s hard to know what applications Lucidity will evolve to have. Even more open to speculation are the implications, which are sure to be a near-constant conversation from today onward.
“From today onward”. It’s a rare and awesome occasion when humanity can say this so profoundly. Lucid’s Christmas gift to the world has been unwrapped, whether we like it or not.
The first Lucidity will ship in February. Until then, if you are living in New Idaho, you may want to drop a hint to one of your peers at the Labs—rumor has it that Lucidity has already been passed out and is in use by Lab employees.
II. Source: Reefer, Banananut. “What We Expect from Lucidity” The Ringworm. 25 December 2054
Hello again! It’s your local bloodthirsty newshound, Banananut Reefer, here to report on the new sensation that’s sweeping the nation.
That’s right, we’re talking about Lex Lucid’s latest: Lucidity.
Now, Lucidity basically takes a look at all of your unfiltered thoughts, and somehow organizes them into doing different tasks.
After the announcement this Christmas, The Ringworm sent a team of reporters to camp out on the mountain ring outside the Labs and see what they could find out. After staring at what was mostly just an empty building for seven hours and losing four toes to frostbite, they decided to report back. Here’s the applications we know from the Event and the ones we speculate are coming in the future.
Lucid Dream: Now, Lucidity is, more than anything, a deep probe into your disturbed psyche. Nothing points this out more so than “Lucid Dream,” An application native to the device that allows you to play back those unacknowledged scenes from the depth of your consciousness.
Lucid Creation: If you can think it, you can make it—Lucid plans to help more people come to terms with the harsh reality that they lack imagination in addition to skill.
Lucid Idea: Well, we finally did it—we are getting to the point as a society where we can read each other’s minds. I wonder if we can still use autocorrect? In the meantime, Paranoia is expected to skyrocket among those who already thought their friends were talking behind their back.
Lucid Potato Patch: Judging by our researcher’s observations, there is a large patch of soil near the front parking lot of Lucid Labs. This being Idaho, we at The Ringworm believe it likely has to do with a Lucidity application that allows you to grow your own potato patch with energy from the mind.
Loosened Bowel Movement: There’s only one explanation our researchers could think of for why they hardly saw anyone at the Labs—chronic constipation! We can only hope for an app in Lucidity that allows you to save the experience of all your best bowel movements in order to play them back again later in all their glory. The fact that so many workers at the Labs appear to be out due to constipation, we must conclude that they are blocked up by anticipation (consticipation?) for the app, which we have guessed will be called “Loosened Bowel Movement.”
Lucid Bank: It’s not a new technology these days without a new form of cryptocurrency. We expect the Bitcoin of Lucidity will be based on your thoughts—if you invest more time mining other people’s thoughts, you can get more thought coins, which you can invest as you would any currency. Hopefully nobody sends any dirty thoughts over to muck up the whole system!
At the end of the day, you never really know where all this hype is going to end up. We can only hope for the apps that we were promised and the apps that we have speculated on. Here at The Ringworm, we’ve been paralyzed with despair after forgetting a defecation we expected to remember forever. Now that Lucidity promises to change that, we will be wearing that patch on our temple all day every day.
EDIT: Sources have confirmed that Lucid Labs employees were given the day off for Christmas, though we see no reason to rule out the idea that diarrhea was still in full force for many employees
III. Source: America, Tommy. “So Long Self-Control, Hello Mind Control.” Truth Quest. 25 December 2054.
Well, folks, the day is nearly here. We’ve been calling it or a while, but the powers that be have made a move today that could very well put the free man in checkmate.
I’m talking, of course, about Lucidity—the huge Christmas announcement, the world-flipping new technology. Some people are excited as hell to get their hands on it and think sweet nothings to their little boyfriends and girlfriends, not knowing all the while these trivial pursuits will be causing them their freedom and the freedom of everyone in America as we know it.
When Snowden told us all the NSA was spying on us, we just shrugged our shoulders and moved on. When we learned the social media companies were getting rich off selling our information, we shook our heads, but we just kept scrolling. Sure, the Data Privacy Act of 2025 was a small victory, but just because it’s harder for companies to sell our information doesn’t mean it’s not out there.
After all, we’ve been running around with cameras attached to our heads for nearly 20 years—what more could the puppet masters want?
Turns out the answer is a resounding “YOUR MIND.” Fake news and fastidiously calculated manipulation on an extreme scale wasn’t enough. Now the powers that be are going to look past our behaviors and into our thoughts themselves.
I don’t need to tell you how dangerous that is. I don’t need to, but I’m going to anyway. If the NSA and major corporations (and their marketing teams) have access to our thoughts, they can finally carry out the mass manipulation the elites and the American government have been planning since the days of the robber barons.
We’ve known it for a while here at Truth Quest, but now there’s no question. The play is just way too obvious. New Idaho is an incubator for the new world leaders. It’s a haven for globalists. Why else do you think the federal government gives Mayor Krispyman special treatment? Why did America and Idaho just sit back and allow the “City of the Century” to be built, along with a hyper train through the mountains and a freakin’ jungle?
All I can think is, you get a lot of passes when you’re in on the game. Now that it’s more evident than ever that Lex Lucid is in the game, it’s official: Lucid is not the “Jobs of our lifetime”. He’s the Zuckerberg.
Slowly but surely, technology is ramping up to allow the globalists to take power over the world through taking power over the individual. Don’t let your mind be taken captive. Fight back! Don’t give up your mind to those whose only goals are to manipulate you and take over the world! Boycott Lucidity and boycott Lucid Labs!
IV. Source: Thompson, Acacia. “Penny For Your Thoughts.” The Midcentury Ungrateful. 26 December 2054.
So this is where capitalism leads to. Trust me, I’m as surprised as you are that it’s hung in there so long—guess it just goes to show the ever-powerful force of greed.
What the “Free Market” has decided we all need now is a way to communicate with objects and each other with our minds. That’s right, yesterday Lex Lucid took to stage to reveal “Lucidity”, the newest computer from Lucid Labs that syncs your brainwaves up to your glasses.
That’s right—two channels wasn’t enough, so we made 500. Boxy TVs were too ugly. We made them flat. Then we put more flat screens in our pockets. But it was too much of a hassle to keep pulling something out of your pocket all day—so we started to wear these computers on our face, with the screen projected right into our eye. And now, if we weren’t lazy enough, we have been given the ultimate convenience: A computer that reads your freaking mind.
Now, we’ve known for a while that capitalism can’t hold up. We just keep using more and more resources to make more products to make people more lazy so they keep buying more and more and depleting our Earth’s resources.
That’s how you end up with jungles in the middle of America.
But now the capitalists have taken it one step farther and one step closer to totally controlling us: A computer that gets inside our very heads.
Just think what ads will start to look like: Pretty soon, marketing companies will know about your perfect woman. They will know what your dreams are. What motivates you. They will start selling it to you in their virtual ads. They will start using characters from your own head to manipulate you into buying what they tell you you need.
Not to mention how much money Lucid Labs and friends will get from selling your information to these marketing companies—as there is no doubt they will do it.
So, is Lucidity something you need? Well, we’re not so blind as to think that this impressive (to say the least) new technology won’t be widely used and applied by the masses. So you might be leaving yourself out.
My question for you, however, is why you want to be in in the first place. Why spend time playing this useless game of making the fat cats fatter at the expense of your health, wallet, and those around you?
It’s hard to say, but it seems America’s here to stay. We’re hoping the tragedy of Lucidity will be the straw that breaks capitalism’s back, but we’re not holding our breath.
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Pork, Beans, Potatoes
1/6/2025
This isn't what I planned to make or eat for dinner, but I really wanted rice and beans after talking to my mom, hahahah.
I hit the gym today and it always makes me very hungry, and I can't really focus well when I'm hungry, so I'll try to break down how I made these beans as best as I can.
I'm going to consider this a stew.
I never claimed to be a talented photographer, just a guy who likes potatoes.
Recipe:
No recipe from the web, this is a PQ original.
As such, it's probably gonna seem a little chaotic.
What you're about to see is my handy dandy Fucking Throw It All In A Fucking Pot, Baby, The Whole Spice Cabinet (except not the whole spice cabinet, the curry ingredients were mostly left alone, but I've been known to throw a garam masala or 5 chinese spice into this bad boy) method
Ingredients:
Pork chops (I had 3 so I used 3)
Sweet Potato (I used one)
Green Bell Pepper
Whole tomato
Olive Oil
A handful of pearl onions
Red Kidney Beans
Spices: Garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, oregano, paprika, cumin, salt, black pepper, cilantro, chili powder, garlic powder and onion powder, bonito flakes, tomato paste, miso paste, powdered chicken bouillon, sazon con achiote y culantro
Vinegar of your choice. I poured some from a jar of pickled onions.
Broth & wine of choice. God only knows which one I used.
To save money & time I have a lot of frozen ginger, garlic, and cilantro. I hate chopping these items. So I always have a lot. A little bit of fish oil or bonito flakes + miso paste will bump up any kind of stew.
Cooking Instructions
I popped a cube of frozen ginger, garlic, and cilantro into a pressure cooker along with the roughly chopped bell pepper, tomato, and onions, and all the spices.
I sauteed them until the onions were a little glassy and there were bits sticking to the bottom. At that point I poured in a little broth and wine to unstick the yummy from the bottom of the pot. It was chicken broth and a yummy red wine, I know that much, but use whatever.
So, kill the heat there. We're gonna do the pork now.
You can just throw the porkchops into the pot whole. The instant pot will make it easy to shred later. This is the easy way. It's still pretty tasty.
What I did because I'm a tryhard is I put the pork chops in my cast iron skillet with salt, olive oil, more vinegar, and more wine. (I didn't add too much salt because the stew pot is already pretty salty). I blasted it at the highest setting and flipped so it was brown/black on both sides.
If it looks like it's threatening to get stuck or too hot or whatever, unstick with more broth or wine.
It doesn't need to be fully cooked, you're mainly after that little burnt /fried pork flavor. Throw those chops in the pot. Deglaze the skillet with more broth / throw in some butter if you want and pour that into the pot.
Wash peel and roughly chop a large sweet potato. Put that in the pot.
Open a can of red kidney beans. Put that in the pot.
Pressure cook for 20 minutes or until tatos tender.
Serve with a bowl of rice. Sometimes I also add lentils to the pot; I didn't this time.
Another fun thing to do is stir in a spoonful of plain full fat whole milk yogurt into your bowl after you've served yourself. I like Brown Cow. This is good for most savory dishes ime.
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1/5/2025: I'm not sure if this dish has a name but it is essentially a roasted potato with a Parmesan crust. The recipe calls for sweet potato, but I needed to get rid of these other potatoes.
Parmesan was a little gummy and didn't stick, this could be because I changed the recipe and didn't use sweet potatoes. I also used a glass dish with sides when the recipe video, I think, used a baking pan.
It looked pretty similar to the one in the video so overall I would call this a success. It was pretty tasty.
Recipe:
Recipe from Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8F8ft9K/
Not sure if Tiktok will still be alive in a few months / I want to preserve this anyway.
Ingredients:
Sweet Potatoes
Paprika, salt, black pepper, garlic powder (measurements not given) (I measure with my heart, so a hefty pinch of each)
Olive Oil (two tablespoons)
Grated Parm (no measurement given, but enough to cover a whole baking sheet)
Cooking Instructions:
Preheat Oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
Cover a baking sheet in parchment paper
Cut the potatoes lengthwise, in half
Coat them in the oil and spices, mixing by hand
Grate parm to cover the baking sheet
Put the potatoes flesh-down
Bake for 35-40 minutes
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Idea shamelessly stolen from the "pasta quest" new year's resolution person and the person with the soup spreadsheet. I might also make a soup spreadsheet as I want to eat more soup. For now this is good.
Ideas / Submissions welcome. I will almost definitely be doing dupes / similar items, and will be tracking all potatoes eaten in 2025.
I love potatoes.
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