Friday, December 1

My Hat's Off to December

Today starts the beginning of a new month...  in case you have not been paying attention, it is the month of December...  LOL


This month also marks the end of 2023 and we have until the last day of the month to make deductions to charities or to IRAs to get a tax deduction.  December also marks the end of the fourth quarter and when most businesses must count and report the value of their inventories.


I remember working at a company on December 31 until almost midnight helping them count their inventory and missed the New Year's Eve Party I had been invited to.  This was good because I had stopped drinking years before and would have been ridiculed for not drinking.  I remember someone telling me that you could not trust a man unless he was willing to have a drink or two or three or four.


December does not mean much to me, unless it is Christmas and I am not into institutionalized religion, nor am I into the Bible because there are so many discrepancies within that textbook it leads me to not to believe what else is in there.


The biggest discrepancy is the timeline and the Bible saying the world is only 6,000 year old.  Elementary School Science classes prove that statement wrong.  I have mentioned this to you before that if you tell me God and Jesus are extraterrestrials, then I might pay more attention to you.


Most of the people at Christmas time think more about buying and receiving presents than they do about the religious implications of Christmas.  However, at my age of 76, there is just not much I want or need at Christmas, unless it is a Starbuck's Gift Card.  Whenever I go to Starbuck's I get a Venti Vanilla Cappuccino.  It was $3.50 and nowadays, it is $6.50...  I will not spend my own money on Starbuck's coffee as it is a bad investment, but I will use a gift card.


For me, December is a month where not much happens especially outside.  I usually have mowed/mulched up the leaves by now.  The gutters have all been cleaned and there is no reason to go down into my small work and spend time categorizing and labeling.  I will do that again when it warms up.


If I walk at all now, it will not be outside but at the community center for a dollar each day.  Sixteen times around the upstairs track and you have completed a mile.  It has heat as well and the cold from the downstairs entrance door does not filter up to the second floor.  It is usually not crowded.


We have recycle and garbage pick up so I will go outside to put those cans on the side of the road and bring them back.


Other than that, December is usually the month that is spent inside, trying to find a decent movie or series to watch on Hulu, Netflix, or Prime.  Most of the stuff is garage from my perspective and everything I try to watch, I done with trying in 10 minutes.





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