Comments on Gift Opening

Cleaning up here and there, in 2022, I didn't want to lose these comments, which were on my page on facebook in 2010. I'm backdating the post, so it will show in 2010.

Meryl Lynn
Learn Nothing Day has started here in NY and my 7yo son couldn't wait to learn nothing. In the last 11 minutes, he keeps acknowledging all the things he's learning even in our dark bedroom. He just said he's having so much fun!
Sandra Dodd
Wait… shouldn't you sleep? This is LND-EVE. Maybe he should try again in the morning. 🙂 Should a holiday start at midnight, or morning? Maybe it depends whether it's a holiday created before clocks or AFTER (digital and electronic midnight-bearing date-changing) clocks.
Blanche Melamed
holiday's start at sundown the night before here in Israel. I kinda like that. happy LND!
Sandra Dodd
Good point, Blanche. Well, people can open their Learn Nothing Day gifts whenever they want to. 🙂
Meryl Lynn
He woke up and he noticed that he started learning right away 🙂

3rd Learn Nothing Day (imported report)

The original is on my personal blog as 3rd Learn Nothing Day winding down There are a couple of comments there, but I've brought the code from the other blogpost to reside here, and backdated it here to that same date, July 24, 2010. (It's actually being added here on June 23, 2014.)


This was very cute, on facebook. I came across a discussion of people all using the same "profile image" I had (more or less):



And now that I've been informed that a package I sent to Adam Daniel in the U.K. has arrived, I can show this image of Holly, in an ACE Festival shirt, yesterday:


And one of me in a paisley scarf I received in the mail from Deb Lewis in Montana (along with some other cool birthday goodies). Real woven paisley, in shades of brown. BEAUTIFUL. she suggested I might be able to blend in some in India next winter with this!

My birthday gift was a lot of help to clean up the library and rearrange things so that when our new couch [well, not really "couch," but set of modular couchish-to-guest-bed(s) thing] arrives on Tuesday there will be a good space for it. Found some things I had lost, and gathered up some books to give away. Kirby called to wish me a happy birthday, and talked to me and Marty about things we can send back to Austin with him when he visits, and IT RAINED! Real, hard rain with thunder and lightning. Beautiful. We opened up doors and windows. After the rain, Marty and Ashlee went and got food from Golden Pride—smoked chicken and carne adovada burritos. Holly's friend Tony was here. He played piano downstairs and we got to hear. He's the keyboardist for Holly's favorite local band. Very nice birthday.