January 2025
A Fire Brightly
04/01/25 10:21 Filed in: Travel
The fire in the fireplace at Hotel Indigo give off warmth and a glow on a cool, quite rainy evening. A pleasure to behold.
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Happy Birthday To Me
02/01/25 22:11 Filed in: Personal
We went out to dinner this evening to Salty's on the Columbia River. Lots of nice memories of dinners with friends and also a post-review Winn Feline Foundation board and reviewer dinner in March of 2018. It was a great dinner.
Tonight it was quieter though we had a lovely dinner looking over the river to Vancouver and watching planes coming in to land at PDX. A toast to the evening and then we retired in the rain back to the Hotel Indigo along the waterfront in Vancouver. A very comfortable hotel to stay at.
Tonight it was quieter though we had a lovely dinner looking over the river to Vancouver and watching planes coming in to land at PDX. A toast to the evening and then we retired in the rain back to the Hotel Indigo along the waterfront in Vancouver. A very comfortable hotel to stay at.
New Year's Resolutions 2025
New Year's Resolutions
Personally I don't do them since I don't hold to making it stick. A few this year could be one that I saw this morning about reading more (and crafting more). I need to be more active - move more and use the treadmill more.
Read about what is the possible history of 4000 years of making resolution promises:
"It’s believed the rest of the common folk, spared of such physical punishment, instead engaged in prayer, promising that they would repay their debts and otherwise conduct themselves in sterling fashion to please the gods.
"While the Babylonians may have been the first to introduce these promises to a celebration marking the start of the year, the Romans were the first to deliver theirs in January. For that we can thank the wide-reaching Roman calendar, which moved the first month of the year from March to January. Named for the two-faced god Janus, who both looked back at the past and faced the unknown future, the first month became a time for officials to pledge their vows of loyalty to Rome — a custom that continues in the less urgent but no less earnest tradition of the countless people who pledge to get off the couch and hit the gym in the new year."
Personally I don't do them since I don't hold to making it stick. A few this year could be one that I saw this morning about reading more (and crafting more). I need to be more active - move more and use the treadmill more.
Read about what is the possible history of 4000 years of making resolution promises:
"It’s believed the rest of the common folk, spared of such physical punishment, instead engaged in prayer, promising that they would repay their debts and otherwise conduct themselves in sterling fashion to please the gods.
