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by: me

Today is New Year's Eve according to the Gregorian calendar, used most widely around the world. If you live in Portugal, you'll probably eat 12 grapes at midnight and, if you're Danish, you may break some dishes at the front door of your friends' houses. Read about other New Year's traditions here. And here's a link to read an overview of other New Years holidays celebrated at different times of the year.

In Brazil on New Year’s Eve priestesses of the local macumba voodoo cult dress in blue skirts and white blouses for a ceremony dedicated to the goddess of water, Yemanja.
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posted by: howard at 17:24 | link | comments |

by: BanzaiDescent

I realize my life's been nothing but variations on two themes: hanging on and letting go. The curious thing is I've always found happiness on the latter, frustration and betrayal on the former.

Take suicide.

I tried it once and failed. The revolver's firing pin was missing and I tried to fix it myself. On the day I was to die--if my firing pin remedy succeeded, the next bullet after the test was to go directly to my skull--I felt all the grandeur of a bleeding bull in the last leg of a bullfight. All those years of hurt and rage, trapped in a house of shadows, they were all finally coming to a majestic end.

Now I'm not gonna rat on my folks here.
Let me just say two things:

1. Nothing is as life-giving as humility and the word Sorry.
2. People who can't look you in the eye must've done something nasty to you.

So I went to the back of the house, loaded the gun, pointed it to the ground and closed my eyes. Man, was it gonna be fun. I pulled the trigger.
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posted by: howard at 11:17 | link | comments |

by: taming

It was warm enough to roast outside of the garage. Note the blue sky. Also note that the heat gun is positioned in a stand-up chicken roaster. My preference is to hold the heat gun and adjust the distance from the bean mass. I think it gives me more control than one gets using a fixed position, but this works when I am truly lazy.
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posted by: howard at 15:34 | link | comments (2) |