2020

This blog-entry was launched on the last day of a month, a year, and a decade.

Today is December 31, 2019 here in Anderson, Indiana (which is on Eastern Standard Time -- for now, anyway). This is the time I'll be using when determining what time and day it is. There will be a live hyperlink added below sometime on the first day of January 2020  (my time).


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Traveling Route 2020

I'm planning on adding some more live hyperlinks a little later while it's still New Year's Day 2020...

(Change-Of-Plans:  The other live hyperlinks will be added through the 85th Anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley.  After that, live hyperlinks and other info will be added below the bottom squiggle line.)

DO Stay Tuned...
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Other information will be written below this line through December 31 2020...

Monday, January 13, 2020

So far, so good with this brand new year in a brand new decade.

Already, I've gotten some significant things done this year even though a combination of the weather and a bug that I'm getting some extra rest to cure have slowed me down some in my quest of playing catch-up.

Click on the following meme to open it and read my comment:



Catch you later!
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Remember:  This is a work-in-progress blog-entry, so keep returning to read additions.  If you like what you see, please share the link to it.

A John Pavlovitz Shout-Out Created On Thursday, December 26, 2019!!!

This is a sampling of what makes John Pavlovitz score high points in my book!!!

Thanks, in advance, for doing your part in helping to make this awesome guy go viral!!!

Christmas Non-Stop

Note: When you see a hyperlink of the same word/number/phrase/etc., don't automatically assume that it leads to the same place because, more times than not, it won't.  Have fun clicking on them to see where they go.  It's like opening wrapped presents to see what's inside.  

I'm beginning this blog-entry on Sunday, December 22, 2019 and will be continuing it through
 The Twelfth Night  of 2022.

During this time, Christmas Day will be arriving three times and The Twelfth Night will be arriving four times. We will say "Goodbye!" to 2019, 2020, and 2021 and say  "Hello!" to 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Anyway, this is a blog-entry that I'll be adding to even when it isn't Christmas as a way of keeping the Christmas Spirit alive all year long.  When I add some new things, I'll let you know by drawing attention to this blog-entry.

I'm expecting a lot of things to happen that would be fitting to share in a blog like this -- things that will lift your spirits when you read about them.

Not all things will be sugary-sweet, but I'll be mostly positive when I add to this.

This will be all for now...

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(Stay Tuned & Please Share This Page)

It's About Time...

It's now officially winter here in Anderson, Indiana with the date when autumn became winter being yesterday (Saturday, December 21, 2019), which was also the shortest day of the year (at least, in the part of the world where I live).

This blog-entry will be added to through the first shortest day to happen after I turn 70 on December 12, 2022, "God Willing & The Creek Don't Rise ..."

For starters, check out what I began working on early this morning and finished a few hours later this morning...



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It's now a little before 5:30 PM and it's still Sunday, December 22, 2019.

I'm adding this to share a link to a blog entry called (just as this one is) It's About Time...
as well as to share a Tweet I made about this new venture:

#TimeFlies (#Usually...though, #AtTimes, it #Crawls or #MovesSlowly #Like a #Snail) #WhetherOrNot #YouAre #HavingFun.#GoHere to #Read/#View/#Listen to #Something I #Began #Creating on #SundayMorning, 12/22/2019 #TheDayAfter #TheShortestDay #Arrived:https://t.co/xVXrLBBy1J pic.twitter.com/rucTzisrWv

— WatchOut4CrazyPenLady! (@AJ1952Chats) December 22, 2019

That's all for now...

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(Stay Tuned For More)

Let's Get This All Sorted Out!!!

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Larry "The CanMan" VanNess 3/18/15

It was the day after St. Patrick's Day in 2015, and I was still living in Muncie and had come over to spend a few days in Anderson.

Larry was still living in North Anderson across North Broadway from Shadyside Park at the time.

This is what I wrote back then in ... my ... Facebook ... photo album reserved for pictures I took of Larry to go along with these priceless pictures:

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The day after St. Patrick's Day 2015, I rode the North Anderson CATS bus (and the amazing guy at the end is cool bus driver Earl Boyd who's a laugh a minute) out to see Larry where I gave him a bag full of various ones of his favorite things -- including, of course, cans and tabs. I took several pictures of him waving to those driving by along North Broadway (waving and waiting to wave). Isn't he just as cute as a button!?!
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Actually, he's even cuter than a button! Just imagine (if you haven't actually seen this for yourself already) that face of his lighting up like a little kid at Christmas when he gets tabs for Ronald McDonald House of Indiana and when people wave and/or beep at him as they go by! Heartmelting! Okay, Everybody!!! On the count of three... 1...2...3...Awlllllllllllllllllllll.......

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This is the sequence of pictures I took with these being him waiting for people to drive by...

All too soon, my bus arrives...




...and it's time to go back to the terminal and -- sometime after that -- back to Muncie.

These are two pics of Earl and Larry talking while he puts the lift down for me...

As Earl and I (along with everybody else on the bus) head back to the terminal, I take a picture out the window of the bus showing Larry on his way to take his bag of goodies to his apartment...

And here is Earl getting ready to get me to ground-level back at the terminal...

I hope you enjoyed this story and will tell your friends about Larry.

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My Folks In 2003

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2020 Vision

This blog-entry is being launched on Sunday, December 15, 2019 and will be added to through Thursday, February 17, 2022 which will not only be the Diamond Birthday of Larry "The CanMan" Van Ness but is, also, Random Acts Of Kindness Day.

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This Is A Morning Of So Much To Do...

This is a morning of so much to do before noon, and noon is less than an hour away from now here on Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Anyway, I decided to embed a copy of this one post where I, among other things, wished 9 very special people Happy Birthday, but it isn't showing up that I did, so I'm going to send a message containing a link to the blog-entry you're reading now in those spaces where you can send greetings to everybody that contains what I'd originally written where they had been tagged to receive birthday greetings.

Have I confused you yet!?!

Anyway, here's the post from Facebook.  Hope you'll read it all, and I hope everybody with a birthday today will enjoy reading this and finding out what all is going on while they're celebrating their birthdays.



Later on (perhaps, later today, or starting the next day), I'll let you know how the rest of the day went.

Tomorrow's my 67th birthday, by the way...

Watch 'em Grow!!!

Some blog-entries I create get stretched out for days, weeks, months, and even years.

My plans are to keep adding to this one through my 70th birthday which will be taking place on December 12, 2022.

I'm starting it on December 9, 2019 which is on a Monday this year.

The first two that I'm going to share are:

Let's Book Larry And Put Him In A Museum, Too!!!

and

Wikipedia Shout-Out

and plan to be adding some more during the next few hours (even adding some overnight).

I plan on having at least 5 different ones appearing here by sometime during my 67 birthday which will be taking place this coming Thursday.

Will sign off for now as I need to take care of some other things...

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Let's Book Larry And Put Him In A Museum, Too!!!

Today is Saturday, December 7, 2019, at a little after 2:30 PM EST, and this is the latest thing I've written about my favorite CanMan and shirt-tail cousin, Larry, who is doing not only our town but, also, places here and there proud.

You're going to be hearing more and more about this awesome guy as time goes by.

He might not be perfect (who IS besides Jesus), but he's definitely an outstanding person and a hero who has made a lot of positive differences so that life on this planet is so much better for having him been born here.




I'm going to be adding to this page a little bit later today and will add to it through Sunday, December 15.  I'll tell you why I picked that date a little later.  For now, I need to think about getting ready so that I won't miss a parade he's going to be part of in not quite three hours from now...

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As things turned out, I ended up staying home -- but that didn't mean that I missed seeing Larry & Rachel's float.  It looks even better than I'd imagined it looking, and they both look wonderful.

Check out all of those ways to decorate a Jeep!!!

I hope that those of you who are actually there will be taking lots of photos and videos...



That's all for now...

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And here is the video where the actual parade begins, and my view of it is very unique:  Inside of the float where Rachel turns her phone camera back and forth so that it shows the parade route ahead part of the time (Great turnout!!!) and shows what's happening in the float part of the time.

I had originally meant to actually be there, but was getting the feeling that the best place for me to be tonight was right here in my apartment and, now, I know why!!!



Will probably be adding more to this while it's still December 7, but this will be all for now...

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Today is Sunday, December 8 -- and late in the day at that.

A lot has been going on.

If you go to this blog-entry and scroll down the page, you'll come across a post about when all of those tabs were being made.

They looked really good to me, but they looked even better when I saw the videos I posted yesterday -- but the following photo (which I've finally gotten around to sharing here today -- which is Tuesday, December 10) says it all...



Today is Sunday, December 15, 2019 -- but not for too much longer.

Anyway, I said that this blog-entry would be finished on December 15 and that I would tell you why I chose this particular date.

The reason is that Dave Clark of The Dave Clark Five was born on December 15 (somewhere within the range of 1939 - 1942), and the band sang an upbeat song called Glad All Over -- and one thing for sure is that Larry makes people feel glad all over!!!

Anyway, I'm sticking to this schedule and will now switch you over to this new blog-entry to catch you up the rest of the way...

Wikipedia Shout-Out

Introduction:

This blog-entry was launched on the second day of December 2019 -- the same day that I chipped in to help keep this wonderful site going strong.

The amount that I donated was the smallest donation option available -- but more details about that below.

Anyway, Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, and you can CLICK HERE to read more about how it started and what has happened to it over the years as well as being kept up with its progress, both now and in the future.

On January 15, 2022, Wikipedia will be turning twenty-one, so I plan to keep this blog-entry active (i.e. adding new Wikipedia-related thoughts to it) between now and sometime that day.

I wonder how things will be on that day.

By then, it will be almost a year since INAUGURATION DAY 2021.  I wonder who will be POTUS at that time and how our country and THE REST OF THE WORLD will be doing.

Of course, there will be people reading what I've written here who won't be residents of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, so -- when I say (as I did in the last paragraph) "our country" -- I'm writing as the resident of the same.

I'm a senior-age woman who was born on December 12, 1952 -- which means that, at the time of this writing, I'm 10 days away from my 67th birthday -- in ANDERSON, INDIANA one day after my state turned 136 years old/young.  This December 11 will be Indiana's 203rd birthday.  This is where I still live.

Even when I was away at COLLEGE and when I lived in MUNCIE from October 1, 2014 - November 16, 2016, I still kept an Anderson address (the latter one being my post office box and a driver's license that still bore the address of where I'd lived last).

Until I was a little over a year and three months old, I lived in an apartment in the city that isn't far from where I live now.

Then (early spring of 1954) my folks and I moved to our farm that was, at that time, around 2 miles south of the city limits -- becoming closer as the city limits moved further south.

This was where I lived (the last of us on this side of Eternity) until September 9, 2013 when I became homeless for awhile.

I'm hoping to be back to living on a farm again by or before September 9, 2020 -- which will be 7 years since I pulled out of the driveway of the farm where I'd grown up for the last time.

I've been on quite a journey and have learned a lot since then.

If I remember correctly, I believe I first began using Wikipedia in 2007.

In the time to come between now and late on January 15, 2022, I'll be sharing more of my story about my use of this great site and how I've discovered more and more reasons to make it a place I usually visit at least once-a-day whenever I get online.

Even now, there are still things to be discovered re: my use of Wikipedia.

Look below to find out more about the donation I made today.


Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001.  CLICK HERE to find out who was born 72 years before that.

Five days after the launching of Wikipedia, a new POTUS took office.  He is one of the five Presidents (four former and one current) who are still on this side of Eternity as of today (December 2, 2019).  I'm going to list them in order of when they first took office.

Do you know which one took office the same year that Wikipedia was launched without looking?

Jimmy Carter
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Donald Trump

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Stay tuned for more...