February Diary [we want to hear more]

Sunday, Feb '22, about an hour before sunrise here... :o

A week ago I've caught a cold, slowly recovering, and so I'm reading a bit, like https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-released-with-support-for-audio-channel-layouts-ldac-decoder or https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html

I don't have that newer stuff even in Arch Linux yet, but I'm pretty sure that will be a matter of days only.

Got our car repaired last week as I wrote already, and now Aki - formerly known as https://www.wikiloops.com/artist/Zuleikha%20L - is with us for the weekend. Oh, and the cat wants out already... :D

Okay, I'll do my 10,000 steps, so I'll "see" you all later. Have fun... and thanks to all our supporters, like always :) <3

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Thought of the day from those who aren’t retired: “The hardest part about starting the week is the first five days.”

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I was thinking about this for a while and my conclusion is.... Nature dictates time, day length etc. but we invented the names and numbers that rule our lives. People become obsessed with anniversaries, lucky numbers, superstition, measurements and so on. Humans have chosen everything they live by so much so that if anyone decides to live differently they are not taken seriously. Who says that the week starts on Monday. If it started on Saturday then TeeGee would have to woohoo on Wednesday :)

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hear hear! One day when I am retire I will woohoo randomly through the week, sometimes even multiple times. You just wait and see :W

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Song number 333333 is coming up soon.... who gets it ?

Meeeeeeee!

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I didn't realise how significant this number was WOW!

*333333 magnifies the energies of the number 3, which is associated with creativity, communication, and growth.
*333333 serves as a reminder that you have a unique, essential mission, encouraging you to align your actions with your soul's purpose.
*333333 indicates you are being guided by the universe to manifest your dreams and goals, emphasizing that your thoughts are turning into reality.
"333333 often appears as a call to trust your intuition, embrace your inner wisdom, and step out of your comfort zone to pursue your passions.

... and yet I feel a little sad for the people that just missed it :|

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The Origin of the Week
The name of the seven-day period we now call a week comes from the Latin word septimana, meaning “a set of seven days.” The practice of dividing time into groups of seven days dates back to the Babylonians, whose lives followed a lunar calendar of 28 days corresponding to the four seven-day phases of the Moon — the waxing moon, full moon, waning moon, and new moon (4×7=28).
In almost every civilization, the number seven carries symbolic meaning. The Babylonians believed that nothing should be undertaken on the seventh day of the month to avoid misfortune, and this belief extended to the 14th, 21st, and 28th days — that is, to each new lunar phase. They thus observed a rest on the seventh day (a truce during times of war). This custom is the origin of the weekly day of rest we still observe today.
Following the Babylonians, other ancient civilizations — the Hebrews, the Egyptians, and later the Greeks — also adopted the seven-day week. Its use in the West came later. It was Emperor Constantine who, by a decree in 321 CE, officially established the seven-day week in the Roman world, which had converted to Christianity. The day of rest, still kept on the seventh day, became known as the Lord’s Day.

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There was a curious attempt by Napoleon to go to a decimal week system. That would have been very annoying, I am glad we stuck with the 7 days. Also, it would have made "Woohoo it's Friday" day very difficult.

From Wikipedia:
The French Republican calendar (French: calendrier républicain français), also commonly called the French Revolutionary calendar (calendrier révolutionnaire français), was a calendar created and implemented during the French Revolution and used by the French government for about 12 years from late 1793 to 1805, and for 18 days by the Paris Commune in 1871, meant to replace the Gregorian calendar.[1] The calendar consisted of twelve 30-day months, each divided into three 10-day cycles similar to weeks, plus five or six intercalary days at the end to fill out the balance of a solar year. It was designed in part to remove all religious and royalist influences from the calendar, and it was part of a larger attempt at dechristianisation and decimalisation in France (which also included decimal time of day, decimalisation of currency, and metrication). It was used in government records in France and other areas under French rule, including Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Malta, and Italy.

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Bad luck when I was there there was no session... bummer. But to my surprise within walking distance of my hotel Le Hu (happy music) Music Club where the local music teacher had a little rehearsing room annex studio where he gave music lessons and some band rehearsals took place. We spend some time talking about music and also got the opportunity to play along. Nice detail I was wearing my wikiloops shirt... :D [youtube]tFCtItk5o3o[/youtube]

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