Rant #1,828: A Little Bit This, A Little Bit That

Today is January 25, the 25th day of the calendar.

Just 11 more months until Christmas--it is closer than you think.

Today is a pretty nondescript day in history.

Two notable things that I saw when I looked up the date were:

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy held the first live presidential news conference today, from Washington, D.C.

I don't know what the news conference was about, but it has seemingly been followed by probably thousands of other presidential news conferences that have been broadcast on television since that time.

Yes, television became the medium to get your message across, replacing radio, but now, it seems the Internet has taken over that purpose, to get the word out to your constituents in the quickest way.

What medium is next?

The second interesting event of note that happened today was that actress Ava Gardner died.

The beauteous actress--with a turbulent personal life--died at age 68 today in 1990.

I am sure I missed something, but honestly, today really is a nondescript day in history, just another day in the calendar.

I don't expect it will be anything different by the time the day ends tonight and we move into January 26, but you never know.

Things can kind of happen. I am sure that most people thought at September 11 was just going to be another day at the salt mine, and then, what happened happened, and it became a day to never forget.

I certainly don't want another day like that, but things can happen so quickly that a "blah" day can turn into a momentous day in seemingly one flick of the switch.

Personally, it is just another day for me.

I woke up, took a shower, got dressed ate breakfast, sat down to write this column, and I am preparing for another totally unexciting day at work.

I don't know how many more days I will have to prepare for a totally unexciting day at work, but for now, I am there.

Then, later today, I come home, eat dinner, and try to watch TV, but I inevitably pass out and go to bed fairly early.

And then, I wake up the next day and do it all over again.

Yes, we are kind of like rats in cages, spinning on the wheel of life for hours.

Very little changes over the period of a day, and then we do it all over again, and again, and again.

That is why I work for the weekend.

I have said it many times, the weekend is my salvation, my prize for putting up with a week where nothing much happens of any importance.

At least on the weekend I can relax to a certain extent, but even on the weekend, I do so many things like on other weekend that I am still that rat in a cage.

But the alternative sometimes is worse, so I just go with the flow.

Again, I don't expect January 25 to be any different than most days on the calendar, and when I think about it, maybe that is a good thing.

Sometimes, surprises are something that none of us need.