Sweet, sweet, sweet vacation  

I may have been whining like a little baby about how much I have been working of late but I'm really happy to say as you are reading this blog, I'm going on a jet plane, I don't know when I will be back again. Who sang that  Actually I know when I'll be back again, the following Sunday  Oh well, it is a week away from the grind so to speak. 

So, the 22nd is meteorological start of fall. 

Now this has me baffled, where and when did we get all these, I will say silly, technical names from? I mean you used to say first day of Spring is March 20th or Fall is September 22. But noooo, now you have to identify it as meteorological Spring or Fall, etc. Then other weather things, from we are looking at a huge cold front coming down and putting us in the frigid temps for a couple of weeks to there is an Artic Vortex about to hold our area hostage to extreme low temperatures. Gone from mild or cold winters to El Nino or El Nina. 

So what other ones have you heard that are making you shake your heads? I'm sure there are more that I'm not recalling off the top of my head. 

Now let's be careful here, we don't need to discuss the highly debated topic of global warming or natural evolution of the earth. If you want to talk about those, please exit stage right, right now and proceed to the Pit. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. You can discuss that topic to your hearts content over there . 

Or, am I just becoming a crotchety old man  I am tuning another year older this year. I've been kind of avoiding the idea of turning 30! I mean, it is the end of my 20's.  

Enough of this silliness. 

Monday, the super duper Review Team via Gary L came in and presented a great story for everyone:

Tuesday was time for Myr to look deeply 👀 into the History genre:

Thursday, well I have to send out a extremely sincere apology to the Promotion team and our newly promoted Promising Author. I was supposed to publish last week, then I was supposed to publish on Wednesday this week, but I put my reminder in my phone on Wednesday night rather than Tuesday night. Remember that whole birthday thing? Actually no, I cannot blame that. All I ask is you stop by and leave a congratulatory comment in the blog and apologize for me being an idiot  I deserve it. 

Well what I forgot, Myr never did forget! Here were the Words of the Day:

supplicate, smitten, quiddity, pedagogue, lagom, caprice, bloviate

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