It’s officially spring. So how did we celebrate that in Nebraska?
With blistering winds and cold temperatures. It always amazes me that
people see the date on the calendar for the start of spring and just expect it
to be sunny skies and instant warmth. To those of you in warm climates
this probably doesn’t apply. In the slightly colder places, however, the
weather man makes a big deal all week long about the first day of spring.
Then it rolls around and nothing has changed. It’s almost like holidays or
special occasions. My birthday comes every year and I feel about the same
as the day before. New Year’s comes every year and after the ball drops in
Times Square I just sort of say “OK, that was great,” and go to bed. The
first day of summer, fall and winter come and there is no dramatic shift in the
weather or anything else in the world. I really don’t see the
significance. Do you get a day off from work? Usually not.
Does the environment make a rapid change? Almost never. Why is there
such a fascination? There are just all of these events on the calendar
which serve no real purpose except for keeping track of time. Yesterday it
was 60 degrees here and tonight it will be in the teens. A date on the
calendar circled has nothing to do with any of that. Then there are the
holidays that just make no sense to me. St. Patrick’s Day is the biggest
bar day of the year. People take it off from work (and the day after) so
they can go drink as much as they can and find their way home without being
arrested. Never having spoken with St Patrick I can’t tell you for sure
what he would say but I can’t believe this would be the way he wanted his
holiday spent. Then there’s Sweetest Day. It is Hallmark’s copy of
Valentine’s Day. Anyone dating or married over two years has pretty much
abandoned this one. As for Valentine’s Day itself, forget about going to a
nice restaurant. You’ll either not get seated or have terrible
service. Flowers and candy jump up in price. Yet, if you don’t
observe it and play the game you end up as the bad guy. There’s not much
good fighting that battle. All these dates have been commercialized for
profit. I mean seriously, why do we even celebrate Columbus Day?
There are sales in the stores and banks close. But Columbus didn’t prove
the world was round. He didn’t find a passage to the Far East. He
didn’t even discover the Americas. The Vikings alone had him beaten by
several hundred years. Yet every year stores have their big Columbus Day
Sales. It’s all about money and keeping track of time. When was the
last time the groundhog was right on February 2nd?
With blistering winds and cold temperatures. It always amazes me that
people see the date on the calendar for the start of spring and just expect it
to be sunny skies and instant warmth. To those of you in warm climates
this probably doesn’t apply. In the slightly colder places, however, the
weather man makes a big deal all week long about the first day of spring.
Then it rolls around and nothing has changed. It’s almost like holidays or
special occasions. My birthday comes every year and I feel about the same
as the day before. New Year’s comes every year and after the ball drops in
Times Square I just sort of say “OK, that was great,” and go to bed. The
first day of summer, fall and winter come and there is no dramatic shift in the
weather or anything else in the world. I really don’t see the
significance. Do you get a day off from work? Usually not.
Does the environment make a rapid change? Almost never. Why is there
such a fascination? There are just all of these events on the calendar
which serve no real purpose except for keeping track of time. Yesterday it
was 60 degrees here and tonight it will be in the teens. A date on the
calendar circled has nothing to do with any of that. Then there are the
holidays that just make no sense to me. St. Patrick’s Day is the biggest
bar day of the year. People take it off from work (and the day after) so
they can go drink as much as they can and find their way home without being
arrested. Never having spoken with St Patrick I can’t tell you for sure
what he would say but I can’t believe this would be the way he wanted his
holiday spent. Then there’s Sweetest Day. It is Hallmark’s copy of
Valentine’s Day. Anyone dating or married over two years has pretty much
abandoned this one. As for Valentine’s Day itself, forget about going to a
nice restaurant. You’ll either not get seated or have terrible
service. Flowers and candy jump up in price. Yet, if you don’t
observe it and play the game you end up as the bad guy. There’s not much
good fighting that battle. All these dates have been commercialized for
profit. I mean seriously, why do we even celebrate Columbus Day?
There are sales in the stores and banks close. But Columbus didn’t prove
the world was round. He didn’t find a passage to the Far East. He
didn’t even discover the Americas. The Vikings alone had him beaten by
several hundred years. Yet every year stores have their big Columbus Day
Sales. It’s all about money and keeping track of time. When was the
last time the groundhog was right on February 2nd?
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