{"id":1197,"date":"2014-08-31T22:59:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2025-09-29T00:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:32:55","slug":"quatorze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2014\/08\/31\/quatorze","title":{"rendered":"Cent Jours Quatorze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221; earlier this year, a show that reaches unheard of heights of what one can ever imagine awesomeness can be (appropriately enough), Neil deGrasse Tyson condensed the life of the universe into a single year. In this cosmic calendar, the sun was created on August 31. That&#8217;s today! You know what else today is? That&#8217;s right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=6 color=\"#FF8800\"><b>DAY<br \/>\n100<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Day 100!\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last day of Round 14. So let&#8217;s recap.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1, I&#8217;m off to New York City. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2011\/08\/31\/round-11\" class=\"post\" title=\"Round 11 Complete!\">Sound familiar<\/a>? Well, this time I got dragged along with my family. Got a cool hotel next to the new WTC, though. Amazing views!<\/p>\n<p>Day 2, still in NYC, terrible service at restaurant and mad dash to Penn Station to catch train home.<\/p>\n<p>Day 15, Triple Crown Winner? Come on, California Chrome&#8230;. Nope. -_-<\/p>\n<p>Day 21, sweet! World Cup games on big screen at work!<\/p>\n<p>Day 23, Kingdom Hearts!!! Expert mode this time. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Day 32, my voter registration wasn&#8217;t updated when I changed my address six months ago! I need to vote in the primary but don&#8217;t know where! Grrr.<\/p>\n<p>Day 37, Frozen sing-a-long at WES&#8230; I WANT TO SEE FROZEN AGAIN!!!! So picked up a copy of it right afterward. Got How to Train Your Dragon, too, because why not?<\/p>\n<p>Day 42, &#8216;splosions!<\/p>\n<p>Day 48, me: &#8220;Wow. This fruit salad is spicy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Day 49, How to Train Your Dragon 2 in movie theater! Toothless is adorable!!! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Day 50, think I&#8217;ll spend the midpoint at a state park on the Chesapeake&#8230; or not, it&#8217;s too damn hot outside and the beltway is backed up because of course it is. Back home. Try again some other time. And start replaying Kingdom Hearts 2.<\/p>\n<p>Day 57, Planes 2 with little brother.<\/p>\n<p>Day 64, very old grand-aunt&#8217;s memorial service and distant cousins.<\/p>\n<p>Day 78, National Air and Space Museum with little brother! And flight simulator.<\/p>\n<p>Day 90, EVERY SIMPSONS EVER!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Day 93, Nationals game!<\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Day 100. A WES platform with lots of pets! And afterward, some unfinished Day 50 business, even though the day was even hotter but at least no beltway traffic. Calvert Cliffs! After a two hour drive and then a two mile walk. Very nice. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I think my memory is getting bad since I&#8217;m just not remembering much for these recaps. Or less of interest is happening. Or I&#8217;m getting more sensible about what I share publicly. Or I&#8217;m realizing this is a whole lot of Shit Nobody Cares About. There was also a conspicuous lack of any NYRA activities, namely an Annual Meeting. I need to do some interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well. As these 100 Days of Summer draw to a close, well, I guess I need to do more interesting stuff. See you for the fifteenth round beginning May 24, 2015, in whatever form the world will be in then. Probably about the same.<\/p>\n<p><i>This has been <b>Day 100<\/b> of the <b>100 Days of Summer, Round 14<\/b>.<\/i> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/smilies\/sun.gif\" title=\"Summertime!\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On &#8220;Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey&#8221; earlier this year, a show that reaches unheard of heights of what one can ever imagine awesomeness can be (appropriately enough), Neil deGrasse Tyson condensed the life of the universe into a single year. In this cosmic calendar, the sun was created on August 31. That&#8217;s today! 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