Don't Worry, Be Happy--Right!?!

Today's Meme of the Day is inspired by the "Woman Yelling at a Cat" meme template that is all the rage today.



On December 5th, 2011, episode 14 "Malibu Beach Party From Hell" of season two of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reality TV series premiered in the United States. In the episode, cast member Taylor Armstrong cries during an argument, with cast member Kyle Richards attempting to calm her down.

On June 19th, 2018, Tumblr user deadbefordeath posted a photograph of a white cat (later revealed to be named Smudge) with a confused expression sitting in a chair in front of a plate with vegetables in it, titling the post "he no like vegetals." The post gained over 50,300 likes and reblogs in one year.

On May 1st, 2019, Twitter user @MISSINGEGIRL made a post containing both images, writing "These photos together is making me lose it.“ The tweet gained over 78,900 retweets and 276,800 likes in two months.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woman-yelling-at-a-cat

If you haven't seen this meme template yet, you will! 

Game Five lands on a Scherzday!

Forget about "best of 3" let alone best of 7. 

Don't worry about Games 6 or 7.

Game 5 is all that matters...

Let's go 1 and 0 tonight, Nats!

Patrick Corbin Gets the Nod for WS 2019 Game 4

Aníbal Sánchez Game 3 starter...

Aníbal Sánchez will make his 3rd start of the Postseason in Game 3 of the World Series on Friday night in Nationals Park. Wear BLUE! Go 1-0 one more time! 

Merry Strasmas!

Scherzday

On the Strange Appeal of Sailing in Ships at Sea

Russel Crowe as Captain "Lucky" Jack Aubrey

I have had the great good fortune of sailing on many days and over many nautical miles this year. Adding to my past recreational and racing experience primarily on the Potomac, I have been able to crew for the Skipper of s/v Revolution in 6 races on the Chesapeake Bay. Additionally, I served as an able crewman aboard s/v Nelson's Wake for her circumnavigation of the Delmarva (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia) peninsula. I was honored to take the helm for the 8th and final day of that voyage--an experience I'll never forget.

Comparisons between myself and the likes of Captain Jack Aubrey aboard HMS Sophie, as told by Patrick O’Brian, are premature. War in the age of sail, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, produced some of the most dramatic leadership challenges in the history of humanity.

For my part, I just want to comment on the strange appeal of sailing in ships at sea. What compels people to get in a boat in the first place? How can one explain the thrill of harnessing the wind? How does it feel to be more than 12 miles from shore--that is, in international waters, out of sight of land, and at the mercy of wind and sea?

HMS Sophie

This passage from Master and Commander (O’Brian, p. 69) hits the nail on the head for me.

“Jack took the wheel, and as he did so a last gust from the island staggered the sloop, sending white water along her lee rail, plucking Jack’s hat from his head and streaming his bright yellow hair away to the south-south-west...

“Jack let her pay off until the flurry was over, and then, as he began to bring her back, his hands strong on the spokes, so he came into direct contact with the living essence of the sloop: the vibration beneath his palm, something between a sound and a flow, came straight up from her rudder, and it joined with the innumerable rhythms, the creak and humming of her hull and rigging. The keen clear wind swept in on his left cheek, and as he bore on the helm, so the Sophie answered, quicker and more nervous than he had expected. Closer and closer to the wind....”

O’Brian, P. (1970). Master and Commander. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. Courtesy of the Library of Robert L. Bateman, III, LTC (Ret), US Army, and Skipper of s/v Nelson's Wake.

Mariae lembi nostri duci et magistrae do dedico