INTERESTING: Here’s a factoid that must have some rational explanation?

Thursday, January 23, 2025
https://www.newsmax.com/health/health-news/mortality-death-birthday/2024/04/12/id/1160815/
 
Why You Are More Likely to Die on Your Birthday
By Lynn C. Allison | Friday, 12 April 2024 05:12 PM EDT 
 
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The most common theory behind the birthday and death association is that a little too much celebrating may be going on that involves alcohol, says The Guardian. There is also the possibility that terminally ill people view birthdays as survival milestones and tend to pass on the day on either side of it.
 
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Laugh! 
 
Some things are just inexplicable.
 
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“What you do on your birthday you do all year long.”  — Anonymous old proverb
 
Never figured out what that meant.  Does it mean, literally, what ever you do on your birthday, you’ll repeat it over and over again like the movie “Groundhog’s Day”.  Or, maybe that your attitude on your birthday, will carry on through the year.  Or something else.
 
For me, that annual day of introspection leads me to think of the things I wanna change.  Life choices?
 
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PRODUCTIVITY: Drainers

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

http://eblingroup.com/2013/01/how-to-get-rid-of-the-things-that-drain-you.html

A humorous exercise. For me it’s clutter, and birthday / holidays / anniversaries! Drains my battery to zero in nothing flat.

This recent Christmas, I screwed up sending money to the “children”. I had a budget, took out the requisite cash, filled envelopes, and sent them out in three waves. And, discovered I had an odd amount left over. So I took it and went to the American Legion to ponder what to do. That eliminated the problem. Bottom line: no one got an empty envelope, so in that sense, no reportable problem. Further, since it was “found money” for the receivers, no one knew I screwed up. Next year, I’m using Paytrust my bill payment service. Nice an impersonal and un screw up able. Everyone will be happy! And it won’t “drain my battery”.

I’m also scanning all loose paper into Evernote and / or Dropbox. By sometime next year, all my paper will be electrons somewhere in the cloud. No clutter to distract and drain me.

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