Ask Wednesday: Ask Susan

Susan's simple answers

By Susan C. Price

Ok, we’ve expanded this column to include pieces in which readers ask questions and one of us answers them. Susan, daydreaming of herself as “wise” (perhaps due to advanced age), thought this would be splendid. (“What the heck! Dear Abby is gone…clearly there is a gap!”) She envisioned questions about...oh, relationships, personal finance or organization, modern manners, being kind...why some of us cannot grow tomatoes to save our lives...etc.
    Maybe next time. Our chief editor suggested that Susan answer the same question he was asked last week—in her style…“to illustrate the point that answers depend on of WHOM a question is asked.”
    We really would like some FUN QUESTIONS to answer, though, so send ’em in….

Anyway, it seems that last week’s question was “How can I know the day of the week a date falls on?”
    The answer is pretty simple:

1. Look at a calendar!
2. Or, search the web...There will always be years of calendars available if what you wanted to know is “Will my 100th birthday fall on a weekend so that everyone can come to the party?”

Now, with the question and the answer out of the way, all that follows is commentary. And, as usual, it’s worth what you are paying for it.
    All persons not living alone in caves should maintain at least one current calendar.

1. Commercial calendars (either printed, with cute kittens or sexy females, or the “app” kind, available on your smart phone) usually list all the standard holidays. One can download special religious holiday additions.
2. The online/app calendars have a distinct advantage. If you are listing an annual or any repeating event, you can set the calendar to make that entry for you...every time, so you need never fear forgetting someone’s birthday. Ahem.
3. Your calendar should be established when you acquire it, with engagements (or lack thereof) and IMPORTANT FRIENDS AND FAMILY DATES—SUCH AS BIRTHDAYS. (Yes, there is a reason i am yelling, as i find some men can only hear me when i yell and i know a few who claim that the remembering of such things is “women’s/wives’” work. Harrumph! does not begin to express…oh...moving on.)
4. Susan has found the keeping and management of calendars to be even more intensive, now that she and hers are both retired, the work week is long gone, and all plans keep moving.
       “Wait, you are on jury duty, so i will have to buy dinner for the kids on Monday, as you can’t make it out to cook for them.”
       “Oh, your cello teacher moved your lesson to Friday, that screws up our plan to shop at IKEA? Do we really want to face IKEA on the weekend, when everyone goes there?”
       “If I have to drive you to your eyelid surgery on Tuesday, and it is scheduled for 10 am, that means I have to go gym workout early, and we can’t stay out late at a dinner on Monday.”
       Etc. ad nauseum.

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