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January 29, 2015

Puzzle Day
The Puzzle: the history, the types, the topics.
Part of brain health is keeping it active with things like puzzles. 
Are you a puzzle person? What kind of puzzle, or I guess I should ask what topic of puzzle?
I am not a great puzzle person but I recognize the value of them for my brain so I work a few different topics of puzzles here and there.

Corn Chip Day
Bring on the Fritos!

Freethinkers Day
The movement of freethought
What do Freethinkers believe, or rather not believe? 

Curmudgeons Day
cur·mudg·eon
kərˈməjən
noun
plural noun: curmudgeons
a bad-tempered or surly person.

The Most Beloved Grumps in TV History
The 10 Grumpiest Living Writers

When I hear or see the word 'curmudgeon' I always think of this guy...

Walter Matthau.  He's played a lot of different types of characters but he plays a grumpy old man so well that it's the only way I think of him!
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