Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 4, 2026 0



Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of January 4, 2026

January 4, 2026

Racket – Illegal scheme to make money

January 5, 2026

Upsell – To persuade a customer to buy a more expensive product

January 6, 2026

Fungible – Replaceable with another of the same type

January 7, 2026

Usury – Charging exorbitant interest

January 8, 2026

Oligopoly – When few dominate a market

January 9, 2026

Blue-sky thinking – Visionary ideas that are not practical

January 10, 2026

Conundrum – Problem


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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of January 4, 2026

January 4, 2026

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.

January 5, 2026

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject.

January 6, 2026

Many find that things can be done in a day if they don’t always make that day tomorrow.

January 7, 2026

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

January 8, 2026

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

January 9, 2026

Take your work seriously but yourself lightly.

January 10, 2026

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of January 4, 2026

January 4, 2026

“The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.” – Twain
January 5, 2026

“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.” – Chesterton

January 6, 2026

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” – Vonnegut

January 7, 2026

“Every form of addiction is bad no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” – Jung

January 8, 2026

“First learn the meaning of what you say, then speak.” – Epictetus

January 9, 2026

“If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?” – Wright

January 10, 2026

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” – Lewis


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of December 28, 2025

December 28, 2025

“The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.” – Voltaire
December 29, 2025
“We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.” – King

December 30, 2025

“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.” – Nietzsche

December 31, 2025

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” – Aristotle

January 1, 2026
“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.” – Wilde

January 2, 2026
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” – Wright

January 3, 2026

“All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridicules. Secondly it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self evident.” – Schopenhauer


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So, Let’s consider: Not accepting being short changed! 0



So, Let’s consider: Not accepting being short changed!

Well, guess what. Now that Trump has stopped minting pennies, SUDDENLY vendors don’t have the coinage to give us all the proper change for our transaction. Suddenly, for some reason, they don’t have any more pennies and claim they can’t find them. And to add further insult to injury, they’re all expecting US to EAT the difference and ACCEPT BEING SHORT CHANGED!

I’m calling BULLSHIT on this!

Twice in the last week I’ve had vendors tell me that they’re intentionally NOT giving me the correct change because they don’t have any pennies and they’re expecting ME to willfully accept their new business practice of having ME eat the difference. “We don’t want to take the loss” or “It’s only a couple cents” … Right! THEN YOU PAY IT! Frankly, they’ve made more than “a couple of cents on the transaction to begin with!!

First if was Burger King (Exit 11, I-75 in TN) then today it was Mapco (Exit 7, I-75 in TN). When I refused to accept their inability to provide change and insisted that THEY round the change up to the next NICKEL, directly told me where to go, how to get there and what to do when I got there!

I REFUSE to eat the difference and I would heavily encourage you to refuse to eat the difference as well! There’s plenty of pennies out there and always has been! It’s not our job to increase any vendors profit margin just because they refuse to provide correct change.

I REFUSE to be short changed because of their inept business procedures. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Businesses can plan on ROUNDING UP my change to the next nickel if they don’t want to keep proper coinage available and YOU SHOULD INSIST ON THIS AS WELL!

If they want to call the cops, GO FOR IT, my vehicle isn’t leaving the line until I get my change! I have plenty of reading material with me at all times, so that’s not a problem for me!

It’s not my job to artificially bolster your profit margin. It’s their job to not intentionally short change me! Frankly, it’s called THEFT!

I’m Don Rima and that’s the view From Where I Stand.


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Word(s) Of The Day – For The Week Of December 21, 2025

December 21, 2025

Selenography – Lunar mapping

December 22, 2025

Moonstruck – Distracted by romantic love

December 23, 2025

Perigee – Closest point to earth in a moon’s orbit

December 24, 2025

Waxing – Increasing in size or intensity

December 25, 2025

Omen – An event interpreted as predicting good or evil

December 26, 2025

Soporific – Sleep inducing

December 27, 2025

Gibbous – With more than a half-circle but a full circle illuminated


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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of December 28, 2025

December 28, 2025

The reason a dog has so many friends is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue

December 29, 2025

Your words may hide your thoughts, but your actions will reveal them.

December 30, 2025

It is better to remain silent and appear dumb than to speak and remove all doubt.

December 31, 2025

The secret to being a saint is being a saint in secret.

January 1, 2026

Great is the man who can adjust to a set of circumstances without surrendering his convictions.

January 2, 2026

An easy conscience makes for a soft pillow.

January 3, 2026

Revenge is the sword that wounds the one that wields it.


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Quote(s) Of The Day – For the week of December 21, 2025

December 21, 2025

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Wilde
December 22, 2025

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” – Goethe
December 23, 2025

“A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.” – Gracian

December 24, 2025

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” – Voltaire

December 25, 2025

“Let each thing you would do, say or intend, be like that of a dying person.” – Aurelius
December 26, 2025
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.” – Wright

December 27, 2025
“Work keeps us from three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.” – VOltaire


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December 7, 2025

Nocturnal – Active at night

December 8, 2025

Apiarist – Beekeeper

December 9, 2025

Larva – Immature

December 10, 2025

Metamorphosis – The transformation from one form to another – ie, larva to adult

December 11, 2025

Sericulture – Silkworm farming

December 12, 2025

Histamine – A compound release during inflammatory reactions

December 13, 2025

Empyrean – Concerning the sky or heaven


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Thought(s) Of The Day – For the Week of December 14, 2025

December 14, 2025

You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things once in a while; you do them right all the time.

December 15, 2025

Life’s battles don’t always go to the faster or stronger person. The person who wins is the person who thinks they can.

December 16, 2025

With each choice you make, you create your life.

December 17, 2025

If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.

December 18, 2025

Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.

December 19, 2025

Never put off until tomorrow aht you can do today. If you wait until tomorrow, they will probably have passed a law prohibiting it.

December 20, 2025

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.


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