Some of this appeared in a 2011 post. It seems appropriate to bring it back up today.
Word has it that legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau and his crew discovered a sunken ship from ancient Greece. Among the artifacts brought up was a bottle of wine. Cousteau opened the bottle and took a good swig. He immediately spat it out, exclaiming with Gallic aplomb, "That was a bad century!"
Another story: some years ago, a radio announcer said this about the Chicago Cubs (who had been doing poorly): "Any team can have a bad century... but now they're having another one."
I mention these things again because I do appear to be having not just a bad day (it didn't go well .. again), a bad week (last week was decent, but unfortunately, this week, not so much), a bad month (it's July: the heat and everything else slows me down), a bad year (I'll blame the coronavirus and GVRAT), but a bad millennium. Keen observers will note that I skipped 'century'. Sorry.
Maybe I should just give up and wait till the next millennium rolls around.
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