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I replaced this video in Happy MAR1O Day! Maybe next year.

passerby  left a link to an unofficial upload of this video in a comment. I'm treating it as a suggestion and posting the official upload.

I used another preview image for Emmy wins and nominations for 'Fallout' on Video Games Day.

This is probably the most played music from Final Fantasy, if not all video games, by drum corps.

At his retirement party last month, one of my colleagues asked me if I was going anywhere during break. I told him "nowhere real." When he asked me to explain, I explained "I'm planning on playing a Star Wars video game (Star Wars: The Old Republic) and visiting the worlds of Star Wars."  That's exactly what I did. My break is now over and I'm returning to reality tomorrow.

I could have done this more than a year ago, but my wife, who has been an officer in the same guild for two years, and I decided I should wait until my term as a director for the Coffee Party expired.  That happened on the last day of June, so I started working on becoming an officer in July.

I went off on a tangent in An update on Puerto Rican statehood for Piña Colada Day 2021.

[T]he former guy dislikes Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans enough that he reportedly wanted to swap the island commonwealth for Greenland.*
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*This reminds me of a stunt I pulled in a games of Pax Britannica 30-35 years ago when I played the United Kingdom/Great Britain. I called it "Aristotle is not a Belgian." When Belgium, a minor power that runs by automatic rules, made a move that resulted in a Casus Belli, I would call for a Congress of Europe and propose a deal that would give Belgium the U.K's possessions in Newfoundland and Guiana (if I could convince the French player, France's possession in Guiana as well) along with a codominion in whichever territory Belgium had established a protectorate or possession, usually the Congo. That would get get rid of two low-value colonies for the U.K. and one for France, freeing those counters to be deployed in more high-value territories, and use up all of Belgium's counters for protectorates and possessions, eliminating it as a obstacle to the players who had plans for Africa.

What TFG is alleged to have proposed would not have been possible in Pax Britannica and would have been a stupid deal even if it were. First, Denmark was not one of the minor powers in the game (Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal were) and Greenland was not one of the available territories, so there would be nothing to swap for. Even if it had, I expect Greenland would have had an economic value of 1 or 2, while Puerto Rico, which is in the game, has a value of 5. This would have been a bad economic deal. Then again, if he actually did want to do this, it would have been for irrational reasons. That doesn't surprise me.