Fifth Day of Christmas

Today is the Fifth Day of Christmas.  I’m going to do a short post because I just got home from work, it’s 2127 (9:27 p.m. for you civilians), and I have to get up at 0400 (4:00 a.m.), so I can be at work at 0500 (5:00 a.m.).  In other words it’s late, the night will be short, so I’m not going to write much.  Besides, as far as I know it’s not some obscure holiday today.  If anyone knows differently, please let me know.  And no, I don’t usually get home this late from work or have to go in so early–I’m on duty tonight.  That’s just one of the joys of military life that civilians don’t have to deal with.  When civilians are off from work, they’re off.  But when military members are off of work, they still have duty and other responsibilities.

Happy belated anniversary to my brother Jeff and his wife Betsy.  It was on December 26, and it’s their tenth.  I can’t believe they’ve been married that long!  What I mean is it really doesn’t seem that long at all.  Betsy has a blog called Where the Wild Things Are.  Click here or on the link on the sidebar to go to it.

And speaking of blogs, I found out yesterday, when I was looking through my blog stats, that my brother Nathan has a blog.  It’s called Random Ramblings, and there’s a link in the sidebar for it too.

And now for what we’ve all been waiting for:

On the Fifth Day of Christmas my true love gave to me
Five golden rings**
(Four calling birds*
Three French hens
Two turtledoves
And a partridge in a pear tree.)

* Note: Wikipedia says “calling birds” is a corruption of “colly birds” which are black birds.

** Wikipedia also assures me that golden rings does not refer to “jewelry but to ring-necked birds such as the ring-necked pheasant.”