{"id":24071,"date":"2020-05-21T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=24071"},"modified":"2020-05-15T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T16:46:04","slug":"on-this-day-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/21\/on-this-day-may-21\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day: May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I&#8217;m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>15<\/strong> posts previously published on May 21st<\/p><ul class=\"todaypost\"><li><strong>2023<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/21\/%f0%9f%93%9a-apocalypse-girl-dreaming-by-jennifer-brozek\/\">&#x1f4da; Apocalypse Girl Dreaming by Jennifer Brozek<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">My favorite was a stand-alone story set in Seattle, playing with the 'Pigs on Parade' statues that went up around the city in the early 2000s. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/21\/%f0%9f%93%9a-apocalypse-girl-dreaming-by-jennifer-brozek\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/21\/year-50-day-19\/\">Year 50 Day 19<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">A nice morning working in the backyard and getting it prepped for summer. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/05\/21\/year-50-day-19\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2020<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/21\/on-this-day-may-21\/\">On This Day: May 21<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from May 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2020\/05\/21\/on-this-day-may-21\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2018<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/12222\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Here&#8217;s a nice collection of photos from the Kilauea eruption going on right now. Gorgeous and awesome \u2014\u00a0in its formal \u201cextremely impressive or daunting; inspiring great admiration, apprehension, or fear\u201d meaning. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/12222\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/the-coup-has-already-happened\/\">The Coup Has Already Happened<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Sad to say, this sounds about right to me: The coup has already happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/the-coup-has-already-happened\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/12217\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I know a lot of people are allergic, and I&#8217;m sorry about that, but I have to admit to really getting a kick out of the cottonwood &#8220;snowstorm&#8221; going on right now. That stuff is everywhere! <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/05\/21\/12217\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2017<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/21\/21181\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Family game night? #lego #starwars #milleniumfalcon #hansolo #chewbacca #bb8 #rey #finn <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2017\/05\/21\/21181\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2016<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/21\/19611\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Getting my rocks off in our front driveway this morning. ;) We moved about three tons of rock to cover what used to be a scraggly dead patch of our backyard, and managed to get it done before lunch! And now, the collapsing. (142\/366) <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2016\/05\/21\/19611\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2014<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/21\/17779\/\"><\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">There are probably people out there to whom this looks more familiar than my actual face. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2014\/05\/21\/17779\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2004<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/21\/six-of-one-half-dozen-of-another\/\">Six of one, half dozen of another<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">One year in prison and a bad conduct discharge. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/21\/six-of-one-half-dozen-of-another\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2003<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/21\/buttonmania\/\">Buttonmania!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've reworked my sidebar a bit, using buttons I found on Steal These Buttons, via this MeFi post. Hopefully it's not too much &mdash; I haven't seen it yet, so I'll find out after this post goes up. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/21\/buttonmania\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/21\/navigation-left-or-right\/\">Navigation &#8211; left or right?<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I had the standard left-justified navigation for a while, and at one point had a three column layout with sidebars on both sides of the page, but in one of my redesigns I decided to go with the current right-justified navigation, and plan on sticking with it.I had the standard left-justified navigation for a while, and at one point had a three column layout with sidebars on both sides of the page, but in one of my redesigns I decided to go with the current right-justified navigation, and plan on sticking with it. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/21\/navigation-left-or-right\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2002<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/birthday-presents\/\">Birthday presents!<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">I've got some very silly parents. I'm sure that this is just an entirely mindblowing revelation, for anyone who knows me well, or has met them. I got my first box of birthday presents from them a couple days ago. Two items, both of which made me laugh a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/birthday-presents\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/why-i-dont-give-my-phone-number-to-people-who-fry-anymore\/\">Why I don&#8217;t give my phone number to people who fry anymore.<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">The only reason Mikhail Gorbachov would be the 7-11 buying a pack of smokes at 3:45 in the morning is beause you dropped five hits of acid at midnight and have in fact seen Willy tryin' to hold up the store again. <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/21\/why-i-dont-give-my-phone-number-to-people-who-fry-anymore\/\">&#x27A1;<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>2001<\/strong><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/05\/21\/back-to-the-usual\/\">Back to the usual<\/a> <span class=\"today_excerpt\">Kirsten and Jamie picked me up at the Fairbanks airport, and we headed back to Kirsten's dorm at UAF, where the three of us stayed up talking and bs'ing until way too early in the morning. 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