Mistral Dawn's Musings: #Agent Thoth's #Personal Log: Day 1063

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

#Agent Thoth's #Personal Log: Day 1063

Hey Everyone! :-)

Happy New Year!!! :-) Agent Thoth is back, today, to discuss more of the trials and tribulations associated with living with hominids. Incidentally, if you've missed Agent Thoth's earlier entries, you can find them here: Thoth's Journal

Department for the Preservation and Confirmation of Intelligent Life (DPCIL)

Agent Thoth's Personal Log

Day One-Thousand-Sixty-Three:

My hominid-servant has informed me that today marks the beginning of a new year. What criteria she is basing this assertion on escapes me, as there is no astronomical significance to this date. It is not the point at which this planet passes the portion of its elliptical revolution around the nearest star that, combined with the planetary tilt, results in the fewest number of hours during which this portion of the planet is exposed to direct rays from that star. That demarcation occurred a number of planetary rotations ago, but not nearly enough for this to be the halfway point between when this segment of the planet experiences the shortest amount of time facing the start and the point when it experiences the longest amount of time facing the star in a given planetary rotation.

Of note, it has also been far too cold for far too long at these geographic coordinates for this to mark the end of a period of harvest for local crops. And it remains far too cold to mark the beginning of planting of new crops. So I must conclude that this is another example of hominid irrationality, and they have simply picked this date at random to celebrate, as my hominid-servant puts it, a “new start.” Though why hominids believe any demarcation of time, astronomically based or not, would lessen the effects of past occurrences on the present is also a mystery to me. But, as I just noted, hominids are pathologically irrational, so it is unsurprising there is no apparent logical foundation for their celebrations.

Ah, well. It's still a good excuse for a party, right? ;-) You may have noticed that Agent Thoth has a new look. I hope you like his new picture as much as I do, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, either way. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments. ;-) Happy reading, everyone!