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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Happy ending of a decade! Hope this next one is better for everyone
than the last one!
YIPPEEE!

Now That's a REAL Two Thousand Ten Post! Yay!

Happy New Year, Bordenites! Wishes for peace and prosperity to all in 2010!

Best Regards, Cynthia

Don't we have one more year left of this decade? Isn't 2010 the tenth year?

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but I'm sure this year will be worse than 2009, unfortunately. Every year has been.

-1bigsteve (o:

Woot. Repeat.

Steve, I'm not sure how the count works. On the one hand, we could say we started the count with 0 rather than with 1 (2000-2009 inclusive=10 years). However, that would imply that there was once a year 0, which I've never seen a reference to. If the decade starts with 2001, then 2011 would begin a new decade also. I guess it's just easier to think in terms of even numbered beginnings.

We never count to ten by going 0-9. The FIRST decade was 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

The current decade, the first one of the Twenty-first Century, is 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.

Happy New Year.

I agree, it makes more sense to begin the decades with 2001 and 2011. The only difficulty would be in recognizing 1950 as part of the '40s and 1960 as part of the '50s, etc. People tend to think of 1950 as part of the '50s decade, however incorrect it may be.

I just happened to think of an interesting correlation. Is 12 midnight part of the previous or the subsequent day? The terms am, ante meridiem, and pm, post meridiem, refer to 12 noon as a reference point and noon used to be referred to as 12:00 m, or 12 meridiem, indicating mid-day. It is neither before noon nor after noon, it is the reference point. 12 midnight presents the same circumstance, it refers to neither the previous nor the subsequent day, just the separation between the two. The same dilemma exists with a 24 hour clock with 2400 and 0000 hours being the same, one or the other is incorrect, and if I remember correctly, there is no 2400 reference, only 0000.

Don't ask me about midnight.

On the original topic, though, I've got something like a thirty post debate going on facebook, mostly with my brother and my brother-in-law.

There are two separate ways we name decades and they are different.

People call 1950-1959 "the '50s" and that is correct, by that particular method of naming. HOWEVER, the sixth decade of the 20th Century was really 1951-1960. That's also correct.

People can't wrap their heads around the fact that we have two different methods, BOTH of which are correct.

One analogy to a decade being from 2001 through 2010 is the convention used in stating a person's age. We are not 1 year old until our first birthday, and until then we are some number of months old. We are two years old when we have completed two full years and until then we are 1 year old. We become ten years old after the completion of ten years, not at the beginning of our tenth year.

It takes all types.

If it did not, some of us would be bored to death.

To me the new year is like getting a new puppy.

A very promising gift.

The puppy grows up, and before 366 days are over and the year still a puppy, the puppy dies. Kaput!

But, as always, someone brings you a new puppy. Everyone rejoices.

And before long the entire process plays over.

Another new puppy.

And as much as we happly rejoice in its arrival, the conclusion is inevitably the same.

But, all is not lost.

The secret is in keeping your tail waging.

Your nose cold, and try not drinking to much out of the toilet.

So, let us clasp firm the little chrome handle, flush the old, take drink and welcome Fido 2010.

But, don't bond to him to much....

Kat @ Thu Dec 31, 2009 11:54 pm wrote:HAPPY NEW YEAR! Happy ending of a decade! Hope this next one is better for everyone
than the last one!
YIPPEEE!

He-he-he- I knew that phrasing would get you guys! I know my Bordenites!
We'll discuss anything- always interested and curious!

Personally, I am one to go around bothering folks saying things like "It's not the 21st century until 2001."
In my mind, it's not a new decade until 2011, but we are entering the last year of the first decade of the 21st century.

On a similar note, most people still pronounce 2010 as two thousand ten but the correct pronunciation is twenty ten. I am sure Lizzie and her contemporaries didn't call 1910 one thousand nine hundred and ten.

I like that! Good point

What did we call 2009, tho?
I called it two-thousand-nine, or just "o-nine" but not twenty-o-nine.

I've been calling 2010 just "0-one-O" or "o-ten."

Well, looking over 2010, it wasn't so hot...but I'm not complaining.
But my best friend wound up in the hospital with dire trouble.
Doing better now.

Lately: I have been laid-off my job (along with 50 others), my car's been broken and my 18yr old cat is very ill...

The car diagnosis is not too bad now, it can wait on the repair; the cat's face was lanced and drained from an abscess today; and I will be paid 2 more times without having to go to work- so I say I am blessed!

It does come in droves, falls by the skyful-- just hope your health is good, so you can fight back! And, if you are in good health, you are blessed.

Know it will be beyond difficult to let go of your beloved pet.

Back to Sylvia Browne-- she often repeats that, when we cross over, "If you have ever loved an animal, that pet will be there to greet you, before any of your human loved ones."

According to Sylvia, The Other Side is teeming with pets!

I call that Heaven.

That's sweet!

Poor kitty...mine's at the vets again too..rechecking his blood sugar levels from his new diabetes. The good news is that he has regained 1lb. since being on insulin.


Enjoy your time off from your job...Keep in touch with them. Holiday Shopping Season is coming...they'll probably be taking some employees back through the New Year.

The good news is we get to hear from you more again on the Forum!

Aren't you nice, Cynthia!

You & your poor kitty! Because I know what you both will be going thru with his diabetes! His ailment will last you the rest of his life! And Humalin is 'spensive, Lucy! Oh that's right! You are a nurse!

He's on Lantus...$129.99 a vial. Steeeve has his own discount card for prescriptions at Walgreens.

He might be getting credit card offers in the mail, next!
Wow! You can tell how long it's been since I had a cat that needed insulin shots! One Hundred Thirty Dollars, Indeed!

Oh, PS: My old company is taking me on again, in a different division- paid training hopefully starting November 15th!
And my old "Ah-So" is much much better! The old girl ate up a storm even when she was sick with 104 degree temperature!
She's a hardy girl!