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It was a day of gift giving and celebrating on this global day of family and friend gatherings.

Santo Pedro and his eight flying buffalo delivered all of the Equimas gifts as promised, except for the ones he couldn't do such as presents for people who program cookie-cutter predictable formats on the radio stations.

Most of the radio stations played Equimas music all day long and most of Equimas Eve. A few stations decided to play heavy metal acts such as all-Metallica or all-AC/DC music for 24 to 30 hours.

TV stations were showing Equimas classic specials such as A Charlie Brown Equimas, Santo Pedro is Coming to Town, Bosco the Burro, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Buffalo, How The Grinch Stole Equimas, and a brand new special: An Ana Tijuana Christmas.

Speaking of TV and radio, I'll bet you that everybody in the United Realms of America and even Mehicle has received all new digital radios and TV sets that can pick up the new digital signals that are required. After 11:59pm on New Year's Eve (Blue 30th), all analog signals in the two countries are shut off forever.

On this day of Equimas, everybody took the day off. I and my folks in El Zona also had a welcome break and are anticipating flying over to Atlantica Island for the week to check out the Starship Enterprise ship that Santo Pedro delivered early Equimas Day. We're not sure if it's from the future and it's filled with Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Uhura, Chekov, Sulu, or any of the Lieutenants. I'm positive that Santo Pedro has the ability to talk into the future and get some people to deliver stuff from the future. We'll see what it is tomorrow.

Is it a coincidence that Equimas Day falls on the first day of the college basketball playoffs? I checked out some of the 4,096 games that were on over a hundred satellite channels that were showing the college basketball games. There were 8,192 teams competeting for the title. It was Vernalmas Madness! The most interesting was this battle between the Kentucky University North Texas vs. Fresno University California Knowledge. The fans were rooting for the teams by spelling out the initials of the colleges battling each other. It was a laugh riot. I can't spell them out here. I can't figure out what's a Kentucky University is doing in another state. Seems that all over the dial, there were colleges from another state having campuses in a state other than what their name implies. This is like the California Angels of Los Angeles, or is it the Anaheim Angels of California, or Los Angeles Angels of Califorina. I can't keep the names straight. No wonder sports is confusing.

Since this and next week are the Vernalmas vacation weeks, people can watch all of the Thursday and Friday early round college hoops games.

Later on, we had a great Equimas turkey feast. We ate just about everything imaginable. Yams. Stuffing. Pumpkin pie. Cranberries. Even the turkey. We gobbled it all up.

The difference between the two big holidays are stark. Equimas Day falls in the middle of someone else's Lent days, which doesn't make sense to have Lent when Spring is beginning. Christmas on the Gregorian calendar falls on the first days of Winter, which is El Zonian's own days of Lent, or Hibernation Months, which begins on Purple 1st and ends on Indigo 30th.

Christmas Day falls on what is the equivilant of Purple 2nd (Purple 3rd on Leap Years), except here it's simply called Jesus Christ Day, which is a small nonholiday commeration of the birth of Jesus Christ as celebrated by several religions. People quietly exchange gifts on this day, but there are no commercialized ads, no decorations, no carols, no cards, nothing in excess. Jesus Christ Day is simply a quiet day, like many other days that celebrate the birth of a founder of a religious movement or a symbol of a religion.

The Lent Days in the months of Purple and Indigo occur only on Mondays-Fridays. The weekends are break days. This is a time when people give up something for two months to test their willpower against temptations such as chocolate, smoking, etc.

El Zona did have an incident on Jesus Christ Day a few months ago when a visitor from the real world came from here somehow and was wondering why there were no decorations and everybody was working. People kept telling him that this isn't a holiday, but the person kept insisting that it was a big holiday. The people looked at him like he was a complete fool for thinking that Equimas fell in their December and vacation time fell in the first weeks of winter. We told him that Equimas was three months away and we would be celebrating the big day when it comes in their March. The visitor got mad and demanded that people take the day off and celebrate. The people kept telling him that there was nothing to celebrate as there were no holidays in the months of Purple and Indigo. The visitor wanted to celebrate so bad that he started throwing food at the people for working. The people got mad at him and threw drinks and food back at him. The visitor began throwing fist fights. The people took him down until the police could arrive and arrest him. Later, they determined that the visitor was insane for thinking that Equimas fell three months early, but he kept calling it Christmas. They committed the visitor to the San Rubio Happy Home, put him in a straitjacket, and into a padded cell. This is where they keep all of the wayward loonies who insist that there are holidays where they don't exist or to celebrate things that not everybody can celebrate at once.

There are also some loonies who kept arguing that Easter should fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of Spring. The rule got so confusing and unpredictable that for years, the Milliean Calendar left out the Easter holiday, which is officially called Jesus Christ Rebirth Day. The day falls on the third Sunday in Aqua every year. This brings some sanity to an insane world.

Maybe one of these days, I'll create a section on the web that converts Gregorian dates to Milliean dates. So much of it remains in confusion. Both calendars differ on what day to celebrate other holidays such as Labor Day, Mothers Day, Fathers Day, etc. Some holidays such as Valentine's Day exist as Lovers Day in the middle of spring. Thanksgiving Day falls in the equivilant of October in Gregorian. Presidents Day falls in the equivilant of August in Gregorian. The differences go on and on.

There are also holidays that exist in Milliean that don't have the equivilant in Gregorian, though holidays such as Talk Like a Pirate Day are almost as popular in Milliean as it is in Gregorian, but Witches Day (formerly TV Witches Day, formerly Sabrina the Teenage Witch Day) falls in the Friday before Gregorian Halloween Day, but not on Gregorian Halloween; a twist is that it's barely existant in the Gregorian calendar.

There's Universe day, which falls on Gregorian calendar date of April 26 every year. The twist is that it doesn't exist in Gregorian, but Millieans celebrate it on the equivilant of April 26 on whichever of the two dates it falls on.

Enough with the holidays for now.

I also spent some of the time watching some of the game shows that are on all over the broadcast dial. A rock and roll game show has been launched: Dio or No Dio. Another one forces to get things wrong on The Price Is Wrong. There's one for people in debt called Who Wants to Be Out of Debt. Here's one: Oprah's Big Lose, where people get whatever Oprah loses. Another one: 1 vs. 1,000,000, where one contestant battles a million contestants at once. And one more that's destined to be a classic: Sphere of Fortune, where people roll a 3-D sphere to win prizes.

That's it for today. Cya tomorrow.

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