Christmas: the one time of year when you can't avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
Christmas: the one time of year when you can't avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
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December 6
Established 2015. Celebrating Our Tenth Year of Publication
A local business is looking for office help. They put a sign in the window saying, "HELP WANTED. Must be able to type, must be good with a computer, and must be bilingual. We are an equal opportunity employer."
A short time afterward, a dog trots up to the window, sees the sign, and goes inside. He looks at the receptionist and wags his tail, then walks over to the sign, looks at it, and whines. Getting the idea, the receptionist gets the office manager. The office manager looks at the dog and he's surprised to say the least. However, the dog looks determined, so he leads him into the office.
Inside, the dog jumps up on the chair and stares at the manager. The manager says, "I can't hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type."
The dog jumps down, goes to the typewriter, and proceeds to type out a perfect letter. He takes out the page, trots over to the manager, and gives it to him, then jumps back on the chair. The manager is stunned, but then he tells the dog, "You have to be good with a computer." The dog jumps down again and goes to the computer. The dog proceeds to demonstrate his expertise with various programs. He produces a sample spreadsheet and database and then presents them to the manager.
By this time, the manager is totally dumbfounded. He looks at the dog and says, "I realize that you're a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I still can't give you the job."
The dog jumps down and goes over to the help wanted sign, then puts his paw on the part about being an equal opportunity employer. The manager says, "Yeah, but the sign also says that you have to be bilingual."
The dog looks at him straight in the face and says, "Meow, meow."
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1240 - Mongols led by Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kyiv after an eight-day siege; out of 50,000 people in the city, only 2,000 survive.
1864 - Aluminum capstone is set atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., making it the tallest man-made structure in the world, overtaking Cologne Cathedral.
1865 - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery except as a punishment for crime where the party has been duly convicted.
1877 - Thomas Edison enters the offices of Scientific American and turns the crank on his cylinder phonograph, astonishing those present by having it say, "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the phonograph?".
1921 - Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed; Ireland receives dominion status; partition creates Northern Ireland.
1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela.
2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor that suggest the presence of liquid water on Mars.
1955: I don't know what to get him for his birthday, cuz he already has a pony. Veteran comedian Steven Wright has a birthday today..
National Gazpacho Day - Better not tell Marjam about this or she'll call out the Gazpacho Police on you!!

I started writing The Digest in the third quarter of 2015. I was filling in as temporary General Manager until we could find a permanent one to take over the leadership of the store. I had some time on my hands and was kicking around how to fill it when I remembered an idea I saw in a hotel in Winslow, Az. called La Posada. (Wonderful hotel BTW) In the lobby, they had a chalk board and on it was some simple trivia that happened on that day as well as the weather forecast of sunny, hot, cold rainy or whatever the day was going to bring. I stole some of those ideas and came up with the WNTS Digest. As I was temporarily living at the time in Why, I would spend some time each morning putting together those trivia facts, weather, a cute Pet Picture of the Day from Freekibble.com and an ad hoc picture of something I talked about in the Digest. I would then print the two pages out and tack it to our Bulletin Board in front of the store. The two pictures to the left are from a copy of the Digest that was published in or around February 2016. Eventually we found a permanent GM and I went back to my home in Northern California. A few months later, I was asked to stand up a website for the store and because I didn’t need to be at the site, I was able to do my work in California. When designing the site, I wanted to incorporate the concepts of The Digest. It had paused publication when I moved and here was an opportunity to bring it back in electronic form.

So, over the years, I made a few changes to the format, but it still has the basic constructs I started out with. The ‘Weather’ report is now the 'Current Weather' and is displayed as a widget on both the Home Page and The Digest. We kept Today in History, Born on this Day, Today is (national quirky holidays), moved Pet Picture of the Day to its’ own page, which later became a contest for Pet of the Month. The static graphic that referenced something in The Digest became “Why Nutts!!” and transitioned into a YouTube related video to something I referenced in The Digest. We added a ‘Quote of the Day’ but transitioned that into ‘Joke of the Day’ after I felt that the quotes were getting to bizarre, even for me.
And that is how we got here and looking for the next ten years!!
- Digester