Hey, Good Lookin' - Don't Cry! Enjoy Your Citizenship with Some Free Queso!

It's September 17th, and we all know what that means!

According to Checkiday.com, the one-stop source for discovering what holiday(s) today is, it's Free Queso Day!! Yes!!  

"Salsa and chips are always free at Moe's Southwest Grill, but queso—or "liquid white gold," as they call it—is also free today. Why? Because it's Free Queso Day! Each year on the day, Moe's gives out a free six-ounce cup of their queso as a way to thank their loyal customers."  But, uh... after checking Moe's website... this may not be happening in 2020. No mention. Frickin' COVID.

Also, less popularly among Americans, it's Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. Today "commemorates the formation and signing on September 17, 1787, of the Constitution and recognize all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens." Be a proud American. Harder than it should be nowadays, isn't it?

So use that freedom to eat... A French sandwich. The Croque-Monsieur, otherwise known as the Monte Cristo. Because it's National Monte Cristo Day!!  

I do love a Monte Cristo, especially the one at The Dubliner draped in hollandaise. Good and good for you. It says this holiday was founded by Bennigan's in June 2015, and I'm thinking what you're thinking: Bennigan's was still around in 2015??

How does one top off a big French sandwich and some queso? Here's a hint: it's National Apple Dumpling Day!!  Woo hoo!!  "As the weather is starting to change, apples are ripening on trees, and people are starting to spend more time baking in their kitchens. This day brings both of those things together, and celebrates the apple dumpling." Alrighty then.

After eating all that, you will need it to be World Patient Safety Day -- and it is!! This was founded by the World Health Organization in May 2019. A year and a half later, they're a bit too busy to be making silly new holidays. They'll have to call you back.

Yeah, COVID's a mess. But you know what helps out a mess? National Professional House Cleaners Day!!  All right! I'm serious when I say that my professional house cleaner (my cleaning lady Ashley) is at my house right now doing her thang... making a livable situation out of my messy place. Here's to her. Had I know, I'd have gotten her a card.

And what you probably already knew was that today is National Table Shuffleboard Day!! Yeah, baby! And that's all I have to say about that.

Who was born on this day, you ask? Well, think triangles!!  As in the Triangle Offense, the triangle in the Permian backfield, and the world's most famous sexily awkward triangular living situation!  Yes, Phil Jackson, Kyle Chandler, and the late, super-great John Ritter were all born on September 17. What do Alex Ovechkin, Pope Paul V, and Ken Kesey have in common? Yep. And Patrick Mahomes, Warren Burger, Rasheed Wallace, Bentley from "The Jeffersons," Orlando Cepeda, Roddy McDowall, and a lot of people you don't know or know of.

What happened on this day in history, you ask? Don't ask. It's pretty bleak and horrible all around, according to the History Channel's page. When the nicest, most violence-and-controversy-free thing is that Oprah's Book Club was formed today in 1996, you move on.

Musically, you only need to know three names on September 17. And here they are. Happy Birthday, Hank, Doug, and Fee.

Also, on this date in 1991, Use Your Illusion I & II were released. One week before the greatest album release trifecta of our era. I'm kind of glad Axl didn't weasel his way into that day.  But here's a back-story-filled bit about UYI.

And finally, there's one last holiday today. It's Time's Up Day!!!!

Huh?

Well, it says that "Time's Up Day is a day when people tell themselves that time is up when it comes to deciding if they should make up with someone who they've had a falling out with. Tomorrow someone may be gone and it will be too late. Time's up! The time for repairing relationships is today!"

Sounds good to me. 

Dave, I'm sorry I said I was the true heart of Random Idiots and told you to sod off. If I was the heart, you were the brain, and neither could exist without the other. No hard feelings?

Enjoy the day, people.