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March 20, 2026

St. Joseph's Day Video

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

I created and uploaded this video onto my YouTube channel in celebration of St. Joseph's Day today (March 19, 2026). (length: 6 minutes, 44 seconds) ... As per Italian tradition, I am wearing red and eating a St. Joseph's Day zeppola (plural: zeppole). I am half Italian.

Happy St. Joseph's Day (March 19, 2026)

https://youtu.be/xr2K1HDsyNw?si=n4MHVZGZ1q5JjAj3

St. Joseph's Day Selfie

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

Here is a selfie in celebration of St. Joseph's Day today. As per Italian tradition, I am wearing red and eating a St. Joseph's Day zeppola (plural: zeppole), inset photo. I also ate one on March 15, 2026, at an early celebration with my wife and my mom at my mom's nearby home. (I am half Italian.)

I am wearing my red MAGA hat and clutching my months-long companion: my red heart pillow. In March 2022, I had quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery. I was given this pillow after my surgery to clutch whenever I had to sneeze or cough to reduce pain and, I think, to stabilize my broken sternum/breastbone.

I am a lifetime member of Alpha Phi Delta, which is a national, Italian-heritage, social-service fraternity, at colleges and universities in mostly the northeastern section of the United States. I became a member in the early 1980s, when I was studying for my undergraduate degree at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. I was elected as a member of the fraternity's local Executive Board, specifically as Recording Secretary.

This ... In Florida

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

This is a thing here in wacky Florida. Actually, I agree. There isn't any state tax in Florida, so let's do this. 👍

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

I particularly like Chicken Piccata, Chicken Korma, and Chicken Mole.

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

In recent years, I have become rather intimate with many hospital nurses (on a professional basis). I have to say that those (female) nurses from Haiti can be rough.

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

I don't particularly like caramel. Chocolate, I like.

from husband Bill, March 19, 2026, at home

St. Patrick's Day Tradition

from husband Bill, March 17, 2026, at home

Follow me on my longstanding, personal tradition, and then ask yourself, as I do now: Why do I make my life so complicated, especially in regard to the color of my garments?

I am once again following my own six-decades-long, personal tradition of wearing the color purple on St. Patrick's Day today (March 17, 2026). Here is a selfie of myself wearing my favorite St. Paddy's Day shirt. I have been doing this since my age was in single digits in the late 1960s because I am half Italian. (I am also Austrian, Swiss, and Portuguese.)

Purple is the color of the Italians. I am a lifetime member of Alpha Phi Delta, which is a national, Italian-heritage, social-service fraternity, mostly at colleges and universities in the northeastern section of the United States. I became a member in the early 1980s, when I was studying for my undergraduate degree at Villanova University near Philadelphia, and was soon elected as a member of the fraternity's university executive board, specifically as "Recording Secretary." Our fraternity colors are purple and white, with the white carnation as our fraternity flower.

When I started my tradition in the late 1960s, around seven or eight years old, it was slightly before I had discovered that we Italians have our own celebratory day -- St. Joseph's Day -- which is two days later on March 19.

After all of these decades, I continue to keep my purple tradition alive, as you can see in this selfie from today.

However, we Italians wear red on St. Joseph's Day, which I will be doing in two days.

As an aside, do not wear the color orange on St. Patrick's Day, that is, unless you want to offend the Irish Catholics. Orange is the color of the Protestants. And, of course, wearing green on either day was never an option for me due to my contrarian nature.

Pizza

My wonderful wife made this pizza this evening, using the homemade tomato sauce that we made together on March 15, 2026.

March 18, 2026, at home

Today Is ...

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

I do have a slight connection to biodiesel fuel. From 1992 to 1996, I was a reporter, writer, editor, and researcher for a weekly, international magazine on the financial and technical aspects of the chemical industry. We were based in New York City.

I have written about and researched such topics as agriculture chemicals, petrochemicals (aromatics and aliphatics), pharmaceuticals, flavors, fragrances, plastics, paints, coatings, oils, fats, waxes, and more.

(Allow me to brag a little. Thanks.) During that time, many of my articles that I wrote on biodiesel fuel and natural industrial lubricants were cited in reports by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Also, a university student cited one of my biodiesel fuel articles in his master's thesis.

Here are the citations of my three articles that appeared in a USDA report released in November 1996:

Santos, William. “Rapeseed Oil Supplies Fall as China Expands Purchases.” Chemical Marketing Reporter. Schnell Publishing Company, New York, New York, February 20, 1995, p. 10.

Santos, William. “Oils, Fats, and Waxes Market Briefs.” Chemical Marketing Reporter. Schnell Publishing Company, New York, New York, May 22, 1995, p. 10.

Santos, William. “Crambe Oil Makes Moves Into Rapeseed Oil Territory.” Chemical Marketing Reporter. Schnell Publishing Company, New York, New York, April 1, 1996, p. 10.

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

I like Sloppy Joes, but I haven't eaten one recently.

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

I don't think that I have ever eaten lacy oatmeal cookies. I have eaten chocolate-dipped lacy cookies.

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

I am 65 years old, and I am still waiting to outgrow my adolescent awkwardness (and clumsiness).

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

Thank you !!!

from husband Bill, March 18, 2026, at home

Breathless

from husband Bill, March 17, 2026, at home

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY !!! "Breathless" by The Corrs is my favorite song by my favorite Irish band. Yeah, I like The Corrs better than U2.

The Corrs is an Irish family band consisting of siblings Andrea (lead vocals, tin whistle, mandolin, ukulele), Sharon (violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline (drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim (guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). Their music combines pop rock with traditional Irish themes. They are from Dundalk in County Louth, Ireland.

What I like is that many of their songs represent a woman professing her love for a man. That is extremely rare and quite refreshing. I also like brother Jim's guitar technique and song arrangements (instrumentation and harmonies). ... and yes, the three sisters sing well and are quite beautiful. They all got the vibe "goin' on."

https://youtu.be/-e_IuYgvdf8?si=S4c5sijCwUl_gbmn

from husband Bill, March 17, 2026, at home

I created and uploaded this short video onto my YouTube channel to tell you about my six-decades-long St. Patrick's Day tradition. (length: 1 minute, 3 seconds)

My St. Patrick's Day Tradition (March 17, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/iJbuRAtW-Xg?si=MQo31E2NCaW7Q_YP

St. PaDDy's Day

from husband Bill, March 17, 2026, at home

Happy St. PaDDy's Day !!! The name Paddy is a nickname for the name Patrick. (Please don't use/say Patty.) Notice that there isn't a period after "St". The British and Irish do not use the period, while we here in the United States do. One exception: No period is used for the soda Dr Pepper.

Italian, Not Irish

(I am half Italian, as well as Austrian, Swiss, and Portuguese.)

March 17, 2026, at home

Corned Beef & 3D

from husband Bill, March 17, 2026, at home

I enjoy corned beef and cabbage from time to time. (I also like Reuben sandwiches.)

Man or Bear?

from husband Bill, March 16, 2026, at home

(for humorous purposes)

I created (with AI) and uploaded onto my YouTube channel a short, (somewhat humorous/somewhat serious) video in regard to the fairly recent online question asked to women: Would you rather encounter a man or a bear in the forest. (length: 41 seconds) ... 99 percent of women pick the bear. (I have been watching YouTube videos on this topic, so I decided to create and then share my video.)

Man or Bear: AI (March 16, 2026)

https://youtube.com/shorts/EKFQImVGNr0?si=-ik0CUYtglkIiQ31