Nothing much happened
Nothing much happened today. Or yesterday. Or the day before yesterday. There really isn't a good term to cover the days beyond the day before yesterday. It gets a bit murky starting three days back. You can say "really, nothing has happened since four days prior to today," but this sounds funny, like you are putting on airs. Of course, you can always rack up the day befores, as in the day before the day before the day before yesterday, but that gets cumbersome and repetitive, and after about 30 day befores your jaw gets tired, believe you me. Also, people get that vague look in their eyes when you use these poorly understood expressions of time. You can watch them do the math in their heads as they try to cipher just which day you are talking about. You can say, "a week ago __ something happened." For example: "A week ago Thursday I saw a fat man with no shirt on a pogo stick." Still, people will give you that quizzical look. I mean, was that a week ago from this upcoming Thursday? Or the previous Thursday? That week ago Thursday business just doesn't hold. Besides, if you saw that fat man with no shirt on the pogo stick then you would probably say it was no big deal – he wasn't that fat and he wasn't that good with the pogo stick either. So, really, when you think about it, if a moderately fat, shirtless man struggling to ride a pogo stick was the highlight for the day before the day before the day before the day before the day before the day before the day before yesterday, well, then, I'm sorry to tell you, but nothing much happened that day either. Look on the bright side. There's always tomorrow.
7:39:27 PM  Random Nonsense
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