The Septemer Holidays

I've recently looked at the fact that September doesn't have any major holidays that are widely celebrated. Sure there's Labor Day, but where's the Labor Day elf? There's no Labor Day songs or mascots. There isn't even a little sign that says "Go Labor!" Besides, September is the only month without a major holiday:
January ~ New Year's Day
February ~ Valentine's Day
March ~ The Ides of March/March Madness
April ~ April Fool's Day & Earth Day/Administrative Professionals Day
May ~ Cinco De Mayo & Mayonnaise Day
June ~ End of the School Year
July ~ The Fourth of July
August ~ The month was named after Augustus Caesar, who loved to party
September
October ~ Halloween
November ~ Thanksgiving
December ~ Getmas/ St. Nicholas Day

But I have found a couple unofficial month names for September:

• Baby Safety Month
• Better Breakfast Month
• Cable TV Month
• Children's Eye Health and Safety Month
• Library Card Sign-up Month
• National Chicken Month
• National Courtesy Month
• National Honey Month
• National Pediculosis Prevention Month
• National Piano Month
• National Rice Month
• National School Success Month
• National Sewing Month
• Read-A-New-Book Month
• Women of Achievement Month

Here also the weeks of September:

1. Child Injury Prevention Week
2. International Housekeepers Week
3. National Farm Animal Awareness Week
4. National Roller Skating Week

But these are terrible holidays! I suggest that we insert a couple of holidays like Wombat Day. There's Groundhog Day, but there are no sentimental feelings for wombats in the United States. We need to spread appreciation for the lesser known animals. We could also have Smash-Your-Finger-With-A-Hammer-Day. Come on, everyone does it. Let's just make the burden easier and have it planned each year so we know when to expect our fingers to hurt. But if you have any ideas about how to improve your September, let me know.

The Daumenator has Septemberized

What's a vector?

What's a vector? I have no idea. But I do now. For I have traveled to the lands of Merriam-Webster and found out the meaning of vector:

1. A quantity that has magnitude and direction and that is commonly represented by a directed line segment whose length represents the magnitude and whose orientation in space represents the direction; broadly : an element of a vector space b : a course or compass direction especially of an airplane.

2. An organism (as an insect) that transmits a pathogen.

3. An agent (as a plasmid or virus) that contains or carries modified genetic material (as recombinant DNA) and can be used to introduce exogenous genes into the genome of an organism.

There also apparently is a video game alligator named Vector. He wears headphones all the time so I'll let him pass. The color version of the picture was too scary to be shown on a public blog.

The Daumenator has spoken