The great This and That...

From "Tai Chi Beginning Practice with David Dorian Ross":

"In the beginning there was Nothing. All that existed was the great void. The Chinese called this void the Wu Chi. Nothingness. After a time, the Wu Chi gave birth to its opposite - the Tai Chi - the everything. But then the Tai Chi began to move, and divided itself into Yin and Yang or This and That. From this division came the Ten Thousand Things."

Yin and Yang simply means "This and That"?

Forgot it was a holiday (go me).

Today was a government holiday but I forgot to check whether or not my company actually had a holiday or not, so I went in to work anyway. Nobody was there. The hallway was spooky and dark, and not even the fan was on. I turned on the light in my office and fired up the computer. No messages from anyone. I prepared and submitted a weekly report that would have been due sometime tomorrow to avoid having to get in early tomorrow to finish it on time. Then I left around noon. I can't believe I didn't know it was a holiday. Actually I'm glad, though, since I got the report done. After I came back home, I finally got a chance to do some basic maintenance yardwork (trimming, mowing, sweeping the driveway, walkways, and gutters, and whatever else it takes for the city to forget about harassing me for another month...)