No brainer!

There resides among us a woman named Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, and she is exceptionally notable. The legacy of any a prominent person has resulted in the creation of a holiday, but Koopersmith has gone beyond that by far; she is responsible for more than 1,900 of them. 

As explained by CNN in 2018, 

The undisputed champ of holiday creation is Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, a Chicago woman who bills herself as "America's Premier Eventologist."

     Koopersmith started creating holidays -- or "holidates," as she likes to call them -- about 30 years ago, almost as a form of therapy after she got mugged in the lobby of her apartment building by a robber who smashed her in the face with brass knuckles, she said.

     "This was an event in and of itself that would change the entire course of my life," she told CNN.

     In order to deal with the trauma of the attack, she started writing and creating cartoons, which she merged with her love of holidays.

     She thumbed through a book that listed holidays and thought a lot of them were dull and stupid.

     "Why not do events that are fun and whimsical?" asked Koopersmith, determined to complement traditional holidays with days a little more fanciful.

She's still at it as I write this -- and that brings us to the holiday she created for today, February 27: No-Brainer Day. 

Koopersmith created the holiday in 1995, according to the site National Today, to encourage "people to stop overthinking things, criticizing themselves, and loosen up and unwind. Things are simple, and the multiple problems we face daily may have easy solutions if we stop stressing and take things easy. As it implies, ‘no-brainer’ means making choices that require very little thinking or work."

I think that's a pretty good idea, especially when the day falls on a Sunday, the day of rest. We do tend to complicate the hell out of things. A friend of mine says he can complicate a glass of water. That sounds hard to do, but toss in a dash of our cultural catastrophizing and it's a piece of cake, er, water:

• I want a glass of water
• Glass or plastic cup?
• Glass: breakable, dangerous
• Cup: Possible phthalates; poisoning?
• Large container or small or medium? 
• Regular or "company reserved"?
• Water: Tap or bottle?
• Tap: Contaminates in water supply 
• Bottle: Ecological garbage
• Cold or warm?
• Cold: Refreshing but requires electricity in summer
• Warm: Not as refreshing
• Add-ins? Kool-Aid? Tea? Tang? Lemon? Ice? Twist? Carbonation? Booze?  
• Coaster available?

It's a no-brainer! Get some water and drink it! Good grief, we're turning into Buridan's ass, dying of thirst from overthinking, except no donkey in real life would be that dumb. Being that dumb and possibly crazy requires the sophisticated human brain.

So today: No-Brainers all the way. I'll tell myself KISS: Keep it simple, suckah. There will be plenty of time Monday to screw everything up again, and I'm just the guy that can do it!