Jan 3


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Jan 3, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 3
86004 Today: H 26° \ L 6° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Feels like 16  
Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1918]   Record Low: -19°[1937]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt


More Observances This Month
           
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month 
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month  
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Sunday Supper Month 
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month

Oatmeal Month

Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month

Teen Driving Awareness Month
Train Your Dog Month   
Thyroid Awareness Month

Unchain A Dog Month

Walk Your Pet Month  
Worldwide Rising Star Month

Observances This Week
           
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week

2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week


Observances for Today


Drinking Straw Day
Earth at Perihelion
J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
Perihelion


My Rambling Thoughts

I’m getting very tired of the cold weather. It is time for a warming trend…soon.

I headed out this morning to do some shopping. It was 14°. Got what I needed and headed home. While I was in Chicago, I had a morning smoothie of fresh fruit and almond milk for breakfast several mornings. They were great. So I picked up the necessary ingredients and will start having them tomorrow.  

I wish the Postman would learn to read. I had a ‘mail hold’ during my trip. I clearly marked ‘will pick up mail’. I went to my small box today and there was all my mail for over a week jammed into my mailbox. This happens most times I travel out of town. So next trip I’m adding a few days to the hold so I can pick it up at the Post office.

In all the mail I found a bill from the hospital for my plate removal. The total bill was $9.750.23. The bill was for $50.48 for ‘self-administered drugs’. I called to find out about it. Turns out Medicare and BCBS decided that I could have taken the drug on my own. The lady said she had removed the cost as their billing is messed up. I asked what drug. It was for ONE oxycodone. (I had a script for oxycodone for 20 tablets and it cost me $1.42). Big Pharma and hospitals have sure figured out how to beat the system and screw the insurance companies and the patients. I get that there are costs for the pharmacist to put the pill in a tiny cup, for a nurse to bring the tiny cup and a small cup of water to me and watch me take it, but $50.48 seems a tad outrageous. Oh well, it was cancelled, because I called. The lesson: Never pay a hospital bill until you have talked to a human.


Birthdays Today
1892 J. R. R. Tolkien,
British author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings), born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (d. 1973)@81

1894 ZaSu Pitts,
American actress (Life With Father, Dames, Wedding March), born in Parsons, Kansas (d. 1963)@69

1905 Ray Milland,
Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales (d. 1986)@79

1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum],
Danish-American comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)@91

1929 Sergio Leone,
Italian director who invented spaghetti westerns (The Man with No Name trilogy), born in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1989)@60-heart attack

1930 Salvatore "Robert" Loggia,
American actor (Jagged Edge, Big, Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface), born in Staten Island, New York (d. 2015)@85

1937 Glen Larson,
American television producer & writer (Battlestar Galactica, Magnum PI, & Knight Rider), born in Long Beach, CA, (d. 2014)@77
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74- Stephen Stills,
songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash), born in Dallas, Texas

73- John Paul Jones [John Baldwin],
English rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven), born in London

37- Eli Manning,
football player-Giants, Patriots, Chargers


Historical Obits Today

@95-2015 Edward W. Brooke
(R-Mass), first popularly elected African American to the US Senate (1967-79)

@74-2014 Phillip "Phil" Everly,
American musician ("The Everly Brothers") lung disease

@70-2012 Wylie Walker Vale,
American Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone

@64-2012 Bob Weston,
British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), dies from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage (body found this date)

@64-1795 Josiah Wedgwood,
English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), dies at 64

@55-1967 Jack Ruby,
American assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism



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