Jan 16

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Jan. 16, 2020 Week: 1  Day: 16

86004:   H 51° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  944mi.; Nearest active fire:  280mi.  

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  11mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 60°[1974]   Record Low: -8°[1915]

Jan. Averages: 43°\16° (22” days with snow)

Today’s Einstein Quote

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

Random Tidbits

The first use of "OMG" was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917.

If you text "OMG" to your friends, you might think that you're using a modern acronym. But it turns out that the first appearance of the three-letter expression was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917. Lord Fisher, an admiral and naval innovator, wrote to the British prime minister and was obviously excited about a possible honor for himself and those in his line of work. He wrote, "I hear a new order of Knights in on the tapis - O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) - Shower it on the Admiralty!"

Observations This Week

Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17

National Mocktail Week: 12-18

National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 15-19

Observations for Today

Appreciate a Dragon Day

Bean Day Link
Civil Service Day
Fig Newton Day Link  Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day
International Hot and Spicy Food Day

National Fig Newton Day

National Quinoa Day
Nothing Day
Religious Freedom Day Link 
Without A Scalpel Day Link  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up a little. Nice.

Had to do a blood draw for my PCP this morning. Took 3 pokes and 2 different drawers, but got it done. I know my veins are very persnickety, and I can’t blame the workers for it.

So, the vote is completed. After 5p it will be the Senate’s move. I can only hope that whatever the outcome, all legislators will unite to hold this country together by passing bills…their job…that will benefit all Americans.

Not that impressed with last night’s debate. It sure seemed very scripted to me. Each candidate seemed to have many ‘canned’ responses to the questions. Remember, we are selecting the possible next leader of the free world. Not very many things come up in the White House that can be scripted-at-the-moment. We need lots of statesman/woman in DC who can think on the run and keep their foot out of their mouth. Even the non-shaking of hands looked scripted.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Your mother’s brother’s only brother-in-law is asleep on your couch. Who is asleep on your couch?

Historical Events

1362 - St. Marcellus Flood or Grote Mandrenke (Great Drowning of Men), Netherlands

1547 - Ivan the Terrible crowned himself 1st Tsar of Moscow.

1581 - The English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.

1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid, Spain.

1776 - The U.S. Continental Congress approved the enlistment of free men for the rebellion.

1894 - Theodore Witte of Chilliwhack, British Columbia, was issued a U.S. patent (#512930) for a "Puttying-Tool" (the first caulking gun)

1920 - The 18th Amendment, Prohibition began, and alcoholic beverages were made illegal in the United States. (Effective one year later)

1920 - The League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris, France.

1936 - The first photo finish camera was installed at a US racetrack, at Hialeah, Florida.

1939 - The Superman newspaper comic strip debuted.

1941 - War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron, The Tuskegee Airmen, for black cadets.

1964 - Broadway Show - Hello, Dolly! (Musical) starring Carol Channing

1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published by Doubleday

1976 - The Donny and Marie musical variety show premiered on ABC.

1986 - The Apple Macintosh Plus was released.

1988 - #1 Hit: George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You

1991 - All major television networks were pre-empted with Gulf War coverage right after evening news broadcasts.

1999 - #1 Hit: Brandy - Have You Ever

2002 UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and freezes assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the members of the Taliban

2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

2019 Egyptian city Cairo is engulfed by a sandstorm turning it orange

Birthdays Today

86- Marilyn Horne, opera singer

85- A.J. Foyt, auto racer

@83- Jim Berry, cartoonist (Berry’s World) (d. 2015)

77- Ronnie Milsap, singer

@76- Ethel Merman

          Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, actor (d.1984; brain cancer)

76- Jim Stafford, comedian, singer

@71- Susan Sontag, writer, filmmaker  (d. 2004; cancer)

70- Debbie Allen, singer

60- Sade , Helen Folasade Adu, NiIgerian singer

@53- Diane Fossey, conservationist (d. 1985; murdered)

46- Kate Moss, model, businesswoman

40- Lin-Manuel Miranda, stage actor (Hamilton)

Puzzle Answer:

Your dad. Your mother’s brother is your uncle (assuming your mother and father are married).