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Mar. 7, 2020 Week: 10 Day: 67

86004: H 61° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 30%

Nearest lightning: 2094mi.; Nearest active fire: 314mi.

Wind: 3mph\Gusts: 8mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1972] Record Low: -1°[1945]

Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

May your glass be ever full.

May the roof over your head be always strong.

And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Here's to a fellow who smiles

When life runs along like a song.

And here's to the lad who can smile

When everything goes dead wrong.

Random Tidbits

Sosigenes decided on a 365-day year with an extra day every four years to incorporate the extra hours, and so February 29th was born.

In addition to leap days there are also leap seconds. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation.

Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 26 leap seconds have been inserted.

Observations This Week

National Words Matter Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
Read an E-Book Week: 1-7  Link   
Return The Borrowed Books Week:   1-7
Save Your Vision Week: 1-7  Link   
Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 1-7   
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7 LinkWill Eisner Week: 1-7
Women in Construction Week: 1-7

Celebrate Your Name Week: 1-7
Hearing Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
LGBT Health Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Consumer Protection Week: 1-7Link
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 1-7 Link
National Invest in a Veteran Week: 1-7 Link
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 Link
National Procrastination Week: 1-7
National Schools Social Work Week: 1-7 Link

Observations for Today

Genealogy Day

Iditarod Race begins

Alexander Graham Bell Day

National Cereal Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Being one of the youngest states, AZ does thing a tad differently. The House just passed a bill that will require signatures to be gathered from all 30 legislative districts on Citizen Initiatives before they can be on a state-wide ballot. The Republicans want the bill, the Dems don't. I'm not sure I understand why the Dems are against it. It will cost more money to get rural signatures but makes sense to me. Guess I'll have to follow this more.

Picked up my needed meds for Tahiti. I have plenty of hand sanitizer and wipes (for the plane trays/arm rests, etc.). I posted on FB about the medical clearance needed. Many of my Native friends said, 'just stay home'. I explained we would be OK, but they aren't buying it. I'm glad they care, but since only a few have traveled outside the US, their opinion is nice, but not factually based. I know we will be just fine, as long as we take precautions.

I have a shelf in my bedroom that holds stuff I only use every few weeks. That shelf is getting full, as when I use something, I now put it on the travel shelf, so I won't forget anything.

I take the virus very seriously, as I am in a higher risk category. I also trust Focus and Tumlare to keep us updated and if there have to be travel changes, so be it, but I'm not expecting that to happen.

Just realized, while I don't have to deal with DST here is this part of AZ, I now have to deal with it when I fly to Denver and beyond. Hmmm.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I have no voice, yet I speak to you.
I tell of all things in the world that people do.

I have leaves, but I am not a tree.

I have pages, but I am not a bride.I have a spine, but I am not a man.

I have hinges, but I am not a door.

I have told you all. I cannot tell you more.

What am I?

Historical Events

321 Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received his patent for (#174,465) the telephone.
1897 - Dr. John Kellogg served the world's first cornflakes to his patients at a mental hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1905 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" collection in London after public pressure to revive his famous detective (Feb New York)

1911 - Willis S. Farnsworth Patented (#985,990) the first coin-operated locker.

1929 First nonstop flight made from America to Asia across the Bering Strait (Nome to North Cape) by Noel Wien and Calvin Cripe for Wien Air Alaska

1933 The board game Monopoly was created and trademarked by Charles Darrow in Atlantic City.

1946 Bikini Atoll islanders are evacuated by the US government to make way for a nuclear testing site

1955 - Peter Pan was presented as a television special for the first time.
1955 - Phyllis Diller made her comedy stand-up debut at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, CA.
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) began broadcasting.
1987 - Mike Tyson defeated James "Bonecrusher" Smith to unify the WBA and WBC heavyweight titles.
1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

1996 - East End Show - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Play) opened
2009 - The Kepler space observatory was launched.
2011 - Charlie Sheen was officially fired from Two and a Half Men.

Birthdays Today

86-Willard Scott, TV weatherman
78-Michael Eisner, Disney CEO
@65-Tammy Faye Baker (d. 2007; cancer)

64-Bryan Cranston, actor
@62- Maurice Ravel, composer (d. 1937; head injury)
56-Wanda Sykes, comedian
50-Rachel Weisz, actor

Puzzle Answer:

A book