Feb 1

 

 

Feb  1, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 32	Local:  H 42°\ L 17°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   mph\Gusts:  mph	Very Low Risk of Fire           Active fire:  59mi
Nearest lightning:  1287mi.;	Record: 64°[2018]   Record: -23°[1985]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

~Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)

Random Tidbits

The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).

The highest current denomination is the $100 bill.

A Little Humor

Q Why did the pig quit running the marathon?

He had a problem with his hamstring.

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A guy goes into a military surplus store...and asks the owner if he has any camouflage jackets. He says- I've got hundreds- but I can't find any of them!

True Things

Ambulance Thief Caught At Jack in the Box Drive-Thru

While paramedics were on a call, a Texas man jumped into their ambulance and drove the vehicle, with its lights flashing, to a Jack in the Box, where he ordered food at the drive-through lane, police say. According to Houston police, Renaldo Leonard, 36, was charged with felony theft in connection with the ambulance heist. The stolen vehicle was tracked to a Jack in the Box, where Leonard "was at the driv- up ordering food with emergency lights," cops noted. The restaurant is more than four miles from where the Houston Fire Department ambulance was stolen. In light of Leonard's prior criminal record, prosecutors have asked a judge to deny him bail. According to court records, Leonard's rap sheet includes separate felony convictions for PCP possession, robbery, and cocaine possession.

Monthly Observations

 

Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month Link African American Cultural Heritage Month AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month American Heart Month An Affair To Remember Month  Bake for Family Fun Month Link Barley Month Link Beat The Heat Month

 

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
Catholic Schools Week	31-2/6
Meat Week	31-2/6
National School Counseling Week  Link International Networking Week   Pride in Foodservice Week  Link Tax Identity Theft Week Link	1-5
Cordova Ice Worm Days: Link	1-6
African Heritage & Health Week: Children's Mental Health Week   Link  Tinnitus Awareness Week  Link   Women's Heart Week	1-7

 

Today’s Observations

Candy-Making Day

Car Insurance Day

CBC Day  Link

Car Insurance Day

Change Your Password Day Link

Day of the Crêpe

Decorating With Candy Day
G.I. Joe Day
Hula in The Coola Day
International Brownie Camera Day 2021  Link 
International Day of Black Women in The Arts  
International Face & Body Art Day
Freedom Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Candy Making Day

National Cake Pops Day
National Dark Chocolate Day

National Freedom Day

National Get Up Day  
No Politics Day

Play Your Ukulele Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Support Day
Spunky Old Broads Day

World Hijab Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I’m ready for a new month. Looking forward to a great month…some moisture, lots of sunshine, an increase in vaccines and a decrease in Covid. And it warmed up enough that some of the snow is melting…icicles, not so much, because they are in the shade.

I am not happy with all of Biden’s Executive Orders. While I am glad he is stopping the Keystone Pipeline, I had hoped the order would also include a mechanism for the pipeline workers to retrain for new jobs. I believe the pipeline and other energy digging is wrong because it destroys sacred Native sites and is bad for the environment, the workers are not evil, they must feed themselves and their families, just like all of us. The good shift from fossil fuels must include a way to retrain the workers and, if necessary, provide funding to do so.

My dad worked for Armour & Company as an accountant. During his many years he was offered several chances for advancement. Each would have required moving the family far away from Denver. He chose to turn down those promotions because he didn’t want to leave Denver and he believed that if he accepted one, in a few years another would come along at the new city that would require another move. While I left the Denver area after college graduation, I’m glad that we didn’t move during my younger years. I am sure many others feel the same way.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

Historical Events

1790 – First session of the U.S. Supreme Court, New York City

1851 – Evaporated milk was invented by Gail Borden.

1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

1887 – The area known as Hollywood was founded.

1893 – Thomas A. Edison finished the construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

1896 – Puccini’s La Bohème premiered in Turin, Italy.

1898 – Travelers Insurance Company began issuing car insurance.

1913 – Grand Central Terminal opened in New York as the world’s largest train station

1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the US, began broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers (later at the communist block).

1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.

1978 – Director Roman Polanski fled the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

1996 – The Communications Decency Act was passed by the US Congress.

2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrated during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard over Texas.

2004 – The Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show Wardrobe Malfunction controversy occurred.

2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, was opened to the public.

2019 US President Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty because of Russia's violation of the treaty.

Birthdays Today

@76 – Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d.2007; heart failure)

@74 – Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (d. 2012; cancer)

@65 – Langston Hughes, American poet, playwright (d. 1967; prostate cancer)

@59 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960; heart attacks)

@56 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (died in 2004)

53 – Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter and actress

49 – Michael C. Hall, American actor

33 – Rhonda Rousey, American fighter athlete

@28 – Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1993; accidently shot)

27 – Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter

Puzzle Answer

An apple a day keeps the doctor away!

 

Jan 31

 

Ready to Welcome February!

Jan  31, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 31	Local:  H 44°\ L 14°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  5mph	Very Low Risk of Fire           Active fire:  59mi
Nearest lightning:  836mi.	Record: 63°[2018]   Record: -25°[1916]
Visibility:  10mi	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind,

if they do not enter into our daily lives?

~E. M. Forster

Random Tidbits

The highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.

A Little Humor

Q What dog can tell the time? A watch dog!

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A robber broke into my house last night looking for money... I woke up and started searching with him

True Things

Traffic came to a stop as police in Tulsa, Oklahoma chased and tased a naked man running along the highway. Police arrested and charged James Jackson with indecent exposure, obstructing justice, and burglary.

Drivers slowed and pulled over when they saw Jackson, 24, walking naked down the LL Tisdale Parkway. At least a couple of passengers recorded the incident with their cell phones. One video shows Jackson slamming his fist on a car as it passes by. He appears to try and open the driver side door of a truck that stopped to avoid hitting him.

Jackson continued to walk down the highway and starts to sing before a police officer arrives and attempts to take him into custody. Jackson ignored numerous commands to stop and get on the ground by Tulsa police officers. That's when an officer unsuccessfully used his Taser to subdue Jackson.

In a video Jackson is seen removing the wires from his body and running away again.

A second officer shows up and also uses his Taser. The two officers eventually get him on the ground and carry him away.

Jackson might have been having a mental episode or was under the influence of drugs, according to police.

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days Angouleme International Comics Festival  Link	28-31
Catholic Schools Week	31-2/6
Meat Week	31-2/6

 

Today’s Observations

Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
Backward Day

Brandy Alexander Day

Eat Brussel Sprouts Day

Grammy Awards
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
National Hot Chocolate Day

Street Children Day Link  Link 
World Leprosy Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I got about 3” of powder snow last night. Easy to remove from my vehicle. Now the sky is blue, and it is warming up. Next storm due mid-week.

Rep Taylor-Green is sure in the news. I see she also posted that the horrific California fires were caused by Jewish Laser Beams. The press has been interviewing adults from her district. Many are glad they voted for her and hope she continues her rhetoric that will eventually heal our country. I don’t recall when I was told I would be living in an alternative universe.

My first safari and a visit to Robben Island were highlights of my Focus Travel Club/HLO trip to South Africa years ago. It is a beautiful country with wonderful people and great safaris. The new variant of Covid is giving the country a bad name. So sad.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me when I have flown.

What am I?

Historical Events

1865 – Congress passed the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America.

1958 – The United States launched its first successful orbiting satellite, Explorer-I.

1961 – The United States launched a 4-year-old male chimpanzee named Ham on a Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into test suborbital flight. Ham landed safely about 17 minutes later.

1992 – ABC Sportscaster Howard Cosell retired.

1993 – The Super Bowl (broadcast on NBC) featured Michael Jackson marking the first time there was ever a solo performer during the show.

1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

2001 In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts a Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

2006 US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor retires and is replaced by Samuel Alito

2017 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban

2018 trump administration formally suspends the Clean Water Act

2019 Colonization of the America's in the late 1500s killed so many people it cooled the planet and led to a "Little Ice Age", according to a scientific report published in "Quaternary Science Reviews"

2020 United Kingdom formally withdraws from the European Union (Brexit)

Birthdays Today

@97 – Carol Channing, American entertainer (d. 2019)

@84 – Norman Mailer, American journalist and author (d. 2007)

@78 – Garry Moore [Thomas Garrison Morfit], comedian, game show host (d. 1993; emphysema)

@70 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008; lung cancer)

74 – Nolan Ryan, American baseball player

@67 – Pearl Zane Grey, American author (d. 1939; heart failure)

@53 – Jack Roosevelt ‘Jackie’ Robinson, baseball legend (d. 1972; heart attack)

51 – Minnie Driver, English actress

48 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress

40 – Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor

@31 – Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist, composer (dd.1828; typhoid/syphilis?)

Puzzle Answer

Time.

 

Jan 30

 

2021…at last

Jan  30, 2021  Week: 4  Day: 30	Local:  H 45°\ L 15°\Ave. Sky Cover: 70%
Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  13mph	Today’s Historic Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 18°
Nearest lightning:  1356mi.; Active fire: 59 mi	Very Low Risk of Fire      Visibility:  8mi
Record: 66°[1971]   Record: -19°[1979]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?

~Rose Kennedy

Random Tidbits

It is suspected that the largest counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the nation of North Korea.

Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.

A Little Humor

Q Why did the apple turnover?  Because it saw the jelly roll!

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If anyone wants any chiropractic magazines- let me know. I have back issues.

True Things

A man and woman have been arrested in central Florida after police say they stole more than $300 worth of meat from a grocery store.

Deputies reported that 48-year-old Doris Rowe and 54-year-old Kenneth Edwards drove 26 miles to a Winn-Dixie store in DeLand where a store manager saw Rowe stuffing meat products and other items into her pants.

Deputies say the manager stopped Rowe and she hit the manager in the neck, dropping pork ribs, two packs of detergent and three water filters. Rowe fled the store and got into Edwards' truck. Deputies apprehended them at a traffic stop. Both were charged with grand theft and robbery.

Deputies found ribeye steaks, ground beef, bacon, pork ribs and a gallon of bleach in the car valued at $361.

Weekly Observations

Clean Out Your Inbox Week Idiom Week  National School Choice Week  Link  Snowcare for Troops Week Ally Week Link National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week	24-30
National Medical Group Practice Week: Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering Cancelled	25-30
Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days Angouleme International Comics Festival  Link	28-31

 

Today’s Observations

A.F.R.M.A. American Fancy Rat & Mouse Assoc. Day
Croissant Day Link
Fruitcake Toss Day Link 
Inane Answering Message Day
National Croissant Day

National Inane Answering Message Day

National Seed Swap Day 

Yodel for your neighbor’s Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Got gas this morning, just as the storm started moving. I had hoped for a few days break that would allow some of the snow to melt. Oh, well. The weather guy says it is a fast-moving storm…a real ‘dump and run’.

It is warm enough that the huge icicles out my office window are dripping. Some are dripping constantly, others only every few seconds. It is very relaxing and calming to watch. When they fall, they will land on the porch roof, so no danger of hurting someone. My neighbor had a couple on the porch roof. He broke them off and stuck them in the snow. The three of them are each about 4’ long and have a circumference of about 2”.

I’m having a hard time deciding which is worse: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Q-anon lady or the idea that the Republicans put her on the Education Committee in the House. This is the lady who believes the school shootings have been made up. Guess I should be happy that the Republican leader gave her a stern talking to.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you don’t need it?

Historical Events

January 29, 1979 Texas Shooting: Teenager Brenda Spencer is considered the first modern-day school shooter. In the midst of her shooting spree, she actually answered a call from a journalist and said her reasoning was “[I] don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.” She then resumed, killing 2 and injuring 9.

 

1790 – The first boat designed as a lifeboat was tested on the River Tyne.

1868 – Charles Darwin’s book, Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, was published.

1933 – Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.

1948 – Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse.

1958 – The first two-way, moving sidewalk (1,425 feet long) was put in service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, TX.

1968 – The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong began the Tet Offensive.

1972 – British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was commemorated by the US with 1983’s Sunday Bloody Sunday.

1973 – KISS played their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens New York.

2007 – Microsoft released Windows Vista.

2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor - 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil.

2019 Continuous 24-hour church mass lasting 97 days to prevent deportation of Armenian asylum seekers ends after Dutch authorities reconsider at Protestant Bethel Church in The Hague

2019 Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man with Raised Arms" sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York.

2019 Scientists reveal discovery of cavity six miles long, 1,000 feet deep under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, leading to fears it might collapse and raise sea levels by two feet.

2020 The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at a meeting in Geneva

Birthdays Today

91 – Gene Hackman, American actor, author

@86 – Dick Martin, American comedic actor (d. 2008)

84 – Boris Spassky, Russian chess player

80 – Dick Cheney, American businessman, and politician

70 – Phil Collins, English drummer, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

@63 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (d. 1945; stroke)

63 – Brett Butler, American actress

47 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor

41 – Wilmer Valderrama, American actor

Puzzle Answer

An anchor.