Mar 24

 

 

Mar 24, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 83           Visibility: 1/5 miles

Local: H 41°\ L 24°                                           Ave. Sky Cover: 95%                      

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  11mph                     Nearest Lightning: 951mi.                                                          

Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  295mi

Record: 70°[1956]  Record:[1904]  

Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

~Mary Astell

Random Tidbits

While brisk walking helps reduce body fat, lower blood pressure, and increase high-density lipoprotein, the United States walks the least of any industrialized nation. The average Australian takes 9,695 steps per day (just a few short of the ideal 10,000), and the average American just 5,117.

A Little Something to Think About

If tomb is pronounced ‘toom’ and womb is pronounced ‘woom’, shouldn’t bomb be pronounced ‘boom’?

If you sue a parsley farmer, do you hope to garnish her wages?

Weekly Observations

 

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Passiontide

21-4/3

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

20-4/10

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination Passion Week
National Agriculture Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
 Link  Link
National Inhalant/Poisons Awareness Week 
Link   Link
National Poison Prevention Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
World Folktales & Fables Week

 

 

 

 

21-27

Wellderly Week

21-28

 

Today’s Observations

Chocolate Covered Raisins Day

Cocktail Day

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Link
National Education and Sharing Day 
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National Equal Pay Day  
Link
International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims 
Link
World Tuberculosis Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It has been snowing hard since I got up. Not much is sticking ‘cause it is ‘warm’. Spring always brings surprises. No walk today as I couldn’t see that well through the falling snow. Even with this snow, the state Forest Service to plan for a ‘very active’ fire season around here.  Not good news.

The CU Men’s BBall team showed up for game 2 put didn’t play well. That ends their tournament hopes for this year.

While I was watching the game on TNT, there was a news crawl about the shooting. I switched to CNN. During the pandemic, the mass shootings were almost non-existent. Now that things are opening back up the shootings are starting up again. Two in a week is unacceptable. I grew up shopping at the King’s at Lakeside. Down here the Kroger brand is carried by Fry’s. No one living in America should be afraid to go to a spa or to a grocery store for fear some deranged person might show up and start killing. My condolences to the families and friends of the TEN people killed. I own 2 hunting rifles from my grandfather and a .22 pistol from my dad. I do not need, and have never needed, as assault rifle for any reason. I don’t believe anyone needs that kind of weapon for any reason except to fight in a war while in the military. The time to stop the ownership of assault rifles has long passed. Congress needs to do its job of protecting innocent Americans and stop using the 2nd Amendment as a reason to stop their sale and/or ownership. No founding father of this nation would ever suggest that mass killings of innocent citizens was the reason for the 2nd Amendment.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Three men are lined up behind each other. The tallest man is in the back and can see the heads of the two in front of him; the middle man can see the one man in front of him; the man in front can’t see anyone. They are blindfolded and hats are placed on their heads, picked from three black hats and two white hats. The extra two hats are hidden and the blindfolds removed. The tallest man is asked if he knows what color hat he’s wearing; he doesn’t. The middle man is asked if he knows; he doesn’t. But the man in front, who can’t see anyone, says he knows. How does he know, and what color hat is he wearing?

Historical Events

1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 was signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1765 – The Kingdom of Great Britain passed the Quartering Act, which required homes in the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1882 – Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1940 – The first religious service was shown on NBC in New York. The first was a Protestant Easter Service, and a Catholic Mass was shown after that.

1955 – Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened in New York.

March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the US Army, serial #53310761.

1989 – The Exxon Valdez, captained by Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, hit Prince William Sound, spilling 11,000,000 gallons of Alaskan crude oil.

1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law.

1998 Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.

2012 African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony.

2015 The Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon.

2017 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare after internal opposition.

2020 Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world's second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19 

Birthdays Today

@95 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)

91 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer

@74 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998; bone-marrow cancer)

@70 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, co-created Mickey Mouse (d.1971; heart attack)

70 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded Tommy Hilfiger Corporation

68 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian

@52 – Harry Houdini [Erik Weis], Hungarian-Jewish American magician,actor (d.1926; peritonitis)

@50 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980; cancer/heart failure)

48 – Jim Parsons, American actor

45 – Peyton Manning, American football player

@25 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934; shot)

 

Puzzle Answer

Black. The man in front knew he and the middle man aren’t both wearing white hats or the man in the back would have known he had a black hat (since there are only two white hats). The man in front also knows the middle man didn’t see him with a white hat because if he did, based on the tallest man’s answer, the middle man would have known he himself was wearing a black hat. So, the man in front knows his hat must be black.

 

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