Mar 31

 

 

Mar 31, 2021   Week: 14    Day: 90                        

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 61°\ L 26°

Nearest Lightning: 1511mi.        

Wind:  6mph/ Gusts:  15mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  354mi

Record: 73°[1966]  Record:[1912

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

 

Today’s Quote

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

~Rudyard Kipling

Random Tidbits

In Europe during the Middle Ages, beer, often of very low strength, was an everyday drink for all classes and ages of people. A document from that time mentions nuns having an allowance of six pints of ale each day.

A Little Something to Think About

If people get debunked, detested, and demoralized, does that mean that they were once bunked, tested, and moralized?

True Things

Man stabbed over mask dispute

Police in League City, Texas are looking for a man they say stabbed a Jack in the Box manager after being asked to wear a face mask or leave the restaurant. Police said the suspect walked in the restaurant without a face mask and was told he needed to have one in order to be served or use the drive-thru. Surveillance video released by the police department shows the manager holding up the store's written policy as he escorts the assailant out the door. But seconds after turning his back, the man steps back into the restaurant, runs after the manager and attacks him with what appeared to be a pocketknife, according to investigators. The manager was stabbed three times in the arm and upper torso. He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated and released.

Weekly Observations

 

Lent [Christian]

Passover [Jewish]

Thru 4/3

Thru 4/4

Passiontide

21-4/3

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

20-4/10

National Physicians Week  Link

25-31

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week

24-4/3

 

Today’s Observations

Anesthesia Tech Day Link
Bunsen Burner Day

Cesar Chavez Day Link
International Hug A Medielvalist Day
International Transgender Day of Visibility  
Link
Little Red Wagon Day 
 Link  
Manatee Appreciation Day 
Link 
National Clam on the Half Shell Day

National Crayon Day

National Oysters on the Half Shell Day

National Prom Day Link
National "She's Funny That Way" Day
Oranges and Lemons day

Starbucks Day
Tater Day

Terri's Day  Link
Whole Grain Sampling Day 
(Last Wednesday)  Link
World Backup Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Great spring day. Nice walk in the neighborhood.

I understand that the trial in Minneapolis is newsworthy. I even believe that our entire court system may be on trial. I could not listen to either side when the underage children were testifying. I get that it is important in the trial but having millions of adults listen to these children on TV seems wrong. None of those watching are on the jury, and without watching the entire trial really have no business deciding if the ex-cop is guilty. That is the job of the jurors who must sit in court day after day. For those few who think TV news tells us what we need to know, the time the officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck was 9 minutes and 29 seconds, not the 8 minutes and 46 seconds the news has reported for over 9 months.

This morning at 6am, while I was brushing my teeth, my cell phone rang. It was from ‘unknown caller’. I didn’t answer it. When I was finished brushing, the phone alerted me to a voicemail message. A while later I check the message. It was a prerecorded call, so I didn’t get everything from the beginning. It said that if I didn’t press 1 they would have no choice but to turn me into law enforcement. I guess I’ll just wait for the law to show up. I didn’t delete the message, but I did block the caller. This spam call should be stopped by my carrier, and I shouldn’t be bothered by such obvious scam.

The U of AZ women’s basketball team has made it to the final four at the NCAA tourney. Good news.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

You do not want to have it, but when you do have it, you do not want to lose it.  What is it?

Historical Events

1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

1822 – The massacre of tens of thousands of people living on the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion.

1889 – The Eiffel Tower, 986 feet tall, in Paris, France, was inaugurated

1918 – The US began daylight saving time (DST) on Easter Sunday when clocks were set ahead by one hour.

1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code was instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion, and violence in film, in the US. It was in place until 1968.

1943 – Broadway Show – Oklahoma! (Musical) March 31, 1943

* Formally called ‘Away We Go’ in the initial tryout runs

1959 – The Dalai Lama, fled the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet and crossed the border into India, where he is granted political asylum.

1981 – A new single-cell genetically engineered life form patent (#4,259,444) was issued to Ananda Chakrabarty. The Pseudomonas bacterium (now called Burkholderia cepacia) could be used to clean up toxic spills because it can break down crude oil into simpler substances that can potentially become food for aquatic life.

1994- Madonna appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and stirred up controversy by going on a profanity-laden tirade. It marked the most censored event in television talk show history with 13 swear words being censored.

1995- Latina singer Selena was murdered and the live coverage of the crime drew in over 3.2 million views to CBS.

1998 – Netscape released Mozilla source code under an open-source license.

2013 2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China

2020 British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years

Birthdays Today

@88 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2016)

87 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor

87 – Shirley Jones, American actress, singer

86 – Herb Alpert, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer

@78 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (d. 2007; cancer)

78 – Christopher Walken, American actor

73 – Al Gore, 45th VP of the US and Nobel Prize laureate

73 – Rhea Perlman, American actress

@72 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1809)

@68 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946; car crash)

@66 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader, activist (d. 1993; in sleep)

66 – Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter, AC/DC

@53 – René Descartes, French mathematician, philosopher (d. 1650; pneumonia)

50 – Ewan McGregor, actor

Puzzle Answer

A lawsuit

  

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