Mar 4

  

Mar 4, 2021    Week: 9    Day: 63                     Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 53°\ L 28°\Ave. Sky Cover:5 %         Wind:  20mph/ Gusts:  12mph

Nearest Lightning: 388mi.                                  Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  50mi

Record: 68°[1990]  Record: -16°[1966]         Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Time passes irrevocably.

~ Virgil

Random Tidbits

Unless you're a real science geek, chances are you never knew these elements even existed. Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life.

Gallium (Ga)

Few elements are weirder than gallium: A relatively soft, glittering metal, it's widely used today in semiconductors and other electronics, as well as in the pharmaceutical industry. But in years past, gallium (atomic number 31) was a key part of a favorite parlor trick for magicians because it melts when it's just slightly warmer than room temperature. Thus, spoons that are made of gallium look normal, but when dipped into a cup of hot tea will instantly dissolve.

A Little Humor

Have you ever seen a picture of Mount Rushmore before it was carved?

Its natural beauty was unpresidented

…..
Knock-Knock
Knock, knock----Who's There?----Doughnut----Doughnut who?
Doughnut open the door to strangers!

Monthly Observations


National Athletic Training Month  Link
National Breast Implant Awareness Month  
Link
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month 
Link
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month 
Link
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month 
National Craft Month 
Link
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Essential Tremor Awareness Month 
Link
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month 
Link
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/28-5/3)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Noodle Month 
Link
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month 
Link
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month

 

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

National Pasty Week Cancelled

Thru 3/6

National School Breakfast Week: 1-5 

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Hearing Awareness Week Link
LGBT Health Awareness Week 
Link
National Cheerleading Week
Nat’l Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Invest in a Veteran Week 
 Link
National Pet Sitters Week 
Link
Return the Borrowed Books Week

Telecommuter Appreciation Week

Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week
   Link
World Hearing Awareness Week
 Link

 

 

 

 

 

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Today’s Observations

Benjamin Harrison Day
Brain Injury Awareness Day 
Link 
Courageous Follower Day
Holy Experiment Day   Link and Link
Hug a GI Day Link
International Scrapbooking Industry Day
March Forth and Do Something Day

Marching Music Day  Link
National Backcountry Ski Day
National Hospitalist Day
 Link
National Grammar Day  
Link
National Poundcake Day

Old Inauguration Day
Toy Soldier Day
 Link
World Book Day 
Link 
World Engineering Day For Sustainable Development

World Obesity Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A bit breezy as a fast-moving storm is headed my way. Weather guy says a couple of inches tonight. Not holding my breath.

I talked to Mary and she got her first shot yesterday. She is already planning our first luncheon outing 10-days after her second shot. I sure hope it works out. It has been over a year since our luncheon group has met in person at a restaurant. I hope we still recognize each other.

Happy to see Gov. Cuomo has apologized for what others perceived as inappropriate. Time will tell if he stays in office.

The Gov. of Texas has declared everything will open 100% today. This seems a little too soon, but I do not live in Texas. I hope the people of Texas do not have to deal with the illness due to his proclamation.

I certainly understand the frustration this virus has caused. Recommendations from “knowledgeable” informants have been less than adequate. As Americans we have become so used to ‘instant gratification’ everywhere, when something new arrives, it is difficult to roll with the punches. On that same note, ‘experts’ are all over the news. One day they are ‘medical experts’, the next day they are ‘history’ experts, then suddenly they become ‘political’ experts. One has to be vigilant in checking backgrounds of almost every expert.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

A man has 53 socks in his drawer: 21 identical blue, 15 identical black and 17 identical red. The lights are out and he is completely in the dark. How many socks must he take out to make 100 percent certain he has at least one pair of black socks?

Historical Events

1519 – Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and its wealth.

1826 – The first chartered railroad in the US was chartered as the Granite Railway in Quincy, Massachusetts.

1837 – The city of Chicago was incorporated.

1853 – Franklin Pierce was the first U.S. President to recite his inauguration address entirely from memory. The speech was 3,329 words long.

1930 – The Coolidge Dam on Gila River in Arizona was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge.

1944 – Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, the head of Murder, Inc., was executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York.

1966 – John Lennon was quoted as saying “Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink… We’re more popular than Jesus now,” in reference to religion fading in the western world.

1984 – Television Academy Hall of Fame opened

1989 The Louvre Pyramid designed by I. M. Pei is inaugurated by French President Francois Mitterrand

1997 US President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

2014 Chinese premier Li Keqiang declares war on pollution at the National People’s Congress

2019 Return of a lock of hair of Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II to Ethiopia announced by the National Army Museum in London

Birthdays Today

83 – Paula Prentiss, American actress

@81 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor and composer (d. 2006)

63 – Patricia Heaton, American actress

60 – Ray Mancini, American boxer

@43 – Knute Rockne, American Football coach (d. 1931; plane crash)

Puzzle Answer

40 socks. If he takes out 38 socks (adding the two biggest amounts, 21 and 17), although it is very unlikely, it is possible they could all be blue and red. To make 100 percent certain that he also has a pair of black socks he must take out a further two socks.


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