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Feb
1, 2021 Week: 5
Day: 32 |
Local: H 42°\ L 17°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: mph\Gusts:
mph |
Very Low Risk of Fire Active
fire: 59mi |
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Nearest
lightning: 1287mi.; |
Record: 64°[2018] Record: -23°[1985] |
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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.
.....
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
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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
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Sundance Film Festival |
28-2/7 |
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Catholic Schools Week |
31-2/6 |
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Meat Week |
31-2/6 |
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National
School Counseling Week Link |
1-5 |
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Cordova Ice
Worm Days: Link |
1-6 |
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African Heritage &
Health Week: |
1-7 |
Today’s Observations
Candy-Making Day
Car Insurance Day
CBC Day Link
Car Insurance Day
Change Your
Password Day Link
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 Get Up Day
No Politics 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!
