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	1-5
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	1-7

 

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.