Mar 16, 2021 Week: 12 Day: 75 Visibility: 10 miles
Local: H 45°\
L 20°\ Sky Cover: 5% Wind: 10mph/ Gusts:
15mph
Nearest
Lightning: 522mi. Very Low Risk
of Fire: Active fire: 475mi
Record: 72°[2007] Record: -1°[1969] Mar.
Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
If you can't describe
what you are doing as a process,
you don't know what
you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming
A Little Something to Think About
Firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters do?
True Things
This is what happens when
you pay for your son's law degree…
A 41-year-old man in
Great Britain is suing his parents in a bid to force them to pay him
"maintenance" for life. Despite being a trained lawyer and having a
degree from Oxford University, Faiz Siddiqui claims he is completely dependent on
his wealthy parents. For 20 years his Dubai-based parents have let him live
rent-free in a $1 million flat they own near London's Hyde Park. They also
helped to cover other bills. But now that his parents want to cut him off,
Siddiqui claims that his upbringing has made him "vulnerable" and
that cutting him off financially would be a violation of his human rights. A
case against his parents was rejected last year by a top family court judge. It
has now gone to the Court of Appeal.
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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World Rattlesnake Roundup |
12-14 |
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Campfire USA
Birthday Week Teen Tech Week |
14-20 |
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Native American
Awareness Week Link |
15-19 |
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Act Happy Week |
15-21 |
Today’s Observations
Black Press Day
Campfire Girls Day
Curlew Day
Everything You Do is
Right Day
Goddard Day Link Link
Lips Appreciation Day
National Artichoke Heart Day
No Selfies Day
Panda Day
St. Urho's Day Link and Link
Tea for Two Tuesday
World Social Work Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Yesterday’s wind covered my sidewalk with snow…that had been more ice
than snow. Now I am awaiting the next storm, due tonight. I picked up some essential food this morning with
a quick stop at Sam’s. I didn’t shop last week due to that storm. Also filled
with gas…wow, prices have gone up…it was $2.95. The last time I filled up it
was about $2.30. I’m sure this is a racket of some kind.
I guess I’ll do without St. Patty’s Day corned beef and cabbage as I
forgot to buy it. Think I’ll just make soda bread and be glad I’m Irish.
Colorado is still getting lots of snow. The pictures are Facebook are
staggering. Even friends who seldom post anything are busy posting pictures of
deeeeeep snow.
The NAU Men’s Cross Country just won this year’s National
Championship. Very cool. This is their 4th National Title in 5
years.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Susan and Lisa decided to play
tennis against each other. They bet $1 on each game they played. Susan won
three bets and Lisa won $5. How many games did they play?
Historical Events
1850 – Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was published.
1926 – American Robert H.
Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn,
Massachusetts. It reached a height of 41 feet.
1942 – The first V-2
rocket test-launched. It exploded at lift-off.
1945 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi
was the only individual who witnessed and survived both atom bombs in Japan,
Hiroshima on August 6th, and Nagasaki on August 9.
1957 – The Gumby Show
Premiered on NBC.
1958 – The Ford Motor
Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, a Thunderbird.
1968 – General Motors
produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.
1978 – The Amoco Cadiz
wrecked off the coast of Portsall, France, spilling 68 million gallons of oil.
1984 –William Buckley,
the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later died in
captivity)
1985 – Associated Press
newsman Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut. He was released on December
4, 1991.
1988 – Lieutenant Colonel
Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter were indicted on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the United States.
2005 – Robert Blake, star
of the 1970s television detective show Baretta, was acquitted of the murder of
his 44-year-old wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.
2015 Google commemorate
Anna Atkins's 216th birthday with a Google Doodle image representing her
cyanoprint work
2016 US President Barack
Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice
2017 US President Donald
Trump's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts.
2020 COVID-19: France
orders a national lockdown, US recommends meetings 10 or less, 6 counties in
San Francisco and surrounding counties told to "shelter in place"
Birthdays Today
@91 – Henry Henny Youngman,
English-American violinist, comedian (d. 1998)
@91 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and
comedian (d. 2017)
@85 – James Madison, Father of the
Contstitution, 4th US President
80 – Chuck Woolery,
American game show host, television personality
72 – Henry Enrique Erik
Estrada, American actor
@65 – Georg Ohm, German physicist, mathematician
(d. 1854)
Puzzle Answer
Eleven. Because Lisa lost
three games to Susan, she had lost $3 ($1 per game). So, she had to win back
that $3 with three more games, then win another five games to win $5.
