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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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1-8 |
National Personal
Trainer Awareness Week |
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2-8 |
Someday We'll Laugh
About This Week: |
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5-8 |
International Consumer
Electronics Show |
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6-9 |
Elvis' Birthday
Celebration Week |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice sunny
warmish day.
This morning
was time for a pedicure. When I got there at 10:15 I was soaking in a manner of
minutes. When I left, there were 2 people waiting and 3 getting pedis and 3
getting manicures. Lucky I got there when I did.
Air travel
is really getting messed up by Covid. The Phoenix TSA shut down 2 of the 4
checkpoints at Terminal 3…the busiest one, due to staffing shortage. DIA in
Denver had landing planes sitting on the tarmac for over 3 hours…again, staff
shortage. Glad I’m not traveling now.
Our young,
vaccinated and boosted Mayor tested positive, so all council business is now
via zoom.
Sad to read
of the passing of Sidney Poitier at 94. He leaves such an incredible movie and
social activism legacy.
Russia is helping
Kazakhstan quell protests over high propane prices. It had been considered the
most stable ‘stan’ in the region.
Australia is
getting lots of flack after Serbian tennis champ Djokovic’s ‘Medical Exemption’
for the Australian Open. The ‘Rules are
Rules’ explanation is upsetting many in the Tennis world as well as many Australians.
Time will tell how this works out.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
How do you
make an aquarium sound better?
You tuna
fish.
And Now
This.....
I am writing
a book about all the things I should be doing in my life.
It's an
oughtobiography.
Trivia
1. What part of the atom has no electric charge?
2. What is the symbol for potassium?
ANSWERS:
Answer: Neutron
Answer: K
Historical Events
Ø 1851 – Jean Foucault proved that Earth
rotated on its axis.
Ø
1918 –
President Woodrow Wilson proposed the ‘Fourteen Points for a Just Peace’.
Ø
1964 –
President Lyndon Johnson announced the ‘War on Poverty’ during his State of the
Union Address.
Ø 1982 – AT&T was broken up into 22
smaller companies, nicknamed ‘Baby Bells’.
Birthdays Today
90 – Charles
Osgood, American journalist
85 – Shirley
Bassey, Welsh singer
§ @83
– Soupy Sales [Milton Supman], American comedian, and actor (died in 2009)
§ @80
– José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1992)
§ @76
– Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018; ALS)
§ @69
– David Bowie [David Robert Jones],
singer-songwriter, actor (d. 2016; liver cancer)
§ @67
– William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975; strokes)
64 – Betsy DeVos,
American businesswoman, politician
§ @59
– Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer (d. 1970; lung cancer)
55 – R. (Robert
Sylvester) Kelly, American singer-songwriter
§ @42
– Elvis Presley, American singer, The King (d. 1977; OD)
§ @48
– Graham Chapman, English actor, Monty Python member (d. 1989’ cancer)
38 – Kim Jong-Un,
N. Korean leader
22 – Noah Cyrus,
American actress, singer
