Apr 25

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Apr 25, 2019 Week: 17 \ Day: 115

86004:   H 72° \ L ° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  276mi. Nearest lightning:  434mi

Record High: 78°[1996]   Record Low: 13°[1961]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

Random Tidbits

Crayons:

In 1903, the Binney & Smith company made the first box of Crayola crayons costing a nickel and containing eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, and black.

On average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.

Observances This Week

National Dance Week: 19-28 Link 
National Park Week: 20-28  Link
Passover: 20-27
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week: 21-27 Link 
Administrative Professionals Week: 21-27 
Bedbug Awareness Week: 21-27  
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: 21-27
Festival of Ridvan: 21-5/2
Fibroid Awareness Week: 21-27  
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week:21-27  Link
National Coin Week: 21-27
National Infertility Awareness Week: 21-27  Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week: 21-27
National Pet ID Week: 21-27 Link  Link
National Princess Week: 21-27    Link
Orthodox Holy Week: 21-27
Preservation Week:21-27 Link (re: Libraries)
Sky Awareness Week: 21-27  
Spring Astronomy Week: 21-26 
World Hula Week: 21-27 
International Dark Sky Week: 22-28
National Environmental Education Week: 22-26  Link
National Playground Safety Week: 22-26  Link
American Quilters Society Week: 24-27
National Scoop The Poop Week: 24-30
World Immunization Week: 24-30
International Mariachi Week: 24-27
National Tattoo Week: 24-29 Link
Fiddler's Frolic: 25-28
Gathering of the Nations Powwow: 25-27 Link

Observances for Today

DNA Day Link
East Meets West Day (aka Elbe Day)  Link
Hairstylists Appreciation Day

Hug A Plumber Day or Plumbers Day Link
International Girls in Information and Telecommunication Technologies Day 
International Marconi Day 
International Noise Awareness Day  Link
License Plates Day
National Crotilla Day
National Dissertation Day  Link
National Mani-pedi Day  Link
National Zucchini Bread Day

Malaria Awareness Day  Link
Parental Alienation Day Link
Red Hat Society Day  Link
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day

World Penguin Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Another nice spring day…may some moisture later today. Nice!

I headed out to get a haircut. All trimmed and ready for anything. My regular stylist seems to be off the grid, so went to where she works and got a good chopping. While I liked the barber- shop cut I got last time, it grew out all strange. So, it’s back to a stylist and a scissor cut instead of a clipper cut.

My regular PCP sent me to a kidney specialist to be sure everything is working well. Yesterday I did a blood draw that was more like a phlebotomy than a blood draw. The nice lady took 9 tubes of blood and a urine sample. I warned her about my quirky vein and she said well it won’t be unusual if I have to stick you twice, since I am taking this large amount of blood. Luckily my vein held up well and filled all the tubes without a re-stick. The new Dr. is moving, thankfully closer to me. They just called to reschedule because even though they are moving on May 1, they were just informed that the computers won’t be up by May 5…the day of my next appointment. I rescheduled for May 10^th. I can’t believe that it takes that long. There are 3 doctors in the office and all are moving to the new location.

 I have worked with IT guys at several schools. My experience is that since they speak ‘computer’ and few understand what they are really saying. The IT schools must teach them to promise whatever the customer wants, and then when the IT falls short, have highly technical terminology to make it seem plausible.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Can you Form a word from the letters? A  B  C  D  E F  G  I.  (note; the word is hyphenated)

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller first to use the name America on his world map "Universalis Cosmographia"

1600’s

1684 Patent granted for thimble

1700’s

1719 Daniel Defoe publishes "Robinson Crusoe"

1792 Guillotine first used in France, executes highwayman Nicolas Pelletier

1800’s

1849 The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.

1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal

1867 Tokyo opens for foreign trade

1900’s

1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank

1945 "Elbe Day" - US and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on the Elbe River during the invasion of Germany in WWII

1954 Bell labs announces the 1st solar battery made from silicon. It has about 6% efficiency.

1960 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed by USS submarine Triton in 60 days, 21 hours

1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington, D.C.

1978 Supreme Court rules pension plans can't require women to pay more

1980 Announcement of US hostage rescue bungle in Iran

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

2000’s

2005 Final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937

Birthdays Today

1599 Oliver Cromwell, (d. 1658: @59: malaria)

Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58),

born in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England

1825 Charles Dowd, (d. 1904: @79: dies under a train’s wheels)

American principal who was the 1st to propose standardized time zones (for America's railways),

born in Madison, Connecticut

1874 Guglielmo Marconi, (d. 1937: @63)

Italian radio inventor (Nobel 1909),

born in Bologna, Italy

1906 William J. Brennan, Jr, (d. 1997: @91)

American Supreme Court judge (1956-90),

born in Newark, New Jersey

1908 Edward R. Murrow, (d. 1965: @57:  lung cancer)

American newscaster (Person to Person),

born in Guilford County, North Carolina

1917 Ella Fitzgerald, (d. 1996: @79: stroke)

American jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex),

born in Newport News, Virginia

1989 Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, (disappeared 1995: @6)

11th Panchen Lama,

born in Lhari County, Tibet, China

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70’s

78- Al Pacino,

American actor (And Justice For All, The Godfather, Scorpio),

born in NYC, New York

77- Jon Kyl,

U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona (1987-95),

born in Oakland, Nebraska

73-Talia Shire [Coppola],

American actress (Adrienne-Rocky),

born in Lake Success, New York

50’s

55- Hank Azaria,

American actor (The Birdcage) and

voice behind many characters in The Simpsons (Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson),

born in NYC, New York

50- Renée Zellweger,

American actress (Bridget Jones),

born in Katy, Texas

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2009 Bea Arthur,

American comedian, singer and actress

(All in the Family, The Golden Girls)

@83-1995 Ginger Rogers,

American actress, dancer and singer (Top Hat, Stage Door)

70’s

@70-1995 Art Fleming,

game show host (Jeopardy),

dies of pancreatic cancer

60’s

@69-2007 Bobby "Boris" Pickett,

American singer-songwriter (Monster Mash),

dies from leukemia

@65-1972 George Sanders,

Russian actor (All About Eve-Academy Award 1950),

commits suicide

@62±-68 Saint Mark,

the first Pope of Alexandria and

the founder of Christianity in Africa

40’s

@42-1744 Anders Celsius,

Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale)

30’s

@33-1644 Chongzhen,

last Ming Emperor of China,

commits suicide

Puzzle answer:

Big-Faced.