Mar 13

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Mar 13, 2019 Week: 11 \ Day: 72

86004 Today: H 40° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 98% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: ¼ mi

Record High: 70°[2007]   Record Low: -9°[1962]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

Random Tidbits

A common Catholic symbol is ashes, which are ancient signs of penance. Catholics place ashes on their foreheads at the beginning of Lent as an outward sign of repentance.

The magical term "hocus pocus" probably comes from the most sacred moment in Catholic ritual: the consecration of the bread as the body of Christ by the priest speaking the words "This is my body," which in Latin is Hoc est enim corpus meum.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-20

National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 

World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10

Campfire USA Birthday Week: 10-16

Girl Scout Week: 10-16 

Termite Awareness Week: 10-16

National Agriculture Week: 10-16

International Brain Awareness Week: 11-17 

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17

Observances for Today

Donald Duck Day
Ear Muff Day
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Itra-Uterine Growth Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day
Jewel Day

K-9 Veterans Day  Link
Ken Day (Doll)
L. Ron Hubbard Day
National Chicken Noodle Soup Day

National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
Registered Dietitian Day  
Smart & Sexy Day

My Rambling Thoughts

As I was leaving for my Medicare appointment, it was snowing hard, just not really sticking. When I came out about an hour later, it was raining. The forecasted snow is now 6” for tonight. Haha.

Medicare annual checkup went well. I actually found this appointment quite through. I had to undress and get poked and jabbed checking to see if I had any hidden pain, I guess. Probably because this year is a milestone birthday.

I have never even thought of the US President signing my Bible. Or having anyone else sign it for that matter. I’ve been thinking about the spectacle of 45 signing Bibles. What happened to the separation of church and state?

Buying admission to prestigious schools. Really?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1900’s

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell

            Observatory, Flagstaff

1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

2000’s

2012 Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish

            printed versions of its encyclopedia

2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking

            the papal name Pope Francis

2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from

            President Donald Trump

2018 National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was

            racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King

             Jr.

Birthdays Today

1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell,

American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1916-@62)

1911 L. Ron Hubbard,

American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and

founder of the Scientology cult,

born in Tilden, Nebraska

(d. 1986-@74-stroke)

1901 Paul Fix,

American actor (Rifleman),

born in Dobbs Ferry, New York

(d. 1983-@82)

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97- Al Jaffee,

American comic strip cartoonist and illustrator (MAD Magazine),

born in Savannah, Georgia

69-William H. Macy,

actor

43-Danny Masterson,

actor (That 70’s Show)

34- Emile Hirsch,

American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer),

born in Topanga, California

Historical Obits Today

@86-1906 Susan B. Anthony,

American social reformer and women's suffrage movement

leader

@80-1938 Clarence S Darrow,

Scopes Monkey Trial attorney

@67-1901 Benjamin Harrison,

23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93)

@44-1943 Stephen Vincent Benét,

American author

dies of heart attack