Apr 2

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Apr 2, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 92

86004:   H 58° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  515mi. Nearest lightning:  1712mi

Record High: 72°[1966]   Record Low: -°[1975]

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

Today’s Quote

Wise men speak because they have something to say;

Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

More Observances This Month

Defeat Diabetes Month
Distracted Driving Awareness Month Link
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month 
Fair Housing Month Link
Financial Literacy Month Link
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month Link
Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month  Link
Global Astronomy Month
Global Child Nutrition Month Link
Grange Month Link
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month 

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

NanoDays: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 

Observances for Today

Equal Pay Day Link
International Children's Book Day
Isra Al Mi'ra [Islam]
National Ferret Day Link
National Love Your Produce Manager Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day Link
National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action  Link  
Reconciliation Day
World Autism Day Link
World Autism Acceptance Day  Link

World Party Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Not a bad day outside, still a tad cool for my spring taste.

I headed out this morning to get a new home phone. Found a decent one with 2 cordless phones, a working answering machine, and a few more bells…no whistles. Only $35. Thanks Best Buy. On my old phone (10+ years old) I used the default message with a man’s voice. On my new phone, a different brand, has the exact same man’s voice and message as the default. I guess one company is making all the cordless phones and just puts a different cover and a different price on them. Interesting.

When 45 gets a thought, watch out. Now he wants to close the entire US/Mexico border. I don’t even understand what that means. Does it mean no goods from Mexico could come to the US? …That the US can’t send goods to Mexico?...that no Americans can vacation in Mexico?...that planes can’t fly over the border?...that persons with dual citizenship can’t cross the border?  My guess is he hasn’t really thought this through. He continues to give very simple answers to extremely complex issues.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally, one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime

1800’s

1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen

1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils

1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1884 London prison for debtors closed

1900’s

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity"

1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market

1986 NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs & brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect

2000’s

2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.

2013 Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%

Birthdays Today

742 Charlemagne,

(d. 814: @71)

1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14),

born in Liège, Frankish Kingdom

1725 Giacomo Casanova,

(d. 1798:@73)

Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover, born in Venice, Italy

1805 Hans Christian Andersen,

(d. 1875: @70)

Danish author of 150 fairy tales (The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen), born in Odense, Denmark

1875 Walter Chrysler,

(d. 1940: @65: stroke)

American founder of car company Chrysler, born in Wamego, Kansas

1908 Christian "Buddy" Ebsen Jr.,

(d. 2003: @95)

American actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Breakfast at Tiffany's),

born in Belleville, Illinois

1914 Alec Guinness,

(d. 2000: @86)

British actor (The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai),

born in London, England

1917 Robert "Dabbs" Greer,

(d. 2007: @90)

American actor

(Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie),

born in Fairview, Missouri

1920 Jack Webb,

(d. 1982: @62: heart attack)

American screenwriter, director and actor

(Dragnet, Sunset Boulevard),

born in Santa Monica, California

1942 Leon Russell

[Claude Russell Bridges],

(d. 2016: @74: in his sleep)

American musician and singer-songwriter

(Tight Rope, Delta Lady, Carney),

born in Lawton, Oklahoma

1954 Ron Palillo,

(d. 2012: @63: heart attack)

American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter),

born in New Haven, Connecticut

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70’s

74- Linda Hunt,

American actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado),

born in Morristown, New Jersey

72- Emmylou Harris,

American country singer (Together Again),

born in Birmingham, Alabama

50’s

58- Christopher Meloni,

American actor (Law & Order),

born in Washington, D.C.

40’s

44- Adam Rodriguez,

American actor (Eric Delko-CSI: Miami) and director,

born in Yonkers, New York

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-2005 Pope Saint John Paul II

[Karol Wojtyla],

Polish Roman Catholic Pope

@81-2018 Winnie Mandela

[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela],

South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician

@80-1872 Samuel Morse

developer of electric telegraph

60’s

@66-1966 C. S. Forester,

English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)

@61-1932 Bill Pickett,

American cowboy and rodeo performer who invented bulldogging,

dies after being kicked in the head by a bronco

Puzzle answer:

His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape.