Jan 18


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Jan. 18, 2020 Week: 1  Day: 18
86004:   H 44° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest lightning:  286mi.; Nearest active fire:  1194mi.  
Wind:   14mph\Gusts:  22mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[1971]   Record Low: -8°[1995]
Jan. Averages: 43°\16° (22” days with snow)

Today’s Einstein Quote

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Random Tidbits

Canadians say "sorry" so much that a law was passed so that an apology can't be used as an admission of guilt.

Canadians are well-known for being incredibly polite, perhaps even to a fault. That's why in 2009, the province of Ontario passed the "Apology Act," which states that saying "sorry" - which can be an expression of sympathy or regret - can't legally be considered an admission of guilt or fault.

Observations This Week

National Soccer Coaches of America Week: 15-19

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week: 17-23

Week of Christian Unity: 18-25

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days: 18-19

Internat’l Snowmobile Safety-Awareness Week: 18-26

Observations for Today

Hot Heads Chili Days
National Use Your Gift Card Day  Link
Peking Duck Day

My Rambling Thoughts


Our retirement lunch lasted into the afternoon yesterday. Good food, good dessert, great conversation. Mary has set up an interesting adventure for her son and grandkids. They are going to Medieval Times, the restaurant/horse show/jousting experience. Made more interesting because her granddaughter only eats junk food and the parents usually pack ‘snacks’ for her when they go to a restaurant that doesn’t serve Chicken Nuggets. Because of the horses, MT doesn’t allow patrons to bring in any food.

Next week will be busy with 4 appointments: Dentist, to complete root canal; blood doc to take blood and then see me the next day; and a normal Primary Care appointment. I just want the root canal finished and the mold for a bridge made. My last top tooth on the left is feeling very lonely up there, and the empty space is always filling up with food.

I am embarrassed that one of our AZ senators has made all the news and late-night shows. FYI: she was not elected but appointed after the death of McCain. She had run and lost the previous election to our other Senator. When she was asked by a CNN reporter about the possibilities of witnesses at the impeachment, her response was not professional, not Senatorial, and only possibly acceptable by a pre-teen who was raised by wolves. She is in a close race with Mark Gifford, former astronaut and husband of the former AZ Rep who was shot at a grocery store while meeting with constituents.


Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

I have three apples; you take two from me. How many do you have?

Historical Events

1644 - "In this year one James Everell, a sober, discreet man, and two others, saw a great light in the night at Muddy River. When it stood still, it flamed up, and was about three yards square; when it ran, it was contracted into the figure of a swine: it ran as swift as an arrow towards Charlton, and so up and down about two or three hours. They were come down in their lighter about a mile, and, when it was over, they found themselves carried quite back against the tide to the place they came from. Divers[e] other credible persons saw the same light, after, about the same place."

1778 - James Cook 'discovered' Hawaii, naming it 'The Sandwich Islands'

1817 José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
 1896 - The X-Ray Machine was shown to the public. Not really. The Cabaret du Neant charged people to see an 'illusion' of the effect.

1911 - The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Lt. Eugene B. Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania.

1944 - Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, in NYC.


1975 - #1 Hit: Barry Manilow - Mandy

1980 - Gold reached $1,000 an ounce for the first time.


1990 - Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting. He claimed that the "bitch set me up" when he was caught with crack cocaine.

1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Manuel Noriega $320,000 over his career

1993 - Martin Luther King Day became official in all 50 United States.

2013 Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is indicted on corruption charges stemming from post-Hurricane Katrina business contracts and bribes


2013 Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is indicted on corruption charges stemming from post-Hurricane Katrina business contracts and bribes

2017 NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014

Birthdays Today

@82-Cary Grant, actor (d.1986)

79-Bobby Goldsboro, singer, songwriter

@76-Danny Kaye David Daniel Kaminsky, comedian (d.1987; Hep C)

@75-Bob "Bozo The Clown" Bell (d.1997)

@74-Alan Alexander Milne, author

@70-Daniel Webster, statesman

@65-Oliver Hardy, actor (d.1957, series of strokes)

65-Kevin Costner, actor

40- Jason Segel, actor

37-Samantha Mumba, Grammy winning singer

Puzzle Answer:

Two, the two apples that you took from me. Assuming you had no apples when this started. I am left with one.


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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.