Mar 1


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Mar. 1, 2020 Week: 10 Day: 61
86004: H 56° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Nearest lightning: 1974mi.; Nearest active fire: 132mi.
Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[2009 ] Record Low: -10°[1997 ]
Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
May there always be work for your hands to do,
May your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane,
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Random Tidbits

Scientists claim that the most complicated and mysterious thing in the universe is the human brain. Scientists know more about stars exploding billions of light years away than they know about the brain.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) believed that the center of thought was the heart and that the brain's function was merely to cool the heart. It was an early Greek physician, Alcmaeon of Croton (c. 6th century B.C.), who was the first to claim that the brain, not the heart, is the central organ of sensation and thought.

Observations This Week

Celebrate Your Name Week: 1-7
Hearing Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
LGBT Health Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Consumer Protection Week: 1-7Link
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 1-7 Link
National Invest in a Veteran Week: 1-7 Link
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 Link
National Procrastination Week: 1-7
National Schools Social Work Week: 1-7 Link
National Words Matter Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
Read an E-Book Week: 1-7 Link 
Return The Borrowed Books Week:  1-7
Save Your Vision Week: 1-7 Link
Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 1-7  
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7 LinkWill Eisner Week: 1-7 Link
Women in Construction Week: 1-7 Link
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 1-8
Observations for Today


Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day
Baby Sleep Day
Dadgum That's Good Day
Daughters' and Sons' Day
Endometriosis Day or Wear Yellow DayFinisher's Medal Day
Namesake Day
National Black Women in Jazz & The Arts Day
National Horse Protection Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I had a great birthday yesterday. Started the day with home cooked breakfast with Andy and family, also had lunch with friends, went to dinner with other friends. Andy, his brother-in-law and I moved the trailer from Phx to Flag with no problem. Great conversation and fantastic food. Happy camper.

Washed linens, rotated the mattress, and started getting ready for spring. Kinda weird to just rotate new mattress instead of flipping, but that's what the guy said, since it's a different kind of mattress.

Read an article about Jeffco Schools. The district will use a snow day on Mar. 19 for the CEA Day of Action at the state capitol as teachers and others rally to raise salaries, have more school funding, and improve the schools of Colorado. Seems too many teachers had requested leave and the district ran out of subs for that day. Good luck to all CO teachers.

Daily updates from Focus on our upcoming trip. The ship is taking the necessary precautions for the Coronavirus. Let's hope it doesn't bother us on our upcoming trip. Nothing to do but wait and see what happens.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

Super Anagrams are phrases that create a loose definition of the original.

Moon Starer
Bad Credit
Bag Manager

Historical Events

1692 - In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, were accused of witchcraft, beginning the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Assuming those convicted were not practicing the dark arts, 19 innocent women and men were killed as a result of the trials.

1790 - The first United States census was authorized.

1872 - Congress made 1,221,773 acres of public land in the area of what were later the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America's first national park - Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles.

1910 - An avalanche in Wellington, Washington took The Great Northern Railroad's westbound Spokane Express and the Wellington Train Station. 96 people were killed.

1921 - Harry Houdini earned a US Patent (#1,370,31) for a safety Diver Suit for his underwater magic escape tricks.

1932 - The Lindbergh Kidnapping - Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, was kidnapped from the family's new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey.

1954 - At Bikini Atoll, US hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo exploded.

1961 - President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order establishing the Peace Corps.

1971 - A bomb exploded in the Capitol building in Washington, DC, but hurt no one. A group called the "Weather Underground" claimed credit for the bombing, which was done in protest of the ongoing US supported Laos invasion.

1971 - James Taylor made the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, spotlighting 'The New Rock: Bittersweet and Low.'

1975 - #1 Hit : Eagles - Best of My Love

1983 - Swatch watches were introduced. I'm still looking to replace my wife's black face, black band, black hands edition.

1995 - Yahoo! was incorporated.

1996 - The news was revealed that 1 billion households worldwide owned a television set.

1998 - Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan as US special operations forces infiltrate the Shahi-Kot Valley in Eastern Afghanistan

2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

2014 US President Barack Obama warns Russian President Vladimir Putin over involvement in Ukraine

2016 Forbes Richest List released, Bill Gates No. 1 with $75 billion, number of world's billionaires shrinks to 1,810

2018 US President Donald Trump says he will impose 25% steel, 10% aluminium import tariffs, raising fears of a trade war

Birthdays Today
    
      93-Harry Belafonte musician
      @84-Robert Conrad, actor (d. 2020)
@83-Harry Caray. broadcaster (d.1998)
      76-Roger Daltrey (1944)
@73-David Niven. actor ( d.1983; ALS)
     @69-Alan Thicke, actor (d. 2016; aorta dissection)
66-Ron Howard actor, producer
66-Catherine Bach actor
      53- Don Lemon, CNN news       
      51-Javier Bardem actor
46-Mark-Paul Gosselaar actor
@39-Frederic Chopin, composer (d. 1849)
   36- Lupita Nyong'o, actor
    33-Ke$ha singer
    26-Justin Bieber singer

Puzzle Answer:

Astronomer
Debit Card
Garbage Man



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Feb 28


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Feb. 28, 2020 Week: 9 Day: 59
86004: H 54° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest lightning: 3069mi.; Nearest active fire: 515mi.
Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1999 ] Record Low: -16°[1962]
Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

Random Tidbits

During sleep, the brain "consolidates" memories and skills, meaning that the brain strengthens, reorganizes, and restructures memories during sleep.
REM atonia, or sleep paralysis, occurs in the typical sleeper every night to prevent people from acting out their dreams. Only a few muscles have the ability to move during REM sleep, such as the eye muscles, the auditory muscles, and the diaphragm for respiration.

Observations This Week

Bird Health Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: 23-29
Nat'l Invasive Species Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Justice for Animals Week: 23-29Link Link
Cordova Ice Worm Days: 25-3/1 Link
International Petroleum Week: 25-27 Link
Lent: 26-4/11
National Money Show: 27-29

Observations for Today

Floral Design Day Link
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend Link
National Chili Day
National Customized Wheel and Tire Day
National Tooth Fairy Day Link Lin
National Science Day
Rare Disease Day
Skip The Straw Day Link
Tartar Sauce Day Link
US Snow Shoe Days -3/1Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I attended my boss' son's funeral today. Beautiful service, nice burial, and great reception. Navajos don't believe in viewing deceased, Hopis do, others have a preference over religious beliefs. Andy, my boss, stood up after the closed casket funeral and announced that those who want to leave may, and Hopi who want to view will have an opportunity. Andy left with many of us, along with the Navajo. Hopi stayed behind and viewed and prayed the Hopi way. There was a Navajo speaker, a Hopi speaker, and a Christian minister. Similar actions at the burial. Then everyone gathered at the church for the meal. With three religions, it was the best way I have ever seen it take place. Glad I was included.

Tomorrow I'll be going with Andy and his brother-in-law to Phoenix to pick up the mobile trailer. It will take most of the day, so no update tomorrow.

I hope everyone enjoys the extra day we get on Saturday. It only comes every four years.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

A farmer in California owns a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?



Historical Events

1066 - Westminster Abbey opened

1525 - Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
1784 - John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States. An Anglican, Wesley wanted a church structure for his followers after the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers during the American Revolution.
1827 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was incorporated. It was the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. It was primarily anti-slavery people.
1885 - The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was incorporated in New York, as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.
1922 - The United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1935 - Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon while working at DuPont.
1839 - The non-existent word "dord" was published in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
1940 - Basketball was televised for the first time. The game was Fordam University vs. University of Pittsburgh
1953 - Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announced that they had found the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.
1954 - The first color television sets using the NTSC standard were offered for sale to the general public.
1983 - CBS sitcom M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons, airing a special two-and-a-half hour episode watched by 77% of the television viewing audience.
1993 - Near Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, agents of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) launch a raid against the Branch Davidian compound. At least 80 people, including 22 children, were killed.
1996 - KISS reunited at the Grammys in full makeup and costume.
2002 - Sotheby's auction house announced that Peter Paul Reubens was the creator of the painting The Massacre of the Innocents, not Jan van den Hoecke as previously believed.
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church - the first pope to do so since 1415.

Puzzle Answer:

None. A pear tree does not bear plums.



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Feb 27


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Feb. 27, 2020 Week: 9 Day: 59
86004: H 45° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest lightning: 1675mi.; Nearest active fire: 231mi.
Wind: 11mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[1921 ] Record Low: -12°[1961]
Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

“A friend is someone who knows all about you
and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

Random Tidbits

Sleep is a universal characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is so important that humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.

Observations This Week

Bird Health Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: 23-29
Nat'l Invasive Species Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Justice for Animals Week: 23-29Link Link
Cordova Ice Worm Days: 25-3/1 Link
International Petroleum Week: 25-27 Link
Lent: 26-4/11
National Money Show: 27-29

Observations for Today

Anosomia Awareness Day Link
Digital Learning Day Link
International Polar Bear Day Link
International Toast Day Link
National Chili Day Link
National Kahlua Day
National Retro Day Link
National Strawberry Day
World NGO Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Cheryl has a bad cough from her visiting son, so we postponed my bday lunch till next week. So Mary and I ate at one of our favorites. We'll party when Cheryl recovers.

AZ is very conservative. The AZ House just passed a bill to require inmates who are injured doing prison work and sue will have to pay their medical expenses if they win in court. Seems a little Draconian to me.

I have always believed that the Olympics should not be political. I was against all the boycotts, against the fist thing and anything else political. This is the 40th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Trump was in Vegas for a rally. At the same time, the team was at other events for the 40th. They were invited to his rally and called up on stage. As they were climbing the stairs, they were handed MAGA hats. Some wore them, some didn't. Social media is lambasting those who wore the hats. I agree, their achievement was not political during the game. It shouldn't be 40 years later.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the pattern?

Historical Events

1703 - The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703.
1801 - District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 - Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. 'Taxation without representation.'
1812 - Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1827- Masked and costumed students danced through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the first of the city's famous Mardi Gras celebrations.
1879 - Saccharin, the artificial sweetener, was discovered by Constantin Fahlberg,
1900 - German chemist Felix Hoffmann was issued the patent (#644,077) for 'Acetyl Salicylic Acid'. We now call it Aspirin.
1936 - Shirley Temple received a new contract from 20th Century Fox that paid the seven-year-old star $50,000 per film.
1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.
1960 - The US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in the semifinals at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. The next day, the US team beat Czechoslovakia to win its first-ever Olympic gold medal in hockey.
1973 - The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1974 - People magazine was published for the first time
1980 - There was only one Grammy for Best Disco Recording ever, and it was awarded to Gloria Gaynor for I Will Survive.
1999 - Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
2006 - The African Burial Ground National Monument was established in Lower Manhattan, New York. Over 15,000 Africans, slave and free, were buried there from the 1690s through 1790s.
2010 (Earthquake) Coastal Maule, Chile
2013 Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City
2018 Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded
2019 Michael Cohen, former lawyer to Donald Trump testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is "racist", a "con man" and "a cheat"
2019 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam


Birthdays Today
40- Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary
@66-John Steinbeck, author (d. 1968; heart disease)
@79-Elizabeth Taylor, actor (d. 2011)

Puzzle Answer:

One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)



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Feb 26


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Feb. 26, 2020 Week: 9 Day: 57
86004: H 35° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest lightning: 1507mi.; Nearest active fire: 296mi.
Wind: 12mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1986 ] Record Low: -7°[1977 ]
Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

Random Tidbits

In the late 19th century, running was called "pedestrianism."

Recreational running didn't become mainstream until the late 1960s. In 1958, the Chicago Tribune announced a strange new fitness fad: jogging.
In the 1960's, running for exercise was so unusual that some people were stopped by police. People would try to run in the morning because police becamse suspicious if they saw a grown man running at night.

Observations This Week

Bird Health Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: 23-29
Nat'l Invasive Species Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Justice for Animals Week: 23-29Link Link
Cordova Ice Worm Days: 25-3/1 Link
International Petroleum Week: 25-27 Link
Lent: 26-4/11

Observations for Today



For Pete's Sake Day

Inconvenience Yourself Day

Levi Strauss Day

Losar Link

National Personal Chef's Day Link


Pink Shirt Day Link


World Pistachio Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts
Ellie, Focus Travel Club leader, celebrated a birthday on the 25th, so hope it was a very happy one.

Two comments on the current election cycle: There needs to be a movement from the voters to have a constitutional amendment that limits Representatives and Senators to two terms. Each one can then sit out one election cycle, and if so compelled he/she can run again. The second comment is about Bernie's comment about Cuba. I agree that Castro did improve education, but at a much higher cost than was necessary. My two trips to Cuba, during the Obama administration, when there was a lifting of travel restrictions and in Cuba and more freedom for private ownership, I also saw the repression that was still present. Americans who have never traveled to Cuba do not have a true picture of life there. It is better than during Fidel's reign, but still has a lot to make up for in the realm of personal freedoms and a democratically elected government. Bernie's comments will not get him votes from Cuban-Americans, or probably from other Hispanic voters.

I'm still coping with Chris' needless death. After his last stint in rehab, he would call me every couple of weeks to check up on me and let me know he was doing his best to deal with his issues. Hard to know I won't be getting anymore of those calls. He had a lot of relatives and friends his own age that are trying to find answers too.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

If a chicken says, "All chickens are liars". Is the chicken telling the truth?

Historical Events

1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba.

1870 - New York City's first pneumatic-powered subway line, created by Alfred Beach, was opened to the public.
1909 - Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, was first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London with 21 short films.
1919 - 800,000 acres of the Grand Canyon, already a national monument, was designated a national park under President Woodrow Wilson
1929 - President Calvin Coolidge signed into law a bill establishing the Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.
1946 - Finnish observers reported the first of thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.
1977 - # 1 Hit : Eagles - New Kid in Town
1993 - The first of the World Trade Bombings occurred , the bomb went off in a parked truck under the North Tower. The bombing killed six and injured over a thousand people.
1995 - Selena Quintanilla-Perez performed her last concert in Houston before being shot by her manager.
2005 Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections, asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76
2005 - Halle Berry accepted her Razzie Award at the 25th annual ceremony at Hollywood’s historic Ivar Theatre.
2011 - # 1 Hit: Lady Gaga - Born This Way
2012 - Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen walking home from a trip to a convenience store, was fatally shot in an altercation with George Zimmerman, a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer patrolling the townhouse community of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Florida.


2018 Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its 1 millionth seed on 10 year anniversary
2019 More than 4,500 complaints of child sexual abuse against migrant children received by US Health Department, Department of Justice received 1,300 more
2019 City of Venice in Italy introduces a day visitors tax

Birthdays Today


@89 - Fats Domino, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died in 2017)
@84 - Tony Randall, American actor (died in 2004)
@83 - Victor Hugo, French author, poet, and playwright (died in 1885)
@78 - Robert Novak, American journalist and author (died in 2009; brain cancer)
@73 - Levi Strauss, German-American fashion designer, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (died in 1902)
@72 - Tex Avery, American animator, producer, and MGM voice actor (died in 1980, lung cancer)
@71 - Jackie Gleason, American actor (died in 1987; diabetic complications)
@71 - Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died in 2003; diabetic compications)
@70 – William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody, American soldier, showman and hunter (died in 1917)
67 - Michael Bolton, American singer-songwriter
@29 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (died in 1593; stabbed)


Puzzle Answer:

Chickens cannot talk.
[This is a dumb answer]



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