Feb 2

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Feb. 2, 2020 Week: 1  Day: 33

86004:   H 54° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  1556mi.; Nearest active fire:  264mi.  

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[1976]   Record Low: -14°[1922]

Jan. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

To love deeply in one direction 

makes us more loving in all others.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Random Tidbits

Blue fin tuna populations have dropped more than 96 percent, primarily due to increasing sushi demands. Most of the blue fin tuna fishing occurs off the coast of Japan, which has very few limits on tuna fishing.

The most expensive price ever for a sushi-grade blue fin tuna was $1.8 million for a 222-kilogram fish in Japan. Over 80 percent of the world's declining tuna stock are eaten by the Japanese.

Observations this Month

Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month Link
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
American Heart Month
An Affair To Remember Month  Link
Bake for Family Fun Month Link
Barley Month Link
Beat The Heat Month
Cricket World Cup (2/13-3/29)
Declutter For A Cause Month
Dog Training Education Month Link  Link
Fasting February  Link

Observations This Week

Women's Heart Week: 1-7
National Stationery Week: 2-5 Link 
Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8
African Heritage & Health Week: 2-8 
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 2-8 
Burn Awareness Week: 2-8 Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 2-8 

Observations for Today

Ayn Rand Day  Link
Candelmas
Crepe Day
Crepe Day or La Chandeleur  Link
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day 
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Job Shadow Day
Hedgehog Day
Imbolc
Marmot Day Link
National Tater Tot Day

Play Your Ukulele Day

Popcorn Day  Link 
Sled Dog Day
Super Bowl LIV (54)
"The Record of a Sneeze" Day
World Wetlands Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I finally found a workaround for my problems with my Office program. The computer rescue service I use is not being helpful. I found a free program that does what I need since I can’t use office. A small learning curve, but better than no word processing program.

I had lunch with Mary on Thursday and Cheryl on Friday. Mary was headed to Phoenix early Friday, and Cheryl had a dog grooming appointment on Friday. Mary and I went to IHOP, my first visit to their new place. It was a good meal, and good conversation. Cheryl and I ate at one of our favorite places and I tried the fish fry. It was amazing. Cheryl is doing well, but hates driving to Flag from Williams so she spends her time in Williams.

I had another phlebotomy on Thursday after lunch. It took two nurses and four sticks to find a vein but than it went quickly. I may have to go to the phlebotomy area of the hospital so they can do an ultrasound to find the vein. Dr. said I should be good for at least 6 months.

The Senate voted for no witnesses. Not a happy camper. This democracy was not founded to make me a happy camper, so I will be fine with their decision. History will figure it all out.

Getting lots of emails about my adventure to Tahiti with Focus Travel in March. Guess it’s time to book my flight and shuttle to Denver. Starting to get very excited.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Two mothers and two daughters were fishing. They managed to catch one big fish, one small fish, one fat fish. Since only three fish were caught, how is it that they each took home a fish?

Historical Events

046 - The "Little Ice Age" began in Europe.

1653 - New Amsterdam (now the City of New York) was incorporated.

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued by William Dampier after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe

1876 - National League (now Major League Baseball) of baseball was founded

1887 - The first Groundhog Day was observed in Punxsutawney, PA

1892 - The bottle cap with cork seal was patented (#468,226) by William Painter, from Baltimore.

1893 - The Record of a Sneeze was filmed by Thomas Edison. It was the first filmed 'close up.'

1913 NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe

1913 American poet Joyce Kilmer writes his famous poem "Trees" in Mahwah, New Jersey

1914 - Charlie Chaplin's first film appearance, Making a Living premiered in early theaters.

1922 - Ulysses by James Joyce was published.

1925 - Dog sleds, led by Gunnar Kasson, reached Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod Race.

1925 - Sears & Roebuck opened their first retail store, in Chicago.

1928 - Great Fall River Fire, Massachusetts

1936 - The record 24-hour snowfall for Hawaii was 6.5 inches that fell on the Haleakala volcano.

1950 - What's My Line debuted on CBS.

1961 -Nearly 600 passengers aboard the hijacked Santa Maria liner were finally landed and released in Brazil.

1964 - G.I. Joe action figures (they are not 'dolls'!) went on sale for the first time, featuring the four branches of the US military.

1967 - The American Basketball Association (ABA) was established. It only had four teams (New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, and San Antonio Spurs) and later merged with its competition, the National Basketball Association (NBA).

1974 - # 1 Hit : Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were

1979 - Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City.

1980 - An FBI operation called ABSCAM, an undercover operation regarding US congressional corruption was made known to the public.

1985 - # 1 Hit : Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is

1989 - Sky Television began broadcasting in the UK.

1990 - President De Klerk of South Africa lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid group the African National Congress (ANC).

1992 - # 1 Hit : George Michael & Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

2000 - Oxygen debuted on cable.

2013 Shinzō Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all costs"

2019 More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt

Birthdays Today

@89-Gale Gordon, actor (d.1995)

83-Tom Smothers, comedian

77-Graham Nash, singer, songwriter 

66-Christie Brinkley, model (1954)

@64-Stan Getz, saxaphonist (d.1991; liver cancer)

62-Farrah Fawcett, model, actor (d. 2009; cancer)

42-Shakira 'Shakira Mebarak', Pop singer

Puzzle Answer:

It was a granddaughter, mother and grandmother that went fishing. The mother is both a mother and a daughter thus is counted twice in the opening sentence.