Jan 6

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Feb. 6, 2020 Week: 1  Day: 38

86004:   H 28° \ L 9° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  983mi.; Nearest active fire:  469mi. 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  3mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1963]   Record Low: -21°[1899]

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

Today’s LOVE Quote

To fear love is to fear life,

and those who fear life

are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Random Tidbits

While sexism and inequality was rampant in the 1950s, housewives then were not downtrodden door mats but "tough and ultra-organized." While men earned the money, many housewives decided how it was spent and balanced household finances with military precision.

Today, Pew Research Center estimates that there are 370,000 highly educated and affluent housewives (defined as married mothers with children under 18 who have at least a master's degree and family income over $75,000), which equals 5 percent of all stay-at-home moms with a husband.

Observations this Month

Love The Bus Month Link

Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month

Marijuana Awareness Month Link

National African American History Month Link

National African American Read-In  Link

National Bird Feeding Month

National Black History Month

National Canned Food Month Link

National Care About Your Indoor Air Month

National Cherry Month

National Condom Month  Link

National Children's Dental Health Month

National Embroidery Month Link

National Enrolled Agents Month Link

National Goat Yogu Month

National Green Week

Observations This Week

Women's Heart Week: 1-7

Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8

African Heritage & Health Week: 2-8

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 2-8

Burn Awareness Week: 2-8 

Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 2-8

Children's Mental Health Week: 3-9

National School Counseling Week: 3-7

International Networking Week: 3-7

Pride in Foodservice Week: 3-7

Observations for Today

Bob Marley Day in Jamaica and Ethiopia

Canadian Maple Syrup Day Link
Dry Bean Day Link
Internat’l Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Link
Internat’l Frozen Yogurt Day Link
Lame Duck Day
National Chopsticks Day

National Sweater Day  Link
Play Monopoly Day  Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a couple of busy days. My computer got hacked and frozen and finally fixed by the company I have been using for 5 years. They apologized for the inconvenience and gave me a free year of service. Something about an unreliable employee, on his last day, froze up several customers computers before leaving.  It took some time to figure out what he actually did. With a totally different issue, my bank card was frozen. The bank couldn’t figure out how that happened, but finally yesterday unfroze it. I don’t usually get upset about money, but when my checking account and savings account were frozen, I was a tad nervous. All good now.

Very disappointed with the Iowa Democrat Committee…You had ONE Job! and you blew it.

So, the impeachment is over. Now we move on with the most divided I have ever seen it. The votes are that much different than the Clinton impeachment. Clinton worked hard to keep his office, and apologized many times for his mis-actions. Now, we wait to see how Mr. Trump reacts to the votes. It should be obvious that there needs to be some contrition as many elected officials felt he was guilty. Next on the agenda will be the November vote.

Tomorrow I get do my annual stress test. Yeah!

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What is at the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?

Historical Events

1819 - Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founded Singapore.

1820 - The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society left New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.

1843 - The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opened at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.

1891 - The Dalton Gang's first attempt at train robbery failed. Bob, Grat, and Bill Dalton unsuccessfully tried to rob a Southern Pacific train near Alila, California.

1926 - The National Football League (NFL) adopted a rule that made players ineligible for competition until their college class graduated.

1928 - A woman calling herself Anastasia Tschaikovsky and claiming to be the youngest daughter of the murdered czar of Russia arrived in New York City. In 1991, DNA evidence indicated she was not the Russian princess.

1933 - The 20th Amendment to the Constitution was declared in effect, making the start of presidential, vice-presidential and congressional terms from March to January.

1937 - John Steinbeck's novella Of Mice and Men was published.

1952 - Queen Elizabeth II succeeded to the British throne.

1959 - The first patent for an integrated circuit (computer chip) was filed by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments.

1959 - At Cape Canaveral, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile.

1965 - # 1 Hit: Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

1971 - Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon. He said it went for "miles and miles."

1978 (Blizzard) The Blizzard of 1978 - One of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.

1982 - # 1 Hit: The J. Geils Band - Centerfold

1985 - The French mineral water company, Perrier, debuted its first new product in 123 years. The new items were water with a twist of lemon, lime or orange.

1988 - # 1 Hit : Tiffany - Could've Been

1998 - Washington National Airport was renamed the Ronald Reagan National Airport.

2000 - First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton formally declared that she was a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from the state of New York.

2005 Tony Blair, now the longest-serving Labour PM, marks 2,838 days as British Prime Minister

2018 Elon Musk's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy, world's most powerful rocket

2019 US President Donald Trump makes presidential State of Union address to Congress a week later than usual due to government shutdown

2019 2018 named the 4th warmest year on record according to NOAA and NASA, after 2016, 2015, and 2017

Birthdays Today

Bob Marley, musician

(1945 – 1981@36; multiple cancers)

Ronald Reagan, 40^th President of US

(1911-2004 @93)

Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress/socialite

(1917-2016@99)

George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth, Jr., baseball legend

(1895-1948@53; cancer)

Natalie Cole, singer, songwriter

(1950-2015@65; heart failure)

Alx Rose,  (born William Bruce Rose Jr.; raised as William Bruce "Bill" Bailey), singer, songwriter (Guns & Roses) is 58

Puzzle Answer:

The letter e.

A lateral thinking problem, the answer has nothing to do with the meanings of the words but rather the words themselves.