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

National Pig Day

Peace Corps Day

Peanut Butter Lovers' Day

World Compliment 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