Apr. 1

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Apr. 1, 2020 Week: 14 Day: 92

86004: H 67° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 607mi.; Nearest active fire: 499mi.

Record High: 74°[2011] Record Low: 2°[1970]

Apr. Averages: 60°\27° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn

for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles,

but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Buddha

Random Tidbits

........1..2..3...breathe....and repeat...........

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Observations for this Month

Action & Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month Link
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  Link  or  Link
Asset Management Awareness Month  Link
Brain Injury Awareness Month Link
Child Life Month Link
Clap 4 Health Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Observations This Week

NanoDays: 28-4/5 Link
Consider Christianity Week: 29 to 4/4
Passion Week: 29-4/4
Mule Week: 30-4/5

Passiontide: 29-4/11
National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/12 Link

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7 (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link

Observations for Today

April Fools  or All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Childhelp National Day of Hope International Fun at Work Day

International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
National Fun at Work Day 
National Soylent Green Day

National Walking Day Link 
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day 
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air force Academy Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A friend called last night with a request...TP. Three in the house are down to one roll, and the kid is 2 years old. They have tried for a week to find some. I agreed to go to Walmart during senior hours beginning at 6a. I found a big pkg of TP and some Clorox wipes. Thankfully for myself I  found distilled water (for the CPAP) and rice. Picked up a few other needs. In and out in about 20 minutes. Lots of elders shopping and lots of dedicated workers still stocking shelves. As I passed the workers I thanked them for being at work. Walgreens has an app that you can pay for your scripts and use the drive up. Amazingly it was open on my way home and I picked up my thyroid medication without having to leave my vehicle. Then I got home just after 7a.

By nine I had received two long phone conversations from friends. Both are doing fine, and with all this social distancing, that was nice.

Not expecting many April Fool's jokes. Seems like we are living in the all-time best prank.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Joseph and Lena are found dead on the floor with some water around. The windows are open and a strong wind draft is blowing the curtains around. How did they die?

Historical Events

1789 - Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg was elected as the first US Speaker of the House of Representatives.

1853 - The first professional, full time US fire department with salaried firemen was established in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1875 - Sir Francis Galton published the first newspaper weather map, in The Times in London, England

1877 - Edward Schieffelin founded Tombstone, Arizona, best known as the place where Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers had their shoot-out with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in 1881

1938 - The first panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin, died after a twig lodged in his throat at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago.

1957 - The BBC broadcast the 'spaghetti-tree hoax' on its current affairs program Panorama, showing spaghetti being harvested from trees.

1960 - The first weather observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida and made the first television picture from space.

1963 - ABC premiered General Hospital, the daytime drama that eventually become the network's longest-running (oap opera) serial program produced in Hollywood.

1970 - President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio.

1976 - Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.

1983 - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life and released in theaters.

1984 - Singer Marvin Gaye was shot three times and killed by his father during a domestic dispute.

1997 - As part of a crossover April Fools joke, Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy and Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune.

2004 - Gmail was launched on April 1 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools' Day prank. They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services typically provided between 5MB - 50MB.

2007 - Google sent an email to all of its employees warning that a python was loose inside of their New York office. It was not a joke.

Birthdays Today

@84-Debbie Reynolds, actor, singer (d. 2016)

81-Ali MacGraw, actor

@71-Gordon Jump ( d.2003; respiratory failure)

59-Susan Boyle, singer

@47-Lon Chaney, actor (d. 1930, lung cancer)

47-Rachel Maddow, news host

40-Randy Orton, wrestler

Puzzle Answer:

Joseph and Lena were goldfishes. The wind tipped their bowl over, hence killing them!