Mar 27


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Mar. 27, 2020 Week: 13 Day: 88
86004: H 53° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind: 14mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 1359mi.; Nearest active fire: 667mi.

Record High: 72°[2015] Record Low: -1°[1975]
Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"If you look at what you have in life,
you'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
you'll never have enough."
-Oprah Winfrey

Random Tidbits

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!
The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

Observations This Week

Orthodox Lent: 2-4/10National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/12 Link  
Internat'l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27Health Information Professionals Week: 22-28 Link
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 22-28  
National Agriculture Week: 22-28
National Cleaning Week: 22-28
National Protocol Officer's Week: 22-28
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30
National Medical Cannabis Week:  25-28 
Link
National Physicians Week: 25-31  
Link
International Listening Association Week: 26-28

Observations for Today

Celebrate Exchange Day Link
National "Joe" Day
National Scribble Day 
National World Whisky Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles DaySpanish Paella Day
Viagra Day
World Theatre Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The Covid-19 thing has taken over the news. I get it. It's bad. It will not get better for a while. I get it: stay home; that's all I can do. I'm limiting myself to NPR when I wake up, and one broadcast of the nightly news. It's all I can take.

Sad news on FB. One of our Focus Travelers lost her husband last night. Gloria Beniot Leonard has done several trips with the group. She and Mark were married 49 years. She is a great traveler and a strong lady. Condolences to her and the family.

On a lighter note: Trevor Noah, of the Daily Show, has a great idea. When our President makes a false statement, they should simply bleep him. Run his speeches on a 15 second delay and bleep any false statements. It would certainly add a different noise to the daily briefings.

I had to make a quick run to the CPAP supplier to get new hoses and masks for my machine. I also found out that since distilled water is impossible to find due to the virus, Britta or Zero water filters will work just fine. I still have a little distilled water, but now have a good work around until distilled water returns to the shelves. My mom always used distilled water in her steam iron to prevent buildup. As a seamstress, that iron go a very hard work out. I'm not sure what else distilled water is used for, and my guess is that people were just grabbing gallons of water off the shelves, without reading the labels or looking at the colored caps.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

As I was going to St. Ives,
I met a man with seven wives.
Each wife had seven sacks.
Each sack had seven cats,
Each cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives,
How many were going to St. Ives?

Historical Events

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

1866 US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment

1886 - Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrendered to the US Army.

1899 - Guglielmo Marconi's radio transmitted across the English Channel from Boulogne, France, to Dover, England.

1915 - Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever ID'd in the United States, was put in quarantine.

1964 (Earthquake) 'Good Friday Earthquake' - the most powerful earthquake in US history at a magnitude of 9.2, struck Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.

1965 - #1 Hit: The Supremes - Stop! In the Name of Love

1973 - Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather went to podium for Marlon Brando to decline his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in The Godfather.

1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System began.

1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1993 Jiang Zemin appointed President of the People's Republic of China
1998 - The FDA approved Viagra.
2019 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country is now a "space power" after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile test
2019 Facebook bans white nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist able to live-stream his attack

Birthdays Today

78-Michael York [Michael Hugh Johnson], actor

@66-Sarah Vaughan, singer (d.1990; cancer)

57-
Quentin Tarantino, Director

50-Mariah Carey, singer

45-Stacy Ferguson [a.k.a Fergie] (1975)

Puzzle Answer:

One. Only I was going to St. Ives



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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.