Apr 20

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Apr. 20, 2020 Week: 17 Day: 111

86004: H 65° \ L 34° \ Average Sky Cover: 30%

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 243mi.; Nearest active fire: 440mi.

Record High: 78°[1989] Record Low: 8°[1966]

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

Today’s Quote

"You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

-Dr. Seuss

Random Tidbits

Fajitas. In 1984, Texas A&M lecturer Homero Recio traced fajita history back to the ranches of 1930s south and west Texas.

According to Recio, the Mexican cowboys, known as vaqueros, working in Texas often received throwaway scraps as part of their pay, including the cow's diaphragm. The diaphragm, which we now call a skirt steak, is covered with a tough membrane that allowed the vaqueros to grill it outdoors directly on open mesquite coals--the prototypical fajita.

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Here’s something to think about:
How come you never see a headline
like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”
– Jay Leno

Observations This Week

National Dance Week: 17-26Link CANCELLED due to COVID-19.
Cleaning For A Reason Week: 18-24
Consumer Awareness Week: 18-23
National Park Week: 18-26  Link
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week: 18-23
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week: 19-25 Link 
Bedbug Awareness Week: 19-25
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: 19-25
Festival of Ridvan: 19-5/1
Fibroid Awareness Week: 19-25
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week: 19-25 Link
National Coin Week: 19-25
National Crime Victims Rights Week: 19-25 Link
National Infertility Awareness Week: 19-25 Link
National Library Week: 19-25National Paperboard Packaging Week: 19-25
National Pet ID Week: 19-25 Link Link
National Princess Week: 19-25 Link
National Volunteer Week: 19-25
Sky Awareness Week: 19-25
Spring Astronomy Week: 19-25
Administrative Professionals Week: 20-24
National Environmental Education Week: 20-24 Link
National Stationery Week: 20-26 Link
Nat'l Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: 20-24 Link
Undergraduate Research Week: 20-24

Observations for Today

4/20 DayBoston Marathon: NOTE: Due to the Corona Virus, the Boston Marathon has been rescheduled for September 14.
Chinese Language Day Link
Dictionary Day Link
International Cli-Fi Day
Look-A-Like Day

National Cheddar Fries Day Link
National Pineapple Upside-down Cake Day

National Pot Smokers Day or National Weed Day Link Link

Volunteer Recognition Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A decent Sunday...just a short walk today.

Watched One World last night on TV. A decent show with some great songs...and a very positive message. Thanks Lady Gaga for the production. As world wide event, some of the songs were in the artist's native language. The one from Mexico, which I only understood the gist of the song and the one from South Africa, which I didn't understand a word, were awesome.

For years I've watched protesters on TV from around the world. Most times they are wearing some kind of face mask to protect them from being identified. Now the far right protesters are not wearing masks to protest the government that said everyone, when outside, should wear a mask to protect against the virus. This is a crazy world right now. This seems to me like a new kind of stupid.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

You are in a place called Jack’s World and there is only one law. There is a mirror, but no reflection. There is pizza with cheese, but not sausage. There is pepper, but no salt. There is a door, yet no entrance or exit. What is the law?

Historical Events

1657 - Freedom of religion was granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (New York City).

1832 - Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas was established as a reservation by an act of Congress. Technically, it was the first United States' National Park.

1841 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allen Poe, was published in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. It is considered the first detective story.

1871 - The Third Force Act, also known as the Ku Klux Act, Congress authorized President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law in stopping the Ku Klux Klan.

1862 - The first test of pasteurization was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard. Jars at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences.

1912 - Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston.

1926 - Western Electric and the Warner Brothers film studio officially introduced Vitaphone, a new process that would enable the addition of sound to film.

1940 - Invented by Dr. Vladimir Zworykin at the RCA laboratories, Camden, New Jersey, the first (US) electron microscope was demonstrated across the Delaware River, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1964 - The first picture- phone transcontinental call was made between New York City and Anaheim, California.

1979 President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia

1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security

1999 - At Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, students Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 people and wounded 23 more before killing themselves.

2008 - Danica Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy Car race

2015 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"

2018 Mexican court bars sales of controversial Frida Kahlo Barbie doll

2018 Commonwealth countries decide Prince Charles will suceed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth

Birthdays Today

83-Actor, George Takei

82-Musician, Johnny Tillotson

79-Actor, Ryan O'Neal

@77-Comic, Harold Lloyd (d.1971; prostate cancer)

71-Actress, Jessica Lange

@56-German dictator, Adolf Hitler (d.1945; suicide)

@54-Musician, Luther Vandross (d.2005; heart attack)

50-Actor, Shemar Moore

49-Model/Actress, Carmen Electra (1972)

Puzzle Answer:

Everything (each word) in Jack’s World must contain double letters.