Apr 3

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Apr. 3, 2020 Week: 14 Day: 94

86004: H 60° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind: 13mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 810mi.; Nearest active fire: 751mi.

Record High: 71°[1961] Record Low: 8°[1980]

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

Today’s Quote

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap

but by the seeds that you plant."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Random Tidbits

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

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

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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 Link

Observations for Today

Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day Link
Fan Dance Day
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
International Kids Yoga Day
National Walk To Work Day

Find A Rainbow Day Link
National Chocolate Mousse Day

National Film Score Day Link
National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day   Link
National Walk to Work Day

Pony Express DayTweed Day

Weed Out Hate
World Party Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A windy day...expecting 35mph wind before the day is over. Even without Rez sand, I'm staying in. I'll walk double when the wind stops.

Talked to Andy, my old boss, and told him about WhatsApp. He downloaded it and really likes it. Much easier to talk to his friends and relatives out on the Rez. His wife is a reading specialist teacher at Tuba. She just got a call from the local Tuba hospital asking if she could make gowns for the workers. She is a great seamstress and is getting the patterns and list of materials needed. The principal told her to keep track of her time, and she could have that count as on-line teaching time.

I updated the Focus Travel Club site, some trips have moved because of Covid19, others now have some new options. Thanks to Joe and his staff for some great options during this turbulent time for traveling. I know he is doing his best on the Tahiti trip. Not all the vendors are cooperating, just yet.

Seems like a long time ago when Trump promised a website to find testing sites...it was on Mar 13. He turned it over to his son-in-law Jared and his company to do it. Even though time was donated, many Federal laws were possibly broken by the shadow operation when Trump announced he was working with Google. There still is no app, and J and crew stopped working on it.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man wanted to encrypt his password but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. He had to use seven characters consisting of letters and numbers only (no symbols like ! or <). In order to remember it, he wrote down “You force heaven to be empty.” What is his password?

Historical Events

33 - Two researchers from Oxford published a paper that put the definitive date of Jesus’ crucifixion at Friday, April 3, 33 AD

1860 - Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. They used horses, not ponies.

1885 - Gottlieb Daimler was granted a German patent for his engine design.

1953 - TV Guide published its first issue

1955 - The American Civil Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

1956 - Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle Show.

1966 - The USSR's Luna 10, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon, entered lunar orbit and completed its first orbit 3 hours later.

1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I've Been to the Mountaintop speech. in Memphis, Tennessee.

1973 - The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

1978 - At the 50th annual Academy Awards, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, Woody Allen's Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1977.

1981 - The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

1983 - Martin Cooper, Motorola project manager, demonstrated the 1st mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x. It was designed by Rudy Krolopp and the 2½ pound cell phone was soon made available for $3,995.

1986 - Merv Griffin sold Merv Griffin Enterprises, to The Coca-Cola Company, for $250,000,000.

1996 - "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski was captured at his cabin in Montana.

2000 - Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

2010 - The Apple iPod (Wi-Fi) was released.

2012 US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination

Birthdays Today

@94-Actor, Iron Eyes Cody (d. 1999)*Not Native American

@97-Actress, Doris Day [Doris Mary Anne Kappelhof] (d. 2019)

86-Ethologist, Jane Goodall (1934)

@80-Actor, Marlon Brando ( d.2004)

78-Actress, Marsha Mason (1942)

78-Musician, Wayne Newton (1942)

@76-Writer, Washington Irving (d. 1859)

75-Musician, Tony Orlando (1944)

62-Actor, Alec Baldwin (1958)

61-Actor, David Hyde Pierce (1959)

59-Actor, Eddie Murphy (1961)

49-Skier, Picabo Street (1971)

34-Actress, Amanda Bynes (1986)

Puzzle Answer:

Try to pronounce the sentence like these characters: u472bmt.