Feb 9

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Feb. 9, 2020 Week: 6  Day: 34

86004:   H 53° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  2823mi.; Nearest active fire:  316mi. 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  15mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[2015]   Record Low: -21°[1929]

Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Random Tidbits

Home to 33 million people, the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area is the largest populated metropolitan region in the world.

Twenty-one percent of the Japanese population is elderly (over the age of 65), the highest proportion in the world. There are more elderly than there are children in Japan today.

Observations This Week

Children's Mental Health Week: 3-9 Link
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 7-12
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 9-15 Link 
International Flirting Week: 9-15 
Jell-O Week: 9-15 
Love a Mensch Week: 9-15
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 9-15 

Observations for Today

Academy Awards Oscar Night

Autism Sunday Link 
Bagel and Lox Day

Gwyl Mabsant Link
Man Day 
National Pizza Day Link
Read in the Bathtub Day
Toothache Day Link
World Marriage Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A nice Saturday. Good day to clean the bathrooms. Ugh. The wind makes it hard to be outside. One gust about 7a this morning was a big dust devil with what looked like 40mph whirls, dropped off the mountain and over one of the buildings, then coming down near the trash bin and across the parking lot and my buildings units. Only lasted about 15 seconds but was weird for sure.

I must admit I am very confused about all the political talk about how Amazon and others pay no Federal taxes. While nearly 100 of the Fortune 500 paid no Federal taxes in 2018 and thanks to the tax cuts paid $74 billion less in corporate taxes. What does that mean? And why did Congress pass this? It’s all a game.

I must have a new newspaper delivery guy. Tues morning was very cold, no paper. I guess I can deal with that. Wed. morning, I got Tues & Wed. paper. OK. Thursday no paper…really cold again. Friday I got Friday paper. Today I got the Friday and Saturday paper. Never got Thursday paper. Tired of calling somebody in another state to complain. We have a small-town newspaper that is owned by some super conglomerate and I’m to the point that whatever I get, whenever I get it is better than nothing. I could just pay and get it on line, but I really like holding the news in my hot little hands.

Last Sunday night, some tagger hit 15 storefronts in one section of this town. It is an area that has many medical buildings including the hospital. While the hospital didn’t get hit, I have doctors in each of the medical building that were hit. Then the tagger moved a couple of blocks and hit restaurants, a dispensary, and several local small retail stores. Police say it is the work of one tagger. Very few leads to find the idiot. I’m sure the tagger will hit again, and have faith in our police and citizens will find the perp. Some building in the area has to have security cameras.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

There are five oranges in a basket, how can you distribute the oranges to five different people such that one orange is still in the basket?

Historical Events

1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president since no candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.

1870 - The weather service, now named the National Weather Service (NWS) was authorized by Congress.

1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture was established

1895 - William G. Morgan, a Holyoke, MA, YMCA physical education director, invented the game of volleyball.

1900 - The Davis Cup tennis competition was established.

1902 - Doctor Eugène-Louis Doyen of Paris, performed a successful operation separating Siamese freakshow twins (Radika and Dodika), from the Barnum and Bailey Circus, apart.

1913 - The 1913 Great Meteor Procession took place over the eastern section of North America.

1942 - 'War Time' Daylight-savings went into effect in the US.

1957 - # 1 Hit: Elvis Presley - Too Much

1960 - Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and later killed by Joe Corbett while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home.

1961 - The Beatles debuted at Liverpool's Cavern.

1963 - # 1 Hit: Paul & Paula - Hey Paula

1964 - The Beatles appeared in the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.

1971 - Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1974 - # 1 Hit: Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme

1995 Irish music and dance show "Riverdance" first opens in Dublin, Ireland with lead dancer Michael Flatley

1997- The Simpsons made television history with their episode "The Itchy, Scratchy and Pootchie Show" which they then surpassed the Flintstones as the longest running prime-time cartoon series in terms of episodes aired.

2001 American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School; nine the Ehime-Maru's crew members were killed, including four high school students.

2016 US primary elections: New Hampshire Primary, In Republican race Donald Trump wins (35%), John Kasich 2nd (16%), and Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%) in Democratic race

2019 Elizabeth Warren officially announces her 2020 presidential campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Birthdays Today

77-Carole King, singer songwriter, most successful female musician in latter half of 20^th century.

75-María de Lourdes Villiers ‘Mia’ Farrow, actress, activist

William Henry Harrison, 9^th US President (d. 1841@68)

65- Charles Shaughnessy, actor

57- James Travis Tritt, singer, songwriter, actor

Puzzle Answer:

Give the last person the basket with the last orange in it.