Mar 2

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Mar. 2, 2020 Week: 10 Day: 62

86004: H 55° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning: 2070mi.; Nearest active fire: 132mi.

Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[2009] Record Low: -1°[1971]

Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"May you live all the days of your life."

May those who love us love us.

And those that don't love us,

May God turn their hearts.

And if He doesn't turn their hearts,

May he turn their ankles,

So we'll know them by their limping.

Random Tidbits

In South America, scientist have discovered deliberately made 'skull holes' that may have been made to treat painful headaches, brain disease, or to let 'evil spirits' out of the head.

Called 'trepanation,

' the process of making those holes was incredibly painful. The high number of trepanized skulls suggests that this brain surgery was commonplace.

Observations This Week

Celebrate Your Name Week: 1-7
Hearing Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
LGBT Health Awareness Week: 1-7 Link
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Consumer Protection Week: 1-7Link
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 1-7 Link
National Invest in a Veteran Week: 1-7 Link
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 Link
National Procrastination Week: 1-7
National Schools Social Work Week: 1-7 Link
National Words Matter Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
Read an E-Book Week: 1-7 Link  
Return The Borrowed Books Week:  1-7
Save Your Vision Week: 1-7 Link 
Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 1-7  
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7 LinkWill Eisner Week: 1-7 Link
Women in Construction Week: 1-7 Link
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 1-8

National School Breakfast Week: 2-6
Orthodox Lent: 2-4/10

Observations for Today

Casimir Pulaski DayDr. Seuss Day
Free Dentistry Day
Fun Facts About Names Day
National Banana Cream Pie Day

Old Stuff Day

Orthodox Green Monday
Orthodox Lent: 2-4/10
Read Across America Day
World Teen Mental Illness Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

My new Travel driver's license arrived in the mail yesterday. Ready to travel now.

I seldom go grocery shopping on Sunday, but it was a busy week last week and I needed more of my morning juice. I headed to Fry's to get what I needed. As I was dreading the self-checkout, they had 4 lines open with human checkers. Haven't seen that many in months. I got in line, and there was a young man checking. There was a sign “Cashier in training”. He did a quick job. I told him I was happy to see them training clerks, and that I had put myself through college back in the day by being a grocery checker. He smiled, but the look on his face was 'Really?!?' Not sure if the look was 'You went to college?' or 'a job like this paid for college?'

I understand that statistics can be cherry-picked to say just about anything. Recently read that AZ incarcerates Hispanics at 7 times the National average...AZ incarcerates 800/100,000 Hispanics. In another article I read that in CO, 14.9% of Hispanic adults have greaduated from college. That number is 1/3 less than the White population in CO. On a happier note: AZ is the highest in seniors moving here of all states. CO has the lowest adult obesity rate of any state.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A group of campers have been on vacation so long, that they've forgotten the day of the week. The following conversation ensues.

Darryl: What's the day? I don't think it is Thursday, Friday or Saturday.

Tracy: Well that doesn't narrow it down much. Yesterday was Sunday.

Melissa: Yesterday wasn't Sunday, tomorrow is Sunday.

Ben: The day after tomorrow is Saturday.

Adrienne: The day before yesterday was Thursday.

Susie: Tomorrow is Saturday.

David: I know that the day after tomorrow is not Friday.

If only one person's statement is true, what day of the week is it?

Historical Events

1657 - The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths, and lasted three days

1807 - The US Congress passed an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."

1863 - The US Congress authorized a track width of 4-feet, 8-1/2 inches as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the standard width for most of the world.

1937 - King Kong (film) opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

1949 - The first round the world nonstop airplane flight was completed in a US Air Force B-50 Super-fortress bomber, the Lucky Lady II headed by Captain James Gallagher. They landed back at Carswell Air Force base, Fort Worth, Texas, which they had left on February 26, about 94 hours earlier.

1957 - #1 Hit : Tab Hunter - Young Love

1960 - Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz, ending their marriage as well as the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show franchise on CBS.

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game against the New York Knicks. Final score: 169-147, at the Hershey Arena. Although there were only about 6,000 tickets sold, guesstimates are that almost 50% of male sports fans born in the Philadelphia area between 1925 and 1958 claim to have been at the event.

1963 - #1 Hit : The Four Seasons - Walk Like A Man

1969 - The Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft, prototype 001, made its first flight from Toulouse airport in France.

1974 - #1 Hit : Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun

1983 - Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. (They had previously been available only in Japan.)

1978 - Charlie Chaplin's body was stolen from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The grave robbers (and the re-buried body) were found a few weeks later.

1985 - Sheena Easton the first and still only recording artist to score top-10 singles on all five major Billboard singles charts: Pop, Country, Dance, Adult Contemporary and R&B with her hit Sugar Walls.

1990 - Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine

2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record

2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador

Birthdays Today

89-Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader

@87-Dr. Seuss "Theodor Geisel", author ( d.1991)

@70-Eddie Money, singer (d. 2019; cancer)

@69-Desi Arnaz ( d.1986; lung cancer)

58-Jon Bon Jovi, singer

51-Daniel Craig, actor

40-Rebel Wilson, singer

38-Ben Roethlisberger, football player

@32-Karen Carpenter (d. 1983; anorexia)

Puzzle Answer:

It is Wednesday. If it was any other day of the week, more than one statement would be true. To solve the riddle, evaluate each person's statement and write down what day it could be according to the statement. David's statement indicates it could be any day of the week except for Wednesday. When you list the days that it could be according to everyone's statement, it turns out Wednesday is the day mentioned only one time. Darryl: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday Tracy: Monday Melissa: Saturday Ben: Thursday Adrienne: Saturday Susie: Friday David: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday