Feb 1

 

 

Feb  1, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 32	Local:  H 42°\ L 17°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   mph\Gusts:  mph	Very Low Risk of Fire           Active fire:  59mi
Nearest lightning:  1287mi.;	Record: 64°[2018]   Record: -23°[1985]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,

And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

~Ali ibn-Abi-Talib (602 AD - 661 AD)

Random Tidbits

The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).

The highest current denomination is the $100 bill.

A Little Humor

Q Why did the pig quit running the marathon?

He had a problem with his hamstring.

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A guy goes into a military surplus store...and asks the owner if he has any camouflage jackets. He says- I've got hundreds- but I can't find any of them!

True Things

Ambulance Thief Caught At Jack in the Box Drive-Thru

While paramedics were on a call, a Texas man jumped into their ambulance and drove the vehicle, with its lights flashing, to a Jack in the Box, where he ordered food at the drive-through lane, police say. According to Houston police, Renaldo Leonard, 36, was charged with felony theft in connection with the ambulance heist. The stolen vehicle was tracked to a Jack in the Box, where Leonard "was at the driv- up ordering food with emergency lights," cops noted. The restaurant is more than four miles from where the Houston Fire Department ambulance was stolen. In light of Leonard's prior criminal record, prosecutors have asked a judge to deny him bail. According to court records, Leonard's rap sheet includes separate felony convictions for PCP possession, robbery, and cocaine possession.

Monthly Observations

 

Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month Link African American Cultural Heritage Month AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month American Heart Month An Affair To Remember Month  Bake for Family Fun Month Link Barley Month Link Beat The Heat Month

 

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
Catholic Schools Week	31-2/6
Meat Week	31-2/6
National School Counseling Week  Link International Networking Week   Pride in Foodservice Week  Link Tax Identity Theft Week Link	1-5
Cordova Ice Worm Days: Link	1-6
African Heritage & Health Week: Children's Mental Health Week   Link  Tinnitus Awareness Week  Link   Women's Heart Week	1-7

 

Today’s Observations

Candy-Making Day

Car Insurance Day

CBC Day  Link

Car Insurance Day

Change Your Password Day Link

Day of the Crêpe

Decorating With Candy Day
G.I. Joe Day
Hula in The Coola Day
International Brownie Camera Day 2021  Link 
International Day of Black Women in The Arts  
International Face & Body Art Day
Freedom Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Candy Making Day

National Cake Pops Day
National Dark Chocolate Day

National Freedom Day

National Get Up Day  
No Politics Day

Play Your Ukulele Day

Robinson Crusoe Day

Support Day
Spunky Old Broads Day

World Hijab Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I’m ready for a new month. Looking forward to a great month…some moisture, lots of sunshine, an increase in vaccines and a decrease in Covid. And it warmed up enough that some of the snow is melting…icicles, not so much, because they are in the shade.

I am not happy with all of Biden’s Executive Orders. While I am glad he is stopping the Keystone Pipeline, I had hoped the order would also include a mechanism for the pipeline workers to retrain for new jobs. I believe the pipeline and other energy digging is wrong because it destroys sacred Native sites and is bad for the environment, the workers are not evil, they must feed themselves and their families, just like all of us. The good shift from fossil fuels must include a way to retrain the workers and, if necessary, provide funding to do so.

My dad worked for Armour & Company as an accountant. During his many years he was offered several chances for advancement. Each would have required moving the family far away from Denver. He chose to turn down those promotions because he didn’t want to leave Denver and he believed that if he accepted one, in a few years another would come along at the new city that would require another move. While I left the Denver area after college graduation, I’m glad that we didn’t move during my younger years. I am sure many others feel the same way.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?

Historical Events

1790 – First session of the U.S. Supreme Court, New York City

1851 – Evaporated milk was invented by Gail Borden.

1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

1887 – The area known as Hollywood was founded.

1893 – Thomas A. Edison finished the construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

1896 – Puccini’s La Bohème premiered in Turin, Italy.

1898 – Travelers Insurance Company began issuing car insurance.

1913 – Grand Central Terminal opened in New York as the world’s largest train station

1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the US, began broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers (later at the communist block).

1968 – The New York Central Railroad and the Pennsylvania Railroad are merged to form Penn Central Transportation.

1978 – Director Roman Polanski fled the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

1996 – The Communications Decency Act was passed by the US Congress.

2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrated during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard over Texas.

2004 – The Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show Wardrobe Malfunction controversy occurred.

2013 – The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, was opened to the public.

2019 US President Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty because of Russia's violation of the treaty.

Birthdays Today

@76 – Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of Russia (d.2007; heart failure)

@74 – Sherman Hemsley, American actor and singer (d. 2012; cancer)

@65 – Langston Hughes, American poet, playwright (d. 1967; prostate cancer)

@59 – Clark Gable, American actor (d. 1960; heart attacks)

@56 – Rick James, American singer-songwriter and producer (died in 2004)

53 – Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter and actress

49 – Michael C. Hall, American actor

33 – Rhonda Rousey, American fighter athlete

@28 – Brandon Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1993; accidently shot)

27 – Harry Styles, English singer-songwriter

Puzzle Answer

An apple a day keeps the doctor away!