Jan 18

 

2021…at last

Jan  18, 2021  Week: 3  Day: 18	Local:  H 55°\ L 23°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  5mph	Today’s Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 17°
Nearest lightning: 365mi.; Active fire:59mi	High Risk of Fire           Visibility:  10mi
Record: 64°[1971]   Record: -8°[1995]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

~Havelock Ellis

Random Tidbits

Historically, tea has been viewed as a health drink. Recent studies suggest that tea, especially green tea, helps reduce some forms of cancer, helps bad breath, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces blood pressure, helps with weight control, kills bacteria and virus, acts as an anti-inflammatory, and has neuroprotective power.

A Little Humor

Today’s tip: Don’t use the bathroom in a dream…it is a setup.

True Things

RCMP were called to a section of Highway in Nova Scotia for a motor vehicle complaint. Responding officers found a parked car straddling the white line. The car was missing its front windshield. There was a hole in the back window, glass on the highway and an axe on the backseat.

At first, police said it appeared the car was empty, but then a man leaned forward in the driver's seat. He was later identified as Trent William Lewis.

According to a court decision issued earlier this week, Lewis asked police why he had been pulled over. It was then, Judge Paul Scovil writes, that the officer noticed Lewis had his pants pulled down to his knees.

The officer ordered Lewis out of the car and told him to pull up his pants. It was then Lewis took off running.

"He did not get far before being tackled by the police officer," Scovil wrote.

At Lewis's trial, a woman testified that she drove Lewis and another man from Liverpool toward Bridgewater when, she told the court, Lewis started "freaking out." She said Lewis kicked out the windshield, at which point she and the other man fled.

Lewis himself remembers little of the events leading up to his arrest, other than that they involved a quart of rum, cocaine and a four-day house party.

More on this tomorrow

Interestng facts about AZ

Ø Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.

Ø Roadrunners are not just in cartoons! In Arizona, you'll see them running up to 17-mph away from their enemies.

Ø The Saguaro cactus is the largest cactus found in the U.S. It can grow as high as a five-story building and is native to the Sonoran Desert, which stretches across southern Arizona.

Weekly Observations

No Tillage Week	15-21
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link	16-24
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week Healthy Weight Week Hunt For Happiness Week National Activity Professionals Week National Handwriting Analysis Week	17-23
Sugar Awareness Week No Name Calling Week Link Week of Christian Unity	18-23

 

Today’s Observations

Hot Heads Chili Days
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday 
National Crowd Feed Day
National Disc Jockey Day Link  or Link 
National Gourmet Coffee Day

Peking Duck Day

Pooh (Winnie The) Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Robert E. Lee Day  Link 
Soup Swap Day
Thesaurus Day
Winnie the Pooh Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Happy MLK Day. Remember his positive message.

I am very confused…about the Proud Boys. I’ve read that they are a far-right neo-fascist, male only national organization. Their leader is Henry “Enrique” Torrio. He identifies himself as Afro-Cuban and grew up in Little Havana, FL. In 2013 he was sentenced to 30 months in Federal prison for rebranding and then reselling stolen medical devices. Previously I had thought they were a white supremist group. They are scary and their agenda needs to be known.

Laundry day…not my favorite, but necessary. So hard to go to the grocery store without some clean clothes. Haha.

Just realized that the invaders at the capitol will be charged with felonies. If convicted that means they took their own guns away.

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Paul’s height is six feet, he’s an assistant at a butcher’s shop, and wears size 9 shoes. What does he weigh?

Historical Events

1778 – James Cook ‘discovered’ Hawaii, naming it ‘The Sandwich Islands’

1896 – The X-Ray Machine was shown to the public. Not really. The Cabaret du Neant charged people to see an ‘illusion’ of the effect.

1911 – The first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Lt. Eugene B. Ely landed on the USS Pennsylvania.

1944 – Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge, and Jack Teagarden performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, in NYC.

1975 – The Jeffersons premiered on CBS.

1993 – Martin Luther King Day became official in all 50 United States.

2013 Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is indicted on corruption charges stemming from post-Hurricane Katrina business contracts and bribes

2018 First drone rescue of swimmers by lifeguards in New South Wales, Australia

 

Birthdays Today

@82 – Cary Grant [Archibald Alec Leach], English-American actor (d. 1986)

@80 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)

@80 – Ray Dolby, engineer, businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)

80 – Bobby Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter

@76 – Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminsky], actor, singer, dancer (d. 1987; heart failure)

@74 – A.A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1956)

@70 – Daniel Webster, American lawyer, and politician (d. 1852; cirrosis)

66 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer

@65– Oliver Hardy, actor, comedian, partner of Stan Laurel (d. 1957; strokes)

Puzzle Answer

He weighs meat.