Mar 13

 

 

Mar 13, 2021     Week: 19    Day: 72                         Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 50°\ L 17°\Ave. Sky Cover:  60%               Wind:  5mph/ Gusts:  13mph

Nearest Lightning:  846mi.                                          Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  500mi

Record: 69°[2007]  Record: -9°[1962]              Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

~Blaise Pascal

Random Tidbits

Dreams: Animals often represent the part of your psyche that feels connected to nature and survival. Being chased by a predator suggests you're holding back repressed emotions like fear or aggression.

A Little Humor

What did the left eye say to the right eye?

Between you and me, something smells!

Weekly Observations

 

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
Celebrate Your Name Week Girl Scout Week Link  National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link National Procrastination Week National Schools Social Work Week Link  National Words Matter Week No More Week Link Read an E-Book Week Link Save Your Vision Week Link Termite Awareness Week Women in Construction Week  Link  Words Matter Week	7-13
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week	7-14
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week	10-13
National Money Show	11-13
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign	11-17
World Rattlesnake Roundup	12-14

 

Today’s Observations

Coconut Torte Day

Donald Duck Day 

Earmuffs Day [1877]
Genealogy Day
Ginger Ale Day

Good Samaritan Involvement Day
International Fanny Pack Day Link  
Itra-Uterine Growth Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day3
Jewel Day
K-9 Veterans Day Link
Ken Day  (Doll)
L. Ron Hubbard Day
National Chicken Noodle Soup Day

National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day
Smart & Sexy Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I woke up to about 5” of very wet snow on the ground. It was snowing on and off until about 9am. Then the sun came out, then it clouded up and more snow. It just keeps repeating that cycle. I went out about 11am to clear off the vehicle but did not go anywhere. I was going to do my weekly shopping until I heard the roads were not good. Not a big deal, I can wait until next week.

President Biden’s speech last night was so Presidential…like the ones I am used to hearing when the President is speaking on every network. I did not miss the former President’s blame game speeches.

Good news for Flagstaff: Whitehall Industries makes parts for the Tesla. It is leasing the huge Walgreen’s Distribution Center that has been vacant a couple of years. It will provide 120 jobs now with hopes of raising that to over 500 in a couple of years. That will help our struggling economy.

I mentioned a few months ago that one of the engineers working on the current Mars Probe is a Navajo. Now a couple of formations and some other rocks are being named in Navajo. Very cool.

It has been a decade since the earthquake and Tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan. We remember that 18,000 people died and over half a million are still displaced. Hopefully we have learned too.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

A bad guy is playing Russian roulette with a six-shooter revolver. He puts in one bullet, spins the chambers and fires at you, but no bullet comes out. He gives you the choice of whether or not he should spin the chambers again before firing a second time. Should he spin again?

Historical Events

1639 – Formerly ‘New College,’ Harvard College was renamed after clergyman John Harvard.

1781 – German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovered Uranus.

1862 – The US government forbade all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1868 – Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson began. He was found ‘not guilty.’

1877 – The first US Patent (#188,292) for earmuffs was issued to teen-aged Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine.

1930 – The discovery of a ninth planet, named Pluto, was announced by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ. Pluto was later degraded to a ‘Dwarf Planet.’

1956 – Elvis Presley released his first Album

2013 – Pope Francis was elected in the papal conclave as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.

2018 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump

2018 National Geographic magazine admits its past coverage was racist in issue to mark 50 years since death of Martin Luther King Jr.

2019 President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months

2020 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion to fight COVID-19

2020 African American Breonna Taylor shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant on her flat with a battering ram in Louisville, Kentucky.

 

Birthdays Today

100 – Al Jaffee, American cartoonist Mad Magazine

82 – Neil Sedaka, American singer-songwriter

80 – Charo [María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza], Spanish-American singer, guitarist, actress

@74 – L. Ron Hubbard, author, founder of Scientology (d. 1986; stroke)

71 – William H. Macy, American actor

65 – Dana Delany, American actress

61 – Adam Clayton, English-Irish musician, U2

49 – Common, American rapper

44 – Danny Masterson, American actor

36 – Emile Hirsch, American actor

 

Puzzle Answer

Yes. Before he spins, there’s a one in six chance of a bullet being fired. After he spins, one of those chances has been taken away, leaving a one in five chance and making it more likely a bullet will be fired. Best to spin again.