Apr 2

 

 

 

Apr 2, 2021   Week: 14    Day: 92                            

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover: 25%
Local: H 64°\ L 39°	Nearest Lightning: 2056mi.
Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  15mph	EXTREME Risk of Fire:   Active fire:  209mi
Record: 72°[1966]   Record: -2°[1975]	Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

~Duke Ellington

Random Tidbits

Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, is this weekend. The first Sunday in April. But last year it was the 12th, the second Sunday in April. And in 2019 it was the third Sunday in April. Why is Easter on a different date each year?

The holiday is set to coincide with the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon, the first full moon after the vernal equinox. So why does Easter come after the Paschal Full Moon? Early Christians wanted Easter to coincide with Passover, because Christ's death and resurrection happened after the Jewish holiday. Because the Jewish calendar is tied to solar and lunar cycles, the dates of Passover and Easter fluctuate each year.

A Little Something to Think About

A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were then given 5 minutes to find their own balloon.

Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.

At that point, the professor told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon.

The professor said to the students:

"These balloons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too."

Common Words: New Meanings

Coffee  (N.), the person upon whom one coughs.

Flabbergasted  (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

Monthly Observations

 

Cancer Control Month Car Care Month Celebrate Diversity Month Child Abuse Prevention Month (International) Cesarean Awareness Month Link Community Spirit Days (1-30) Confederate History Month Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month  Link Couple Appreciation Month Defeat Diabetes Month Distracted Driving Awareness Month Link Emotional Overeating Awareness Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

Lent [Christian] Passover [Jewish]	Thru 4/3 Thru 4/4
Passiontide	Thru 4/3
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link	Thru 4/10
Holy Week International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week National Cleaning Week	Thru 4/3
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week Golden Rule Week Laugh at Work Week Medication Safety Week Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link	1-7

 

Today’s Observations

Burrito Day

Children's Book Day

Ferret Day

Good Friday 

Hospital Admitting Clerks Day 
International Kids Yoga Day  
National Ferret Day Link
National Love Your Produce Manager Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day Link
National Walk to Work Day 

Nickelodeon Day
Reconciliation Day

Walk to Work Day

World Autism Day Link
World Autism Acceptance Day Link
World Marbles Day  

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice day with a few too many clouds. No moisture expected.

I found this interesting: The world’s oceans and landfills have way too much plastic that harms living things. Now the producers of plastic are having a hard time getting the raw materials. This means the price of anything containing plastic will be increased. The reason for the shortage of raw material? It is the power grid in Texas that basically shut down meaning oil producers were not producing and that shut down the manufacturers who take the oil and turn it into the material needed for plastic. Covid had already slowed the production of plastic.

Watching the trial: It appears that the defense is trying to set up the scenario that the crowd played a role in the death as they were unruly. If that is true, why didn’t one of the officers sitting on Floyd call for backup?

In Nepal, the Sherpas kept busy during Covid. They have removed 2.2 tons of garbage from Mount Everest.

Several Republican elected officials have stated that Biden’s Infrastructure Bill is more about Democrat wishes than building infrastructure. It helps to know the definition of INFRASTRUCTURE. That is …the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society, such as transportation and communications systems, water and power lines, and public institutions including schools, post offices, and prisons. Understanding the entire definition might assist those against the bill understand it is helping infrastructure.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number. What is so special about it?

Historical Events

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon landed near what is now called St. Augustine, Florida and declared the land for Spain.

1792 – The Coinage Act was passed, establishing the United States Mint.

1827 – Lead pencils were began being manufactured by Joseph Dixon, who built his factory in Salem, Massachusetts

1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opened in Los Angeles.

1917 – The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin, takes her seat as a representative from Montana.

1953 – The journal Nature published a paper with this date from Francis Crick and James Watson, titled Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, in which they described a double helix structure for DNA.

1956 – Elvis Presley sang Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show, with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.

1972 – Charlie Chaplin returned to the United States for the first time since being labeled a communist during the Red Scare in the early 1950s.

1973 – The first portable cell phone call was placed in New York City.

1978 – Velcro, the hook-and-loop fastener patent, expired. Velcro comes from “vel” or velvet and “cro” from the French word crochet which means hook.

1992 – Pope John Paul II died.

1996 – Suspected ‘Unabomber’ Theodore Kaczynski was arrested at his Montana cabin.

2019 Canada is warming at twice the speed of the rest of the world, according to a federal report, increasing 2.3% in northern Canada.

2020 Number of COVID-19 cases worldwide passes 1 million, with 1,002,159 cases and 51,485 deaths reported, according to Johns Hopkins University

2020 New study shows western Antarctica once swampy with temperate forests 93-83 million years ago during Cretaceous period, according to Alfred Wegener Institute

Birthdays Today

@95 – Buddy Ebsen [Christian Ludolf Ebsen Jr.], American actor, dancer (d. 2003)

@86 – Sir Alec Guinness, English actor (d. 2000)

76 – Linda Hunt, American actress

@74 – Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016; in sleep)

74 – Emmylou Harris, American singer-songwriter

@73 – Casanova Giovaani Giacomo Girolama, Italian adventurer (died in 1798)

@70 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish novelist, short story writer, poet (died in 1875)

@late 60’s – Charlemagne, Frankish king (d. 814; pleurisy)

@62 – Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1982; heart attack)

60 – Christopher Meloni, American actor

@44 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984; gunshot)

Puzzle Answer

This is the only number that includes all the digits arranged in alphabetical order.