Jan 19

 

2021…at last

Jan  19, 2021  Week: 3  Day: 19	Local:  H 52°\ L 25°\Ave. Sky Cover: 85%
Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph	Today’s Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 18°
Nearest lightning: 1782mi.; Active fire: 59mi	Moderate Risk of Fire           Visibility:  10mi
Record: 62°[1986]   Record: -13°[1943]	Jan Averages: 44°/16° (4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

~Frederick Douglass

Random Tidbits

Dr. Tony Fallone noted in 1997 that hair color is the root of a person's personality. Blondes are typically more outgoing and lively and are perceived as more feminine than women with other hair colors. According to Fallone, being blonde is not a hair color, but a state of mind.

And the numbers seem to prove him right. While just 1 in 20 white American adults is naturally blonde, virtually 1 in 3 white adult females dye their hair a shade of blonde.

A Little Humor

~All you need in life is the love of your family and chocolate cake.

~Imagine how great life would be if pizza made you skinny.

~I'm thinking Gump got it wrong... life is not a box of chocolates - its a bag of frozen mixed vegetables with freezer burn...

True Things

Stefan Thomas, of San Francisco, says he has made peace with forgetting his Bitcoin password that would turn him into a multimillionaire. Thomas, who recently was featured in The New York Times, has about $220 million worth of Bitcoin locked away on a hard drive that will erase its data after 10 password attempts. Thomas has tried to put in the correct password eight times with no luck. The German-born programmer lost the piece of paper containing the password. "You sort of question your own self-worth. What kind of person loses something this important?" Thomas said during a recent interview. "It was actually a really big milestone in my life where, like, I sort of realized how I was going to define my self-worth going forward. It wasn't going to be about how much money I have in my bank account," he said. Thomas said he told his story to help prevent others from forgetting their passwords.

Interestng facts about AZ

Ø Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near Duncan, Arizona.

Ø The best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona.

Ø The average state elevation is 4,000 feet.

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

National Popcorn Day

National Tin Can Day

World Day of Migrants and Refugees
World Quark Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Like every Federal Holiday since my retirement, I am staying home. Federal Holidays are days we should celebrate, remember, and be with family and friends. During my years on the Rez, a Federal Holiday meant I didn’t work, and that I could go to places that were usually closed on weekends. Now I honor the Federal Holidays.

The more I read and learn about the storming of our Capitol, the more I am glad that National Security is on the job. I’ve heard of and read about ‘militias’ around the country that are extremely far right and want to see this democracy ended. Like most, I haven’t paid attention to either their names or their ideology.  I guess it is time to pay more attention.

MLK day is set aside time to think about a more peaceful country and world where skin color does not define a person. I have never understood how the color of one’s skin made them ‘good’ or ‘bad’ simply because of the color. Every race has a majority of good people and some bad apples. I always welcomed the good people into my circle and tried to keep the bad ones out of my circle. It has worked well for me, with just a few exceptions. It can work for everyone.

It’s been cloudy all day. Weather guy says about an inch of white stuff is on its way. I’ll believe it when I shovel it.

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A farmer has a wolf, a chicken, and a bag of grain he needs to get across a river. He has one boat to take them all across. He can only take one at a time. He can’t leave the wolf alone with chicken or the chicken alone with the grain. How does he do it?

Historical Events

1825 – The US patent (#X004009) for food storage in cans to “preserve animal substances in tin” was issued to Ezra Daggett and his nephew Thomas Kensett of New York City.

1883 – Thomas Edison, using overhead wires, began serving electricity to the residents of Roselle, New Jersey.

1915 – A US patent (#1125476) was issued to George Claude of Paris titled a “System of Illuminating by Luminescent Tubes” an early neon sign.

1920 – The United States Senate voted against joining the League of Nations.

1937 – Howard Hughes set a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

1953 – On I Love Lucy, Little Ricky appeared on the show, just twelve hours after he was born. Over 70% of every TV in the country watched the episode.

1977 – President Ford pardoned WWII siren Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri D’Aquino)

1977 – Snow fell in Miami and The Bahamas. It was the only time in recorded history that it happened, and a sure sign of a coming ice age (global cooling), scientists believed.

1978 – Volkswagen Beetles stopped being produced in Germany.

1989 – President Ronald Reagan pardoned George Steinbrenner for illegal campaign contributions for Richard Nixon.

1993 – FOX expanded their prime-time line-up to seven days a week.

2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.

2016 Sarah Palin officially endorses Donald Trump's presidential bid at a Trump rally in Ames, Iowa

2017 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán is extradited to the United States to face trial for his leadership of the Sinaloa drug cartel

Birthdays Today

@99 – George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)

91 – Tippi Hedren, American model, actress

@83 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist, engineer (dd.1819)

77 – Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer

75 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress

74 – Paula Deen, American chef, author

@73 – Frederico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993; heart attack)

68 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor, singer

@67 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906; pneumonia)

67 – Katey Sagal, American actress

66 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican American comedian, actor

@63 – Robert E. Lee, American general, academic (d. 1870; stroke)

@54 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (d. 2003; heart attack)

@40 – Edgar Allan Poe, American short-story writer, poet, critic (d. 1849)

38 -- Pete Buttigieg, politician

@27 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (d, 1970; OD)

Puzzle Answer

He takes chicken first. He takes the wolf over second and comes back with the chicken. He drops off the chicken and takes the grain to the other side with the wolf. Last, he goes back to get the chicken and brings him across.