2021…at last
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Jan
30, 2021 Week: 4
Day: 30 |
Local: H 45°\ L 15°\Ave. Sky Cover: 70% |
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Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 13mph |
Today’s
Historic Ave. Temp.: H 43°\ L 18° |
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Nearest
lightning: 1356mi.; Active fire: 59 mi |
Very Low Risk of Fire Visibility: 8mi |
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Record: 66°[1971] Record: -19°[1979] |
Jan
Averages: 44°/16° (4 days
with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Birds sing after a storm;
why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to
them?
~Rose Kennedy
Random Tidbits
It is suspected that the
largest counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the nation of North Korea.
Martha Washington is the
only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on
the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1
Silver Certificate of 1896.
A Little Humor
Q Why did the apple turnover?
Because it saw the jelly roll!
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If anyone wants any chiropractic magazines- let me know. I have back
issues.
True Things
A man and woman have been
arrested in central Florida after police say they stole more than $300 worth of
meat from a grocery store.
Deputies reported that
48-year-old Doris Rowe and 54-year-old Kenneth Edwards drove 26 miles to a
Winn-Dixie store in DeLand where a store manager saw Rowe stuffing meat
products and other items into her pants.
Deputies say the manager
stopped Rowe and she hit the manager in the neck, dropping pork ribs, two packs
of detergent and three water filters. Rowe fled the store and got into Edwards'
truck. Deputies apprehended them at a traffic stop. Both were charged with
grand theft and robbery.
Deputies found ribeye
steaks, ground beef, bacon, pork ribs and a gallon of bleach in the car valued
at $361.
Weekly Observations
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Clean Out Your Inbox
Week |
24-30 |
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National Medical Group Practice
Week: |
25-30 |
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Sundance Film Festival |
28-2/7 |
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US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days |
28-31 |
Today’s Observations
A.F.R.M.A. American Fancy Rat &
Mouse Assoc. Day
Croissant Day Link
Fruitcake Toss Day Link
Inane Answering Message Day
National Croissant Day
National Inane Answering Message Day
Yodel for your neighbor’s Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Got gas this morning, just as the storm started moving. I had hoped
for a few days break that would allow some of the snow to melt. Oh, well. The
weather guy says it is a fast-moving storm…a real ‘dump and run’.
It is warm enough that the huge icicles out my office window are
dripping. Some are dripping constantly, others only every few seconds. It is
very relaxing and calming to watch. When they fall, they will land on the porch
roof, so no danger of hurting someone. My neighbor had a couple on the porch
roof. He broke them off and stuck them in the snow. The three of them are each
about 4’ long and have a circumference of about 2”.
I’m having a hard time deciding which is worse: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,
the Q-anon lady or the idea that the Republicans put her on the Education
Committee in the House. This is the lady who believes the school shootings have
been made up. Guess I should be happy that the Republican leader gave her a
stern talking to.
Daily Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the
page
What do you throw out when you want to use it but take in when you
don’t need it?
Historical Events
January 29, 1979 Texas Shooting:
Teenager Brenda Spencer is considered the first modern-day school shooter. In
the midst of her shooting spree, she actually answered a call from a journalist
and said her reasoning was “[I] don’t like Mondays. This livens up the day.”
She then resumed, killing 2 and injuring 9.
1790 – The first boat designed as a lifeboat was tested on the River
Tyne.
1868 – Charles Darwin’s book, Variation of Animals and Plants under
Domestication, was published.
1933 – Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
1948 – Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse.
1958 – The first two-way, moving sidewalk (1,425 feet long) was put in
service at Love Field Air Terminal in Dallas, TX.
1968 – The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong began the Tet
Offensive.
1972 – British Paratroopers open fire on and kill fourteen unarmed
civil rights/anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. It was
commemorated by the US with 1983’s Sunday Bloody Sunday.
1973 – KISS played their 1st show at the Coventry Club in Queens New
York.
2007 – Microsoft released Windows Vista.
2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor -
540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil.
2019 Continuous 24-hour church mass lasting 97 days to prevent
deportation of Armenian asylum seekers ends after Dutch authorities reconsider
at Protestant Bethel Church in The Hague
2019 Peter Paul Rubens’s 1608 drawing "Nude Study of Young Man
with Raised Arms" sells for $8.2 million at auction in New York.
2019 Scientists reveal discovery of cavity six miles long, 1,000 feet
deep under Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, leading to fears it might
collapse and raise sea levels by two feet.
2020 The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a Public Health
Emergency of International Concern at a meeting in Geneva
Birthdays Today
91 – Gene Hackman,
American actor, author
@86 – Dick Martin, American comedic actor (d.
2008)
84 – Boris Spassky,
Russian chess player
80 – Dick Cheney,
American businessman, and politician
70 – Phil Collins, English drummer,
singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
@63 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (d.
1945; stroke)
63 – Brett Butler,
American actress
47 – Christian Bale,
Welsh actor
41 – Wilmer
Valderrama, American actor
Puzzle Answer
An anchor.
