Dear Spring: Please stop
hiding.
Mar 2, 2021 Week: 9 Day: 61 Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 44°\ L 19°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind:
5mph/ Gusts: 10mph
Nearest Lightning: 983mi. Moderate Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 500mi
Record: 66°[2009] Record: -1°[1971]
Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
I believe that every
human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
~Thomas Jefferson
Random Tidbits
Unless you're a real
science geek, chances are you never knew these elements even existed.
Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life.
Scandium (Sc)
In the 1970s,
metallurgists found that aluminum-scandium alloys are strong and lightweight,
making it useful in aerospace components. It wasn't long before
sporting-equipment manufacturers started using the alloys in everything from
baseball bats to lacrosse sticks.
A Little Humor
A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says- I'll serve you-
but you better not start anything!
True Things
Naked man carrying Bible
shot in Florida
A naked man knocking on
doors at a South Florida apartment complex was shot by someone who then called
911 to turn himself in, police said. The man was carrying a Bible and knocking
on doors at the Sunshine Garden Apartments when he was shot, Pembroke Pines
police Major Al Xiques reported. Police said that officers found the man
bleeding and on the ground. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Officers were already on their way to investigate calls about a naked man at
the complex when a 911 caller said he had just shot the man. "[The
shooter] wanted to surrender himself to police," Xiques said. "He was
detained by police and is being questioned." The identities of the man and
the person who turned himself in were not immediately released.
Monthly Observations
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Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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National Pasty Week Cancelled |
Thru 3/6 |
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National School Breakfast Week: 1-5 |
1-5 |
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Hearing Awareness
Week Link Telecommuter Appreciation Week Universal Human
Beings Week Link |
1-7 |
Today’s Observations
Dr. Seuss Day
Free Dentistry Day Link
NEA's Read Across
America Day
Old Stuff Day
Peace Corps Day Link
World Teen Mental Illness Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Thankfully, there is much less wind today, but still not as warm as I
had hoped.
I’m just enjoying a kinda lazy day.
Navajo: March is the sixth month in the traditional Diné calendar.
It is the month when the eaglets scream, bighorn sheep drop their young, first
thunder rumbles and the deer and elk shed their antlers. The heart of this
month is becha na'chil, sudden spring storms, and the bear and thunder
constellations, while it's feather is dibéʼniiʼí, the mountain sheep bird. When
these birds are seen it is spring. Niłchidootłizh, the blue wind of warmth, is
carried back from the south by the hummingbirds, while niłchidiłhił, the dark
wind blanket of cold and sickness, is carried back north with the migrating
geese and swans. The first leaves come forth and ceremonies are held to bless the
fields before the seeds are planted.
This time of the year has many names in Diné
Bizaad as it is a time of great seasonal change from winter to spring. Here in
southern Navajo the old ones once used the word of dee nahaałdaas, 'falling
antlers', for the month of March as during this period of the year dzééh (elk)
and bįįhtsoh (mule deer) would be seen shedding their antlers.
Another name once used was dibé iiłchííh,
'birthing time of the sheep', as the bighorn sheep (dibé) would be seen in the
canyons, and atop the mesas and mountains with newborn lambs at their side.
Ii'ni' ts'ósí, small thunder, was another older
name used by our people. The thunder beings it was said would make themselves
known during this time of the year by rumbling above or striking the ground
below to waken the plants and animals from their long sleep and to alert the
people to cease the winter ceremonies until fall time.
Wóózhchį́į́d, eaglets crying horsely, is the name
generally used today by a majority of our people for the month of March. This
is the time of the year when the eaglets born in January or February have begun
to grow out their little feathers and can be heard crying out loudly above in
their nests from which the name of 'wóózhchį́į́d' derives from.
I had a good conversation with my brother…actually several over the
past few days. He has been under the weather with body aches and fatigue. He
was tested and negative for Covid. Not sure what is messing with his body, but yesterday
afternoon he was improving a lot. Hope it continues.
One of the cool things about Facebook is discovering how former
students are doing. At least 5 former students, whom I am not ‘friends’ with,
posted when a former student who is a friend wished me a happy birthday. They reminisced
about why they remembered me teaching them. Nice memories, some were pretty
funny. Thanks to all who posted. Some posted on Old School TCBS group site.
After watching the news on CPAC, I guess my hope that our country’s
division would cease after Trump lost was little more than a fantasy. America
needs a Nelson Mandela now more than ever.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Five
people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before
E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
Historical Events
1657 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused
more than 100,000 deaths and lasted three days.
1807 – The US Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of
slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States…
from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”
1863 – The US Congress authorized a track width of 4-feet, 8-1/2
inches as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the
standard width for most of the world.
1933 – King Kong (film) opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
1949 – The first round the world nonstop airplane flight was completed
in a US Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, the Lucky Lady II headed by Captain
James Gallagher. They landed back at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth,
Texas, which they had left on February 26, about 94 hours earlier.
1960 – Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz, ending their
marriage as well as the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show franchise on CBS.
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game
against the New York Knicks. Final score: 169-147, at the Hershey Arena.
Although there were only about 6,000 tickets sold, guesstimates are that almost
50% of male sports fans born in the Philadelphia area between 1925 and 1958
claim to have been at the event.
1969 – The Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft, prototype 001, made
its first flight from Toulouse airport in France.
1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in
the United States and other markets. (They had previously been available only
in Japan.)
1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from a cemetery in the Swiss
village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The grave robbers
(and the re-buried body) were found a few weeks later.
1985 – Sheena Easton the first and still only recording artist to
score top-10 singles on all five major Billboard singles charts: Pop, Country,
Dance, Adult Contemporary and R&B with her hit Sugar Walls.
1990 – Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African
National Congress.
2000 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after
being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges
2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from
Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine.
2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko
return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record.
2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the
investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met
Russian ambassador
2020 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey can no longer
enforce 2016 deal with EU to stop migrants entering Europe, warns millions may
try.
Birthdays Today
90 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize
laureate
@87 – Dr. Seuss [Theodor
Seuss “Ted” Geisel], children’s book
writer, poet, illustrator (d. 1991)
79 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter
@70 – Sam Houston, American
soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)
@69 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, producer (d. 1986; lung
cancer)
69 – Mark Evanier, American author and screenwriter
68 – Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician
59 – Jon Bon Jovi [John Francis
Bongiovi Jr.], singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, actor
53 – Daniel Craig, English actor
41 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
Puzzle Answer
CABDE.
Putting the first three in order, A finished in front of B but behind C, so
CAB. Then, we know D finished before B, so CABD. We know E finished after D, so
CABDE.
