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
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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Celebrate Your Name
Week Read an E-Book Week Link Save Your Vision Week Link Termite Awareness
Week Women in Construction Week Link |
7-13 |
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Women of Aviation Worldwide Week |
7-14 |
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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week |
10-13 |
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National Money Show |
11-13 |
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Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign |
11-17 |
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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.
