Mar 16

 

 

Mar 16, 2021     Week: 12    Day: 75      Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 45°\ L 20°\ Sky Cover: 5%       Wind:  10mph/ Gusts:  15mph

Nearest Lightning: 522mi.                        Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  475mi

Record: 72°[2007]  Record: -1°[1969]       Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process,

you don't know what you're doing.

W. Edwards Deming

A Little Something to Think About

Firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters do?

True Things

This is what happens when you pay for your son's law degree…

A 41-year-old man in Great Britain is suing his parents in a bid to force them to pay him "maintenance" for life. Despite being a trained lawyer and having a degree from Oxford University, Faiz Siddiqui claims he is completely dependent on his wealthy parents. For 20 years his Dubai-based parents have let him live rent-free in a $1 million flat they own near London's Hyde Park. They also helped to cover other bills. But now that his parents want to cut him off, Siddiqui claims that his upbringing has made him "vulnerable" and that cutting him off financially would be a violation of his human rights. A case against his parents was rejected last year by a top family court judge. It has now gone to the Court of Appeal.

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
World Rattlesnake Roundup	12-14
Campfire USA Birthday Week Teen Tech Week	14-20
Native American Awareness Week   Link	15-19
Act Happy Week  International Brain Awareness Week Link International Teach Music Week National Fix A Leak Week Link Shakespeare Week Link	15-21

 

Today’s Observations

Black Press Day
Campfire Girls Day
Curlew Day
Everything You Do is Right Day

Freedom of Information Day

Giant Panda Bear Day

Goddard Day Link  Link
Lips Appreciation Day
National Artichoke Heart Day

No Selfies Day
Panda Day
St. Urho's Day Link and Link
Tea for Two Tuesday 

World Social Work Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Yesterday’s wind covered my sidewalk with snow…that had been more ice than snow. Now I am awaiting the next storm, due tonight.  I picked up some essential food this morning with a quick stop at Sam’s. I didn’t shop last week due to that storm. Also filled with gas…wow, prices have gone up…it was $2.95. The last time I filled up it was about $2.30. I’m sure this is a racket of some kind.

I guess I’ll do without St. Patty’s Day corned beef and cabbage as I forgot to buy it. Think I’ll just make soda bread and be glad I’m Irish.

Colorado is still getting lots of snow. The pictures are Facebook are staggering. Even friends who seldom post anything are busy posting pictures of deeeeeep snow.

The NAU Men’s Cross Country just won this year’s National Championship. Very cool. This is their 4^th National Title in 5 years.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Susan and Lisa decided to play tennis against each other. They bet $1 on each game they played. Susan won three bets and Lisa won $5. How many games did they play?

Historical Events

1850 – Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter was published.

1926 – American Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket at Auburn, Massachusetts. It reached a height of 41 feet.

1942 – The first V-2 rocket test-launched. It exploded at lift-off.

1945 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi was the only individual who witnessed and survived both atom bombs in Japan, Hiroshima on August 6th, and Nagasaki on August 9.

1957 – The Gumby Show Premiered on NBC.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, a Thunderbird.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.

1978 – The Amoco Cadiz wrecked off the coast of Portsall, France, spilling 68 million gallons of oil.

1984 –William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later died in captivity)

1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut. He was released on December 4, 1991.

1988 – Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

2005 – Robert Blake, star of the 1970s television detective show Baretta, was acquitted of the murder of his 44-year-old wife, Bonny Lee Bakley.

2015 Google commemorate Anna Atkins's 216th birthday with a Google Doodle image representing her cyanoprint work

2016 US President Barack Obama nominates Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Justice

2017 US President Donald Trump's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts.

2020 COVID-19: France orders a national lockdown, US recommends meetings 10 or less, 6 counties in San Francisco and surrounding counties told to "shelter in place"

Birthdays Today

@91 – Henry Henny Youngman, English-American violinist, comedian (d. 1998)

@91 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (d. 2017)

@85 – James Madison, Father of the Contstitution, 4^th US President

80 – Chuck Woolery, American game show host, television personality

72 – Henry Enrique Erik Estrada, American actor

@65 – Georg Ohm, German physicist, mathematician (d. 1854)

Puzzle Answer

Eleven. Because Lisa lost three games to Susan, she had lost $3 ($1 per game). So, she had to win back that $3 with three more games, then win another five games to win $5.