Mar 31,
2021 Week: 14 Day: 90
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local:
H 61°\ L 26° |
Nearest Lightning: 1511mi. |
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Wind:
6mph/ Gusts: 15mph |
High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 354mi |
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Record: 73°[1966] Record: 3°[1912] |
Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Words are, of course, the
most powerful drug used by mankind.
~Rudyard Kipling
Random Tidbits
In Europe during the
Middle Ages, beer, often of very low strength, was an everyday drink for all
classes and ages of people. A document from that time mentions nuns having an
allowance of six pints of ale each day.
A Little Something to Think About
If people get debunked, detested, and demoralized, does that mean that
they were once bunked, tested, and moralized?
True Things
Man stabbed over mask
dispute
Police in League City,
Texas are looking for a man they say stabbed a Jack in the Box manager after
being asked to wear a face mask or leave the restaurant. Police said the
suspect walked in the restaurant without a face mask and was told he needed to
have one in order to be served or use the drive-thru. Surveillance video
released by the police department shows the manager holding up the store's
written policy as he escorts the assailant out the door. But seconds after
turning his back, the man steps back into the restaurant, runs after the
manager and attacks him with what appeared to be a pocketknife, according to
investigators. The manager was stabbed three times in the arm and upper torso.
He was rushed to the hospital where he was treated and released.
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] Passover [Jewish] |
Thru 4/3 Thru 4/4 |
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Passiontide |
21-4/3 |
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National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
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National Physicians Week Link |
25-31 |
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Holy Week |
24-4/3 |
Today’s Observations
Anesthesia Tech Day Link
Bunsen Burner Day
Cesar Chavez Day Link
International Hug A Medielvalist Day
International Transgender Day of Visibility Link
Little Red Wagon Day Link
Manatee Appreciation Day Link
National Clam on the Half Shell Day
National Oysters on the Half
Shell Day
National Prom Day Link
National "She's Funny That Way" Day
Oranges and Lemons day
Starbucks Day
Tater Day
Terri's Day Link
Whole Grain Sampling Day (Last
Wednesday) Link
World Backup Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Great spring day. Nice walk in the neighborhood.
I understand that the trial in Minneapolis is newsworthy. I even
believe that our entire court system may be on trial. I could not listen to either
side when the underage children were testifying. I get that it is important in
the trial but having millions of adults listen to these children on TV seems
wrong. None of those watching are on the jury, and without watching the entire
trial really have no business deciding if the ex-cop is guilty. That is the job
of the jurors who must sit in court day after day. For those few who think TV
news tells us what we need to know, the time the officer had his knee on Floyd’s
neck was 9 minutes and 29 seconds, not the 8 minutes and 46 seconds the news
has reported for over 9 months.
This morning at 6am, while I was brushing my teeth, my cell phone rang.
It was from ‘unknown caller’. I didn’t answer it. When I was finished brushing,
the phone alerted me to a voicemail message. A while later I check the message.
It was a prerecorded call, so I didn’t get everything from the beginning. It
said that if I didn’t press 1 they would have no choice but to turn me into law
enforcement. I guess I’ll just wait for the law to show up. I didn’t delete the
message, but I did block the caller. This spam call should be stopped by my
carrier, and I shouldn’t be bothered by such obvious scam.
The U of AZ women’s basketball team has made it to the final four at
the NCAA tourney. Good news.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
You do not want to have it, but when you do have it, you do not want
to lose it. What is it?
Historical Events
1492 – Queen Isabella of
Castille issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim
subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1822 – The massacre of
tens of thousands of people living on the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of
the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower,
986 feet tall, in Paris, France, was inaugurated
1918 – The US began
daylight saving time (DST) on Easter Sunday when clocks were set ahead by one
hour.
1930 – The Motion Picture
Production Code was instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of
sex, crime, religion, and violence in film, in the US. It was in place until
1968.
1943 – Broadway Show –
Oklahoma! (Musical) March 31, 1943
* Formally called ‘Away We Go’ in the initial tryout
runs
1959 – The Dalai Lama,
fled the Chinese suppression of a national uprising in Tibet and crossed the
border into India, where he is granted political asylum.
1981 – A new single-cell
genetically engineered life form patent (#4,259,444) was issued to Ananda
Chakrabarty. The Pseudomonas bacterium (now called Burkholderia cepacia) could
be used to clean up toxic spills because it can break down crude oil into simpler
substances that can potentially become food for aquatic life.
1994- Madonna appeared on
The Late Show with David Letterman and stirred up controversy by going on a
profanity-laden tirade. It marked the most censored event in television talk
show history with 13 swear words being censored.
1995- Latina singer
Selena was murdered and the live coverage of the crime drew in over 3.2 million
views to CBS.
1998 – Netscape released
Mozilla source code under an open-source license.
2013 2 people die from
bird flu (type H7N9) in China
2020 British pensioner
Robert Weighton becomes the world's oldest man at 112 years
Birthdays Today
@88 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey
player (d. 2016)
87 – Richard Chamberlain,
American actor
87 – Shirley Jones,
American actress, singer
86 – Herb Alpert,
American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
@78 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion
designer, founded Liz Claiborne Inc. (d. 2007; cancer)
78 – Christopher Walken,
American actor
73 – Al Gore, 45th VP of
the US and Nobel Prize laureate
73 – Rhea Perlman,
American actress
@72 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and
composer (d. 1809)
@68 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946;
car crash)
@66 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union
leader, activist (d. 1993; in sleep)
66 – Angus Young,
Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter, AC/DC
@53 – René Descartes, French mathematician,
philosopher (d. 1650; pneumonia)
50 – Ewan McGregor, actor
Puzzle Answer
A lawsuit
