Apr 7

 

 

 

Apr 7 2021   Week: 15    Day: 97                              

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover: 5%
Local: H 65°\ L 32°	Nearest Lightning: 503mi.
Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  22mph	EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  92mi
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

~William Feather

Random Tidbits

The YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.

Renee Descartes, the 17th-century philosopher, and mathematician is the person responsible for “x” being the universal variable in algebra.

US President #15 James Buchanan (1857-1861) First president to have his inauguration photographically recorded.

A Little Something to Think About

Under European Copyright Law, people can’t sell or publish photographs of the Eiffel Tower, or even post them on social media without permission.

Common Words: New Meanings

11.  Testicle  (N.), a humorous question on an exam.

12.  Rectitude  (N.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13.  Pokemon  (N), a Rastafarian proctologist.

Monthly Observations

 

National Garden Month Link National Heartworm Awareness Month Link National Humor Month National Kite Month Link National Knuckles Down Month National Landscape Architecture Month National Lawn Care Month National Licorice Month National Minority Health Month Link National Multiple Birth Awareness Month Link National 9-1-1 Education Month National Occupational Therapy Month National Parkinson's Awareness Month Link  National Pecan Month Link National Pest Management Month National Pet Month Link Link National Poetry Month National Rebuilding Month National Safe Digging Month Link National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month Link  Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Month National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month  (SAAM) Link National Social Security Month  National Toddler Immunization Month Link National Youth Sports Safety Month

 

Weekly Observations

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link	Thru 4/10
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week Golden Rule Week Laugh at Work Week Medication Safety Week Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link	1-7
National Robotics Week Link	3-11
Bat Appreciation Week  National Dental Hygienest Week Link National Library Week Hate Week National Blue Ribbon Week Link  (Child Abuse) National Public Health Week National Window Safety Week	4-10
American Indian Awareness Week  Link CANCELLED Explore Your Career Options	5-9
International Dark Sky Week   Link  Mule Days The Masters Tournament	5-11
National Catholic Educational Association Week	6-8

 

Today’s Observations

Burrito Day

Caramel Popcorn Day

Child Help National Day of Hope 
Coffee Cake Day

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide Link
International Beaver Day

Metric System Day
National Beer Day

National Bookmobile Day Link 
National Coffee Cake Day

National Girl Me Too Day  Link
National Handmade Day  Link
National Making The First Move Day
National Walking Day 

No Housework Day

Paraprofessional Appreciation Day 
No Housework Day
World Health Day (UN)
World Health Organization Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another great spring day…sun shining, very blue sky, warm enough for a walk around the neighborhood with a light jacket.

I talked to Andy and Faith last night and we decided to go out to dinner. This was my first restaurant in a lonnnnng time. We met at Texas Roadhouse where we have great dinners and even better conversation. We were masked until seated, all the employees were masked throughout. A nice time.

It looks like Tuba won’t open for in-class instruction until the fall. Here’s a great zoom story: A Developmental Kindergarten, age 4, has been doing all his assignments, always on zoom at the right time, and a hard worker. The other day, during class, a woman popped up on screen and asked the teacher to call her after the session. When she called the woman asked when this little boy would be getting his own tablet. [they were picked up by parents months ago]. The woman is a neighbor, and the little boy comes over to her house every day, borrows one of their laptops and logs in. The parent never picked up the laptop. The mother is not very reliable for anything. The teacher delivered the laptop that afternoon. The next day the boy logged on and thanked the teacher for the laptop. The background looked like it always had. Turns out the little boy had picked up this laptop at home, walked to the neighbors and logged on. The neighbor is fine with it. The boy tells his mom “I’m going to school now.”

I saw a news story that is very disturbing. Smugglers are using social media to put ads telling people in Central American countries that it is safe to come to America by paying $8,000 to them for safe passage into America. It is not true. The Feds have started putting ads on social media saying not to come, but the smugglers’ ads are so prevalent they seem to be winning. Facebook and Instagram have taken down reported ads, but does nothing until the ad is reported.

My new computer is up and running. I had to use Microsoft help, which took about 30 minutes to get all my email accounts onto Outlook. Each account took about 10 minutes to set up. Technology should be easier.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other parts are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one right place for me. What am I?

Historical Events

1795 – France adopted the meter as the unit of length and the base of the metric system.

1896 – Patent (#557,994) for “justifying lines of type” was issued to Tolbert Langston.

1906 (Volcano) Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples.

1927 -The first public display of a long-distance television transmission was viewed by a group of newspaper reporters and dignitaries in the auditorium of AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York, via telephone lines from Washington, DC.

1933 – Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.

1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

1946 – Syria’s independence from France was officially recognized.

1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous “domino theory” speech, regarding communism in Southeast Asia.

1959 – The first distinguishable echo was recorded of a radar signal bounced off the Sun by the Radio science Laboratory at Stanford University.

1964 – IBM introduced its innovative System/360, the company’s first line of compatible mainframe computers that gave customers the option of upgrading from lower-cost models to more powerful, expensive ones.

1970 – Midnight Cowboy won in the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.

1980 – The United States severed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

2001 – Mars Odyssey was launched to orbit Mars. The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, after his book 2001: A Space Odyssey.

2016 Longest-ever captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)

2017 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun

2020 China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time

Birthdays Today

@92 – Ravi Shankar [Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury], Indian-American sitar player, composer (d. 2012)

@91 – Will Keith Kellogg, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)

@80 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)

@82 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (d. 2015)

82 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, screenwriter

67 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman

58 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor

@44 – Billie Holiday[Eleanora Fagan], American singer-songwriter (d. 1959; cirrhosis)

 

Puzzle Answer

A puzzle piece