Jan 14

 

Week: 3 Day: 14
Ave. Sky Cover:  35% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   55°\ 23° Wind: 0mph\ Gusts: 3mph
Low risk of fire Active fire: 408mi. \ Lightning: 929mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

9-15	Idiom Week National Mocktail Week
11-17	Cuckoo Dancing Week

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A warmish day with high clouds.

Inflation keeps rising. It is now at a 40-year high. This is especially difficult for those elders on a fixed income. I certainly fit the elder category, but I do have some investments that help with the inflation. I know it is hard for so many. Even so, our grocery stores here have fewer products and more empty shelves. The Navajo Rez only has one grocery store chain with about 5 stores to cover the entire reservation. Bashes, the grocery chain, announced yesterday that they are struggling to get items to the rez because of lack of products needed and too few truckers to deliver the products. Many members of smaller communities are already driving over 50 miles just to get to a Bashes and then finding only empty shelves. So sad.

Prince Andrew, the playboy of Buckingham Palace, has been stripped of his military titles and charities amid a sex abuse lawsuit. There has been lots of tabloid news about his connection with Jeffery Epstein.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What bird can write?

PENguin

Trivia

1.        Which Indiana Jones movie was released back in 1984?

2.        How many Lord of the Rings films are there?

3.        What was the name of the actor who played Jack Dawson in Titanic?

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Answer 2: Three

Answer c: Leonardo DiCaprio

Historical Events

Ø  1539 – Spain annexes Cuba.

Ø 1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica killed more than 1,000 people.

Ø 1952 – NBC’s Today Show premiered in 1952, hosted by Dave Garraway.

Ø 1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.

Ø 1967 – The Human Be-In began in San Francisco, at California’s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.

Birthdays Today

§  @92 – Andy Rooney, American journalist, critic, television personality (d. 2011)

§  @90 – Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese , philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

84 – Jack Jones, American singer and actor

81 – Faye Dunaway, American actress

79 – Holland Taylor, TV actor

§  @77 – Mark Goodson, game show producer, Family Feud and The Price Is Right (d. 1992)

§  @75 – Julian Bond, American academic, politician (d. 2015; vascular disease)

74 – Carl Weathers, American football player and actor

§  @65 – Richard Felton Outcault, 1st American comic strip creator (The Yellow Kid, Hogan’s Alley) (d. 1928)

§  @60 – Benedict Arnold, American-British general (d. 1801; dropsy)

58 – Shepard Smith, American television journalist

54 – LL Cool J (James Todd Smith), American rapper and actor

§  @53 – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (d. 30 BCE; suicide)

53 – Dave Grohl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer