Jan 18

 

Week: 4 Day: 18	Ave. Sky Cover:  30% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   49°\ 23° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 6mph	Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 316mi. \ Lightning: 1227mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

15-23	International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link
16-22	Healthy Weight Week Hunt for Happiness Week  National Activity Professionals Week
17-22	Sugar Awareness Week
17-23	National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-22	No Name Calling Week  Link
18-25	Week of Christian Unity

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice winter day.

It’s time for my annual Medicare required physical. This is a fasting blood draw. I got to the draw about 9:00am. In typical fashion, the gatekeeper said I will TRY to get the ultra-sound team. The nice girl apologized when she arrived at 9:55am. She set up and stuck the needle in. Then she said, ‘Well, that’s never happened”. Somehow my blood vessel bent her needle. Draw was done in a couple of minutes, and I was off to new adventures. Guess we will never know what bent the needle.

Ghislaine Maxwell gives courts names eight of the John Doe’s and will let the court decide if the names are released. I’m sure Prince Andrew isn’t the only one a bit more nervous today. I hope the list is released.

The Tonga volcano released a lot of Sulfur Dioxide.  Turns out when that reaches the stratosphere is causes a cooling on earth. There was 0.4 teragrams of SO2, that’s 400 million kilograms, released. It is not believed that is enough to have any long-lasting effect on climate.

After over 70 years, it looks like the man who told the Nazis about Ann Frank and her family hiding place may have been a Jew. 60 Minutes did a great story about the whole mess.

Tonight I’ll be watching the Cards game…hoping they have a win.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What did the cow say to the chicken?

You look a little under the feather, you should go and re-coop.

Trivia

1.        Which companies are part of the Big Three?

2.        Which company owns Bugatti, Lamborghini. Audi, Porsche, and Ducati?

3.        Which auto brand was the first to offer seat belts?

4.        What does BMW stand for (in English)?

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and Ford Motor Company

Answer 2: Volkswagen

Answer 3: Nash Motors

Answer 4: Bavarian Motor Works

Historical Events

§  1788 – The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrived at Botany Bay.

§  1967 – Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

§  January 18, 1975 Birthday (fictional) Leslie Knope, Parks & Recreation, TV

§  1993 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.

Birthdays Today

·        @82 – Cary Grant [Archibald Alec Leach], English-American actor (d. 1986)

80 – Bobby Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter

·        @80 – Ray Dolby, engineer, businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)

·        @80 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)

·        @70 – Daniel Webster, lawyer, politician (d. 1852; cirrhosis)

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67 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer

52 – Jesse L. Martin, American actor, and singer

42 – Jason Segal, American actor