Jan 27

 

Week: 5 Day: 27	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   36°\ 13° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 12mph	Low risk of fire Active fire: 483mi. \ Lightning: 1369mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

20-30	Sundance Film Festival
23-29	Clean Out Your Inbox Week National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week  National Handwriting Analysis Week  National School Choice Week  Link  Snow care for Troops Week
24-28	Ally Week Link
24-29	National Medical Group Practice Week
24-26	Westminster Dog Show
25-28	International Hoof-Care Week  Link
26-28	National Mentoring Summit Link
27-30	Angouleme International Comics Festival  Link

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Chilly winter day.

Justice Breyer is retiring at the end of this session. Wonder how the Republicans will play this to prevent the US President from appointing a new justice? I’m sure it will be a doozy.

Va. elected a governor of the Trump persuasion. He has just set up a Parent ‘hotline’ where parents in Virginia can report any school that is teaching ‘Critical Race Theory”. Wonder how that will work out? It is not on any approved curriculum for elementary through high school curriculum anywhere.

My phlebotomy took forever. I got the needle put in at 1:45 and went upstairs to the blood doctor’s lab. I had to wait over an hour for the computer to approve the darn phlebotomy. Then they didn’t have any vacuum bottles and the blood had thickened, so it had to have saline to open the tube, then without the vacuum, the blood still flowed slowly. I finally left the lab at 5:15. The office was closed, but the receptionist was still working. I told her my story and she got the head of personnel. Long story short, they are a new business and there are bumps and she promised the next visit will be better. I certainly hope so. 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you get if you cross a cat with a tree?

A cat-a-logue.

Why did the nurse need a red pen at work?

In case she needed to draw blood

Trivia

Q: TRUE OR FALSE - In 2010, Twitter and the United States Library of Congress partnered together to archive every tweet by American citizens.

 

Q: Who is depicted on the US hundred-dollar bill?

 

Q: TRUE OR FALSE - The Lego Group was founded in 1932.

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: TRUE

Answer 2: Benjamin Franklin

Answer 3: TRUE

 

Historical Events

    1888 – The National Geographic Society was established.

    1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

    1945 – The Auschwitz concentration camp, with about 6,000 prisoners was liberated by Soviet Forces.

    1973 – The Vietnam Peace Agreement was signed in Paris (taking effect January 28th). Colonel William Nolde was killed in action, becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.

    1977 – Roots mini-series began on ABC.

Birthdays Today

74 – Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, actor

67 – John Roberts, American jurist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

v @65 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001; heart attqack)

v @65 – Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), English novelist, poet, mathematician (d 1898; flu)

v @64 – Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986; cancer)

v @39 – Sabu, Indian-American actor (d. 1963; heart attack)

v @35 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist, and composer (d. 1791; Rheumatic fever)