Jan 8

 

Week: 2 Day: 8
Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   52°\ 26° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 13mph
Low risk of fire Active fire: 732mi. \ Lightning: 1241mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

1-8	National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
2-8	Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: Home Office Safety and Security Week Link National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
5-8	International Consumer Electronics Show
6-9	Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice sunny warmish day.

This morning was time for a pedicure. When I got there at 10:15 I was soaking in a manner of minutes. When I left, there were 2 people waiting and 3 getting pedis and 3 getting manicures. Lucky I got there when I did.

Air travel is really getting messed up by Covid. The Phoenix TSA shut down 2 of the 4 checkpoints at Terminal 3…the busiest one, due to staffing shortage. DIA in Denver had landing planes sitting on the tarmac for over 3 hours…again, staff shortage. Glad I’m not traveling now.

Our young, vaccinated and boosted Mayor tested positive, so all council business is now via zoom.

Sad to read of the passing of Sidney Poitier at 94. He leaves such an incredible movie and social activism legacy.

Russia is helping Kazakhstan quell protests over high propane prices. It had been considered the most stable ‘stan’ in the region.

Australia is getting lots of flack after Serbian tennis champ Djokovic’s ‘Medical Exemption’ for the Australian Open.  The ‘Rules are Rules’ explanation is upsetting many in the Tennis world as well as many Australians. Time will tell how this works out.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How do you make an aquarium sound better?

You tuna fish.

 

And Now This.....

I am writing a book about all the things I should be doing in my life.

It's an oughtobiography.

Trivia

1.   What part of the atom has no electric charge?

2.   What is the symbol for potassium?

 

ANSWERS:

Answer: Neutron

Answer: K

Historical Events

Ø 1851 – Jean Foucault proved that Earth rotated on its axis.

Ø 1918 – President Woodrow Wilson proposed the ‘Fourteen Points for a Just Peace’.

Ø 1964 – President Lyndon Johnson announced the ‘War on Poverty’ during his State of the Union Address.

Ø 1982 – AT&T was broken up into 22 smaller companies, nicknamed ‘Baby Bells’.

Birthdays Today

90 – Charles Osgood, American journalist

85 – Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer

§  @83 – Soupy Sales [Milton Supman], American comedian, and actor (died in 2009)

§  @80 – José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1992)

§  @76 – Stephen Hawking, English physicist and author (d. 2018; ALS)

§  @69 – David Bowie [David Robert Jones], singer-songwriter, actor (d. 2016; liver cancer)

§  @67 – William Hartnell, English actor (d. 1975; strokes)

64 – Betsy DeVos, American businesswoman, politician

§  @59 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer (d. 1970; lung cancer)

55 – R. (Robert Sylvester) Kelly, American singer-songwriter

§  @42 – Elvis Presley, American singer, The King (d. 1977; OD)

§  @48 – Graham Chapman, English actor, Monty Python member (d. 1989’ cancer)

38 – Kim Jong-Un, N. Korean leader

22 – Noah Cyrus, American actress, singer