Feb 14

 

Week: 8 Day: 45	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   56°\ 18° Wind: 0mph\ Gusts: 1mph	High risk of fire Active fire: 132mi. \ Lightning: 1879mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

♥♥♥♥ Happy Valentine’s Day ♥♥♥♥

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
7-14	Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link National Marriage Week Link  Link
7-14	Risk Awareness Week
8-14	Love Makes the World Go Round; but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
11-20	Date (Fruit) Week
12-19	National Entrepreneurship Week Link
13-19	Children of Alcoholics Week Link  International Flirting Week    Jell-O Week Love A Mensch Week National Secondhand Wardrobe Week Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
14-21	National Condom Week National Nestbox Week NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice winter day…After a walk through the neighborhood, I hopped in my vehicle to check out the drive to the County Courthouse downtown. I may have to do jury duty there on Tuesday. I needed to check out the possible parking in the area. I hate downtown parking as there are no lots or structures and street parking is a mess. I get free parking for jury duty but finding a spot will be a challenge at 8a on Tuesday.

I had read that all the snow at the Olympics was man-made snow. I was happily surprised when I watched some snowboarding where it was snowing. Then the next day it was snowing at the downhill events. For me, the snowstorms add to the challenge.

Arizona became a state on Valentine’s Day 1912. Time to celebrate. 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How does a nut sneeze?

Cashew!

Trivia

Q: The Denver ____?

 

Question: What is the highest-grossing holiday movie of all time?

 

Q: Which programming language shares its name with an island in Indonesia?

 

Q: What is the nationality of Picasso?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Broncos

Answer 2: Home Alone

Answer 3: Java

Answer 4: Spanish

 

Historical Events

W                 278 – Valentine, a priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was beheaded for performing (illegal at the time) marriage ceremonies.

W                 1849 – The first photograph of a US President, James Polk, was taken in Washington, DC.

W                 1903 – The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (it was later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).

W                 1920 – The League of Women Voters formed in Chicago, IL.

W                 1929 – Four men came in, dressed as police at Bugsy Moran’s headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, killing seven of Bugs’s men in what is called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Moran was a rival of Al Capone.

W                 1930 – The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett was published.

W                 1946 – The ENIAC Computer was introduced.

W                 1949- The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convened for the first time.

W                 1962 – First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on CBS television.

W                 1989 – Union Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.

W                 2005 – Youtube.com was launched.

Birthdays Today

@80 – Jack Benny [Benjamin Kubelsky], American comedic actor (d. 1974)

@77 – Frederick Douglass, former slave, orator, writer (d. 1895; heart attack)

71 – Terry Gross, American radio host

62 – Meg Tilly, American actress

52 – Simon Pegg, English actor, director and producer

@37 – George Ferris, American engineer, inventor, created the Ferris Wheel (d. 1896; typhoid)

30 – Freddie Highmore, English actor