Feb 2

 

Week: 6 Day: 33	Ave. Sky Cover:  60% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   41°\ 20° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 7mph	Low risk of fire Active fire: 515mi. \ Lightning: 1327mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

February in Navajo: ‘Atsa’ Biyaazh, which means Baby Eagle

Fasting February  Link
February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
Feline Fix By Five Month
Free and Open Source Software Month  Link
From Africa to Virginia Month
Great American Pies Month  Link

Weekly Observations

 

29-2/5	Cordova Ice Worm Days Link
30-2/5	Catholic Schools Week Meat Week National Anesthesiologists Week Link
1-7	African Heritage & Health Week Women's Heart Week World Interfaith Harmony Week
2-8	Publicity for Profit Week
2-6	US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Weather guy sez the next few days will be very chilly and possibly a couple of inches of the white stuff. It’s OK as we always need moisture.

I headed out early for a haircut. My last one was long ago and either my hair grew slowly, or the last cut was shorter than I thought. Anyway, I clean cut again, so all is well.

I guess Whoopi really stepped in it on the View. She said that holocaust was not about race. She has apologized on several shows, including the View. Hitler defined the Jews as an inferior sub-human race. A lifetime ago her apology would have sufficed, but in today’s world, I expect this to be fodder for a few more weeks.

My CPAP saga continues. The Northern AZ Health never called back, so I called again. A lady finally answered after the 9-point menu played. She checked and checked, ask me more questions, and checked again. She said that ‘they’ had sent a script to the CPAP provider in November. She checked and it was signed by a Phy. Asst. I asked her to send it again. She agreed. Then I called the CPAP people. Now the story is that their Fax machine is broken and may or may not be repaired ‘today’. I said I’d check back in a couple of days.

I should be getting excited about the Beijing Olympics, but with all the hassles and now a Covid outbreak ‘in’ the bubble, I’ll just wait until the Opening Ceremony to get excited. Lunar New Year…the year of the Tiger…is happening, even though Covid has stopped most travel.

So, Tom Brady announced his retirement. Hmmm!

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

Why didn’t the hamburger buns get along?

They always had beef between them.

Trivia

Q: TRUE OR FALSE - There are 86400 seconds in a day.

 

Q: What is a "dakimakura"?

 

Q: TRUE OR FALSE - An eggplant is a vegetable.

 

Q: What is the unit of currency in Laos?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: TRUE

Answer 2: A body pillow

Answer 3: FALSE; it is a berry by botanical definition

Answer 4: Kip

Historical Events

W                 1046 – The “Little Ice Age” began in Europe.

W                 1653 – New Amsterdam (now the City of New York) was incorporated.

W                 1876 – National League (now Major League Baseball)  was founded

W                 1887 – The first Groundhog Day was observed in Punxsutawney, PA

W                 1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened in New York City.

W                 1925 – Sears & Roebuck opened their first retail store, in Chicago.

W                 1925 – Balto and Togo led a team via Dog Sleg to the town of Nome, Alaska, with antitoxin serum for an outbreak of Diptheria. An estimated 10,000 people may have been saved.

W                 1964 – G.I. Joe action figures (they are not ‘dolls’!) went on sale for the first time, featuring the four branches of the US military.

W                 1989 – Sky Television began broadcasting in the UK.

W                 1990 – President De Klerk of South Africa lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid group the African National Congress (ANC).

Birthdays Today

@88 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, businessman, philanthropist, Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)

@89 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)

85 – Tom Smothers, American comedian and actor

80 – Graham Nash, English-American singer-songwriter

@77 – Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum], Russian/American novelist, philosopher (d. 1982)

69 – Duane Chapman, ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’

68 – Christie Brinkley, American actress and model

@62 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009; cancer)

@58 – James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, poet (d. 1941; perforated ulcer)

45 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter