Feb 3

 

Week: 6 Day: 34	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   23°\ 11° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 22mph	Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 178mi. \ Lightning: 288mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month  Link
International Hoof-care Month
International Month of Black Women in The Arts  Link
International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month Link
Jobs in Golf Month Link
Library Lovers Month
Love The Bus 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

Awoke to a cold day with none of the expected snow. Deep blue sky has not a cloud in site. It’s cold here, but the Denver area is even colder. Many of the Front Range schools are closed in Colorado. Back in my school days, Jeffco only closed once…and that was because of over 3’ of snow and I think the school was closed for only one day…two at the most. And yes, we had to walk up and down a hill to school and up and down a hill to get home.

There have been bomb scares at numerous Black Colleges and Universities both Monday and Tuesday. Not the Black History Month I had hoped for.

Ground Hog Day is a two’s day this year…Tuesday 2/2/22. Hope you enjoy.

Pat Bowlen owned the Broncos for as long as I can remember. With his June 2019 passing at 75 from a pulmonary embolism, change of ownership was expected. It was announced that it is going up for sale soon. Many expect the sale to be around $4billion, making it the most expensive sports team sale in history. I went to high school with Dave Logan, and he said “I want somebody who has a vested interest, and somebody who is competitive and wants as much as the GM, and the coaching staff and the players to bring championship caliber football back to Denver…” Sure sounds good to me.

Whoopi is on 2-week suspension for her holocaust statements. I knew it wasn’t over yesterday.

The lunar new year is also celebrated in Mongolia. Tsagaan Sar, Mongolian Lunar New Year!

Favorite Memes

	Scot's money has otters!

 

A bit of Humor

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Trivia

Q: What alcoholic drink is mainly made from juniper berries?

 Q: Which Italian automobile manufacturer gained majority control of U.S. automobile manufacturer Chrysler in 2011?

Q: What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet?

Q: In what year was McDonald's founded?

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Gin

Answer 2: Fiat

Answer 3: Omega

Answer 4: 1955

Historical Events

W                 1690 – The first paper money in America was issued today, in the Colony of Massachusetts.

W                 ]1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

W                 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

W                 1947 – The coldest weather ever recorded in North America was at Snag, Yukon: -63 °C or -81 °F.

W                 1943 – Four Chaplains Memorial Day (in honor of George Fox, Alexander Goode, Clark Poling, and John Washington). Each gave their life belts to other sailors when the SS Dorchester was torpedoed near Greenland.

W                 1959 – The Day The Music Died: Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Pilot Roger Peterson crashed in a cornfield near Clear Lake, Iowa.

W                 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survived to testify against police corruption.

Birthdays Today

@90 – James A. Michener, American author and (d. 1997)

@89 – Joey Bishop [Joseph Abraham Gottlieb], American actor (d. 2007)

@84 – Norman Rockwell, American painter, illustrator (d. 1978)

@79 – John Ford [John Martin Feeney], American film director (d. 1973)

79 – Blythe Danner, American actress

@72 – Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, (d. 1946’ stomach cancer)

72 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress

66 – Nathan Lane, American actor, comedian

@61 – Horace Greeley, American journalist, abolitionist, politician (d. 1872)

@46 – Beau Biden, American soldier, politician (d. 2015; brain cancer)

46 – Isla Fisher, Omani-Australian actress

@38 – Felix Mendelssohn, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1847; strokes)

32 – Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter