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Week: 4
Day: 18 |
Ave. Sky Cover:
30% Visibility: 10 miles |
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Local Temp: 49°\ 23° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 6mph |
Moderate risk of
fire Active fire: 316mi. \ Lightning: 1227mi. |
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Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days
w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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15-23 |
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link |
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16-22 |
Healthy Weight Week |
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17-22 |
Sugar Awareness Week |
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17-23 |
National Fresh
Squeezed Juice Week |
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18-22 |
No Name Calling Week
Link |
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18-25 |
Week of Christian
Unity |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice
winter day.
It’s time
for my annual Medicare required physical. This is a fasting blood draw. I got
to the draw about 9:00am. In typical fashion, the gatekeeper said I will TRY to
get the ultra-sound team. The nice girl apologized when she arrived at 9:55am. She
set up and stuck the needle in. Then she said, ‘Well, that’s never happened”.
Somehow my blood vessel bent her needle. Draw was done in a couple of minutes,
and I was off to new adventures. Guess we will never know what bent the needle.
Ghislaine
Maxwell gives courts names eight of the John Doe’s and will let the court
decide if the names are released. I’m sure Prince Andrew isn’t the only one a
bit more nervous today. I hope the list is released.
The Tonga
volcano released a lot of Sulfur Dioxide.
Turns out when that reaches the stratosphere is causes a cooling on
earth. There was 0.4 teragrams of SO2, that’s 400 million kilograms, released.
It is not believed that is enough to have any long-lasting effect on climate.
After over
70 years, it looks like the man who told the Nazis about Ann Frank and her
family hiding place may have been a Jew. 60 Minutes did a great story about the
whole mess.
Tonight I’ll
be watching the Cards game…hoping they have a win.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What did the
cow say to the chicken?
You look a
little under the feather, you should go and re-coop.
Trivia
1. Which companies are part of the Big
Three?
2. Which company owns Bugatti, Lamborghini.
Audi, Porsche, and Ducati?
3. Which auto brand was the first to offer
seat belts?
4. What does BMW stand for (in English)?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and Ford Motor Company
Answer 2:
Volkswagen
Answer 3:
Nash Motors
Answer 4:
Bavarian Motor Works
Historical Events
§ 1788 – The first elements of the First
Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrived at Botany
Bay.
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1967 –
Albert DeSalvo, the “Boston Strangler”, was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
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January 18,
1975 Birthday (fictional) Leslie Knope, Parks & Recreation, TV
§ 1993 – Martin Luther King Jr. Day was
officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.
Birthdays Today
·
@82 – Cary Grant [Archibald Alec Leach], English-American
actor (d. 1986)
80 – Bobby
Goldsboro, American singer-songwriter
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@80 – Ray Dolby, engineer, businessman, founded
Dolby Laboratories (d. 2013)
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@80 – Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to
Alexander Graham Bell (d. 1934)
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@70 – Daniel Webster, lawyer, politician (d. 1852;
cirrhosis)
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67 – Kevin Costner,
American actor, director, and producer
52 – Jesse L.
Martin, American actor, and singer
42 – Jason Segal,
American actor
