Jan 25

 

Week: 5 Day: 25	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   50°\ 19° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 4mph	Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 289mi. \ Lightning: 1196mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

18-25	Week of Christian Unity
20-30	Sundance Film Festival
23-29	Clean Out Your Inbox Week National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week  National Handwriting Analysis Week  National School Choice Week  Link  Snow care for Troops Week
24-28	Ally Week Link
24-29	National Medical Group Practice Week
24-26	Westminster Dog Show
25-28	International Hoof-Care Week  Link

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Warming up nicely. My phlebotomy got rescheduled for tomorrow. It’s OK. The staff was short due to illness today.

Remember Newt, the former speaker? Now he’s busy making news on Fox. His latest is that the members of the Jan. 6^th committee should be jailed. Hmmm

The Chiefs-Bills game was certainly interesting. Lots sure happened at the end. 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What animal made typing obsolete?

The Mouse.

Trivia

Q: Which American president appears on a one-dollar bill?

 

Q: What geometric shape is generally used for stop signs?

 

Q: How many colors are there in a rainbow?

 

Q: TRUE OR FALSE - A scientific study on peanuts in bars found traces of over 100 unique specimens of urine.

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: George Washington

Answer 2: Octagon

Answer 3: 7: ROYGBIV

Answer 4: FALSE

 

Historical Events

    1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell founded the Oriental Telephone Company.

    1890 – American writer Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman) completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

    1921 – The word ‘robot’ was first used, in the play “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel and Josef Capek.

    The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, starting the first Winter Olympic Games.

    1961 – From Washington, DC, President John F. Kennedy delivered the first live presidential television news conference.

    2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) landed on the surface of Mars.

Birthdays Today

v @91 – William Somerset Maugham, English playwright (d. 1965)

v @84 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)

v @74 – William Colgate, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)

v @74 – Etta James, singer (d. 2012; leukemia)

65 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer

v @59 – Virginia Woolf, novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic (d. 1941; suicide)

52 – Ana Ortiz, American actress

49 – Geoff Johns, American author, screenwriter, and producer

41 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter

v @37 – Robert Burns, poet (d. 1796; )