Week: 5 Day: 27 |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Visibility: 10 miles |
Local Temp: 36°\ 13° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 12mph |
Low risk
of fire Active fire: 483mi. \ Lightning: 1369mi. |
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days
w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
20-30 |
Sundance Film
Festival |
23-29 |
Clean Out Your Inbox
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 |
26-28 |
National Mentoring
Summit Link |
27-30 |
Angouleme
International Comics Festival Link |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Chilly
winter day.
Justice
Breyer is retiring at the end of this session. Wonder how the Republicans will
play this to prevent the US President from appointing a new justice? I’m sure
it will be a doozy.
Va. elected
a governor of the Trump persuasion. He has just set up a Parent ‘hotline’ where
parents in Virginia can report any school that is teaching ‘Critical Race
Theory”. Wonder how that will work out? It is not on any approved curriculum
for elementary through high school curriculum anywhere.
My phlebotomy
took forever. I got the needle put in at 1:45 and went upstairs to the blood
doctor’s lab. I had to wait over an hour for the computer to approve the darn phlebotomy.
Then they didn’t have any vacuum bottles and the blood had thickened, so it had
to have saline to open the tube, then without the vacuum, the blood still flowed
slowly. I finally left the lab at 5:15. The office was closed, but the receptionist
was still working. I told her my story and she got the head of personnel. Long
story short, they are a new business and there are bumps and she promised the
next visit will be better. I certainly hope so.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What do you
get if you cross a cat with a tree?
A
cat-a-logue.
Why did the
nurse need a red pen at work?
In case she
needed to draw blood
Trivia
Q: TRUE OR
FALSE - In 2010, Twitter and the United States Library of Congress partnered
together to archive every tweet by American citizens.
Q: Who is
depicted on the US hundred-dollar bill?
Q: TRUE OR
FALSE - The Lego Group was founded in 1932.
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
TRUE
Answer 2:
Benjamin Franklin
Answer 3:
TRUE
Historical Events
1888 – The National Geographic Society was
established.
1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and
Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft
at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
1945 – The Auschwitz concentration camp,
with about 6,000 prisoners was liberated by Soviet Forces.
1973 – The Vietnam Peace Agreement was
signed in Paris (taking effect January 28th). Colonel William Nolde was killed
in action, becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
1977 – Roots mini-series began on ABC.
Birthdays Today
74 – Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Russian-American dancer, choreographer, actor
67 – John Roberts,
American jurist, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
v @65
– Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001; heart attqack)
v @65
– Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), English novelist, poet, mathematician (d
1898; flu)
v @64
– Donna Reed, American actress (d. 1986; cancer)
v @39
– Sabu, Indian-American actor (d. 1963; heart attack)
v @35
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian pianist, and composer (d. 1791; Rheumatic fever)