Feb 15

 

Week: 8 Day: 46	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   56°\ 20° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 15mph	High risk of fire Active fire: 132qmi. \ Lightning: 1640mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
11-20	Date (Fruit) Week
12-19	National Entrepreneurship Week Link
13-19	Children of Alcoholics Week Link  International Flirting Week    Jell-O Week Love A Mensch Week National Secondhand Wardrobe Week Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
14-21	National Condom Week National Nestbox Week NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice winter day. I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry.  Preparing for possible jury duty by having some clean clothes.

Like so many post season’s game, the Super Bowl sure kept everyone watching. The halftime entertainment was for a much younger generation than I’m in. I was sort of hoping the Bengals would win, but it was a good game. A sidenote: Austin Corbett, Rams offensive guard, is a Walker River Paiute tribal member in Nevada. Cool.

This is not a tech day for me.

1.     Last week I left a voicemail at the doctor’s to renew a script. I had to call this morning since they never renewed the script. I prefer speaking to a human when I’m calling my doctor’s office.

2.     I stopped at Walgreens to pick up another script. The drive-on window had no one waiting. After pulling in, the tech recognized me and said my script was ready…but she couldn’t sell it to me because their cash register was ‘down’. I said ‘then just give it to me.’ She laughed. I said I’ll come inside. She said no cash register in the pharmacy was working. She suggested coming back tomorrow.

3.     Then I stopped at the bank for my weekly cash needs. The drive thru and the outside ATM were not working. Thankfully, the lobby that has been closed since November…due to Covid and keeping employees, was open today. I waited a line at the indoor ATM to get my cash.

4.     I registered with a site to go to Tahiti and after filling in all the information on three different pages found out I must register 30 days before the trip…I was too early so couldn’t finish that either.

5.     I called my brother on What’s App to wish them a happy Valentine’s Day. The call wouldn’t go through. I got a text from him that he was in line with his wife and dog to fly back home in Merida and that the internet connection was too iffy for a call. So, we just texted for a few minutes.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you do when you're addicted to seaweed?

Seek Kelp.

Trivia

Q: The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House" even though it has been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.' This is the first line of which piece of written work?

Trivia Question: Which film involves people entering other people’s dreams?

Q: Published in 1597, which piece of written work starts with the line 'Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.'? 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Answer 2: Inception

Answer 3: Romeo and Juliet 

Historical Events

W                 1758 – Mustard was first advertised for sale in America, by Benjamin Jackson, in Philadelphia, PA.

W                 1764 – The city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).

W                 1898 – The American battleship Maine was blown up at Havana Harbor (Cuba), leading to the Spanish-American was on April 25, 1898.

W                 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

W                 1965 – The flag we know today, the red and white maple leaf was designed as the new flag of Canada. Prior to that, the official flag was Britain’s Union Jack.

W                 2003 – It was estimated that between 8,000,000-30,000,000 people in 600 cities worldwide… the protest of the Iraq War was the largest protest in the history of the world.

W                 2013 – Asteroid 2012 DA14 (150 feet long) passed with 18,000 miles of Earth. In an unrelated event, another meteor (estimated 50 feet in diameter) exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia that same day.

Birthdays Today

@100 – Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian/Hungarian citizen, protected Anne Frank’s family and held Anne’s diary (d. 2010)

@98 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker who saved 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw (died in 2007)

@90 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (died in 1902)

@86 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist and activist (d. 1906)

@81 – Harvey Korman, American comedic actor (d. 2008)

@77 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d, 1642)

@73 – Henry E. Steinway, founded Steinway & Sons (d. 1871)

71 – Jane Seymour, English-American actress

68 – Matt Groening, American animator, producer, and screenwriter

@33 – Chris Farley, American comedic actor (d. 1997; OD)