Apr 5

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Apr 5, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 95

86004:   H 63° \ L 30° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  492mi. Nearest lightning:  1025mi

Record High: 75°[1959]   Record Low: 8°[1958]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Everybody is a moon,

with a dark side never to be seen by others.

--Mark Twain

Random Tidbits

April 1 tidbits

In France, kids tape paper fish to their friends' backs. As a result, April 1 in France is known as "Poisson d'Avril," which translates to "April fish."

In one famous prank from 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama current affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti, in what they called the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest.

The BBC were later flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day.

More Observances This Month

National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Cancer Control Month  Link
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Decorating Month
National Exchange Club - Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month Link
National Donate Life Month
National Facial Protection Month Link
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month  Link  Link  Link
National Garden Month Link
National Heartworm Awareness Month Link
National Humor Month
National Kite Month Link
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Lawn Care Month
National Licorice Month
National Minority Health Month Link
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month Link
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month Link
National Pecan Month Link
National Pest Management Month
National Pet Month Link Link
National Poetry Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Safe Digging Month Link
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month Link   Note: Sarcoidosis Day is August 29 Link
Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month Link
National Social Security Month 
National Youth Sports Safety Month

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

Nano Days: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 
National Schools Social Work Week:  3-6  Link
Hate Week: 4-10

Observances for Today

Caramel Day

First Contact Day

Go for Broke Day

Gold Star Spouses Day
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day 
National Dandelion Day

National Deep Dish Pizza Day Link
National Flash Drive Day 
National Kids Yoga Day  
National Raisin & Spice Bar Day

National Walk To Work Day Link 
Read A Road Map Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I sometimes wonder about doctors. I’ve been taking a water-pill for about 3 years. I asked why I was taking it, he didn’t know, and now I’m off it. Just told me to call if I have any water retention in my legs. Hmm.

Today I was out and about to pick up some essentials. Sams and Wally World. Turned out I got what I needed and didn’t have to spend time looking for what I wanted.  Even got a new Welcome sign for my front door. Nice.

Finally got an email for my passport/VISA information. I’ll be sending it off tomorrow with FedEx. Trans-Siberian, here we come…in June.

I once had a boss who would come up with totally insane ideas and expect me to carry them out. It was a new experience and took about two months to realize, that if I didn’t do anything, he would forget his crazy idea and move on. He did have a few good ideas that I quickly carried out. Here’s my idea, from experience: turn off 45’s Twitter account, let his crew listen to his ideas, if they are valid and an improvement to the current situation, let the crew announce them to the press and people. If the idea is just wacko, let his crew deal with it and don’t bother the rest of us.

I went to Uganda to see the gorillas. It was a great trip. I can’t help but feel there is more to the story of the kidnapped American woman there. I hope she is returned safely and the full story comes out.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Mr. and Mrs. Smith were walking home from the shopping mall with their purchases when Mr. Smith began to complain that his load was too heavy. Mrs. Smith turned to her husband and said, "I don't know what you're complaining about because if you gave me one of your parcels, I would have twice as many as you and if I gave you just one of mine, we would have equal loads." How many parcels was each carrying?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

00’s

1424 Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court

1700’s

1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)

1800’s

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

1900’s

1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions

1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires

1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style

1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by German U-boat

1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions

1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated

1992 Thailand General Suchinda Kraprayoon installed as president

1992 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.

2000’s

2012 International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship

2016 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave

Birthdays Today

1588 Thomas Hobbes,

(d. 1679: @91)

English philosopher (Leviathan),

born in Westport, England

1827 Joseph Lister,

(d. 1912: @84)

British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery),

born in Upton House, West Ham, England

1856 Booker T. Washington,

(d. 1915: @59: Bright’s Disease)

American education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp,

born in Hale's Ford, Virginia

1900 Spencer Tracy,

(d. 1967: @67: heart attack)

American actor (Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib),

born in Milwaukee

1908 Bette Davis,

(d. 1989: @81)

American actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel),

born in Lowell, Massachusetts

1916 Gregory Peck,

(d. 2003: @87)

American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur),

born in San Diego, California

1920 Arthur Hailey,

(d. 2004: @84)

English novelist (Hotel, Airport),

born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England

1922 Gale Storm

[Josephine Owaissa Cottle],

(d. 2009: @87)

American singer and actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show), born in Bloomington, Texas

1933 Frank Gorshin,

(d. 2005: @72:  lung cancer)

American comedian and impersonator (Riddler-Batman),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1981 Michael A. Monsoor,

(d. 2006: @25: jumped on grenade to protect his fellow seals)

United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor,

born in Long Beach, CA

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80’s

82- Colin Powell,

American General and Assistant to the President (Nat Sec Affairs),

born in The Bronx, New York

70’s

76- Max Gail,

American actor

(Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab),

born in Detroit, Michigan

40’s

46- Pharrell Williams,

American music producer (The Neptunes),

born in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-2005 Saul Bellow,

Canadian-American author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)

@86-2015 Richard Dysart,

American actor

(Leland MacKenzie-LA Law, The Last Days of Patton)

@84-2008 Charlton Heston,

American actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur)

@84-1964 Douglas MacArthur,

US general (Pacific theater-WW II)

@80-1997 Allen Ginsberg,

beat poet, dies at 80

70’s

@74-1992 Sam Walton,

American businessman

(founder and CEO of Walmart and Sam's Club),

dies of multiple myeloma

@72-1976 Howard Hughes,

American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator,

dies of kidney failure, malnutrition

60’s

@66-2006 Gene Pitney,

American singer,

dies of heart attack

20’s

@27-1994 Kurt Cobain,

American grunge rocker (Nirvana),

shooting himself in the head with a shotgun

Puzzle answer:

Mrs. Smith was carrying seven parcels and Mr. Smith was carrying five.

Apr 3

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Apr 3, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 93

86004:   H 63° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  388mi. Nearest lightning:  446mi

Record High: °[]   Record Low: °[]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Success is never final, failure is never fatal.

It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

More Observances This Month

Informed Women Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Guitar Month Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful  Link
Library Snapshot Month
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month Link
Month of the Military Child Link
Month of the Young Child
Move More In April  Link 

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

Nano Days: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 
National Schools Social Work Week:  3-6  Link 

Observances for Today

Child help National Day of Hope 

Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day  Link 
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day Link  
National Chocolate Mousse Day

National Film Score Day  Link
National Walking Day Link 
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day 
Pony Express Day
Tweed Day

Weed Out Hate
World Party Day  Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

Got thru the dentist in less than 2 hours for a temp. crown, a filling, and mold for mouthguard. Thanks to Laser Dentistry, no numbing for the filling. Now if they could just do that for crowns.

Guess everyone has to continue to wait for 45 on closing the border. So tired of this way of running the government.

It’s a nice spring day and I should take a walk, but with my numb mouth, I don’t think that’s a good idea.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1776 George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

1800’s

1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento, California

1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave

1900’s

1917 Alfred Stieglitz opens 1st one-person show of Georgia O'Keeffe's work at 291 art gallery in New York

1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest

1948 US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges

1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

1968 "Planet of the Apes" United States wide premiere

1971 The Temptations score their second US No. 1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"

1973 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey

2000’s

2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

2016 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak

Birthdays Today

1783 Washington Irving, (d. 1859: @76: heart attack) American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow),

born in NYC, New York

1822 Edward Everett Hale,

(d. 1909: @87)

American clergyman and author (Man without a Country),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

1823 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed",

(d. 1878: @55: pneumonia)

American politician and corrupt New York fraudster,

born in NYC

1898 Henry Luce,

(d. 1967: @68)

American magazine publisher (Time, Fortune, Life),

born in Tengchow, China

1904 Sally Rand,

(d. 1979: @75-heart failure)

American burlesque dancer, vedette and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances,

born in Elkton, Missouri

1907 Iron Eyes Cody

[Espera Oscar de Corti],

(d. 1999: @94)

Italian-American actor

(Keep America Beautiful, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp),

born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1924 Marlon Brando,

(d. 2004: @80)

American actor

(The Godfather, A Street Cart Named Desire, On the Waterfront)

born in Omaha, Nebraska

1941 Jan Berry,

(d. 2004: @62: seizure)

American rock and roll vocalist (Jan and Dean-Dead Man's Curve), born in Los Angeles

1949 Lyle Alzado,

(d. 1992:@ 43: brain cancer)

NFL defensive linesman (LA Raiders) and actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire),

born in Brooklyn, New York

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90’s

97- Doris Day [Kappelhoff],

American singer, animal welfare activist and actress known as the "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk),

born in Cincinnati, Ohio

80’s

85- Jane Goodall,

British ethologist (studied African chimps),

born in London, England

70’s

77- Wayne Newton,

American singer and entertainer (Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast), born in Norfolk, Virginia

75- Tony Orlando,

American singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon),

born in NYC, New York

60’s

61- Alec Baldwin,

American actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice),

born in Amityville, New York

60- David Hyde Pierce,

American actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser),

born in Saratoga Springs, New York

50’s

58- Eddie Murphy,

American actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw),

born in Brooklyn, New York

50- Mellody Hobson,

American businesswoman (Chairman of Dreamworks Animation), born in Chicago, Illinois

20’s

21- Paris Jackson,

American actress and daughter of Michael Jackson,

born in Los Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

@90-2018 David Edgerton,

American entrepreneur and founder of Burger King

@86-1991 Graham Greene,

British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana)

@85-1993 Pinky Lee,

American children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)

@78-1994 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness,

American actress, journalist and consumer activist

(Dangerous Corner, Studio 1),

dies of stomach cancer

@36-1936 Bruno Hauptmann,

German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III,

executed

@34-1882 Jesse James,

American outlaw,

shot dead, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford

Puzzle answer:

NO since she is a 'widow', the guy's dead!