Mar 27, 2021 Week: 13 Day: 86
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Visibility: 7 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 75% |
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Local:
H 53°\ L 25° |
Nearest Lightning: 1696mi. |
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Wind:
6mph/ Gusts: 15mph |
Very Low Risk of Fire: Active fire: 559mi |
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Record: 72°[2015] Record: -1°[1975] |
Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Anyone who has never made
a mistake has never tried anything new.
~Albert Einstein
Random Tidbits
To burn off one plain
M&M candy, a person would need to walk the entire length of a football
field.
A Little Something to Think About
If a horsehair mat is made from the hair of horses, from what is a
mohair coat made?
If we get seasick on the sea, airsick in the air and carsick in a car,
they why don’t we get homesick in our home?
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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Passiontide |
21-4/3 |
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National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
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American Chocolate Week Link |
21-27 |
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Wellderly Week |
21-28 |
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National Physicians Week Link |
25-31 |
Today’s Observations
Be Mad Day
Celebrate Exchange Day Link
Earth Hour Link
National
"Joe" Day
National Scribble Day Link
National World Whisky Day
Pesach
Spanish Paella Day
Quirky
Country Music Song Titles Day
Viagra Day
World Theatre Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another day of snow showers but nothing is sticking. Good moisture for
our forest.
I’m a couple of days late, but rotated my mattress, put on a new Sonic
toothbrush, washed the mattress pad, got out a spring bedspread…now, even though
it is snowing, I am ready for spring.
I headed out during a break in the snow showers and got my weekly
groceries. Parking lot was full but made it in and out with little hassle.
Using a list makes it a whole lot easier.
I’m sure happy that I don’t work at the Suez Canal. That huge ship is
reminding the world of the importance of the Canal. A huge ship is blocking all
traffic in both directions. It doesn’t seem there is an easy fix, and as it is
in the third day, there doesn’t seem to be a hard fix either. People from 9 years
old to 80 years old are offering suggestions through proper channels or on social
media. Some are very funny while others might actually help. Europe, more than
N. America will suffer from the lack of goods at this time. If it goes on a few
weeks, everyone will suffer.
One local elementary school has placed students in one classroom on 2-week
quarantine after ‘someone’ tested positive for COVID. They are saying if it was
a child or adult. Hmmm
Our all-seeing, all-knowing Governor has dropped the statewide mandate
and declared that local municipalities can not overturn his edict. The Flagstaff
City Council is in a ‘emergency-closed session’ today to determine a course of
action. Lots of complaints about why it is a closed session. In addition, it
appears that privately owned businesses can continue to require masks. If your
business is renting space, the business can’t require masks unless the owner of
the property requires mask. That is just crazy.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
You have five boxes in a row numbered 1 to 5, in which a cat is
hiding. Every night he jumps to an adjacent box, and every morning you have one
chance to open a box to find him. How do you win this game of hide and seek?
Historical Events
1886 – Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrendered to the US Army.
1899 – Guglielmo
Marconi’s radio transmitted across the English Channel from Boulogne, France,
to Dover, England.
1964 (Earthquake) ‘Good
Friday Earthquake’ – the most powerful earthquake in US history at a magnitude
of 9.2, struck Southcentral Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive
damage to the city of Anchorage.
1973 – Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather went to the
podium for Marlon Brando to decline his Best Actor Oscar for his performance in
The Godfather.
1975 – Construction of
the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System began.
1977 – The Canary Islands
Plane Disaster – Two 747s collided, killing 570 people.
1980 – The North Sea Oil
Rig Disaster: The Alexander L. Kielland Oil Rig capsized, killing 123 people.
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years.
2006 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final
meeting.
2014 UN General Assembly
condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
2019 Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi announces the country is now a "space power"
after successfully shooting down a satellite from space in a ballistic missile
test
2019 Facebook bans white
nationalism and white supremacy following criticism that Christchurch terrorist
able to live-stream his attack
2020 $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in US history, signed
into law by President Donald Trump saying "I never signed anything with a
'T' on it"
Birthdays Today
@84 – Gloria Swanson, American actress and
producer (d. 1983)
@70 – Henry Royce, English engineer,
founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933)
@66 – Sarah Vaughan, American Jazz singer (d.
1990; lung cancer)
58 – Quentin Tarantino,
movie director
52 – Pauley Perrette,
American actress
51 – Mariah Carey,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
50 – Nathan Fillion,
Canadian actor
46 – Fergie [Stacy Ann Ferguson], American
singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
33 – Brenda Song,
American actress
Puzzle Answer
Check boxes 2, 3, and 4 in
order until you find him. Here’s why: He’s either in an odd or even numbered
box. If he’s in an even box (box 2 or 4) and you check box 2 and he’s there,
great; if not you know he was in box 4, which means the next night he will move
to box 3 or 5. The next morning, check box 3; if he’s not there that means he
was in box 5 and so the next night he’ll be in box 4, and you’ve got him. If he
was in an odd numbered box to begin with (1, 3, or 5), though, you might not
find him in that first round of checking boxes 2, 3 and 4. But if this is the
case, you know that on the fourth night he’ll have to be in an even-numbered
box (because he switches every night: odd, even, odd, even), so then you can
start the process again as described above. This means if you check boxes 2, 3,
and 4 in that order, you will find him within two rounds (one round of 2, 3, 4;
followed by another round of 2, 3, 4).
