Apr 7
2021 Week: 15 Day: 97
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local:
H 65°\ L 32° |
Nearest Lightning: 503mi. |
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Wind:
9mph/ Gusts: 22mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 92mi |
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Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
One way to get the most
out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
~William Feather
Random Tidbits
The YKK on your zipper
stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikigaisha.
Renee Descartes, the
17th-century philosopher, and mathematician is the person responsible for “x”
being the universal variable in algebra.
US President #15 James
Buchanan (1857-1861) First president to have his inauguration photographically
recorded.
A Little Something to Think About
Under
European Copyright Law, people can’t sell or publish photographs of the Eiffel
Tower, or even post them on social media without permission.
Common Words: New Meanings
11. Testicle (N.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (N.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted
by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (N), a Rastafarian proctologist.
Monthly Observations
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National Garden Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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National Cherry Blossom
Festival Link |
Thru
4/10 |
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APAWS Pooper Scooper Week |
1-7 |
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National Robotics Week Link |
3-11 |
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Bat Appreciation Week |
4-10 |
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American
Indian Awareness Week Link CANCELLED |
5-9 |
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International
Dark Sky Week Link |
5-11 |
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National Catholic Educational
Association Week |
6-8 |
Today’s Observations
Burrito Day
Child Help National
Day of Hope
Coffee Cake Day
Day of Remembrance of
the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide Link
International Beaver Day
Metric System Day
National Beer Day
National Bookmobile Day Link
National Coffee Cake Day
National Girl Me Too
Day Link
National Handmade Day Link
National Making The First Move Day
National Walking Day
Paraprofessional
Appreciation Day
No Housework Day
World Health Day
World Health Organization Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another great spring day…sun shining, very blue sky, warm enough for a
walk around the neighborhood with a light jacket.
I talked to Andy and Faith last night and we decided to go out to
dinner. This was my first restaurant in a lonnnnng time. We met at Texas
Roadhouse where we have great dinners and even better conversation. We were masked
until seated, all the employees were masked throughout. A nice time.
It looks like Tuba won’t open for in-class instruction until the fall.
Here’s a great zoom story: A Developmental Kindergarten, age 4, has been doing
all his assignments, always on zoom at the right time, and a hard worker. The
other day, during class, a woman popped up on screen and asked the teacher to
call her after the session. When she called the woman asked when this little
boy would be getting his own tablet. [they were picked up by parents months
ago]. The woman is a neighbor, and the little boy comes over to her house every
day, borrows one of their laptops and logs in. The parent never picked up the
laptop. The mother is not very reliable for anything. The teacher delivered the
laptop that afternoon. The next day the boy logged on and thanked the teacher
for the laptop. The background looked like it always had. Turns out the little
boy had picked up this laptop at home, walked to the neighbors and logged on.
The neighbor is fine with it. The boy tells his mom “I’m going to school now.”
I saw a news story that is very disturbing. Smugglers are using social
media to put ads telling people in Central American countries that it is safe
to come to America by paying $8,000 to them for safe passage into America. It
is not true. The Feds have started putting ads on social media saying not to
come, but the smugglers’ ads are so prevalent they seem to be winning. Facebook
and Instagram have taken down reported ads, but does nothing until the ad is
reported.
My new computer is up and running. I had to use Microsoft help, which
took about 30 minutes to get all my email accounts onto Outlook. Each account
took about 10 minutes to set up. Technology should be easier.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
I come in different shapes and sizes. Parts of me are curved, other
parts are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one
right place for me. What am I?
Historical Events
1795 – France adopted the
meter as the unit of length and the base of the metric system.
1896 – Patent (#557,994)
for “justifying lines of type” was issued to Tolbert Langston.
1906 (Volcano) Mount
Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples.
1927 -The first public
display of a long-distance television transmission was viewed by a group of
newspaper reporters and dignitaries in the auditorium of AT&T Bell
Telephone Laboratories, New York, via telephone lines from Washington, DC.
1933 – Prohibition in the
United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight.
1940 – Booker T.
Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States
postage stamp.
1946 – Syria’s
independence from France was officially recognized.
1954 – President Dwight
D. Eisenhower gave his famous “domino theory” speech, regarding communism in
Southeast Asia.
1959 – The first
distinguishable echo was recorded of a radar signal bounced off the Sun by the
Radio science Laboratory at Stanford University.
1964 – IBM introduced its
innovative System/360, the company’s first line of compatible mainframe
computers that gave customers the option of upgrading from lower-cost models to
more powerful, expensive ones.
1970 – Midnight Cowboy
won in the Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.
1980 – The United States
severed relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
2001 – Mars Odyssey was
launched to orbit Mars. The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke,
after his book 2001: A Space Odyssey.
2016 Longest-ever
captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
2017 US President Donald
Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on
Khan Sheikhoun
2020 China ends its
lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76
days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
Birthdays Today
@92 – Ravi Shankar [Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury], Indian-American sitar player, composer (d. 2012)
@91 – Will Keith Kellogg, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
@80 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)
@82 – Wayne Rogers, American actor (d. 2015)
82 – Francis Ford
Coppola, American director, producer, screenwriter
67 – Jackie Chan, Hong
Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman
58 – Russell Crowe, New
Zealand-Australian actor
@44 – Billie Holiday[Eleanora Fagan], American singer-songwriter (d.
1959; cirrhosis)
Puzzle Answer
A puzzle piece
