Feb 13

 

Week: 8 Day: 44	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   45°\ 15° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 18mph	High risk of fire Active fire: 249mi. \ Lightning: 1048mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
6-13	Dump Your Significant Jerk Week Freelance Writer Appreciation Week
7-13	Children's Mental Health Week Link
7-14	Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link National Marriage Week Link  Link
7-14	Risk Awareness Week
8-14	Love Makes the World Go Round; but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
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

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another nice winter day with a tad too much wind.

The Olympics continue to take up much of my TV time. These athletes have spent much of their lives preparing for these games. Even when they are eliminated, they are still smiling for the most part. The other amazing thing to me is that in many of the downhill runs, the competitors who have already finished are giving tips to their teammates about the course, knowing that those tips could help the listener beat the time the talker just set.

I wish I was a fly on the wall with the Ukraine thing. The news is only giving us the US side and then guessing what Putin is thinking. I want to know what is going on in Putin’s head. I’m also wondering what the Russian and Ukrainian people think is going to happen. According to the latest from CNN after a call between Putin and Biden…the US fears Russia may still launch a military attack. Scary.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you call something that can't be forklifted?

Unpalletable.

Trivia

Question: What do you call a snack made up of marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate?

 

Question: What do you call a popular mixed rice, meat, and vegetable dish in Korea?

 

Question: How many ‘varieties’ are there in Heinz Tomato Ketchup?

 

Q: What Sport Do the Harlem Globetrotters Play?

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: S'mores

Answer 2: Bibimbap

Answer 3: 57 Varieties

Answer 4:  Basketball

Historical Events

W                 1741 – American Magazine was first published. It was America’s first magazine.

W                 1861 – Colonel Bernard Erwin earned the first Medal of Honor, America’s highest military honor.

W                 February 13, 1937 – Prince Valiant, Comic Strip debuted

W                 1943 – Dresden, Germany was firebombed, killing an estimated 135,000 people.

W                 1961 – The Coso Artifact was discovered, a 1920s era spark plug, supposedly found in

W                 1965 – Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies’ senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.

W                 2002 – Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

Birthdays Today

@97 – Chuck Yeager, general, pilot, first pilot to break the sound barrier (d. 2020)

89 – Kim Novak, American actress

@87 – George Segal, American actor (d. 2021)

78 – Stockard Channing, American actress

78 – Jerry Springer, English-American television host

@77 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player, actor (d. 2019; cancer)

75 – Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach

@72 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991; liver failure)

71 – Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician

54 – Kelly Hu, American actress

@50 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942; cancer)

48 – Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter

43 – Mena Suvari, American actress

 

Feb 12

 

Week: 7 Day: 43	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   58°\ 22° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 5mph	High risk of fire Active fire: 200mi. \ Lightning: 1528mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

– Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
6-12	Burn Awareness Week  Link Children's Authors & Illustrators Week Tinnitus Awareness Week Link
6-13	Dump Your Significant Jerk Week Freelance Writer Appreciation Week
7-13	Children's Mental Health Week Link
7-14	Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link National Marriage Week Link  Link
7-12	Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
7-14	Risk Awareness Week
8-14	Love Makes the World Go Round; but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
11-20	Date (Fruit) Week
12-19	National Entrepreneurship Week Link

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice warm day with very little wind. Nice!

The weirdness continues. Canadian truckers and others continue to block roads and demand freedom from Covid. Now their protest is preventing traffic of goods…like auto parts…are causing the major car makers to slow and/or stop production because they don’t have the parts. Who knew we got auto parts from Canada to make cars in the US?  To add to the this the DHS has issued warnings that these protests could also make it to the Super Bowl festivities and the State of the Union address. I’m all for ending Covid. I just don’t see how blocking roads and shipments is going to stop the virus. I do see how it will increase inflation and hurt Americans with jobs in the auto industry.

The Olympics just keep having some great moments. Some great events yesterday.

When I get up around 7am, I head to my computer and turn on GMA for the news. That’s when I heard that 9 police officers from Phoenix were shot around 3am while responding to a domestic disturbance. Luckily, all the police are expected to survive, and a 6-month-old child who was being held in the house was not injured. The suspect is dead. Tragic. Reports say this is the worst officer shooting incident in AZ history. 

Favorite Memes

Stop the steal

 

A bit of Humor

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. Warren Buffett

Trivia

Question: Who is the mascot for the fast-food chain, KFC?

 

Question: Which film series stars Johnny Depp as pirate Jack Sparrow?

 

Question: What is the name of the fastest land animal?

 

Question: The following is a line from which 1970's film 'you talkin to me'?"

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Colonel Sanders

Answer 2: Pirates of the Caribbean

Answer 3: Cheetah

Answer 4: Taxi Driver

 

Historical Events

W                 1733 – James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.

W                 1870 – Women were granted the right to vote in the Utah Territory.

W                 1879 – The first artificial ice rink opened in Madison Square Garden in NYC.

W                 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida Wells-Barnett and others.

W                 1999 – The US Senate acquitted President Bill Clinton after he was impeached by the US House of Representatives.

W                 2004 – The city and county of San Francisco began to issue a marriage license to same-sex couples

Birthdays Today

88 – Bill Russell, basketball legend

84 – Judy Blume, American author

@73 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882; heart attack)

@72 – Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987; pneumonia)

66 – Arsenio Hall, American comedic actor and talk show host

@56 – Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 16th (assassinated 1865)

54 – Josh Brolin, American actor

54 – Chynna Phillips, American singer

49 – Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress

42 – Christina Ricci, American actress