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Week: 8 Day: 48 |
Ave. Sky Cover: 60% Visibility: 10 miles |
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Local Temp:
39°\ 17° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 13mph |
Low risk
of fire Active fire: 159mi.
\ Lightning: 1387mi. |
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Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days
w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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4-20 |
Winter Olympics XXIV |
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11-20 |
Date (Fruit) Week |
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12-19 |
National Entrepreneurship Week Link |
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13-19 |
Children of Alcoholics Week Link Random Acts of Kindness Week Link |
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14-21 |
National Condom Week |
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17-20 |
American Association for The Advancement of Science Week |
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
So far this
morning it has been clear, cloudy, snowing, and clear…all before noon.
My jury duty
update…at 2:30 yesterday I got an email saying that we didn’t have to meet
until 9am. Turns out another email came in at 4:45 yesterday that cancelled the
trial all together. I didn’t see that one until I was dressed and ready to head
out at 8:00 this morning. An interesting and possibly important news item was
also in my email…it seems a man in the jail committed suicide Monday night. I
won’t know if it is the same case until they release the suicide guy’s name. I
guessing…probably.
It was -26°F
during the downhill Olympic events. I was in that temperature when I was in South
Dakota. Note…the moisture in your nose freezes when you breathe in.
Remington
sold most of its holding after Sandy Hook. Now they have agreed to pay
$73million to the families of Sandy Hook. They were in court for ‘glamorizing’
their rifle as a symbol of manhood. While the settlement will not bring back
any of the kids and staff that were killed, it does seem better than ‘condolences
and prayers’, which is all the families had until this agreement.
There is a
lot of talk about a Federal Tax Holiday on the gas excise tax. If it happens it
will save us about 18¢ a gallon. It will not effect the state excise tax on gas…AZ
is 19¢ a gallon and CO is 22¢ a gallon.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
If Apple
made a car what would be missing?
Windows
Trivia
Question:
What animal is known to be ‘man’s best friend’?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
Dog
Answer 2:
Porcupine
Answer 3:
Caterpillar
Answer 4:
Its skin
Historical Events
W
865 –
Columbia, South Carolina surrendered to General Sherman’s Union forces. Fort
Sumpter was also returned to Union control.
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1897 – The
National Parent Teacher Association was formed.
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1904 –
Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La Scala theatre in
Milan, Italy. It was one of the first worldwide pop culture event ‘hits’.
W
1929 – The
League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC) was founded.
W
1933 – The
magazine Newsweek was published for the first time. Newsweek ceased print
publication with the December 31, 2012 issue.
W
1936 – The
Phantom, Comic Strip debuted.
W
1968 – The
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA
W
2009 – 368
US Television stations permanently shut off their analog transmission signals,
becoming digital.
Birthdays Today
96 – Hal Holbrook,
American actor
86 – Jim Brown, football star
@84 – Walter ‘Red’ Barber, American sportscaster (d.
1992)
@75 – Buster Crabbe, American Olympian, actor (d.
1983; heart attack)
@77 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model, actress, Miss
America 1959 (d. 2014; cancer)
@66 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (d.
2006; heart attack)
60 – Lou Diamond
Phillips, American actor
59 – Michael
Jordan, American basketball player
59 – Larry the
Cable Guy (Daniel Whitney), American comedian
57 – Michael Bay,
American director, producer
51 – Denise
Richards, American model, actress
50 – Billie Joe
Armstrong, American singer-songwriter
48 – Jerry
O’Connell, American actor
@47 – Huey P. Newton, activist, co-founded the Black
Panther Party (d. 1989; murder)
41 – Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and producer
41 – Paris Hilton,
American model, media personality
31 – Ed Sheeran,
English singer-songwriter
