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Jan 3, 2019 Week:
01 \ Day: 3
86004 Today: H 26° \ L 6° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Feels like 16
Wind: 7mph\Gusts:
21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1918]
Record Low: -19°[1937]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s
Quote
You must do
the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
More
Observances This Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Codependency Awareness Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Mentoring Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Personal Trainer Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Soup Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking
Prevention Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Sunday Supper Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month
Oatmeal Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Self-Love Month
Shape Up US Month
Teen Driving Awareness Month
Train Your Dog Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
Unchain A Dog Month
Walk Your Pet Month
Worldwide Rising Star Month
Observances
This Week
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
Observances
for Today
Drinking Straw Day
Earth at Perihelion
J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day
Perihelion
My
Rambling Thoughts
I’m
getting very tired of the cold weather. It is time for a warming trend…soon.
I
headed out this morning to do some shopping. It was 14°. Got what I needed and
headed home. While I was in Chicago, I had a morning smoothie of fresh fruit and
almond milk for breakfast several mornings. They were great. So I picked up the
necessary ingredients and will start having them tomorrow.
I
wish the Postman would learn to read. I had a ‘mail hold’ during my trip. I
clearly marked ‘will pick up mail’. I went to my small box today and there was
all my mail for over a week jammed into my mailbox. This happens most times I
travel out of town. So next trip I’m adding a few days to the hold so I can pick
it up at the Post office.
In
all the mail I found a bill from the hospital for my plate removal. The total
bill was $9.750.23. The bill was for $50.48 for ‘self-administered drugs’. I
called to find out about it. Turns out Medicare and BCBS decided that I could
have taken the drug on my own. The lady said she had removed the cost as their
billing is messed up. I asked what drug. It was for ONE oxycodone. (I had a script for oxycodone for 20 tablets
and it cost me $1.42). Big Pharma and hospitals have sure figured out how
to beat the system and screw the insurance companies and the patients. I get
that there are costs for the pharmacist to put the pill in a tiny cup, for a
nurse to bring the tiny cup and a small cup of water to me and watch me take
it, but $50.48 seems a tad outrageous. Oh well, it was cancelled, because I
called. The lesson: Never pay a hospital bill until you have talked to a human.
Birthdays
Today
1892
J. R. R. Tolkien,
British
author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings), born in Bloemfontein, South Africa
(d. 1973)@81
1894
ZaSu Pitts,
American
actress (Life With Father, Dames, Wedding March), born in Parsons, Kansas (d.
1963)@69
1905
Ray Milland,
Welsh
actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945), born in Neath, Wales (d. 1986)@79
1909
Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum],
Danish-American
comedian and pianist, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2000)@91
1929
Sergio Leone,
Italian
director who invented spaghetti westerns (The Man with No Name trilogy), born
in Rome, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1989)@60-heart attack
1930
Salvatore "Robert" Loggia,
American
actor (Jagged Edge, Big, Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface), born in Staten
Island, New York (d. 2015)@85
1937
Glen Larson,
American
television producer & writer (Battlestar Galactica, Magnum PI, & Knight
Rider), born in Long Beach, CA, (d. 2014)@77
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74-
Stephen Stills,
songwriter/guitarist
(Cosby Stills & Nash), born in Dallas, Texas
73-
John Paul Jones [John Baldwin],
English
rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven), born in London
37-
Eli Manning,
football
player-Giants, Patriots, Chargers
Historical
Obits Today
@95-2015
Edward W. Brooke
(R-Mass),
first popularly elected African American to the US Senate (1967-79)
@74-2014
Phillip "Phil" Everly,
American
musician ("The Everly Brothers") lung disease
@70-2012
Wylie Walker Vale,
American
Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
@64-2012
Bob Weston,
British
guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), dies from a gastrointestinal
hemorrhage (body found this date)
@64-1795
Josiah Wedgwood,
English
pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood), dies at 64
@55-1967
Jack Ruby,
American
assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies of pulmonary embolism
