Feb 16

 

Week: 8 Day: 47a	5
Local Temp:   47°\ 26° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 14mph	Extreme risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 1668mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
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
14-21	National Condom Week National Nestbox Week [bird houses] NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A little windy and the wind is cold.

Jury duty continues. Today I got there at 7:30…to be sure I would get a parking space. There were about 30 of us in the jury waiting room, all masked and a few feet apart. The bailiff gave us general instructions, showed us a video of the importance of jury duty, and we got a credit card that will be the way we get paid. We all get milage, from the center of our zip code to the courthouse. If selected, we get $12/day for the trial…+ milage. Then they drew the first 10 for the jury box in the courtroom. I wasn’t one of the 10. The rest of us sat in the benches.  The judge came in and thanked us again for doing our civic duty. Then she said that ‘due to a medical emergency’ we would be dismissed for the day and must return tomorrow at 8:15. That’s when the attorneys will question each person in the jury box. If someone is dismissed, a new person goes into the box. I’m sure tomorrow will be a long day, even if I’m not on the real jury. The trial is about sexual assault and is expected to last 5 court days.

Two updates on climate change:

1.  Global warming is changing the wine production business. Now there is less quantity, but better taste and growth areas are moving…England now has better climate than most of France for grapes. So sayeth the 60 Minutes story.

2.     Flagstaff and the surrounding areas are now in a ‘mega-drought’…the worst one in over 1200 years. Very sad news for our forest.

Three updates on the 2022 Olympics:

1.   The 15-year-old ROC skater who tested positive for a banned substance has been allowed to participate in upcoming events. If she is a medal winner, the medals will not be given out until the investigation ends long after the Olympics. A reminder, a US runner was banned for having marijuana in her system before her completion. The USOC made that determination, just like the ROC made its determination. Now there is a call that there be more consistency in banning an athlete.

2.     This morning’s medal count: Norway—21, ROC—18, US—16.

3.     Erin Johnson, USA, is the first black woman to win medal in speedskating.   

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What did the magician say to the fisherman?

Go on-pick a cod

Trivia

Q: Which painter reputedly cut off his own ear?

 

Q: The History of Middle-earth' was written by which author?

 

Q: What is Symptomatology the study of?

 

Q: Which science deals with the motion of projectiles?

 

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Van Gogh

Answer 2: J. R. R. Tolkien

Answer 3: symptoms

Answer 4: Ballistics

 

Historical Events

W                 1883 – Ladies Home Journal magazine began publication.

W                 1923 – In Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen. He had been looking for King Tut’s tomb since his first trip to Egypt in 1891. The outer chambers were discovered in November 1922.

W                 1959 – Fidel Castro became the Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown (on January 1).

W                 1983 – The Ash Wednesday brushfires in Southern Australia took the lives of 71 people, becoming Australia’s worst fire ever.

W                 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol came into force.

W                 2005 – The National Hockey League canceled the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.

W                 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the United States Army.

Birthdays Today

@73 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982; heart attack)

71 – William Katt, American actor

@67 – Robert Joseph Flaherty, American ‘Father of the Documentary Film’ (d. 1951)

65 – Levardis Robert Martyn ‘LeVar’ Burton, German-born American actor, director, producer

64 – Ice-T (Tracy Lauren Marrow), American rapper and actor

@62 – Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono, American actor, singer, politician (d. 1998; skiing)

@42 – Margaux Hemingway, American model and actress (d. 1996; OD)

40 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper

32 – The Weeknd [Abel Makkonen Tesfaye], Ethiopian R&B singer

 

Feb 15

 

Week: 8 Day: 46	Ave. Sky Cover:  5% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   56°\ 20° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 15mph	High risk of fire Active fire: 132qmi. \ Lightning: 1640mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

4-20	Winter Olympics XXIV
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
14-21	National Condom Week National Nestbox Week NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice winter day. I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry.  Preparing for possible jury duty by having some clean clothes.

Like so many post season’s game, the Super Bowl sure kept everyone watching. The halftime entertainment was for a much younger generation than I’m in. I was sort of hoping the Bengals would win, but it was a good game. A sidenote: Austin Corbett, Rams offensive guard, is a Walker River Paiute tribal member in Nevada. Cool.

This is not a tech day for me.

1.     Last week I left a voicemail at the doctor’s to renew a script. I had to call this morning since they never renewed the script. I prefer speaking to a human when I’m calling my doctor’s office.

2.     I stopped at Walgreens to pick up another script. The drive-on window had no one waiting. After pulling in, the tech recognized me and said my script was ready…but she couldn’t sell it to me because their cash register was ‘down’. I said ‘then just give it to me.’ She laughed. I said I’ll come inside. She said no cash register in the pharmacy was working. She suggested coming back tomorrow.

3.     Then I stopped at the bank for my weekly cash needs. The drive thru and the outside ATM were not working. Thankfully, the lobby that has been closed since November…due to Covid and keeping employees, was open today. I waited a line at the indoor ATM to get my cash.

4.     I registered with a site to go to Tahiti and after filling in all the information on three different pages found out I must register 30 days before the trip…I was too early so couldn’t finish that either.

5.     I called my brother on What’s App to wish them a happy Valentine’s Day. The call wouldn’t go through. I got a text from him that he was in line with his wife and dog to fly back home in Merida and that the internet connection was too iffy for a call. So, we just texted for a few minutes.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

What do you do when you're addicted to seaweed?

Seek Kelp.

Trivia

Q: The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "the Riddle House" even though it has been many years since the Riddle family had lived there.' This is the first line of which piece of written work?

Trivia Question: Which film involves people entering other people’s dreams?

Q: Published in 1597, which piece of written work starts with the line 'Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.'? 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Answer 2: Inception

Answer 3: Romeo and Juliet 

Historical Events

W                 1758 – Mustard was first advertised for sale in America, by Benjamin Jackson, in Philadelphia, PA.

W                 1764 – The city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).

W                 1898 – The American battleship Maine was blown up at Havana Harbor (Cuba), leading to the Spanish-American was on April 25, 1898.

W                 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

W                 1965 – The flag we know today, the red and white maple leaf was designed as the new flag of Canada. Prior to that, the official flag was Britain’s Union Jack.

W                 2003 – It was estimated that between 8,000,000-30,000,000 people in 600 cities worldwide… the protest of the Iraq War was the largest protest in the history of the world.

W                 2013 – Asteroid 2012 DA14 (150 feet long) passed with 18,000 miles of Earth. In an unrelated event, another meteor (estimated 50 feet in diameter) exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia that same day.

Birthdays Today

@100 – Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian/Hungarian citizen, protected Anne Frank’s family and held Anne’s diary (d. 2010)

@98 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker who saved 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw (died in 2007)

@90 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (died in 1902)

@86 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist and activist (d. 1906)

@81 – Harvey Korman, American comedic actor (d. 2008)

@77 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d, 1642)

@73 – Henry E. Steinway, founded Steinway & Sons (d. 1871)

71 – Jane Seymour, English-American actress

68 – Matt Groening, American animator, producer, and screenwriter

@33 – Chris Farley, American comedic actor (d. 1997; OD)