28 Jan

 

Week 5  Day 28   Flag Today  46°/18° Sky cover:  5% Wind 13mph Gusts 22mph Active Fire:  1122miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  1134 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine    Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5 Days

Today’s Quote                                                                                                Today’s Meme

Weekly Observations

6-2/13 Carnival 18-28 Sundance Film Festival 21-28 Data Privacy Week 25-28 Angouleme International Comics Festival Link

27-2/3 Cordova Ice Worm Days Link 28-2/3 Catholic Schools Week Data Privacy Week Link  Meat Week National Anesthesiologists Week Meat Week National Anesthesiologists Week Link National Cowboy Poetry Week

Daily Observations

Blueberry Pancake Day Daisy Day Data Privacy Day   Link Global Community Engagement Day Link National Bible Sunday  National Kazoo Day Link

National Pediatrician Day National Gift of The Lady Bug Day Link Rubber Ducky Day  Link  Link   Thank A Plugin Developer Day Link World Leprosy Day

Today’s Thoughts

It’s a nice sunny day. While the jury award to Carroll sounds huge, how can she replace her reputation? The money will allow her many perks in her life, but the memory of being assaulted or raped can not be bought with money. The damage his words did years later, will not be erased. Our discussion group meets this afternoon to plan our meetings for 2024. Looking forward to seeing those members I haven’t seen since October. I had my first case of angio-edema this morning. It has been many months since my last attack. My upper lip was swollen like a botched Botox injection. Twenty minutes after I took my pill, it is much better.

Weird History…

Peter The Great Kept The Head Of His Wife's Lover In A Jar In Her Bedroom... Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1682-1725, was known for his ambitious and eccentric leadership. He had a wild streak that extended to his personal life, where he kept an unusual memento in his bedroom: the head of his wife's lover! The story goes that when Peter learned of his wife's affair with one of his courtiers, he ordered the man beheaded and then presented his wife with her former lover's severed head in a jar. It may sound like something out of a horror movie, but it is indeed true—a fact that has been documented by historians since the 1700s.

Civil War Facts

The 'Border States' refuse the Confederacy but not slavery… Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland refused to join the Confederacy—or perhaps, more accurately, were precluded from doing so thanks to various political stratagems and military coercion on the part of the Union. Consequently, these "Border States" became a persistent worry for President Lincoln, who feared he would eventually lose them to the South by dint of their continued engagement with the industry of slavery.

Historic Events

1909 – United States troops left Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War. 1958 – The Lego company patented (#3005282) the design of its Lego bricks- it is still compatible with bricks produced today. 1986 – The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lift-off, killing all 7 people aboard.

Birthdays with some quotes

88 – Alan Alda, American actor, director and writer It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. @84 – Charles Williams Nash, American businessman, founded Nash Motors (d. 1948) @84 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984) @81 – Sidonie-Gabrielle ‘Colette’, French writer (d. 1954) Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. 74 – Barbi Benton, American actress and model @63 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh Explorer (d. 1904) Doctor Livingstone, I presume? @56 – Mustafa III, Ottoman sultan (d. 1774; heart attack) 56 – Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer-songwriter If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness. Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. 48 – Rick Ross (William Roberts II), American rapper @44 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956; auto crash) It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. 44 – Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter 43 – Elijah Wood, American actor @42 – José Julián Martí Pérez, Cuban writer (d. 1895; in battle) Everything that divides men, everything that specified, separates or pens them, is a sin against humanity. @41 – William Seward Burroughs I, American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation (d. 1898) 39 – J. Cole, American singer 26 – Ariel Winter, American actress

…The End for today…