11 Jan

 

Week 2  Day 11   Flag Today  44°/11° Sky cover:  5% Wind 3mph Gusts 12mph Active Fire:  311miles away Risk of fire: Very Low  Nearest Lightning:  2320miles 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 6-12 National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link 6-13 National Personal Trainer Awareness Week 7-13 Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week Home Office Safety & Security Week National Mocktail Week

9-12 International Consumer Electronics Show 10-14 National Soccer Coaches of America Week Link 11-17 Cuckoo Dancing Week

Daily Observations

Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day Girl Hug Boy Day Heritage Treasures Day Link Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day Link National Hot Toddy Day

National Milk Day National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Link National Milk Day Link  Secret Pal Day Stomp in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day (weather permitting) World Sketchnote Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

Chilly day, preparing for tomorrow’s storm. Hopefully only a couple of inches of powder snow. I did some shopping at Sam’s, just in case the weather man was wrong about the upcoming snow. I have known many parents on the Rez who worked hard to have the children be productive members of either society. For those who failed and lost their child to either drug or alcohol, I don’t see how they are to be blamed. The same is true of Hunter Biden. I wish the Right wing would stop conflating the sins of Hunter to be the President’s fault. Both misuse drugs or alcohol can be a disease and should be treated as such.

Important inventions…

1974: Barcode A 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum is the first product to integrate the usage of barcode technology when it’s scanned at a grocery store in Ohio; the codes become the industry standard for storing pricing information at grocery stores and expand rapidly for both consumer-facing and internal tracking applications.

States that never made the map

Jefferson Founding Father Thomas Jefferson inspired four proposed states at various times throughout history. The first State of Jefferson was cooked up by mining communities west of Kansas, while the second and third were proposed in 1870 and 1915 respectively by secessionists in Texas.  Jefferson was put forward as the name for a new state for the fourth time in 1941, when secessionists from Northern California and Southern Oregon mounted a short-lived independence campaign that was eventually drowned out by World War II.

Untrue myths about Colonial America…States that never made the map

In the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, the British government considered using military action to suppress the colonists on several different occasions. While pro-war ideologies eventually began to take hold in Britain, not everyone was so sure that Britain would win by a landslide. In fact, a lot of people believed that winning the war would be much harder than it looked, with nearly 2 million colonists settled, and the British having to invade. In the end, England suffered an embarrassing defeat and blamed their loss at joining the war hastily.

Historic Events

1759 – First American life insurance company incorporated, founded by the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia. 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument was created. It became a National park in 1919. 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

Birthdays with some quotes

@102 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d.2008) @89 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, businessman, founded Carroll Shelby International (d.2012) I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap anymore from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict. @85 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d.1899) @82 – David L. Wolper, American director and producer (d.2010) @76 – Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2022; suicide) @65 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologians (d.1972) There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. @58 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player and coach (d.2015; heart attack) 53 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter @49 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevisian-American, 1st US Secretary of the Treasury (d.1804; shot in duel) The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. 40 – Matt Mullenweg, American web developer, co-created WordPress 38 – Rachel Riley, British gameshow hostess, math whiz 37 – Scotty Cranmer, American Professional BMX rider I learned my lesson after seeing what guys like TJ Lavin, Ty Pinney, Stephen Murray and Mikey went through. And honestly, I feel like I’m disrespecting them by not wearing a helmet while riding at this level. I wish kids would start appreciating life and realize how everything can change in that one split second just because you’re not going to wear a helmet.

…The End for today…