20 Jan

Week 3  Day 20   Flag Today  55°/25° Sky cover:  60% Wind 5mph Gusts 3mph Active Fire:  594miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  2249miles away Air Quality: Moderate Mostly cloudy Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5 Days

Today’s Quote                                                                                                Today’s Meme

Weekly Observations

6-2/13 Carnival 13-21 International Snowmobile Safety & Awareness Week Link  14-20 Healthy Weight Week Hunt for Happiness Week Idiom Week Sugar Awareness Week

17-23 National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week 18-25 Week of Christian Unity

Daily Observations

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days Camcorder Day Inauguration Day International Day of Acceptances Link National Buttercrunch Day National Cheese Lovers Day

National Disc Jockey Day Link National Use Your Gift Card Day Link Penguin Awareness Day Link Take A Walk Outdoors Day Tech Day

Today’s Thoughts

Lots of clouds but no moisture expected. A quick trip to my prostate doctor for another 3-month shot. Quick and easy. Yesterday afternoon my phone popped up a message from Nissan that my vehicle had a recall. It is a software issue with ignition. I called the dealer and have an appointment today at 2pm to fix it. It is hard for me to figure out why it takes 2 hours, but need it fixed. Looking forward to a quiet weekend.

Weird History…

In 1945, A Balloon Bomb Was Dropped by Japan on The Only Casualties Who Died on U.S. Soil It may seem impossible that a balloon bomb could be responsible for the only casualties on U.S. soil during WWII, but it's true! On May 5th 1945, a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb was dropped in Oregon, killing six people and injuring several others. The balloons were designed to fly across the Pacific Ocean using air currents, and they carried explosives with them. This incident marked the first time since the Civil War that civilians had been killed by enemy action on American mainland soil. It's amazing to think that this obscure event is part of our nation's history - and a reminder of the power of war.

Most important inventions

1983: Microsoft Word Multi-Tool Word, the precursor to the Microsoft Word text-editing program, makes its debut as free copies are bundled with the November issue of PC World. Unlike most contemporary rivals, Word is designed to be used with a mouse, and features the ability to undo typing and to display bold, italic, and underlined text. Microsoft steadily revises the program, which becomes a major success in 1990 when it’s bundled with the Windows 3.0 operating system.

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

The American Revolution Was The Colonies Vs. Great Britain The idea that the American Revolution was strictly fought between the colonials and the British isn't historically accurate. It was not an exclusively American vs. British affair, with colonists fighting on both sides and other countries becoming involved. For example, the British relied on the help of Hessian or German mercenaries, who were just as hated by the colonials as the British. On the other hand, the Continental Army, the French helped defeat the British at the Battle of Yorktown, and without them, the war would have likely not been won.

Historic Events

1887 – The United States Senate permitted the American Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. 1929 – The first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors, In Old Arizona, was released. 1981 – 52 American hostages were released after 444 days in captivity in Iran.

Birthdays with some quotes

@62 – Richard Henry Lee, 12th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1794) @61 – Huddie ‘Leadbelly’ Ledbetter, American musician (d. 1949; ALS) @74 – Harold Gray, creator of Little Orphan Annie (d. 1968; cancer) @100 – George Burns, American actor and comedian (d. 1996) @37 – Colin Clive, English actor (d. 1937; TB/alcoholism) @69 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (d. 1975; respiratory failure) @73 – Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1993; heart attack) @79 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (d. 1999; stomach cancer) @90 – Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian (d. 2019) 93 – Buzz Aldrin (Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr), American astronaut 78 – David Lynch, American director, producer, and screenwriter 71 – Paul Stanley, American singer-songwriter, guitarist @66 – Jeffrey Epstein, American financier and convicted sex offender (d. 2019) 68 – Bill Maher, American comedian, political commentator, media critic and television host 66 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor 60 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author 59 – John Michael Montgomery, American singer-songwriter 58 – Rainn Wilson, American actor 57 – Stacey Dash, American actress 57 – Kellyanne Conway, American political strategist and pundit 54 – Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter 54 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor 53 – Questlove (Ahmir K. Thompson), American drummer, DJ, and producer 52 – Nikki Haley, American politician 35 – Nick Foles, American football player The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. – Paul Stanley   I don’t understand politics. I don’t understand the concept of two sides. And I think that probably there’s good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there’s a middle ground. But it never seems to come to the middle ground. And it’s very frustrating watching it, and seemingly we’re not moving forward. – David Lynch   Smiling just to see the smile upon your face. These are the moments I thank God that I’m alive. – Edwin McCain   What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one… It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one- which is really the realm of the artist. – Federico Fellini   We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists. – Bill Mahar   I love child things because there’s so much mystery when you’re a child. When you’re a child, something as simple as a tree doesn’t make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow- you haven’t got a handle on the rules when you’re a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. – David Lynch   All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. – Federico Fellini   The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from. – Questlove   Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon. – Buzz Aldrin

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