Monday Funday [DOT 15/2/21]

Do you have the day off in honor of President’s Day? Any exciting plans? Sit around your house just like any other day? If you can you might want to, as the weather looks miserable.


Daily new Covid cases in US dip below 100,000 for first time in months
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/14/us-daily-new-covid-cases-dip-below-100000


Stonk market is closed today.


Sprots!

Daytona 500 live updates: Denny Hamlin wins Stage 1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/14/daytona-500-live-updates/?arc404=true


This makes me happy:

Prince Harry and Meghan ‘overjoyed’ to be expecting second child
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/harry-meghan-duke-duchess-sussex-second-child


Imma watch the hell out of this.


Have a great day, stay warm!

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21 Comments

  1. I love Presidential trivia. Shall we swap some?
     
    This President was the only American president who did not speak English as a native language and yet was the first president actually born an American. I’ll wait…
     
    Cue “Jeopardy” music and mourn the passing of Alex Trebek…
     
    Who is Martin van Buren? Van Buren, the 8th president, was born in 1782, the first president born after independence, so all this forebears were born British citizens. Van Buren grew up in a Dutch community in New York’s Hudson Valley and his first language was Dutch.

  2. Who was the first president born in the 20th century? 
     
    John F. Kennedy.
     
    Who was the youngest president at his inauguration? 
     
    Theodore Roosevelt, 42. (Kennedy was 43.)
     
    Who was the oldest president at his inauguration? 
     
    Our very own Joe Biden, of course, 78. But wait, I thought Reagan was impossibly old, how old was he? He was 69. When he left the presidency after two terms he was still younger than Biden is today.

    • Which president created the first national park?




      Nope, not Teddy Roosevelt.  Try again.




      Nope, not Woodrow Wilson, try again.




      Time’s up.  The answer is Ulysses S. Grant in 1872.  You can back your way into the answer by looking up the history of Yellowstone National Park.

  3. For me this is the last day of vacation.  I really don’t want to go back to work although I will because $.
    My plans today are really mundane… I have homework to do.  I have to finish an assignment for a class (job related) I am taking.

  4. I’m working today, I work in NH, they hate holidays there. It’s going to be a long day, I am suffering residual annoyance from the Friday dept. meeting, useless at best, it turned into a whine fest about $$. There are people at my work that have the first dollar they ever made and they are the cheapest people I have ever met. Then today, very first thing, I see an email from a coworker with a habit of stepping on my toes, stepping on my toes yet again. The big boss man knows about the situation and is avoiding the convo, but it’s getting really old.
    Well, happy holiday to all you lucky folks that have the day off!
     

  5. I’m in the private sector and we don’t get such days off. 
     
    Another 5-9 inches expected (are “that’s what she said” jokes still a thing?) But with temps in the single digits, expect some shrinkage. I. Am. So. Tired. This is some “Life Below Zero” shit. I’m gonna have to go kill a caribou soon or something. The condensation on my ceiling has frozen and I now have ice puddles. On my ceiling. 😩😩

  6. At this point, this is old news:
    https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-trumps-vaccine-plan/
     
    BUT, time for speculation. Trump was “leaving it up to the states” to develop their own inoculation plans and had developed NO national vaccination plan. Not even a hint of one. Trump bought about 200 million vaccines in August, not enough to cover all Americans, and refused offers of more from pharmaceutical companies. Conclusion: Trump planned to dole out vaccines to red states only, thus reducing (and by that I mean murdering) people who were not likely to vote for him. 

  7. have the day off, just woke up from my late sleep in, I really need to not sleep anymore today, or I’m going to have a hard time waking up tomorrow.
    currently raining a bit, but according to google’s forecast, it’s about to stop until maybe Thursday/Friday.
    Trying to decide if I should risk a shopping trip, or if I should just stay in and play computer games…

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