After much debate, I decided to write about one of my favorite hobbies. Today just so happens to be National Puzzle Day, so it's the perfect day to talk about the fun, yet sometimes difficult game. I have come to find these brain teasers very fun and relaxing. It has been said that Jigsaw Puzzles could potentially have a lot of great benefits such as improving memory, helping with spatial reasoning, and even lifting your mood, to name a few. I, of course, did not mention the fact that doing puzzles can help how we take on bigger challenges in life and can train ourselves to always find a solution. Shannon (my wife) and I have a few cool puzzles, and one that we are thinking about putting on a board so we could frame it. Most recently I have received a 3-D puzzle of San Francisco from its streets to its buildings, and am very excited to start it. The next Jigsaw Puzzle I want is actually listed below at #2. I have listed some fun puzzle facts to get everyone in the puzzle mood today!

1) The first Jigsaw Puzzle was created in 1767 by a dude named James Spilsbury

2) The biggest commercial Jigsaw Puzzle ever released is called "Double Retrospective" and it is a 32,256 piece puzzle. It is a collection of pop art from artist Keith Haring

3) The term "Jigsaw" comes from the puzzle being originally cut from wood by a jigsaw tool

4)Most Piece counts listed are not accurate. Piece counts are usually rounded down to the nearest even number. For example most 1,000 piece puzzles have about 1,026.

5) The largest puzzle ever assembled had 551,232 pieces and were put together by college students. (How did I miss that class?!)

HAUSON this one is for you!

The holidays may be over, but the New Year celebration and commitments to our resolutions persevere with National Green Juice Day on January 26. National Green Juice Day was established in 2016 as a way to encourage people to stick to their health and wellness resolutions by drinking a green juice.

There are several veggie-centric ways to celebrate and inspire health and wellness habits in the New Year.

HOW TO OBSERVE

1. GO to the Nugget and grab a bottle of cold-pressed green juice. It's a simple way to get more nutrients from green vegetables in your daily diet.
2. Or do what Hauson does and start off your morning by making your own green juice at home.
3. Share photos on social media using #NationalGreenJuiceDay and #GotMyGreens.

HISTORY

After finding that more than 50 percent of Americans, excluding Hauson, break their New Year’s resolutions by the end of January*, Evolution Fresh founded National Green Juice Day in 2016 as a way to empower people to press ahead with their wellness resolutions by drinking a green juice.

Hey Team

How many of you keep up on your daily Elon Musk news? This dude is always exciting considering that he has been launching rockets into space for years, attempting to get us to Mars, and churning out electric vehicles which help maintain our current planet. He is constantly making headlines.

A few days ago, he once again made headlines with his new CEO compensation plan. Elon Musk isn’t exactly hurting for money, but this new plan has risky written all over it. Elon has agreed to stay on as Tesla’s CEO for the next decade but will only receive compensation IF he hits a series of “jaw-dropping milestones”. Long story short, Tesla is currently worth about 59 billion dollars and if Elon wants to get paid he must raise Tesla’s value to 650 billion dollars!

Can you imagine the vision this guy must have to make a BET like that? Maybe he’s just crazy, maybe this is all a publicity stunt, or maybe Elon is a freaking genius. IDK, but he’s doing a heck of a lot more than the Kardashians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/business/dealbook/tesla-elon-musk-pay.html