Daily Bread for 1.9.14

Good morning.

Thursday will be warmer: a high of twenty, with just a one-fifth chance of a wintry mix of sleet and snow in the late afternoon.

On this day in 2007, Steve Jobs announces the first iPhone:

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 — With characteristic showmanship, Steven P. Jobs introduced Apple’s long-awaited entry into the cellphone world Tuesday, pronouncing it an achievement on a par with the Macintosh and the iPod.

Here’s Puzzability‘s Thursday puzzle:

This Week’s Game — January 6-10

Re Solutions

You’ll only need to keep these New Year’s resolutions for a week. For each day, we started with a word and added the two-letter chunk RE somewhere within the word to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the shorter word followed by the RE word.

Example:

Pumpernickel that’s been sitting around too long

Answer:

Bad bread

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the RE word second (as “Bad bread” in the example), for your answer.

Thursday, January 9

Classical composer’s failure to finish a promised composition