Jul 26

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Jul. 26, 2019 Week: 30 \ Day: 207
86004:   H 82° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Nearest wildfire:  4mi. Nearest lightning:  25mi
Wind:   13mph\Gusts: 21 mph
Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1935]   Record Low: 40°[1913]
Jul Averages: 82°\542° (8 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

Never go to a doctor whose
office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck

Random Tidbits

The Sandman is a mythological personification of sleep. The term developed from the "sand" that is commonly found in the corner of the eyes in the morning.

The sandman in E.T.A. Hoffman's (1776 - 1822) short story would throw sand in the eyes of naughty children who wouldn't fall asleep, causing their eyes to fall out. The sandman would then collect their eyes and feed them to his own children.

Observances This Week

6-28
Tour de France

20-28
National Moth Week Link

21-27
Captive Nations Week
International Lace Week  Link
National Independent Retailers Week Link 
National Zoo Keeper Week Link
RAGBRAI

25-27
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days

25-28
Quilt Odyssey Week
Garlic Days Link

Observances for Today

All or Nothing Day
Americans With Disabilities Day  Link
Armed Forces Unification Day
Aunts and Uncles Day  Link
Bagelfest Day  Link   Link
Lumberjack Day
National Get Narly Day  Link 
National Talk in An Elevator Day  Link
One Voice
System Administrator Appreciation Day Link  Link


My Rambling Thoughts

Woke to a lot of overnight smoke, but it was blown away by 8a. Now many are fearing flooding as the monsoon arrives. Flag had a very late monsoon, and now it is here and causing more problems. Lots of prep has been made, sure hope it helps.

Headed out for my quarterly teeth cleaning. All is good. Hygienist even commented in what good shape my gums were in. Glad to hear that. Latest Sonic toothbrush is great.

So, looks like DOJ is going to begin executions again. It was stopped by Obama to study the dangerous 3-shot lethal injection that had been blotched several times. No word of the study, but DOJ says it will be using only one injection. Wish that was a tad more transparent.

Puerto Rico is waiting for the next step. Hopefully this will help end the corruption. Hoping for the best for all.

The ‘Boy’s Night Out’ dinner was very interesting. We had great bratwurst, potato salad, and cheesecake, along with wine. The three others were heavily involved in our Dark Sky Program, one was a retired Middle School Art teacher. Good conversation, good eats, and I was invited back, so it was all good. The host lives out on Old Route 66 in a nice quiet neighborhood. He had an amazing entrance garden and another nice on in the back yard. There was a nice two deck patio. The only downside to the place was the train tracks behind the house behind his house. Not too noisy but more than I would want.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

If you have three oranges and you take away two, how many will you have?

Today’s Highlighted Historical Events
1400’s
1499 Spanish conquistador Alonso de Ojeda discovers Curacao Island

1500’s
1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed Governor of Peru

1600’s
1656 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent

1700’s
1755 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace

1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin

1800’s
1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii

1865 The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington

1900’s
1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

1917 J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice

1926 National Bar Association incorporates

1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled

1947 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff

1947 US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act which establishes the Central Intelligence Agency

1948 President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the military

1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid

1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io

1990 Americans with Disabilities Act comes into effect

2000’s
2017 US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes

2018 Observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift", published in "Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics"

Highlighted Birthdays Today

1856 George Bernard Shaw,
Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950: @90)

1875 Carl Jung,
Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961: @85)

1894 Aldous Huxley,
English author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey (d. 1963: @69: cancer)

1895 Gracie Allen,
American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1964: @69: heart attack)

1908 Salvador Allende,
President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, born in Valparaíso, Chile (d. 1973: @65: suicide, during coup)

1909 Vivian Vance,
American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), born in Cherryvale, Kansas (d. 1979: @70: bone cancer)

1918 Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg],
American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2015: @97)

1922 Blake Edwards,
American writer and director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2010: @88)

1928 Stanley Kubrick,
American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY (d. 1999: @70: heart attack)

70’s
76- Mick Jagger,
English rock vocalist (Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent

74- Helen Mirren
[Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff],
English actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London, England

60’s
69- Roger Taylor,
Drummer, Queen

50’s
55- Sandra Bullock,
American actress (Speed, The Blind Side), born in Washington, D.C.

54- Jeremy Piven,
American actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity), born in NYC, New York

52- Jason Statham,
British actor (The Transporter, Crank), born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire

40’s
46- Kate Beckinsale,
British actress (Underworld series), born in London

Highlighted Historical Obits Today
80’s
@82-1984 George Gallup,
American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll

70’s
@70-1863 Sam Houston,
1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state

60’s
@65-1925 William Jennings Bryan,
American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner"

50’s
@53-2016 Miss Cleo
[Youree Dell Harris],
American psychic (Psychic Readers Network), dies of colon cancer

@50-1998 Chico [David-Allen] Ryan,
American rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)

40’s
@49-1992 Mary Wells,
US soul singer (My Guy), dies of cancer

30’s
@38-1684 Elena Cornaro Piscopia,
Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university, dies of tuberculosis

@33-1952 Eva Perón [Evita],
Argentine First Lady (1946-52) actress, suffragette, unionist and humanitarian who was inspiration for A.L. Webber's musical "Evita", dies of cancer

Puzzle answer:

the answer is 2 two you take 2.... (you have 2)