Oct 22

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Oct. 22, 2019 Week: 43  Day: 295

86004:   H 63° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Nearest active fire:  42mi.  Nearest lightning:  988mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[2003]   Record Low: 9°[1906]

Oct. Averages: 63°\32° ( 4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

The reward for work well done is

the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Random Tidbits

Humans can survive 15-30 seconds in outer space as long as they breathe out before the exposure. Breathing out prevents the lungs from bursting and sending air into the bloodstream. After roughly 15 seconds, a person will become unconscious due to lack of oxygen, which leads to death by asphyxiation. The worst problem would be lack of oxygen, not lack of pressure, in the vacuum of outer space.

Astronauts can grow up to 3 percent taller during the six months they spend on the International Space Station. Without gravity, their spines are free to expand. It takes a couple of months of being back on Earth for them to return to their preflight height.

Observances This Week

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

18-24

Apple Butter Stirrin' Week

19-26

INVICTUS Games

20-26

Asexuality Week Link  Link
Freedom From Bullies Week
National Business Women's Week  Link
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link 
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week:
National Nuclear Science Week
National Pharmacy Week
National Save For Retirement Week Link 
National School Bus Safety Week
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link 
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link  
National Massage Therapy Week Link  
National Respiratory Care Week Link 
Pastoral Care Week Link  
Pro Bono Week  Link
Rodent Awareness Week
Spiritual Care Week

21-25

National Health Education Week Link
Medical Assistants Recognition Week Link

21-27

Freedom of Speech Week  Link

Observances for Today

Caps Lock Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Kof Awareness Day  Link
Make A Dog's Day Day  Link
National Nut Day
Simchat Torah
Smart is Cool Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The day started off very chilly, but is finally warming up.

I had to run over to the bank to get some paperwork notarized, then Office Max to fax the papers. I was too lazy to follow all the instructions to fax it myself. Lo, they got my paperwork, but it had too many dark lines in it, so I had to email the paperwork. My laser printer actually lets me scan documents to Word on my computer. How nice, could have save a whole $1.80 for the fax + gas and 30 minutes learning how to do it. Now I know how, so, if I remember what I did, I can use it next time. Gotta love technology.

So, no G-7 at Trump’s Doral. Good. Looked bad, was bad. Now to fix the mess he created in Syria by sending the few troops to Saudi Arabia and leaving the Kurds to Turkey & Russia & Syria. Too bad he didn’t have a plan.

Latest news on the Wal-Mart fire…a transient suspect has been arrested…the damage was really water damage since the sprinkler system soaked the store. I thought that when a fire started, the sprinklers went off at that one point that had melted the little glass thingy in the sprinkler. Guess not. My place has lots of sprinklers…kitchen, living room, bedrooms. Hmmm.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

A man is the owner of a winery who recently passed away. In his will, he left 21 barrels (seven of which are filled with wine, seven of which are half full, and seven of which are empty) to his three sons. However, the wine and barrels must be split, so that each son has the same number of full barrels, the same number of half-full barrels, and the same number of empty barrels. Note that there are no measuring devices handy. How can the barrels and wine be evenly divided?

Historical Events

362 - The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, (in modern day Turkey) was destroyed in a fire.

1746 - The College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896) received its charter.

1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.

1879 - Thomas Edison tested the first practical electric incandescent light bulb - it lasted 13 1/2 hours.

1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opened (with a performance of Gounod's Faust).

1926 - J. Gordon Whitehead punched magician Harry Houdini, while he was still preparing for it) in the stomach in Montreal, later causing his death.

1934 - In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents shot and killed bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

1962 - US President John F. Kennedy announced that American reconnaissance planes had found Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he had ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.

1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turned down the honor because "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".

1976 - Red Dye No. 4 was banned by the US Food and Drug Administration.

1978 - The inauguration of Pope John Paul II took place in Saint Peter's Square.

1988 - #1 Hit: Phil Collins - A Groovy Kind of Love

2009- Windows 7 was released

2012 Russell Means, Native American activist, dies from esophageal cancer at 72

2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

2012 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake

2018 Pipe bomb sent to George Soros' New York home address, first Democrat to receive series of pipe bombs in US

Birthdays Today

Christopher Lloyd, movie actor (81)

Catherine Deneuve, French actress (76)

Annette Funicello, Mousekateer, Beach movies

 (d. 2013 @70; MS complications)

Jeff Goldblum, movie actor (67)

Shaggy

Orville Richard Burrell, Jamaican Reggae singer (51)

Curly Howard

Jerome Lester Horwitz, comedic actor

(d. 1952 @48; mental deterioration)

Puzzle answer:

Two half-full barrels are dumped into one of the empty barrels. Two more half-full barrels are dumped into another one of the empty barrels. This results in nine full barrels, three half-full barrels, and nine empty barrels. Each son gets three full barrels, one half-full barrel, and three empty barrels.