May 28


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May 28, 2020 Week: 22 Day: 149
86004: H 83° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind: 3mph\Gusts: 4mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 703mi.; Nearest active fire: 600mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 86°[2000] Record Low: 24°[1929]
May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"You will face many defeats in life,
but never let yourself be defeated."
-Maya Angelou

Random Tidbits

Pope Gregory IX declared war on cats
In the 13th century, the pope believed that cats carried the spirit of Satan within them which sparked the notion that black cats symbolize bad luck.

In response, the Catholic Church and all of its followers initiated the extermination of cats. Some historians even believed that this massacre of cats contributed to the plague because of the abundance of rodents carrying the disease and the lack of their natural predator.

The slaughters stopped for the most part after the death of Pope Gregory IX.

Have a smile
A friend sent these to me

After seeing myself and my sister working all day, my six-year-old nephew drew himself a laptop and started saying things like ‘Where's my headphone charger?’ and ‘Sorry, I can't hear you. I'm on a call.’”

Observations This Week
National African Violet Week: 24-30
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 25-30
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National Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1
Scripps National Spelling Bee: 25-28 Cancelled due to COVID-19.
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories: 25-31
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3

Observations for Today
Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
Menstrual Hygiene Day
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National Brisket Day 
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National Hamburger Day
Shavuot (Sundown)
Sierra Club Day 
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Slugs Return From Capistrano Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day...but another warm one. Headed out at 7:30 to help my friend finish his tarp carport. We got the tie-downs done, the top tied down, and the back tarp put on. He wants to wait to see how this will do in the wind, before putting up the other sides. It gets really windy out at his place, so we'll see how this works.

The National Spelling Bee is a big deal for the participants and their families. A few decades ago the Navajo Nation petitioned to allow the winner of the Navajo Nation Bee be allowed to participate, since Navajo Nation spellers are from
three states, it only seemed fair that they be on the platform to represent. The Scripts group allowed this. Now with the Bee canceled for 2020, participants are starting a petition to either have the Bee later this year or change the rules to that winning spellers in their last year to participate will be allowed to participate next year. Will be interesting to see how this turns out.

The space launch may have to be postponed due to weather, but I'm still watching the Discovery Channel live to see what happens. I feel like a little kid again. Darn, scrubbed until Saturday due to weather...disappointed but safety first.

The mystery sock I lost about two weeks ago appeared in my dryer after I dried a load of clothes. Strange.


Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page

If five chimpanzees can eat five bananas in five minutes, how many minutes will it take four chimpanzees to eat four bananas?



Historical Events

585 BC - A solar eclipse occurred, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales. Knowing this exact date helped historians find other exact and near exact historical dates.

1830 - US President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which relocated Native Americans.

1892 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organized the Sierra Club.

1897 - Jell-o was introduced.

1902 - Owen Wister's The Virginian was published by Macmillan Press. The book made the American Cowboy an icon.

1928 - The Dodge Brothers, Inc. and the Chrysler Corporation merged.

1935 - John Steinbeck's first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, was published.

1937 - Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH, later renamed Volkswagenwerk, or Volkswagon was founded.

1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco was officially opened to vehicles

1964 - The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed.

1987 - Matthias Rust, a 19-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, took off from Helsinki, Finland, in his Cessna, and landed in Red Square, the heart of the Soviet Union.

1998 - Former Saturday Night Live actor and comedian Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife Brynn, in a murder/suicide.

1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display. It is bigger than most people think - it is life size, almost 29 feet wide.


2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.


2018 Coco-Cola launches its first alcoholic drink - Lemon-Do on island of Kyushu, Japan


2019 Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create "opioid epidemic", first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms

Birthdays Today

76-Soul Singer Gladys Knight

75-Musician John Fogerty

@65-Sac & Fox Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe (d. 1953; heart failure)

@56-Author Ian Fleming (d. 1964; heart attack)

52-Singer Kylie Minogue
48-Politician Marco Rubio


Puzzle Answer:

Five minutes



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