Sep 11

 

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Sep 11, 2020  Week: 37  Day: 255                  Local:   H 62° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   mph\Gusts:  mph                                  Nearest lightning:  804mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Moderate Risk of Fire                                      Visibility:  10mi

Record: 88°[1990]   Record: 30°[1986]                 Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-Maya Angelou

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Random Tidbits

The year in which the 8-hour day was firmly established was 1916 with the passage of the Adamson Act. This was the first federal law regulating hours of workers in private companies.
In the late 1800s the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks to eke out a basic living. Children as young as 5-6 years old worked in factories and mines.

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A little humor

Actual Medical Records

The lab test indicated abnormal lover function.

The baby was delivered, the cord clamped and cut, and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried immediately.

Exam of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized.

She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.

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True Things

A popular Houston fountain turned into a curiously clean mess when a massive amount of soap bubbles filled the landmark and spilled out into the surrounding area. The Gus S. Wortham Memorial Fountain, a Buffalo Bayou Park landmark known for its dandelion-like shape, spilled suds into the park Tuesday night when soap was added to the water in an apparent prank. A video recorded by a witness shows the soap bubbles traveling as far as nearly Allen Parkway. The scene evoked memories of a prank in 2019 that involved soap suds from a fountain at Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston. Video shows the street corner covered in bubbles while firefighters attempted to clean up the mess.

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Observations This Week

US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Air Ambulance Week: 5-13  Link
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week: 6-12 
Suicide Prevention Week: 6-12 
National Waffle Week: 6-12 
National Payroll Week: 7-11 
Play Days: 8-12 

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: 9-15  Link
Popcorn Days: 11-13 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance: 11-13 

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Observations for Today

911 Remembrance

Hug Your Boss Day  Link
Libraries Remember Day
Make Your Bed Day

National Dog Walker Appreciation Day 
National Hot Cross Bun Day

No News is Good News Day

Patriot Day Link
Remember Freedom Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another cool day. Hoping the weatherman is right and that things will be warming up again for the weekend.

Never forget 9-11. One of the few days seared into my memory. I was at work and staff was arriving saying ‘have you heard?’. I hadn’t but turned on the radio. Within the hour we were all sent home. We were a Federal building and no one knew what kind of attack this was. I tried to call my brother who lived in Manhattan at the time. I couldn’t get through. I called my mom in Denver, she had talked to my brother when she heard about it, and he was good and far enough away from the towers. We didn’t hear from him again for another day. I watched my satellite TV the rest of the day. About 9p I got a call that we would return to work the next day. Still hard to believe.

Woodward’s revelations yesterday were only interesting because he had Trump’s voice on the tapes. His only motive for holding these tapes for so many months appears to be that he wants to sell his book. It was enlightening to know that the Commander-in-Chief does not trust the American citizens to handle the truth. I wish he had more trust in us. Had he told the truth in February; I would not have been standing in an airport luggage check-in line in Denver in Mid-March to learn that Tahiti would not allow Americans into their country because of Covid. Thousands of Americans might have been able to live, had he told us the truth in February. I’m sure we would have been shocked, we would have been upset, but this country has dealt with bad news before. We have always survived. This country needs a leader that tells the truth and provides a plan of action. Due to his lack of leadership, no one knows who to believe, what to believe, and most importantly what to do about Covid. It is certainly shameful.   

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am something you sit on.

If you remove my first letter, I become part of your body.

If you remove my next letter, I become invisible.

What am I?

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Historical Events

1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English

1649 Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1847 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)

1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1941 Charles Lindbergh, claims the "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into World War II

1941 Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County, Virginia (completed Jan 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain, construction was overseen by Leslie Groves.

1998 Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people

2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board

2017 Hurricane Irma leaves 7 million US homes without power in Florida and Georgia

2019 Water detected for first time on planet outside our solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

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Birthdays Today

55  Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria (2000-present), born in Damascus, Syria

53  Harry Connick, Jr. singer

50  Taraji P. Henson, actor

@47  O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (Cabbages and Kings), born in Greensboro, North Carolina (d. 1910; cirrhosis)

@44  D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1930; TB)

43  Ludacris [Christopher Brian Bridges], rapper

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Puzzle Answer

Chair

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