Nov 30

 

‘Tis the Season

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Nov 30, 2020  Week: 49 Day: 336  

Local:  H 50°\ L 18°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  18mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1275mi.; active fire:  59mi

Moderate Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 66°[1975]   Record: -4°[2010]              

Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Maya Angelou

 

Random Tidbits

Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day.  

 

A little humor

I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link

Church/State Separation Week: 22-28  
GERD Awareness Week: 22-28  
Link

Nat’l Bible Week: 22-29 
Nat’l Family Week: 22-28 

Nat’l Game & Puzzle Week: 22-28 

American Sand Sculpting Competition: 19-28/Link  Cancelled in 2020.

Better Conversation Week: 23-28 

 

Observations for Today

Blue Beanie Day

Cider Monday

Cities for Life Day

Computer Security Day

Cyber Monday

Day of Remembrance of All Victims of Chemical Warfare

National Mason Jar Day

National Meth Awareness Day

National Mousse Day

National Personal Space Day

Stay At Home Because You Are Well Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Chilly night but warming up nicely. I made a stop at Andy & Faith’s place to feed the outside birds.

Nice to see that the Biden team has named Dr. Jill Jim to the Covid advisory board. She is Navajo, speaks fluent Navajo, and has 18 years’ experience in public health issues and has been the leader of the Navajo Nation Public Health dealing with the Covid mess.

Back in the day I followed boxing. Last night was the Tyson-Jones fight. Two old-er boxers in a fund-raising bout. They only boxed for 8 2-minute rounds. Rounds are usually 3 minutes and fights are normally more rounds. The match ended in a tie, but they raised a ton of money for charity. The undercard had some good fights, but I only read about them and watched some highlights on the internet machine.

Cards are playing the Pats today. Cards are leading at halftime. I hope they pull off a win. As usual the Broncos game won’t be on TV but will follow that game on the internet.  

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family? 

 

Historical Events

3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse, in Ireland.

1609 – Galileo Galilei realized that the moon was a landscape, not a flat surface on a circle in the sky.

1858 – The Mason Jar was invented and patented (#22,186) by Philadelphia tinsmith John Landis Mason.

1872 – First international soccer game was played. Final score: Scotland-England 0-0 (in Glasgow)

1875 – A patent (#170,460) was issued for a “Biscuit Cutter” to Alexander P. Ashbourne.

1886 – The first commercially successful U.S. alternating current power plant was opened at Buffalo, NY by George Westinghouse.

1931 – The Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer was published.

1940 – Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1954 – First proven meteorite known to strike a woman/person (Liz Hodges, in Sylacauga, Alabama). It took a year of pleading with the air force, but she was allowed to keep the 9-pound meteorite.

1956 – CBS became the first network to broadcast from videotape. It was a rebroadcast to the West Coast of the 15-minute Douglas Edwards and the News program. It was recorded on 2-inch tape with an Ampex Mark IV machine.

1979 – Pink Floyd released The Wall double album. “If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding, how can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!”

1982 – Michael Jackson’s second solo album, Thriller, possibly the biggest selling album in history, was released worldwide.

1993 – The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers, was signed into law.

2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally lost, leaving him with $2,520,700 – television’s biggest game show winnings.

2009 – CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) started. “CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has today become the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the morning.” CERN is experimenting with things like “The Big Bang” but hopefully on a smaller scale.

2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic

2017 World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's Yangmingshan mountain range

2018 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests affected in one of largest-ever company hacks

 

Birthdays Today

@95 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)

90 – G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host

@90 – Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, UK Prime Minister Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1965)

@89 – Robert Guillaume, American actor and singer (died in 2017)

@82 – Dick Clark, American TV host, and producer (d. 2012)

83 – Ridley Scott, English director, and producer (Alien, Blade Runner)

@77 – Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, and essayist (d. 1745)

@74 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (d. 1910)

68 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor, and singer

65 – Billy Idol, English Singer/Songwriter (White Wedding, Mony Mony)

@52 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author, (d. 1989; OD)

42 – Clay Aiken, American singer (American Idol)

35 – Chrissy Teigen, American model

 

Puzzle Answer

Four sisters and three brothers.

Enjoy the Holiday

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