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Aug 4, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 217
86004:
H 88° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind:
12mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 284mi.; Nearest active fire: 37mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 91°[1994]
Record Low: 35°[1956]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"It is better to fail in originality
than to succeed in imitation."
-Herman Melville
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Random
Tidbits
‘The fig is also a fertility symbol and the Arab
association with male genitals is so strong that the original word
"fig" is considered improper.
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A little
humor
Green is my favorite
color. I like it better than blue and yellow combined.
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Observations
This Month
Psoriasis Awareness Month Link
Read-A-Romance Month
Rye Month Link
Tomboy Tools Month Link
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
World Mutt-i-grees Rescue Month Link
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Observations
This Week
Gallup Internat’l Tribal Indian Powwow:
thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National
Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due
to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Pluto
Demotion Day
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8 Link
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8 Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 Link
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link Link
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 4-8 Link Moved from June.
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money): 4-8
Rock for
Life Week: 4-7 Link
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Observations
for Today
Coast Guard Day
National Chocolate Chip Cookie
Day Link
National Night
Out Link Moved to October 6, due to COVID-19
Raisin
Bran Day Link
Single Working Women's Day
Social Security Day
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Week is starting off warm with high clouds. Hoping for moisture
later today. Yesterday brought an old-fashioned thunderstorm for about 45
minutes. It was nice.
While the president is pushing to open schools for in person
instruction, the school where he sends his son will not open for in person
instruction until Oct. at the earliest.
Five years ago, while a private citizen was on CNN promising that
he could come up with a better plan than Obamacare. As the clock is ticking on
his first term, there has been no plan or bill for anything better. Hmmm
I got an email from SonoraQuest, that I had a pending blood draw
from June 26th. I couldn’t figure it out, so I drove over to see
what was up. She asked if I had received a call from my doctor; I said no, just
an email from you. She checked and their system showed a request from my
doctor, which I know I had, and another from another doctor from 2018 which I also
had. I think they did both tests and somehow sent them to the doctors, but
forgot to hit the ‘bill insurance’ button. Hmmm.
While I was out, the road construction people are back at work
doing the other two lanes of resurfacing near my place. Traffic was horrendous
through the construction but nice drivers let me in coming and going. I still
had to drive an extra mile to turn around and get back into my neighborhood.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I am the only human organ
to have given itself its own name.
What am I?
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Historical
Events
70 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.
1693 – Celebratory date for Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne.
1790 – A tariff act created the need for the Revenue Cutter
Service, later renamed The United States Coast Guard.
1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found
murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Lizzie was acquitted of the
crime.
1918 Adolf Hitler receives
the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish
superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann
1944 – Anne Frank was arrested in Amsterdam by German Security
Police following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified
1972 Uganda dictator Idi
Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the
United States Department of Energy.
1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinded the
Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present
controversial issues “fairly”.
2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will
be Canada's 27th and first black Governor General
2009 Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons
and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were
found guilty of entering the country illegally.
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Birthdays
Today
@101 - Elizabeth
Bowes-Lyon, British consort of King George VI and Queen Mother after his death,
born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2002)
87 - Sheldon
Adelson, American business magnate (CEO of Las Vegas Sands), born in Boston,
Massachusetts
@70 - Louis
Vuitton, French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned
by LVMH, born in Anchay, France (d. 1892)
@69 – Louie Armstrong,
trumpeter (d. 1971; heart attack)
65 – Billy Bob
Thornton, actor
59 - Barack
Obama, 44th United States President (Democrat: 2009-17) and first
African-American president, born in Honolulu, Hawaii
58 - Lori
Lightfoot, American lawyer and politician, 1st female African American Mayor of
Chicago (2019-), born in Massillon, Ohio
52 – Daniel Dae
Kim [born Kim Dae-hyun], actor
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Puzzle
Answer
The
Brain
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