May 23

 

 

 

May 23, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 143                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 80%

Local: H 56°\ L 23°

Wind:  15mph/ Gusts:  30mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  131mi Nearest Lightning: 211mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

~J. K. Rowling,

Random Tidbits

 

Washington Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon when he published The Sketch-Book, a collection of short stories and essays, including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."

 

Humor

 

How do you know when you’re staying in a Mississippi hotel? When you call the front desk and say, “I’ve gotta leak in my sink,” and the person at the front desk says, “Go ahead.”

 

Real Cities

 

Whynot, North Carolina  is an unincorporated community in Randolph CountyNorth Carolina, and is included in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. Whynot is located on NC 705, also known as the "North Carolina Pottery Highway", contains over 100 potteries and galleries in a 15-square-mile (39 km2) region surrounding Seagrove. Whynot was first settled in the 18th century by German and English people, along with the nearby communities of ErectHempLonely, Steeds, and Sophia. The community was originally spelled with two separate words, "Why Not".[7] The origin of town's name came from residents debating a title for their community. A man finally remarked: "Why not name the town Why Not and let's go home?"

 

True Things

 

Inexplicable

A motorist in Delray Beach, Florida, stopped to investigate the screaming she heard on March 23 and found a naked woman trapped in a storm drain 8 feet below street level. The Washington Post reported first responders pulled the unnamed 43-year-old woman to safety and took her to a hospital as investigators discovered she had been reported missing by her boyfriend three weeks earlier, Palm Beach County sheriff's officials said. The woman told officers she had been swimming in a canal when she noticed a door leading to a tunnel, which she entered, and then became lost, wandering for weeks in the tunnel system and surviving on a bottle of ginger ale she found. Ted White, a spokesman for the Delray police, was skeptical: "Was she actually down there the whole time?" Health officials think she might have been in the tunnels just a few days, he said. [Washington Post, 3/24/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

National Bike to Work Week Link   
PGA Championship Link

17-23 

Health Information Professionals Week Link

18-24  

Fleet Week (NY)

20-26

National African Violet Week
National Backyard Games Week

National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week Link

 

23-29

 

Today’s Observations

 

Declaration of the Bab Day
Drinking With Chickens Day 
Link
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
Lucky Penny Day

National Best Friend-in-Law Day
Neighbor Day
National Taffy Day 
Link
Pentecost

Scavenger Hunt Day
WhitSunday

World Turtle Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Today is much calmer, but still windy. The wind changed the clear blue sky into almost totally overcast in about an hour. Yesterday social media had lots of pics of fallen trees and branches around our town. Even had some with trees that fell on vehicles. Then there were the power outages around the city. I was fortunate that I didn’t lose power during that windstorm and no trees fell in our compound.

The company that was hacked and stopped the flow of gas to the East Coast now admits it paid the $4millon ransom. That had to be a tough call.

The various school boards in the Phoenix area have had their public meetings disrupted by ‘professional disruptors’…people with no children in the district…whenever boards meet to discuss ‘mask wearing’ in the district. These people want all mask mandates removed. Several districts have returned to virtual board meetings to keep these disruptors from preventing a civil conversation.

Now that the cease-fire is still holding in Israel/Gaza, with both sides claiming victory, the violence has moved to US cities. Several large cities are seeing unprovoked attack on Jews at Pro-Jewish rallies or on Jews simply leaving a Jewish market. What is wrong with these people?

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?

 

Historical Events

 

1701 – Scottish-born sea captain William Kidd was hanged on the banks of the Thames after being found guilty of piracy and murder.

1911 – The New York Public Library was dedicated.

1920 – Joan of Arc was canonized by Pope Benedict XV.

1934 – Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde were shot to death in a stolen Ford Deluxe near Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1960 (Tsunami) Caused by yesterday’s earthquake off the coast of Chile, a tsunami traveled across the Pacific Ocean and killed 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii.

2005 – Tom Cruise famously jumped around on Oprah Winfrey’s couch, proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes

2014 Russia and China veto the U.N. Security Council resolution to establish an International Criminal Court for war crimes in Syria

2016 Chinese archaeologists announce findings of earliest use of barley in China to make beer, Shaanxi province 3400-2900 BC

2018 Hamburg, Germany, becomes the first city to ban diesel cars on some roads

2019 Six migrant children have now died in US custody in eight months prompting calls for an investigation

2019 The last slave ship to smuggle slaves to America from Africa, the Clotilda (sunk 1860), is found in Mobile river, Alabama

2019 Prototype of new high-speed train that will float above the track, capable of travelling 600km an hour (370 mph), unveiled by Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in Qingdao

 

Birthdays Today

 

88 – Joan Collins, English actress

@76 – [Benjamin Sherman] ‘Scatman Crothers’, actor, comedian (d. 1986; cancer)

@74 – Rosemary Clooney, singer, actress (d. 2002; cancer)

63 – Drew Carey, American comedic actor and game show host

56 – Melissa McBride, American actress

47 – Jewel Kilcher, American singer-songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Chicago

 

 

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