May 3

 

 

 

May 3, 2021   Week: 18    Day: 123                        

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover:5 %

Local: H 72°\ L 32°

Nearest Lightning: 206mi.          

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts: 16 mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire: 132 mi

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

~Simone de Beauvoir

 

Humor

 

An Arkansas state trooper pulls over a pickup truck on I-40.

He says to the driver, “Got any ID?”

The driver asks, “‘Bout what?”

 

Real Cities

 

What Cheer, Iowa 50268 is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. It is a former coal town, and from the 1870s to the early 1900s was one of the major coal-producing centers of Iowa. Its greatest recorded population was 3,246, in the 1890 census. Since the 1910s, the population has fallen to 646 in the 2010 census.

 

True Things

 

Sweet Revenge

Concord, North Carolina, police say they have not determined a motive for an April 2 incident in which Lacy Cordell Gentry, 32, allegedly drove his car through the front doors of the Walmart he had recently been fired from, destroying displays but avoiding injuring any shoppers. "If you take a car through a Walmart, there's going to be a lot of damage," one officer told local media. The New York Daily News reported that Gentry was taken into custody and faces multiple charges. [NY Daily News, 4/5/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

Better Hearing & Speech Month Link
Bladder Cancer Awareness Month  
Link
Borderline Personality Disorder Month 
Link
Brain Tumor Awareness Month 
Link
Building Safety Month Link Link
Celiac Awareness Month Link
Chip Your Pet Month Link  Link
Clean Air Month
Creative Beginnings Month
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month 
Link

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan

Thru 5/11

International Wildlife Film Week Link

Thru 5/15  

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

Thru 30  

Choose Privacy Week: Link

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Be Kind To Animals Week  
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week   
Link 
Drinking Water Week   
Link 
Flexible Work Arrangement Week   
Goodwill Industries Week   
International Clitoris Awareness Week    

Nat’l Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week  
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week   
National Correctional Officer's Week    
National Family Week  
  
National Hug Holiday Week
National Root Canal Appreciation Week   
 Link  
National Small Business Week
National Tourism Week   
Link  
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week    Link
Public Service Recognition Week    
Link
National Pet Week   
Link  
Update Your References Week  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Today’s Observations

 

Chocolate Custard Day

Garden Meditation Day

Lumpy Rug Day

Melanoma Monday
National Chocolate Custard Day National Special-abled Pets Day Link  Link 
National Raspberry Popover Day
National Raspberry Tart Day
National Textiles Day  Link 
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day

Paranormal Day
Public Radio Day
SAN (Storage Area Network) Architect Day
 Link
Sun Day

Two Different Colored Shoes Day

Wild Koala Day  Link
World Press Freedom Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Nice weather Sunday with a little wind. Nice walk around the neighborhood.

Last night I finished the special on Sesame Street from last week. A great history of how that program has taught children difficult subjects for 50 years.

So many people have listened to the fringe that they are not getting the vaccine. They believe it has the ‘Bill Gates tracker’, or that ‘there is no virus’, or that hugging someone who took the vaccine will give you the non-existent virus. It is hard to keep up. Now states are looking at offering either a big carrot or a bigger stick to get people to get the vaccine. One bar is offering ‘a shot for a shot’ where you get the shot at the bar, then get a free shot of choice from the bartender. Some municipalities are planning fines [about $250] if you are attending an event and can’t prove you got the shot. It is hard for me to believe that people don’t want to protect themselves, their family and their neighbors.

I am all for leaving Afghanistan with our troops. I only hope that we help the friendlies in Afghanistan and allow them to come to the US. We did it in Vietnam, and laws need to change as right now, they can’t come here.

Big news in Flagstaff: in 2025 we will have a new hospital complex that will include a new hospital, new medical office space for doctors, a new rehab center, and a couple of hotels. It is on the very far west side of town, about 5 miles from the current hospital. It is certainly an infrastructure plan for the future. And it is being done with hospital corporation money.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

82. What coat goes on wet?

 

Historical Events

 

1375 BC -The first recorded eclipse occurred, noted in the area now known as Syria.

1802 – Washington, District of Columbia. was incorporated as a city.

1937 – Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1952 – The Kentucky Derby was televised nationally for the first time, on CBS.

1952 – Flying US Air Force C-47, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Fletcher, and Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict became the first to land a plane on the North Pole.

1960 – The Anne Frank House museum opened in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1977 – British journalist David Frost interviewed former President Richard Nixon.

1980 – 13-year-old Cari Lightner of Fair Oaks, California, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Her mother, Candy Lightner, later founded the organization Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)

1986 – 54-year-old Willie Shoemaker, riding 18:1shot Ferdinand, became the oldest jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby.

2003 – New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain collapsed.

2007 – Nearly 4-year-old Madeleine McCann of Rothley, England, disappeared during a family vacation at a resort in southern Portugal.

2013 Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China

2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China responsible for the spread and severity of COVID-19 and should be held accountable

2020 Investor Warren Buffett dumps his holdings in four major US airlines saying "the world has changed" for aviation, reflecting an increasingly bleak outlook for the industry

 

Birthdays Today

 

@94 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, activist (d. 2014)

87 – Frankie Valli, American singer

86 – Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company

@80 – Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)

@74 – Harry Lillis  Bing Crosby Jr., American singer, actor (d. 1977; heart attack)

@73 – James Brown, singer-songwriter, performer, actor (d. 2006; heart failure)

@67 – Sugar Ray Robinson [Walker Smith Jr.], boxer (d. 1989; Alzheimer’s)

@52 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d.2000; liver cancer)

46 – Dule Hill, actor

Puzzle Answer

 

A coat of paint

 

 

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