May 6

 

 

 

May 6, 2021   Week: 18    Day:   126       

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 74°\ L 40°

Nearest Lightning: 470mi.          

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  13mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  31mi

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Friends are the siblings God never gave us.

~Mencius

Random Tidbits

 

Bears, seals, and dogs are closely related carnivores but are on a different branch of the evolutionary tree than cats and hyenas.

 

Humor

 

A DuPont chemist walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, “Do you have any acetylsalicylic acid?”

“You mean aspirin?” says the pharmacist.

“That’s it! I can never remember that word.”

 

Real Cities

 

Waterproof, Louisiana is a village in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, with a population of 688 as of the 2010 census. The village in 2010 was 91.7 percent African American. Some 24 percent of Waterproof residents in 2010 were aged sixty or above.

 

True Things

 

Noted

Ayanna Williams of Houston achieved a Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails grown by a woman in 2017, when her nails measured 19 feet. In early April, Williams visited a dermatology clinic in Fort Worth to have the nails cut off -- her first trim since the 1990s -- but not before measuring them again: 24 feet, a length that required a manicure lasting several days, using three to four bottles of nail polish, CNN reported. "With or without my nails, I will still be the queen," Williams said. The nails were preserved and will be on display at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Orlando, Florida. [CNN, 4/8/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

National Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month Link
National Arthritis Awareness Month
National Barbeque Month
National Better Hearing Month 
Link
National Bike Month 
Link
National Chamber Music Month 
Link
National Egg Month 
Link  Link
National Electrical Safety Month 
 Link
National Foster Care Month 
Link
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month  
Link  Link
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National High Blood Pressure Education Month  
Link
National Inventors Month 
Link
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month (aka NF Month) 
Link
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month 
Link
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month 
Link
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month 
Link  Link   
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month 
Link
National Preservation Month
National Read To Your Baby Bump Month
National Recommitment Month  
Link
National Salad Month
National Salsa Month (The Sauce)
National Service Dog Eye Examination Month  Cancelled
National Smile Month 
Link  (May 18-June 18)
National Syringomyelia Awareness Month  
Link 
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month

 

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

1-7  

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  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2-8

Air Quality Awareness Week Link 
International Coaching Week  
Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Construction Falls) 
Lin`k

PTA Teacher Appreciation Week

Teacher Appreciation Week Link 

 

 

 

3-7

Children's Book Week 

National Sun Safety Week Link
National WildflowerWeek 

Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week Link

 

3-9

(World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link

3-11

National Nurses Day and Week Link  Link

6-12 

 

Today’s Observations


Beverage Day

International Management Accounting Day
Joseph Brackett Day
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
  
National Crepe Suzette Day

National Day of Prayer  Link
National Day of Reason
National Nurses Day

National Tourist Appreciation Day

No Diet Day

No Homework Day
Nurses Day or National RN Recognition Day  
Link Link
Russel Stover Candies Day
World Password Day 
 Link 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great day…warm, slight wind…nice walk in the forest.

Computer passwords were a big issue until everyone allowed you to save your username and password. I do that for every site except my banking information. Since I bought a new computer, I must re-enter them, so the new computer recognizes me. I’ve had my computer over a month and today I found two different places I hadn’t used in a while. Oh well, they are ‘remembered’ now.

When I was in Miss Steinmeier’s 9th grade Civics class at Wheat Ridge Jr. High, a few years ago, I remember discussing DC and Puerto Rico statehood. Today it is still being discussed. I didn’t get why not back then, and I don’t get it now. The people who live in DC pay the nation’s highest taxes in the country. They have no vote in Congress and only one representative who can’t vote. For all the elected representatives and senators who are against DC statehood, they should be required to live in DC. That might change their view. Today, many of them rent a place in either Maryland or Virginia.

Now that I have been vaccinated and restrictions are being lifted, I have begun shopping on any day I choose. I still wear a mask, I still wipe down the cart, and am careful. Today I needed some juice, so I headed out and picked up a bunch of groceries…on a Wednesday. It’s been over a year since I did that. For all that time I went to stores only on Friday morning. It’s nice to have more freedom.

MMIW Awareness Day was May 5th. Somehow my many lists of days did not mention it, so I missed it until today. Click on the link to learn about the plight of Native Women who are missing or murdered. That is what wearing a black mask with a red handprint or simply a red handprint across the face is all about.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What can you keep after giving to someone?

 

Historical Events

 

1851 – Linus Yale, Jr. was granted a patent (#8,071) for the invention of his “Self-Detaching and Attaching Key-Lock” as “a new and Improved Safety-Lock for Banks, Safes, Vaults, Stores.”

1851 – President Benjamin Harrison had the first electric lights installed in the White House.

1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrendered to United States troops in Nebraska.

1889 – The Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.

1915 – Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hit his first major league home run.

1933 – FDR signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

1937 – The Hindenburg exploded over Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.

190 – John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

1956 – Elvis Presley appeared on the Milton Berle Show.

1984 – Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer, collectively called Spinal Tap, performed at CBGB’s in NYC.

1998 – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveiled the first iMac.

2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque.

2002 Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX

2010 – The US stock market lost and regained over $1 trillion in value, within about 20 minutes. The Dow swung by over 1,000 points and many stocks declined to one cent per share before rising again. There are many theories but no conclusive reason for the crash.

2019 French telecom company Orange and its former CEO with other executives go on trial in France for psychological harassment of their staff that unions claim resulted in 19 suicides and 12 other attempts

2020 UK becomes the first European country to report over 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19

2020 Irish organization repays a 170 year old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In 1840s Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish potato famine.

Birthdays Today

 

90 – Willie Mays, Baseball star

@83 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst (d. 1939)

76 – Bob Seger, American singer-songwriter

@70 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 1985; heart attack)

68 – Tony Blair, world leader

66 – Tom Bergeron, American television host

@66 – Russell Stover, American confectioner (d. 1954)

@63 – Robert Peary, American cartographer, discovered the North Pole (d. 1920)

60 – George Clooney, American actor, director, producer

@31 – Rudolph Valentino [Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella ], Italian actor (d. 1926; pleuritis)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

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