Jun 11

 

 

 

Jun 11, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 162

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10%

Local: H 78°\ L 40°

Wind:  11mph/ Gusts:  25mph Red Flag

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  22mi Nearest Lightning: 1111mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;

a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Albert Einstein

 

Random Tidbits

 

French aviation pioneer Gustave de Ponton d'Amecourt built a steam-driven model helicopter in 1863. He also coined the word 'helicopter'.

Although different sources such as coal, nuclear, geothermal and solar thermal, are used to heat the water, nearly 90 percent of the electricity we use is generated through the use of steam.

 

Humor

 

I experienced the WORST customer service at a store yesterday, I don't want to mention the name of the place yet because I'm not sure how I'm going to proceed. Last night I bought something from there, I paid cash for it. I took it home and found out it didn't work. So today, less than 24 hours later I took it back to the store and asked if I could get a refund. The girl that was working told me “NO” even though I still had the receipt. I asked if I could get a replacement instead then, again - she flat out says "NO." I asked to talk to a manager because now I'm really not happy and I explained that I had just bought the item, had got it home and it was no good. The manager just smiled and told me to my face that I was "OUT OF LUCK".

No refund.

No FREE replacement. Grrrrrrrrr. . . . . .

I''ll tell you what...I am NEVER buying another Lotto Ticket from there again .........EVER.........

 

True Things

 

Least Competent Criminal

Authorities in Camden County, Missouri, arrested Leigh Ann Bauman, 43, a prominent Lake of the Ozarks real estate agent and self-described "cheer mom," on March 4 for plotting to kill her former mother-in-law. Prosecutors say Bauman offered to pay $1,500 to a person in St. Louis who contacted the Missouri Highway Patrol and then turned informant, recording Bauman's request that the "look like an accident," and later saying she's a Christian but she could ask for forgiveness later. According to The Daily Beast, Bauman also texted her daughter, saying, "Your grandmother will die." She is being held without bond in the Camden County Jail. [The Daily Beast, 3/5/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Clothesline Week

5-12 

National Lemonade Days Link

5-13 

Bedbug Awareness Week Link
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week 
Link   
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Business Etiquette Week 
National Headache Awareness Week
Link  
Pet Appreciation Week 
Link

 

 

 

 

6-12   

Duct Tape Days: Cancelled

10-12  

Great American Brass Band Week  Link

11-12

Westminster Dog Show Not open to the public! Link 

12-13

 

Today’s Observations

 


Corn on the Cob Day

German Chocolate Day

National Cotton Candy Day Link
National Flip Flop Day

National Making Life Beautiful Day  Link
Poultry Days: 11-13 
Link

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

As the fire north of Flag grows, now 5000 acres with ZERO containment, the weather guy made it a Red Flag Day. Not what was needed.

The Canadian company behind the Keystone XL project has pulled out after Biden stopped any extension until the environmental impact could be studied. This is good news for the planet but won’t help with our energy costs.

Last week the FDA approved an experimental drug that slows Alzheimer’s. While it is not a cure, and needs more study, it may help many in the early stages of the disease. I have lost friends, colleagues, and classmates to this destructive disease. This is good news.

One of the teachers I worked with in Tuba years ago has made the news. I knew her when she was a Kindergarten teacher, then helped her move up to the Agency job as Special Education Director. She left the Bureau and moved back to her home in Blackfeet country, Montana.  It was just announced that she is now the first Blackfeet to be ordained a local Pastor of the United Methodist Church.  Gail sure has had an interesting life.

It is probably a coincidence, but the small TV I have in my bedroom has a volume control problem. It occurred when the cable remote died. I had to get a new remote from the cable company. Now the volume says it is at full volume, but it is really at about half volume. I tried the volume control on the TV and still no better. The TV is only about 15 years old, so I guess it is time to find a new TV. I only watch it about 15 minutes at night. I set the timer for 15 minutes, and I’m asleep before it turns off. The other time is when I shower and then I just listen to it.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

A man dies of old age on his 25th birthday.  How is this possible?

 

Historical Events

 

1742 – Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove. He chose not to patent it.

1793 – Robert Heterick was issued the patent (#X000063) for a stove design of cast iron

1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and the Irish.

1895 – Charles E. Duryea was granted the first US patent (#540,648) for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, the first automobile race in history or the “first motor race”, took place.

1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown.

1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace (D) stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending the school.

1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quang Ðuc burned himself alive with gasoline in a Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.

1970 – After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as the first female US Army Generals.

1982 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was released in theaters.

2002 – Antonio Meucci was acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. His 1871 patent was not as detailed as Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 patent.

2004 Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.

2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century

2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years

2018 In landmark ruling, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejects El Salvador woman's asylum request based on domestic abuse

2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021

2020 Pan-American Health Organization warns pandemic spreading "exponentially" in many areas of the region, home to nearly half of all cases worldwide

 

Birthdays Today

 

@92 – Jeannette Rankin, American social worker, politician (d. 1973)

@87 – Jacques Cousteau, French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997)

@83 – Gene Wilder, American comedic actor (d. 2016)

65 – Joe Montana, American football player

62 – Hugh Laurie, English actor

61 -- Mehmet Oz, TV doctor with some controversy

@57 – Vince Lombardi, football player, coach, manager (d. 1970; cancer)

52 – Peter Dinklage, American actor

35 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor

 

Puzzle Answer

 

He was born on February 29

 

 

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