Jun 12

 

 

 

Jun 12, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 163

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 82°\ L 43°

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  9mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi 

Nearest Lightning: 882mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Indira Gandhi

 

Random Tidbits

 

Wolves have inspired fear, awe and superstition in humans for millennia.

The earliest drawings of wolves in caves in southern Europe date from 20,000 B.C.

Vikings wore wolf skins and drank wolf blood to take on the wolf's spirit in battle.

But once again, the wolf's greatest enemy has been humankind.

 

Humor

 

What did the guy from Burlington say to the Pillsbury Doughboy?

“Hey, nice tan.”

True Things

 

Crime Report

Detectives investigating recent thefts of catalytic converters from vehicles in Pasco, Washington, went to the mobile home of Dustin Allen Bushnell, 30, in nearby Burbank with a search warrant on Feb. 26, and not only found converters, but also discovered a 400-pound playground slide that had been removed from a city park in December, KEPR reported. The slide had been repainted and mounted to a bunk bed in the home. Bushnell was arrested for possession of stolen property for the slide; no charges were filed for the converters. [KEPR, 3/10/2021]

 

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

National Flag Week

National Pet Wedding Week Link

National Right of Way Professionals Week Link

National Waste & Recycling Workers Week Link 

 

13-19

National Hermit Week

13-20

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Crowded Nest Awareness Day
Family Fitness and Health Day 
 
International Falafel Day

International Young Eagles Day 
Loving Day Link  Link
Missing Mutts Awareness Day 
Link  
National Jerky Day

National Marina Day 
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day Link
National Rose' (wine) Day 
Link

Poultry Days: 11-13 Link

Queen's Official Birthday  (Trooping of The Colours) Cancelled.
Record Store Day Link 
Red Rose Day

Victims of Orlando, Florida Attack Day  Link
World Bike Naked Day 
Link  Link 
World Day Against Child Labor Link
World Gin Day
 Link 
Worldwide Knit (and Crotchet) in Public Day Link

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

The wind has abated, now it’s just HOT!

The local fire grew to 6300 acres and is now 17% contained. The two fires in San Carlos are growing. One is about 80,000 acres; the other is 52,000 acres. Fire season in a drought-stricken state is horrific.

For those who might have forgotten, the audit in AZ over the Presidential election last year is still going on. These untrained and uncertified auditors have had the real ballots for almost 2 months. It’s not national news, but it goes on.

States, Schools and Employers are dealing with the vaccine issue. The country needs to get to 70+% for herd immunity and the US is in the low 60%’s. The unvaccinated have a huge following…something about being free to choose or no government can tell a free man what to do. If we don’t survive this pandemic, I wonder how the history books will portray those people. If schools, states, or employers issue mandates, lawsuits are sure to follow. That would slow down the rate of inoculation even more. Sad.

I went out yesterday afternoon to find a small, inexpensive TV for my bedroom. It is a smart TV, meaning it has internet access. It was only $100. I plugged it in, waited for it to ‘update’. Then put in my Wi-Fi information and waited again for it to update. I read the enclosed literature while I waited about 25 minutes for all the update. I figure out how to get the Cable to work. Then I spent about another 20 minutes searching for the sleep timer…a must for the bedroom. Never found it. This morning I got online and found the help phone number. I called to hear ‘due to unexpected call volume, you may have an extended wait’. I was OK as I had computer stuff to do, so I put the phone on speaker and continued working. After 25 minutes a guy comes on and takes all my information. I finally get to tell him my issue. He says, ‘I’m putting you on a short hold while I look for the information.’ After a couple of minutes, he is back and has me ‘hit and hold’ the home button on the remote. Sure enough, there it was in a drop-down menu. I thanked him and said ‘we both would have saved a lot of time if that simple instruction had been in the manual’. He agreed but said ‘then maybe I wouldn’t have a job.’ We laughed and my TV works.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

 

Historical Events

 

1790 – A ‘Red Globe’ was being reported by many people, flying over France.

1849 – A gas mask “inhaler or lung protector” was patented (#X006529) by Lewis Phectic Haslett of Louisville, Ky.

1906 – Sound movies were patented (#823,022) by John Ballance.

1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York.

1942 – Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday.

1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.

1967 – The US Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declared all US state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.

1972 – Fast food restaurant chain Popeyes was founded in Arabi, Louisiana.

1987 – “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” – Ronald Reagan, referring to the Berlin Wall.

1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California.

1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopened the Globe Theatre in London (it had been closed since 1442).

2009 – Analog television stations (excluding low-powered stations) switched to digital television following the DTV Delay Act.

2018 – President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.

2019 Violent protests in Hong Kong as tens of thousands of protesters block and try to storm government buildings to stop extradition law

2020 African American Rayshard Brooks shot dead in drive-through carpark in Atlanta leading to further protests at police violence and the resignation of city's police chief.

 

Birthdays Today

 

@94 – George H.W. Bush, 41st President (d. 2018)

@89 – Vic Damone [Vito Rocco Farinola], singer-songwriter, actor (d 2018)

59 – Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, professor, cultural critic

36 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter

@15 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

An echo

 

 

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