Oct 23

 

Week: 43 Day: 296
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   64°\ 31° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 11mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 233mi. \ Lightning: 862mi.
Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

 

 

 

 

 

 

17-23 

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week:
Freedom From Bullies Week
 
International Infection Prevention Week 
Link
National Business Women's Week   
Link
National Character Counts Week  
National Chemistry Week 

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week 
Link 
National Forest Products Week 
National Friends of Libraries Week:17-23 
National Pharmacy Week 
 Link  
National School Bus Safety Week 
National Teen Drivers Safety Week 
Link 
Rodent Awareness Week 
Spiritual Care Week
 
Veterinary Technicians Week 
Link 

18-23 

YWCA Week Without Violence Link 

18-24 

Career in Energy Week
Freedom of Speech Week
Link   

Mediation Week Link  

20-23

International Dyslexia Association Reading Week

20-27

Sukkot

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  

 

Daily Observations

 

 


 

Favorite Memes

 

 







 


 




 

 

Trivia

 

 

The world's biggest spider is the goliath spider (Theraphosa blondi) lives in Northern South America. It can grow up to 11 inches wide, and its fangs are up to one inch long. It hunts frogs, lizards, mice, and even small snakes and young birds.

The world's smallest spider is the Patu marplesi. It is so small that 10 of them could fit on the end of a pencil.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

Nice fall day. Did some shopping and didn’t even need a light jacket while out and about. Nice!

Yesterday worked out great. I met with my blood doctor on Wednesday afternoon and explained my predicament to get a phlebotomy…having to drive to Prescott. He called in a nurse. She then got on the phone with the VAT team at the Flag hospital, the ones who do the ultrasound, and worked out a deal where I go to the hospital lab, they insert the huge needle with ultra-sound. They tape it down; I drive a block to Cancer Center and they do the phlebotomy and remove the needle. It worked out just great. That saved me 3+ hours of driving. I am so grateful. There are many good people in this crazy world.

Everyone knows that there is a shortage of workers in many parts of the economy…restaurants and fast-food places are especially hard hit. A new trend is to have robots do many of the jobs where it is hard to find workers. For example, being a fry cook is a hot, dirty, and boring job. So now robots are doing it in fast-food restaurants. In some sit-down restaurants, food is now put on stacked trays and the robot delivers it to the table. Sounds a tad too impersonal for me.

Redlining in the 1930’s was the practice of keeping Blacks out of certain neighborhoods and turned many urban areas into little but cement buildings and sidewalks with few parks, grassy areas, and trees. A recent study of the average temperatures shows some startling information. In suburban areas with lots of trees, grass, and parks it is 13° cooler on average than urban settings with no parks, trees, or grass. So sad.

In politics: Senator Manchin promised to get a bipartisan voting rights bill. He worked tirelessly for months. His bill was finally put up for a vote. The result of his bipartisan bill was ZERO Republicans voted for the bill. Then there is AZ senator Sinema who must deal with the resignation of 5 military vets on her office’s advisory board because she has ignored their recommendations and that she has gone back on many of her campaign promises. These two are holding up lots of legislation and now it looks like they are only helping the Republicans in the 2022 elections. So Sad.

Gabby’s fiancé’s body has been found. Forensic science will now be the only clues to the death of both…unless the parents tell what they know.

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

 

1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas

1916 US suffragette Inez Milholland collapses during a speech in Los Angeles (dies weeks later). Her last word's are to President Woodrow Wilson “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis

1973 – President Nixon agreed to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

1983 – A terror attack against US armed forces in Beirut, Lebanon killed 240 people.

2001 – The iPod was demonstrated. On sale the following week, the retail price was $399.

2019 Japanese Emperor Naruhito alongside Empress Masako formally declares his ascension to the throne of the world's oldest monarchy

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

 

81

@78

67

62

45

37

 

 Pelé, Brazilian footballer, actor

 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)

 Ang Lee, director

 “Weird Al” Yankovic, American comedic singer-songwriter

 Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor, producer

 Meghan McCain, American journalist, author

 

 

 

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