Oct 28

 

Week: 44 Day: 301
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   51°\ 23° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 5mph
Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 105mi. \ Lightning: 1055mi.
Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

20-27

Sukkot

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  

24-30 

Asexuality Week:
Disarmament Week
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week  
Link
Kids Care Week

National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link  
National Massage Therapy Week
 Link  
National Respiratory Care Week
Link 
Pastoral Care Week
Link 
Pro Bono Week
Link

24-31

Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

25-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week

 

Daily Observations

 

 

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 





 

 Real Photo from Tuba City



 

 

Trivia

 

 

Some of the most expensive books ever sold at auction are...

The Codex Leicester

Da Vinci wasn't only an artist, but also a scientist. This 72-page notebook is a handwritten journal chronicling his thoughts on everything from fossils to what makes the moon glow. Microsoft founder Bill Gates purchased the book for $30.8 million and had it scanned to use as a screensaver for Windows 95.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

 

A nice fall day…got some shopping done. I had sticker shock at Sam’s gas pump…$3.50/gal for regular.

I did get my flu shot on Monday. At 2pm I called Walgreens to say the website was still down. The lady said, “I’m not surprised.” She manually scheduled my appointment for 2:45.  I got there at 2:35 to find 8 people in the line to pick up scripts. I waited, filled out the form, waited, and got the shot. I left Walgreens at 3:30. I don’t think the new system is working very well. I did have a sore arm yesterday, but today I’m at 100%.

Rep. Gosar, from AZ, may have offered blanket pardons before the Jan 6 incident to several people he recruited to plan the event. This whole story just keeps getting crazier.

Optics mean a lot. It is understandable that Biden can do his job while not physically sitting in the White House. He has been in office for 276 days and has not been at the White House for 108 of those days. Most of those days have been on weekends and are called ‘personal travel’ days. In comparison, Obama was out of the White House 45 days in the same time frame. With all the problems dividing this country, this is becoming fodder for the other side. Sad.

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

 

1726 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1811 First known purchase of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility" by the Prince Regent (later George IV), a fan

1846 – April 21, 1847, The Donner-Reed Party, a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest.

48 of 90 people survived.

1886 – The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in NYC. 1st Ticker Tape Parade

1949 – Helen Anderson became for first American woman ambassador, to Denmark.

1954 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway

1965 – Missouri’s Gateway Arch opened.

2006 Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

 

@83

72

66

55

54

 

Charlie Daniels, American singer-songwriter and fiddle-player (d. 2020)

 Caitlyn Jenner, American decathlete

 Bill Gates, American businessman, and philanthropist, co-founded Microsoft

 Andy Richter, American actor, sidekick

 Julia Roberts, American actress

 

 

 

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