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Jun 12, 2021 Week: 24
Day: 163 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local: H 82°\ L 43° |
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Wind: 3mph/ Gusts: 9mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 23mi Nearest Lightning: 882mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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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
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International Clothesline Week |
5-12 |
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National Lemonade Days Link |
5-13 |
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Bedbug Awareness Week Link |
6-12 |
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Duct Tape Days: Cancelled |
10-12 |
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Great American Brass Band Week Link |
11-12 |
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Westminster Dog Show Not open to the
public! Link |
12-13 |
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National Flag Week National Pet Wedding Week Link National Right of Way Professionals
Week Link National Waste & Recycling
Workers Week Link |
13-19 |
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National Hermit Week |
13-20 |
Today’s Observations
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Crowded Nest
Awareness Day International
Young Eagles Day National
Marina Day Poultry
Days: 11-13 Link Queen's Official Birthday (Trooping
of The Colours) Cancelled. Victims of
Orlando, Florida Attack Day Link |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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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
