Oct 21

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Oct  21, 2018 Week: 43 \ Day: 294

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 41° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 75°[2003]   Record Low: 5°[1949]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

   Theodore Roosevelt

Harper’s Index

2006

The year US bankers received their highest average

bonuses

2017

The year US bankers received their 2^nd highest bonuses

Observances This Week

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

20-27

INVICTUS Games
Asexuality Week Link  Link
Freedom From Bullies Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week
National Business Women's Week  Link
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link 
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Pharmacy Week 
National Save For Retirement Week Link 
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link 
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link  )
National Massage Therapy Week Link 
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link 
Pro Bono Week  Link
Rodent Awareness Week

           

Observances for Today

Birth of the Bab
Celebration of The Mind Day Link
Count Your Buttons Day

Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day
National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day 
National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day

Reptile Awareness Day  Link
Sweetest Day

World Toy Camera Day
Xterra World Championships

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1520 Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean

1700’s                                         

1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

1800’s                                         

1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.

1900’s                                         

1949 Author of 'Brave New World' Aldous Huxley writes to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel '1984'

1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet

1958 1st women in British House of Lords

1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York

1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda

1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow

2000’s                                         

2012 Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the 1st Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI

2013 The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai

2017 Spanish government suspends Catalonia's autonomy in the face of a deepening political crisis over the region's push for independence

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a few busy days, but all is good.

Got my new Medicare card with a bunch of letters instead of the old ‘A’ after my SS#.  I will never learn the new one. Took it to Office Max and got it laminated…so it will last the next 30+ years.

Our complex is having the exterior repainted. Trim is almost the same color, but the doors are a much nicer shade of green. Glad the HOA takes care of the exterior. I showed one of the painters my arm and said I can’t move the stuff off the deck because of the surgery. He was very nice, said he would move it and would return it to where it was when he finished. Nice guy.

Went in for my checkup at the Physical Therapy place. Low and behold, healing takes longer than I ever expected. The new bump-on-the-road is that the thumb’s tendon has developed scar tissue around it, causing it to slightly ‘grab’. Had a sonogram treatment, who knew?, then given hand/arm exercises to do 10 times a day for the next week. I return on Wednesday to see how it’s working. I also got a tighter elastic sleeve with some padding over the scar that is supposed to increase healing.

I watch Sean Hannity for about 10 minutes every day or so. Can’t stop laughing. He was berating a Dem who is running for the House, and the guy has been in for 18 years already. Hannity who has been in media well over 20 years says it’s time to get him out, he has been there long enough. Somehow ol’ Sean doesn’t see the irony.

45 was in AZ. He was here at the same time ASU played and the same time as the Bronco’s game. Pics showed how bad traffic was all around Phx. Watched and cheered the Broncos. Didn’t watch or cheer 45. News reports showed a small group of peaceful Navajo Protestors outside the speech. They were berated by some cray cray Anglo lady with very foul language and something about going back where they came from.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

76→Judith Sheindlin,

Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy), born in Brooklyn, New York

60’s

69→Benjamin Netanyahu,

Israeli prime minister, born in Tel Aviv, Israel

@63→Alfred Nobel,

Swedish chemist, invented dynamite and foundered Nobel Prizes, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1896)

@61→Samuel Taylor Coleridge,

English romantic poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), born in Ottery St Mary, Devon (d. 1834)heart failure

@60→Carrie Fisher,

American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), born in Beverly Hills, California (d. 2016) cardiac arrest/sleep apnea

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90→2012 George McGovern,

American politician and Presidential candidate (D-1972)

70’s

@79→2015 Marty Ingels,

American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)

@70→1992 Jim Garrison,

Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination), cancer

40’s

@47→1969 Jack Kerouac,

American (Doctor Sax, On the Road), cirrosis

@47→1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson,

in Battle of Trafalgar