Aug 16

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Aug. 16, 2019 Week: 33  Day: 228

86004:   H 88° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Nearest wildfire:  284mi. Nearest lightning:  99mi

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  23mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1962]   Record Low: 33°[1968]

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

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

Observances This Week

11-17

National Motorcycle Week Link

Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week  Link  Link 

National Resurrect Romance Week

Weird Contest Week

12-18

US Amateur Golf Week

14-18

Navajo Nation Code Talker’s Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

15-25

Little League World Series

Observances for Today

Brother's Day  Link 
Joe Miller's Joke Day
Men's Grooming Day 
National Airborne Day
National Bratwurst Day

National Rollercoaster Day Day
National Rum Day

Surveillance Day Link  Link
Tell a Joke Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Another hot, dry day here. Local paper mentioned this was the driest Monsoon here in history (since 1898) and so July was the hottest month on record. Neither were records we needed.

Our retirement group had a good lunch and conversation at Wildflower. I had a good Buffalo Chicken sandwich and a Caesar’s salad on the patio.

I was very happy to see the grounds crew cleaning up our pine needles this morning, before 8a. Took too long to get them here, but they did a great job, so I called the HOA and thanked them.

The silence from the Russian Federation about the nuclear thing there is very scary. As radiation levels rise in N. Europe, the Russian government must know their silence is deafening.

I shouldn’t be surprised that our President stepped into Israel policy to stop 2 of the squad from getting Visas to Israel, but I am. This was uncalled for and another horrible first. It is such a tangled mess, and our President needs to let other countries run their country the way they want to. His statement to bully Israel is not acceptable.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Marissa and Juliana went out for drinks together. They ordered the same drink. Juliana was really thirsty and finished five in the time it took Marissa to finish one. The drinks were poisoned, but only Marissa died. How?

Historical Events

1858 - President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria in the United Kingdom.

"Europe and America are united by telegraphy. Glory to God in the highest; on earth, peace and good will toward men."

1896 - Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discovered gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, starting the Klondike Gold Rush.

1920 - Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and died early the next day.

1927 - The Dole Air Race from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. Six participating planes crashed or disappeared, only two made it to Hawaii.

1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, was made by ex-Disney cartoonist Ub Iwerks. It appeared in the music video for Eminem's song "The Real Slim Shady." Ub went back to work for Disney in 1940.

1954 - The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published.

1985 - Madonna married actor Sean Penn.

1986 - #1 Hit: Madonna - Papa Don't Preach

1989 - A solar flare from the Sun created a geomagnetic storm that affected microchips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

1996 - At the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield Illinois, a 3 year-old boy fell into a Gorilla enclosure and lost consciousness. Binti Jua, a female Gorilla, guarded the young boy from the other gorillas, cradled him in her arms and carried him 60 feet to an entrance where zookeepers could retrieve him.

2008 - The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago reached 1,389 feet (423 m), making, at the time, the world's highest residence above ground-level.

Birthdays Today

Julie Newmar, actor (86)

Gene Kelly, dancer (d. 1996 @83)

Kathie Lee Gifford, TV host, author (66)

James Cameron, Canadian filmmaker, activist (65)

Laura Innes, actor [ER], director (62)

Madonna, entertainer (61)

Angela Bassett, actor, activist (61)

Timothy Hutton, actor, director (59)

Steve Carell, comedian, actor (57)

Rumer Willis, actor, singer (31)

Puzzle answer:

The poison was in the ice. Since Marissa’s ice had time to melt, she was poisoned but Juliana wasn’t.