Sep 23

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Sep. 23, 2019 Week: 39  Day: 266

86004:   H 73° \ L 43° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest wildfire:  19mi.  Nearest lightning:  850mi

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  4mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 86°[1944]   Record Low: 25°[1970]

Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

No man can taste the fruits of autumn

while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Samuel Johnson

Random Tidbits

A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 1405 degrees Fahrenheit, it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.

A diamond is 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on earth, corundum, from which rubies and sapphires are formed. It was only during the 15th century that it was discovered that the only way to cut diamonds was with other diamonds. Yet, diamonds are brittle. If you hit one hard with a hammer, it will shatter.

Observances This Week

17-23

Constitution Week

20-29

National Ballroom Dance Week  Link
Farm Animal Awareness Week  

22-28

Banned Books Week
Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link 
International Interpreters and Translators Week
National Dog Week  Link and  Link
National Employ Older Workers Week Link 
National Keep Kids Creative Week
Remember to Register to Vote Week
Sea Otter Awareness Week Link   
Tolkien Week 
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week   Link 
World Reflexology Week 

23-27

Ally Week Link

23-28

International Week of the Deaf Link 
International Women's E-Commerce Days

Observances for Today

Autumn (Autumn Equinox - Fall begins!)  3:50AM EDT
Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day
Checkers Day or Dogs in Politics Day Link
Family Day  
International Day of Sign Languages
Mabon-pagan festival
National Great American Pot Pie Day  Link
National Snack Stick Day  Link
Restless Legs Awareness Day  
Teal Talk Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Great Sunday…cloudless sky, light wind, a nice temp., great day for a walk after watching the Sunday News programs.

I never knew what ‘cork’ was, except that it came from a tree. A friend of FB shared a video of harvesting cork in Portugal. The trees are hundreds of years old. Cork is the bark. It is hand striped off the tree by two men at a time using small axes. The tree is then left for 9 years to regrow its bark. Fascinating.

I bought a new iPhone 10 yesterday from Verizon. Customer service @ a Verizon store is not the best. They no longer transfer data from your old phone…you have to do it yourself. Then they have added a $40 charge to sell you a phone. And they still try and sell you expensive gadgets that can be bought at other stores for much, much less. To turn your old phone in for credit, you have to erase the phone in their presence. I did all that, got home and even though I had signed in to the iCloud at the store, when I tried at home, no luck. I went back to the store, they walked me through part of it and said ‘due to security policy’ they can’t help me when it didn’t work. She said to call Apple. After a 10 minute wait, a customer service rep spent 90 minutes walking me through the process, which still didn’t work. I had to reset my brand new phone. Still didn’t work, so I now have to wait for Apple to text or call me new instructions to set up my phone…at 7:59PM MDT today. This means I have no apps on my phone, like my contacts, pictures, calendar, etc. Hopefully, it will be fixed with the text or call. Also, Apple doesn’t seem to know I’m on MST in AZ. Oh well, the new phone is great. I get calls and make calls, I can receive text messages and send them…the making and sending is difficult because I don’t know very many of my contacts phone numbers.

Broncos game isn’t on my TV, so only getting internet updates and the internet machine must have been hacked since it sez the Bronco’s lost.  Watching the Cards/Panthers game on TV. Cards just might pull out a win.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Every night I’m told what to do.

Each morning I do what I’m told.

But I still don’t escape your scold.

What am I?

Historical Events

1551 (Tornado) Grand Harbour at Valletta, Malta

1642 - Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had its first graduating class.

1846 - German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune.

1913 - Mark Sennet presented the first Keystone Cops film, although some say it was Hoffmeyer's Legacy, in 1912.

1938 - A time capsule, to be opened in 6939, was buried at World's Fair in NYC.

1955 - When James Dean first met Alec Guinness (Ben Kenobi) he asked him to take a look at his brand new Porsche Spyder. Guinness told Dean: "If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week." This encounter took place seven days before Dean's death.

1957 - The first movie (1953) to become a TV series was How to Marry a Millionaire. It was syndicated and not on a regular network.

1962- The Jetsons cartoon debuted on ABC - ABC's first full-color program.

1967 - #1 Hit: Box Tops - The Letter

1972 - #1 Hit: Mac Davis - Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me

1979 - Archie Bunker's Place debuted on CBS

1986 - The U.S. Congress voted the rose the official flower of the US..

1988 - Jose Canseco became baseball's first player to steal 40 bases & hit 40 Home Runs in a season. He later admitted to using steroids.

1989 - #1 Hit: Milli Vanilli - Girl I'm Gonna Miss You

1992- Mad About You premiered on NBC.

2003 - NCIS premiered on CBS

2007 - During the 2007 baseball season, the Los Angeles Dodgers added an infielder named Chin-Lung Hu. After Hu singled in his third at-bat in a game on September 23, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully said, "Shades of Abbott and Costello, I can finally say, 'Hu is on first base.'"

2009 - Modern Family premiered on ABC

2012 Iran blocks the use of Google as a search engine

2012 20 Iranian US Visas are denied, including diplomats and two ministers, ahead of the UN general assembly meeting in New York

2017 Women are allowed in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time during Saudi Arabia's 87th anniversary celebrations

2018 Japan's space agency is the first to place two robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu, from its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft

2018 Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 300m (980ft) high, near Baku, Azerbaijan

2018 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches "Modicare", free heathcare for 500 million, world's biggest healthcare program

Birthdays Today

Mickey Rooney, movie actor

(d. 2014 @93)

Walter Pidgeon, Canadian-American actor

(d. 1984 @87)

Julio Iglesias, singer (76)

[born: Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva]

Ray Charles, soul singer

[born: Ray Charles Robinson]

(d. 2004 @73, liver failure)

Bruce Springsteen, Rock Singer (70)

Jason Alexander, actor (60)

[born: Jay Scott Greenspan]

John Coltrane, jazz saxophone

 (d. 1967 @40; liver cancer)

Puzzle answer:

ALARM CLOCK