Sep 29

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Sep. 29, 2019 Week: 40 Day: 272

86004:   H 65° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Nearest active fire:  21mi.  Nearest lightning:  344mi

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  17mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 83°[2010]   Record Low: 22°[1902]

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

Today’s Quote

There are people who have money

and people who are rich.

Coco Chanel

Random Tidbits

The day have actually been getting shorter since after the Summer Solstice. We will lose almost 3 minutes of daylight each day until the Winter Solstice.

Equinoxes are not day-long events, even though many choose to celebrate all day. Instead, they occur at the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator - the imaginary line in the sky above Earth's Equator.

Observances This Week

20-29

National Ballroom Dance Week  Link
Farm Animal Awareness Week  

27-10/6

International Sand Sculpting Championships  Link

29-10/5

National Chimney Safety Week

National Fall Foliage Week  Link 

Observances for Today

Confucius Day

Gold Star Mother's Day 
International Coffee Day Link
International Day of The Deaf 
MAGS Day  Link
Michaelmas Link
Mutation Day (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Link
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day
National Biscotti Day
National Coffee Day

National Mocha Day

Priesthood Sunday Link  
Rosh Hashanah (Sundown)
VFW Day 
World Heart Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A day of straightening and cleaning. Flipped my mattress, put on clean linens. Cleaned the inside of the fridge. Found a few things in the back that didn’t look like food anymore. It’s an old-er fridge, but now is sparkling like new. It’s a seasonal thing I have done for decades.

I am expecting wind this afternoon. The weather app sez to expect 45-50mph wind from 3p-sometime tomorrow. Not excited about that.

APS [Arizona Public Service] is the major provider of electricity to AZ. When I was on the Rez, it was NTUA [Navajo Tribal Utility Authority], until I got to Tuba, where for some reason it was APS. AZ voters elect a commission of 5 people who regulate APS. A few year ago Pinnacle West purchases APS, and let them keep their name. The vast majority of their revenue comes from APS. There have been calls the last decade that the Commission overseeing APS is little more than an APS arm…whatever they want, they get. Last year, there was a fight between teachers and the Governor over salary and other dollars coming to education in our state. It was called the ‘Red for ED’ movement. It convinced the Governor to increase salaries by a lot more than the 1% he had promised. Today it was no shock that Pinnacle West had spent $450,000 to debunk the ‘Red for ED’ movement. Dirty politics, and maybe illegal. PW claims 2 things: ‘the vast majority of our money comes from APS’ and ‘no APS money was spent on the ads.’ As the little Russian Guy used to say on Laugh-in: Very interesting!

So our President told 2 guys from Russia, back in a 2017 White House meeting where he slipped and gave a way a few Israeli secrets, that any interference in the US election didn’t bother him because the US has done the same thing in other countries. ‘Very interesting!’  

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I turn my head, and you may go where you want.

I turn it again, and you’ll stay till you rot.

I have no face, but I live or die,

By my crooked teeth.

Who am I?

Historical Events

480 BC - Battle of Salamis: The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persian fleet under Xerxes I. This was a few weeks after the famous Battle of Thermopylae (with King Leonidas and the 300 Spartans).

1829 -Scotland Yard went on patrol for the first time.

1938 - The Treaty of Munich was signed by Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Daladier & Chamberlain. Contrary to some overly optimistic high hopes, it did not prevent World War II.

1957 - Kyshtym Disaster at Plutonium Production Plant, USSR

1958 - #1: Tommy Edwards - It's All in the Game

1960 - My Three Sons debuted on ABC.

1963 - The Judy Garland Show debuted on CBS

1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour, opening for Bo Diddley and The Everly Brothers.

1966 - The Chevrolet Camaro was introduced.

1969 - Love American Style premiered on ABC.

1973 - #1 Hit: Grand Funk - We're an American Band

1975 - Singer Jackie Wilson had a heart attack on stage, resulting in a 9-year coma. (He died in 1984)

1979 - Gold hit $400/ounce for the first time.

1982 - Cheers premiered on NBC.

1984 - #1 Hit: Prince and The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy

1985 - The first of seven cyanide-laced Tylenol victims died. This event is what made manufacturers begin using tamper-proof packaging.

1988- The space shuttle Discovery was launched- the first since the Challenger disaster.

1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor was convicted of slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills. The assault occurred on June 14, 1989.

1990 - #1 Hit: Nelson - (Can't Live Without Your) Love And Affection

1990 - Millie's Book, written by 1st Lady Barbara Bush, about the president's dog, a best-selling non-fiction book, was released.

1992 - Magic Johnson came out of retirement to play for the Los Angeles Lakers after retiring less than a year earlier. He retired again in 1996.

1994 - The 304 jurors and alternate jurors were chosen for O.J. Simpson's murder trial.

1996 - Nintendo 64 released, Video Game Console

2007 - #1 Hit: Kanye West - Stronger

2008 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss by that time in history.

2012 - #1 Hit: Maroon 5 - One More Night

2013 16 people are killed by a Syrian Army air strike that hit a secondary school in Raqqa, Syria

2017 Mysterious sonic attacks on US diplomats prompt US to warn citizens not to travel to Cuba and pull some embassy staff

Birthdays Today

Gene Autry, singing cowboy

(d. 1998 @91)

Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, NFL coach

(d. 2013 @90)

Stanley Kramer, film director, producer

(d. 2001 @87)

Jerry Lee Lewis. Rock singer (84)

Lech Walesa, pro-democracy politician (76)

Mike Post, TV Theme composer (75)

Bryant Gumbel, sportscaster (71)

Andrew Dice Clay, comedian (62)

Madeline Kahn, comedian

(d. 1999 @57; ovarian cancer)

Puzzle answer:

KEY.