Oct 6

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Oct. 6, 2019 Week: 41  Day: 279

86004:   H 73° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest active fire:  82mi.  Nearest lightning:  547mi

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  17mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 81°[1987]   Record Low: 18°[1912]

Oct. Averages: 63°\32° ( 4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

If opportunity doesn't knock,

build a door.

Milton Berle

Bonus Quote

"I've lived by a man's code designed to fit a man's world,

yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick."

-Carole Lombard

Random Tidbits

Bestselling novels of all time

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: 500 million copies sold

This novel, published in 1612, follows the adventures of Quixote as he ventures into the Spanish countryside.

2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: 200 million copies sold

In this book, Dickens wrote the timeless phrase "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

Observances This Month

Bat Appreciation Month
(World) Blindness Awareness Month Link
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Cut Out Dissection Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Financial Planning Month Link
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
Go Sober For October Link
Home Eye Safety Month
Italian-American Heritage Month Link
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
LGBT History Month Link

Observances This Week

1-6

International Sand Sculpting Championships  Link

1-7

National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-5

Great American Beer Festival Link

3-10

No Salt Week

4-6

World Space Week

National Storytelling Weekend

4-10

World Space Week Link

5-6

Old-time Fiddler Days

5-13

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link

6-12

4-H Week
Death Penalty Focus Week
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week  Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week
International Post Card Week Link 
Mental Illness Awareness Week

Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week  Link  
National Metric Week 
National Physicians Assistant Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week

Observances for Today

American Libraries Day
Change A Light Day Link 
Come and Take it Day

Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day  
Intergeneration Day  
International African Diaspora Day 
International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)
Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
Mad Hatter Day Link
National German-American Day
National Noodle Day
National Orange Wine Day  Link
National Plus Size Appreciation Day  Link
Physician Assistant Day

Pickle Day Link  
World Communion Day  

My Rambling Thoughts

Condolences to one of my travel mates…Harvey Meyer, on the loss of his wife Martha. She had a massive stroke last week and passed. Harvey and I did several trips together, since his wife could only take cruises, the result of a stroke some 20 years ago. Harvey, Martha, and I were on the Florida to St. Lawrence Cruise with Focus. She was an inspiration and a joy to have on the cruise. I talked to Harvey this morning and his daughter is emailing a pic or two to add to the Focus website.

It’s a nice fall day and I can open the window in my office and the front door.  Enjoying the fall day by being lazy and staying away from all news channels. If anything important happens I’m sure my phone will alert me.

My new iPhoneXSMax is working great. After they ran a diagnostic for 24 hours, and checking the results, my phone can again have screen turnoff with a simple click. It took several phone calls, my first call, then two return calls from AppleCare to figure out the problem, but I’m a happy Apple phone user again.  

I’m hoping to have some time to watch the AZ-CU football game this afternoon. Since it’s being played in Folsom Stadium in Boulder, lots of AZ sports channels are carrying the game live. May even get to see Ralphie. Game starting and CU scored a field goal. Great start, just keep it up.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I caused my mother’s death and didn’t get convicted.

I married 100 women and never got divorced.

I got born before my father, but I am considered perfectly normal?

Who am I?

Historical Events

1876 - The American Library Association was founded.

1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, in New York City.

1948 (Earthquake) Ashgabat, Soviet Union

1948 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, is broadcast by the DuMont Network.

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1973 - #1 Hit: Cher - Half-Breed

1979 - #1 Hit: Robert John - Sad Eyes

1981 - Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat was murdered by Khalid Islambouli.

1990 - #1 Hit: Maxi Priest - Close To You

2000 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS

2007 - Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe (pedal power).

2012 Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

2017 British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

2018 Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation

2018 Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Birthdays Today

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer

          (d. 2002 @87)

Jenny Lind, Opera singer

(d. 1887 @67)

Elisabeth Shue, movie actor (56)

Matthew Sweet, rock-alternative singer (55)

Carole Lombard, actor in ‘screwball comedies’

(d. 1942 @33; plane crash)

Clark Gable’s wife @ her death

Puzzle answer:

A priest, whose mother dies from labor, who marries 100 women to 100 men, and whose father attends his birth.