Oct 8

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Oct. 8, 2019 Week: 41  Day: 281

86004:   H 70° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest active fire:  28mi.  Nearest lightning:  1054mi

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  13mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 80°[1980]   Record Low: 21°[1900]

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

Today’s Quote

The soul that is within me

no man can degrade.

Frederick Douglass

Random Tidbits

Best sellers

3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien:

150 million copies sold

Although we know The Lord of the Rings as a trilogy, it originally was published as one massive book.

4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

142 million copies sold

Astronomers named an actual asteroid after the one the little prince lives on in this novel.

Observances This Month

National Chiropractic Health Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Link
National Disability Employment Awareness Month Link
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Dwarfism Awareness Month  Link
National Ergonomics Month Link

Observances This Week

3-10

No Salt Week

4-10

World Space Week Link

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

7-11

Customer Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work Week Link 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week Link  
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National National Work From Home Week
Primary Care Physicians Week  Link

7-13

Spinning & Weaving Week Link  

Observances for Today

Ada Lovelace Day 
Alvin C. York Day
American Touch Tag Day

National Face Your Fears Day 
National Fluffernutter Day

National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day
National Pierogi Day
National Salmon Day
World Child Development Day  
World Octopus Day Link
Yom Kippur

My Rambling Thoughts

I took a break yesterday. Cardinal’s football, Bronco’s football took up my time. Both teams were on my TV and both teams won. Wins are always nice. The CU game didn’t give a win, but was a good game Saturday.

While watching the game I did do a couple of loads of laundry and cleaned the kitchen counters. All done during commercials and half-time babbling.

I needed to do some grocery shopping early this morning. Haven’t shopped on a Monday morning in a while. At 8:30a the parking lot was almost full. Got in and got out as quickly as possible. Guess lots of people didn’t shop yesterday.

For the record: I am not a Trump supporter. I don’t like his policies that hurt Americans, especially environmental, the wall, and his lack of international policy. I also don’t like his attitude and his demeaning speech to anyone who doesn’t agree with him. The above doesn’t mean I’m for impeachment. I have lived through 3 impeachment procedures: Nixon, Clinton, and now Trump. As the Nixon Impeachment progressed he was convinced he was going to lose so he resigned. As the Clinton impeachment progressed he decided to just keep doing his job. The Senate let him keep his job. Now we are in another impeachment. It is hard to separate Trump’s rhetoric from his action. The Dems have had a hard time separating the two, like most of the American citizens. I believe this should be allowed to play itself out. No matter the outcome, this country must, at some point, unite for the good of the American values and beliefs. I will support the decisions of Congress and work to reunite Americans. I won’t gloat if I like the outcome; I won’t decry the verdict if I don’t like the outcome. This is a real test of our democracy. Americans have always disagreed on various ideals and we have always eventually found a way to agree to keep our democracy strong.

The NBA is having a controversy over the China/Hong Kong situation. One tweet has sparked the controversy. Now many more tweets are out there trying to fix things. The NBA is really just a business. Its main objective is to make money. In the past few years the NBA found a real market for basketball in China. Players have been recruited, games have been played in China, merchandise is made in China & sold to the Chinese people, and lots of NBA shareholders are making big bucks. The NBA, a business, has not been interested in commenting on the social conditions, the human rights situation, or any other political issues. That has been changed by one tweet. WOW!

Interesting: Our little horseshoe shaped drive currently has a UPS truck, a FedEx truck, and a USPS truck delivering packages…all arriving and leaving in about 3 minutes. Getting a little crowded.  

It’s National Emergency Nurse’s Day. Brings back many memories of my mom. She had always wanted to be a nurse, but got married and made her family. In the mid-1960’s she volunteered one afternoon a week at Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge. She didn’t want to do the ‘gift-shop’ stuff, and asked if she could volunteer to help nurses and doctors. She was assigned the ER. She did this every week for several decades. She really enjoyed it, told some amazing stories of her four hours a week in ER. She helped clean up patients, talked to family members, and received several volunteer awards during her time there. She was still volunteering when my dad had a major heart attack. She stayed at the hospital most of that night, waiting to see if my Dad would live or die. He survived. Many of her nurse friends, and our good friend Bob, helped her though the trauma that night. She was back at volunteering the next week.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

Left alone, I’m a word with five letters.

I’m honest and fair, I’ll admit.

Rearranged, I’m of use to trains.

Again, and I’m an overt place, warm & well lit.

What am I?

Historical Events

Emergency Nurses day was established on October 8, 1989 in order to honor the nurses who specifically work in hospital emergency rooms. These nurses play an intrinsic part of a community’s life. Responding quickly to life endangering circumstances but also having to have a compassionate heart towards patients who are seriously ill and towards families who will find out in the emergency room of the loss of a loved one. Thank an ER nurse today!

1860 - Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco began operating.

1881 - Haighong Typhoon, Vietnam

1871 - Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin (2000 estimated dead)

1871 - Great Michigan Fire (500? killed)

1871 - Great Chicago Fire (300 estimated dead)

1967 - Che Guevara and his men were captured in Bolivia.

1979 - Broadway Show - Sugar Babies (Review) opened

1982 - Cats, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, opened on Broadway and ran for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

1984 - The Burning Bed starring Farrah Fawcett, aired on NBC

1985 - East End Show - Les Miserable (Musical) October 8, 1985

1986 - The Fox Broadcasting Company became the US' fourth commercial broadcast television network, with The Late Show, hosted by Joan Rivers.

1988 - #1 Hit: Def Leppard - Love Bites

2001 - US President George W. Bush announced the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2004 Kenyan Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace"

2005 (Earthquake) Kashmir, Pakistan

2012 Hugo Chávez is re-elected as president of Venezuela for a fourth term

2014 Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

2015 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich

2017 Wildfires ignite in Northern Californian wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacuated

2018 Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) by 2040 with dire results

2018 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to William Nordhaus for climate change and Paul Romer for endogenous growth theory

Birthdays Today

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader (78)

Cornelius Crane "Chevy" Chase, actor, comedian (76)

R. L. Stine, Young Adult author (76)

Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver, actor (70)

Frank Herbert, science fiction author (Dune)

 (d. 1986 @65)

CeCe Winans,

[Priscilla Marie Winans Love] Gospel singer (55)

Matt Damon, actor (49)

Nick Cannon, TV Actor (39)

Bruno Mars,

[Peter Gene Hernandez] singer (34)

Puzzle answer:

The answer is LIAR. After rearranging the letters, you can get RAIL – important for trains, or LAIR – a dark, hidden place. Since the riddler is a liar, the resulting words are exactly the opposite of his descriptions.