Oct 30

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Oct. 30, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 303

86004:   H 48° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Red Flag Warning

Nearest active fire:  119mi.  Nearest lightning:  862mi

Wind:   14mph\Gusts:  26mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: °[]   Record Low: °[]

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

Today’s Quote

I think; therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

Random Tidbits

The original jack-o'-lanterns were made with turnips and potatoes by the Irish. In England, they used large beets and lit them with embers to ward off evil spirits. Irish immigrants brought their customs to America, but found that pumpkins were much easier to carve.

Each pumpkin has about 500 seeds. And they take between 90 and 120 days to grow. High in iron, they can be roasted to eat. The flowers that grow on pumpkin vines are also edible.

Observances This Week

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link

24-30

Disarmament Week

24-31

Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

25-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week

27-11/2

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week

Kids Care Week

Observances for Today

Candy Corn Day

Checklist Day
Create A Great Funeral Day Link
Devil's Night or Mischief Night
Haunted Refrigerator Night
National Candy Corn Day Link
National Publicist Day Link
Mischief Night

Speak Up For Service Day Link
World Audio Drama Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The wind is making it a chilly day as the pine needles pile up on the roof, sidewalk, street, and gutter.  The wind is not helping our drought condition at all. In August, none of Northern AZ was in severe drought, now at the end of October over 40% of Northern AZ is in severe drought.

I was saddened to hear of the passing of Eileen Griffith, a Focus traveler. She was a great traveler and lived her 99 year life to the fullest. She was still doing Interior Design well into her mid-90’s. Her son was my classmate in high school. She was an elegant lady who lived her life to the fullest.

Unless you have lived in a very rural area, you have a hard time understanding the need for addresses. On the Rez there is no home delivery of US mail…everyone has a PO Box. Most businesses will not deliver without a physical address. For decades an address would be ‘1/4 N of NN Road 61, 2 miles S of Trading Post’. Now that is being updated with many on various reservations, including the Navajo, are getting ‘real’ street addresses that will be available on GPS for deliveries. Nice!

Most of us have at least one email address. Before social media, it was a great way to stay in contact with friends, and associates, without having to wait for snail mail. The first email was sent 50 years ago between 2 University computers in California. The computers were on two different campuses. The original email was supposed to read ‘LogIn’. All that was sent was ‘LO’ before the ‘internet connection’ crashed.  The receiver thought the message was supposed to be ‘hello’. This also became the beginning of internet language that shortened words so messages would take less typing skill.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

The number 8,549,176,320 is a unique number.

What is so special about it?

Historical Events

1629 King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

1772 Captain James Cook arrives with ship Resolution in Capetown

1873 P. T. Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)

1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

1938 (fiction) an alien spacecraft landed in Grover's Mill, New Jersey, War of the Worlds, Radio Broadcast

1944 Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen

1945 - Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signed a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the baseball color barrier.

1947 - The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), later becoming the World Trade Organization (WTO), was founded.

1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas

1953 Dr Albert Schweitzer & Gen George Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1974 - The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and champion George Foreman took place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali won by knockout, knocking Foreman down just before the end of the eighth round.

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

1982 - #1 Hit: Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now

2004 - #1 Hit: Usher and Alicia Keys - My Boo

2010 - #1 Hit: Far East Movement featuring The Cataracs and Dev - Like a G6

2017 President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates are indicted on fraud charges, advisor George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

2017 US federal judge blocks President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military

2018 WWF conservation group says "exploding human consumption" has caused a 60% decline in all wildlife between 1970 and 2014

Birthdays Today

John Adams, 2^nd US President

 (d. 1826 @90)

Ruth Gordon, actor

 (d. 1985 @88)

Grace Slick, singer, songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (80)

Charles Atlas, body builder

(d. 1972 @80)

Henry Winkler, actor (74)

Ivanka Trump (38)

Puzzle answer:

This is the only number that includes all the digits arranged in alphabetical order.