Jun 1

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Jun 1, 2020 Week: 23 Day: 153

86004: H 83° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%

Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 167mi.; Nearest active fire: 96mi.

Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 88°[1977] Record Low: 24°[1923]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

"Many of life's failures are people

who did not realize how close they were

to success when they gave up."

-Thomas A. Edison

Random Tidbits

“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is based on a true story

Mary was indeed a real person and she did in fact have a little lamb. Mary Sawyer was born in 1806 and her lamb followed her to school one day around 1816. When Mary arrived at school, she wrapped the lamb in a blanket that she placed at her feet until it made a noise, informing the teacher of its company. John Roulstone had just arrived in town and witnessed Mary sneaking the animal into school, so he wrote a poem about the incident and delivered it to Mary. See some more weird facts most people don’t know.

Have a smile

True conversations while flying

Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"

Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"

Observations This Month

Adopt-A-Cat Month Link  Link
Adopt A Shelter Cat Month
African-American Music Appreciation Month Link
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month Link
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS) Link
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month Link
California Avocado Month  Link
Cancer From The Sun Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month

Observations This Week

National Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3

Hemp History Week: 1-7 Link

Observations for Today

Baby Boomers Recognition Day
CNN Day
Dare Day

Flip a Coin Day

Global Day of Parents Link
Heimlich Maneuver Day
International IGBO Day
International Table Top Day Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Dare Day Link  
National Go Barefoot Day
National Hazelnut Cake Day

National Nailpolish Day Link
National Olive Day Link
National Pen Pal Day Link
National Thank God It's Monday Day
Oscar The Grouch Day Link
Say Something Nice Day  Link
Stand For Children Day Link
Superman's Birthday (Comic Book)
World Milk Day Link
World Narcissistic Abuse Day Link
World Reef Awareness Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Ready for a new month. The time from March to June seems like a whole year. The college students, my next door neighbors, have moved out. The three were geology students and are now heading out into the real world.

I watched the live docking at the space station. Again, it was awesome. Each time it is an amazing scientific achievement. I still hate parallel parking, on earth, at a very low speed.

I understand that the destruction in so many US cities is a very difficult undertaking for law enforcement. Just dismayed that they use tear gas and/or rubber bullets on the media when the only people in the line of fire are media with badges. I get shooting those non-lethal projectiles into unruly crowds that are not following police orders.

It is hard to understand the frustration of people that leads to vandalism. This morning on CNN they gave some frightening statistics that helped me understand. Look at the statistics of minority deaths by police; minority incarceration; length of sentences given to minorities; minority arrests and compare that to the same criteria for whites. Our judicial system is not treating whites and non-whites the same. A white college student is convicted of having drug paraphernalia on his person: 20 hours community service. A Black, the same age with the same paraphernalia: 5 years in prison.

The AZ governor just issued a statewide curfew of 8p to prevent further problems. The curfew starts tonight and lasts for a week. There was some looting in the Scottsdale suburb last night when demonstrations turned ugly. He has not yet called out the National Guard. So much for my late night partying this week. Haha.

Flagstaff received a little over $1million from the CARES Act. The council just gave grants to many local organizations to assist the most vulnerable in our city. Cool.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

There are five identical looking bags of gold coins. Four of the bags contain coins made of real gold and one of the bags contains coins made of fool’s gold.

All of the coins in all of the bags look identical. They are the same size, color and shape. The only difference is their weight. Real gold coins weigh 10 grams and coins made of fool’s gold weigh 11 grams.

You have an accurate scale that you can use only one time to determine which bag contains the fool’s gold. How do you do it?

Historical Events

495 - John Cor made a note referring to the first known batch of Scotch whiskey.

1215 Beijing, under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing

1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state

1813 - James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gave the now famous line: "Don't give up the ship!"

1831 - James Clark Ross discovered the Magnetic North Pole.

1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon

1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist

1886 - Thomas Edison received his first patent (#90646). It was for an "electrographic vote recorder."

1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon

1946 - The BBC started to grant television licenses, for legal access to broadcast TV, costing £2 annually.

1947 - The Doomsday Cock first appeared, on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was initially s et at 7 minutes until midnight.

1961 - Regular FM stereo radio broadcasting with a multiplexed signal began in Schenectady, NY, on WGFM.

1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes

1965 (Explosion) A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan at the Yamano mine killed 236 people.

1967 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles was released.

1968 - Blind and Deaf popular icon Helen Keller died @87

1974 - The Heimlich maneuver, named after Dr. Henry Heimlich, was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.

1979 - The Apple II Plus was released.

1980 - The Cable News Network (CNN) began broadcasting

1991- The Comedy Network became Comedy Central

1994 - FX Network made its debut. It was the first cable TV network owned by FOX.

2009 - General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement

2018 US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000

Birthdays Today

@86-Actor Andy Griffith (d. 2012)

86-Actor, singer Pat Boone

83-Actor Morgan Freeman

47-Model Heidi Klum

39-Comedian Amy Schumer

@36-Actor Marilyn Monroe (d,1962; OD)

Puzzle Answer

Take one coin from the first bag, two from the second bag, three from the third bag, four from the fourth bag, and five from the fifth bag. If the weight on the scale ends in 1 you know its the first bag, 2 the second, 3 the third, 4 fourth, and 5 the fifth bag.