May 15

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May 15, 2020 Week: 20 Day: 136

86004: H 72° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 422mi.; Nearest active fire: 269mi.

High Risk of Fire

Record High: 81°[1937] Record Low: 20°[1968]

May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique.

Just like everyone else."

-Margaret Mead

Random Tidbits

Billy Crystal

The comedian and movie star worked as a substitute teacher in Long Island when he was trying to get his start in show business.

Jesse Williams

“Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams taught high school in Philadelphia

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Question: Why are mountains so funny?

Because they are hill-areas (Hilarous)

Observations This Week

Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week:  10-16
National Return To Work Week:  10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16 
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link Link
Reading is Fun Week:  10-17 Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16 
Salvation Army Week: 10-17 
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17 
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
PGA Championship: 14-17 Moved to August due to COVID-19 Link

Observations for Today

Endangered Species Day Link 
Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness Day
International Day of Families
International MPS Awareness Day  Link
International Defense Transportation Day   International Virtual Assistants Day  Morel Mushroom Day 
Nakba DayNASCAR Day Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Bike to Work Day Link Moved to September 22 due to COVID-19
National Chocolate Chip Day Link
National Pizza Party Day Link
National Slider Day  (Food)
Nylon Stockings Day
National Tuberous Sclerosis Day Link
O. Henry Pun-off Day Peace Officer Memorial Day  Link Link
Police Officer's Memorial Day

Pizza Party Day

Straw Hat Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Really nice day for a walk...so I did it.

I also watched much of Dr. Bright's testimony on his whistle blower complaint. I think it is good for this hearing to see how many layers of protection the Federal government has. Many already knew that there should have been a quicker response to the virus. This hearing offered good information on why the government didn't act more quickly.

I was multi-tasking near the end. I listened as after a few Republican turns, each Republican 'reserved' their time. This meant that the rest of the questioning was done by Dems. This let them make their points with no rebuttal. I thought the Republicans would reclaim their time to allow an uninterrupted chance for their side. This didn't occur, and I have to wonder why. I missed if there will be a part 2.

Good news for those of us who took the refund on the Tahiti trip. Things are moving along, thanks to Ellie, Arden, and Joe Green at Tumlare. Checks should be arriving in a couple of weeks...in my mail. Now looking forward to another Focus Adventure in the future...probably not a cruise until I know they are going to happen in a very health conscious way.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I can be long or I can be short.

I can be grown and I can be bought.

I can be painted or left bare.

I can be round or square.

What am I?

Historical Events

1501 - Ottaviano Petrucci opened the first modern-style music publishing house, by producing the first book of music made from movable type, in Venice.

1793 - Diego Marín Aguilera flew a glider for approximately 1,000 feet during one of the first attempted manned flights, in Spain.

1800 - President John Adams ordered the new US federal government to leave Philadelphia and move to the nation's new capital in Washington DC.

1858 - Royal Opera House opened in Covent Garden, London with a performance of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It was later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.

1928 - Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premiered in his first (silent) cartoon, Plane Crazy.

1929's Steamboat Willie had sound. Plane Crazy was re-released with sound later 1929.

1932 - Japanese insurgents plotted to kill Charlie Chaplin in addition to their own Prime Minister to provoke war with with the US and incite "restoration" in the name of the Emperor.

1935 - Albert Einstein was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal for his outstanding fundamental contributions to theoretical physics, especially his relativity theory, at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA.

1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.

1940 - Richard and Maurice McDonald opened their hamburger restaurant in San Bernadino, California.

1942 - Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAACs) was formed, granting women official US military status.

1953 - Stanley L. Miller's paper on the synthesis of amino acids under conditions that simulated primitive Earth's atmosphere was published in Science. Miller had applied an electric discharge to a mixture of CH4, NH3, H2O, and H2 (which was believed at the time to be the atmospheric composition of early Earth.), creating a mixture of amino acids, hydroxy acids, and urea.

2001 - The final Friends episode aired on NBC, titled 'The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding'.

2015 Carl Icahn invests $100 million in Lyft, a ride-sharing service

2018 Controversial Kerch bridge linking Russia and annexed Crimea opened by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At 19km the longest bridge in Europe.

2018 North Korea threatens to pull out of summit with US and South Korea saying it can "not hide our feeling of repugnance" towards US security advisor John Bolton

2019 Five of world's biggest tech companies pledge to tackle extremist material at "The Christchurch Call" initiative in Paris hosted by Jacinda Ardern and Emmanuel Macron

2019 Findings from China's Chang'e-4 rover to the Moon suggests huge asteroid created the giant crater on Moon's far side with impact so great it cracked its crust and reached the mantle below published in "Nature"

Birthdays Today

@88-Actor Joseph Cotton (d. 1864)

83-Singer Trinidad "Trini" López III

@75-Actor James Mason (d. 1984; heart attack)

@62-Author Lyman Frank Baum (d. 1919; stroke)

51-Athlete Emmett Smith

Puzzle Answer:

A fingernail