Jun 10

 

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Jun 10, 2020 Week: 24  Day: 162

86004:   H 65° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  16mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  681mi.; Nearest active fire:  132mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

 

Record High: 87°[1910]   Record Low: 28°[1998]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

 

"If you set your goals ridiculously high

and it's a failure,

you will fail above everyone else's success."

-James Cameron

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

Noon was originally 3pm. The word noon comes from novem, the Latin for 'ninth' (as in November) and originally referred to the ninth hour of the Roman day - which by modern reckoning was 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

 

Have a smile

True conversations while flying

 

The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them.  So, it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206. 

Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206! clear of active runway."

Ground: "Speedbird 206.. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."

The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop. 

 

Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"

Speedbird  206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."

Ground (with quite arrogant  impatience) : "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt  before?"

Speedbird 206  (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."

 

 

Observations This Week

 

International Clothesline Week: 6-13 
National Lemonade Days: 6-13 Link August due to COVID-19
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13 
Community Health Improvement Week (CHI): 7-13  Link
End Mountain Top Removal Week:  7-13  Link 
Nat'l Automotive Service Professionals Week: 7-13 
National Business Etiquette Week:  7-13  
National Headache Awareness Week: 7-13  Link  
Pet Appreciation Week: 7-13  Link

Observations for Today

 

Alcoholics Anonymous (Founder’s) Day
Ball Point Pen Day

Herb and Spices Day

Iced Tea DayLink 
National Egg Roll Day Link
Race Unity Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

 

It has cooled of a bit, and the wind is tolerable. I went out to Andy & Faith’s place to water their outdoor plants. Easy-peasy.

 

Today, in 1939 my parents were married. They had 54 years of marriage when my father passed. I was adopted at 9 days old in 1949, and my brother 2 years and 8 months later at 13 days old. We will always be a great family.

 

Both my appointments went well. Eyes and Kidneys are doing what they are expected to do…for a “person of my age.” The Kidney doc was a video conference which was much easier than going to her office. Dentist cleaning tomorrow.

 

Regarding stimulus checks:

I learned that if you are married to an immigrant who doesn’t have a SS number and you filed jointly neither gets a stimulus check. This affects over 1 million American citizens.

AND…

Time magazine reports that no eligible Puerto Rican living in Puerto Rico has received the now infamous stimulus check.

 

A swab maker in Maine had to discard all swabs that were not in sealed packages after President Trump didn’t wear a mask and other PPE during his visit.

 

I did watch some of the funeral for George Floyd. It was on most channels. The time for change is NOW!

 

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

 

What has four letters, but has three. Never has five letters, and seldom six.

 

Historical Events

 

323 BC - Alexander the Great died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon.

1509 - Henry VIII of England married Catherine of Aragon.

 

1742 - Benjamin Franklin invented the Franklin stove. He chose not to patent it.

 

1793 - Robert Heterick was issued the patent (#X000063) for a stove design of cast iron

1837 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.

 

1895 - Charles E. Duryea was granted he first US patent (#540,648) for a gasoline-driven automobile.

 

1949 - Hank Williams, Sr. debuted at the Grand Ole Opry.

1955 - Eighty-three spectators were killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collided at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest accident to date in motorsports.

1962 - Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin (allegedly) became the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island. They were never seen again after escaping on an inflatable raft.

 

1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace (D) stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending the school.

 

1979 - Actor John Wayne died after a decade-long fight with cancer.

1982 - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was released in theaters.

1986 - Ferris Bueller's Day Off was released in theaters. The rare Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California was not really destroyed in the film.

2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

2002 - Antonio Meucci was acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. His 1871 patent was not as detailed as Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 patent.

 

2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years

 

2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces plan to ban single-use plastics by 2021

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

99-Prince Phillip of UK

 

@87-Conservationist Jacques Cousteau (d. 1997)

 

@83-Actor Gene Wilder [Jerome Silberman] (d. 2018)

76-Actor Chad Everett

75-Actor Adrienne Barbeau

64-NFL QB Joe Montana

 

61-Actor Hugh Laurie

 

@47-Actor/Singer Judy Garland [Frances Ethel Gumm] (d. 1969; OD)

 

34-Actor Shia LaBeouf

 

19-1^st daughter Sasha Obama

 

Puzzle Answer

 

The solution to this is that it is simply a statement.  The word “what” has four letters, “but” has three letters.  The word “never” has five letters and the word “seldom” contains six letters.