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Jun  4, 2020 Week: 23  Day: 157

86004:   H 86° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

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

Nearest lightning:  374mi.; Nearest active fire:  220mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

 

Record High: 88°[2010]   Record Low: 25°[1943]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

 

"Life is a succession of lessons

which must be lived to be understood."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Random Tidbits

 

There is no definitive history about how the word "barbecue" originated - or why it's sometimes used as a noun, verb, or adjective. Some say the Spaniards get the credit for the word, derived from their "barbacoa" which is an American-Indian word for the framework of green wood on which foods were placed for cooking over hot coals. Others think the French were responsible, offering the explanation that when the Caribbean pirates arrived on our Southern shores, they cooked animals on a spit-like devise that ran from "whiskers to tail" or "de barbe a' queue."

 

Have a smile

True conversations while flying

 

A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after touching down. San Jose Tower Noted: 

"American 751, make a hard  right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at the lights and return to the airport."

 

 

Observations This Month

 

Oral Health Month Link
Outdoor Marketing Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month  Link
Potty Training Awareness Month Link
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month Link
Rebuild Your Life Month
Scleroderma Awareness Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Sorghum Month Link
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month

 

Observations This Week

 

Hemp History Week: 1-7 Link
Great American Brass Band Week: 4-7  Link  September 12 due to COVID-19

Observations for Today

 

Apple II Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Doughnut Day or Donut Day Link 

Festival of Popular Delusions Day Link
Horseradish Days-7 Link  Canceled due to COVID-19
 Hot Air Balloon Day

National Doughnut Day
National Ketchup / Catsup Day

National Moonshine Day
National Veggie Burgers Day  Link
Ryan Moran Day Link 
 World Environment Day

 

 

My Rambling Thoughts

 

Still pretty warm, but enjoying the clear blue sky.

 

Navajo Nation announced they are suspending the weekend curfew that has kept families on their own property for the past 5 weekends. It will be reinstated if the case count increases.

 

Arvada, CO has a great idea in place on any celebration on Independence Day. They are asking families to decorate their front porch with patriotic material for all to enjoy.
Grrrrreat idea.

 

I read earlier this week that Botswana is having many unexplained elephant deaths. They have no idea why after there were no signs of anthrax, other poisoning, or poaching. Botswana has one of the largest population of elephants and this is devastating, disgusting, and needs to be explained.

 

When a mall is closed due to the virus, do tenants still owe rent money? Does it matter who closed the mall…the property owner or the state? This will be answered in the courts. Simon Property owns most of the malls in the US. They are suing
GAP for $65.9 million in rent after malls were closed due to the virus. Gap is claiming they don’t owe any rent because they were closed by the virus and couldn’t conduct regular business. The property owner claims they have leases on the property and still must pay. On the day the suit was filed, GAP stock dropped less than 1% and Simon Property stock went up 4%.

 

A couple of months ago my internet based computer tech company suddenly disappeared. Just before this, my Office Suite I had bought from them quit working. They gave me a free suite from the internet that I hated. Saying they would fix it in a week. That week passed and they were gone. Yesterday I broke down and bought Office 365 from Microsoft. I’m having a few problems with activation, but it works for now.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

 

An old man wanted to leave his fortune to one of his three sons, so he came up with a task to see who could solve it the best. He gave each of them a small amount of money to buy something that would be able to fill their living room.

 

The first son bought straw but it was not enough to fill his living room. The next son bought sticks but he was also unable to fill the room. The third son purchased two small items and was able to easily fill the room.

What did he buy?

 

 

Historical Events

 

1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)

 

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin (or Life Among the Lowly) began a ten-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper.

1883 - The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris.

1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record

 

1933 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off of the "Gold Standard", a result of the Great Depression. President Nixon, in 1971, completed the transition when he announced that the United States would no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, $35 an ounce at that time.

 

1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week

 

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion

 

1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

 

1966 - The Beatles had a taped appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, debuting music videos for Rain and Paperback Writer.

1968 - Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian.

 

1970 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon

 

1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

 

1977 - The Apple II went in sale.

1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five people in Los Angeles, California, had a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.

1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests ended violently in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. Many western journalists had errantly speculated that the army would not fight against the people.

 

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

 

2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK

 

2018 US President Donald Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN

 

2019 Average person ingests 50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and Technology"

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

53-Actor Ron Livingston

 

64-Saxaphonist Kenny G [Kenneth Bruce Gorelick]

 

51-Singer/ActorBrian McKnight

49-Actor Mark Wahlberg 

@45-Revolutionist Poncho Villa

  [José Doroteo Arango Arámbula] (1878; assasinated)

41-Bassist Pete Wentz

 

Puzzle Answer

 

The third son bough a candle and a match. He used the match to light the candle and filled the room with the candles light.