Jun 8

 

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Jun 8, 2020 Week: 24  Day: 160

86004:   H 74° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  22mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  257mi.; Nearest active fire:  115mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

 

Record High: 91°[2013]   Record Low: 24°[1950]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

 

"Your time is limited,

so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Don't be trapped by dogma --which is living

with the results of other people's thinking."

-Steve Jobs

 

Random Tidbits

 

The Iron Curtain refers to the border dividing Europe between noncommunist Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe. Physically, the Iron Curtain stretched 4,225 miles.

 

Largely in response to the Cold War, twelve western nations created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). If the Soviet Union attacked one country, the others would defend them.

 

Have a smile

True conversations while flying

 

Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7… Did you copy that report from Eastern 702?"

 

Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers."

 

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

 

Best Friends Day

Ghostbusters Day  Link
Name Your Poison Day

Nat’l Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day

Upsy Daisy Day
World Ocean Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

 

A windy Sunday. Expecting 40+mph wind by this afternoon. Took a nice walk before the wind whipped up.  Now staying inside.

 

I am a little disappointed in many of the news channels in their coverage last week about the Insurrection Act. In every story I heard it was pointed out this was act was from 1809…I looked it up and Thomas Jefferson was President. I did some digging yesterday  and learned that the same act was used in 1957 (Ike) to integrate Little Rock Schools, several times during the Civil Rights Movement (JFK, LBJ) and in 1992 during the Rodney King Riots (Bush). To be honest, the media blew it. They made it sound like this administration had dug through history and find this Act. That is far from the truth. I am sad.

 

I have an eye appointment tomorrow and a video appointment with another doctor. Then on Wednesday I get my teeth cleaned. The eye doctor always sends a text reminder, but didn’t this time so I have to call at 8am to see if my 9am appointment is a go. I have gotten used to phone reminders when I have an appointment…disappointed the eye doctor didn’t use.

 

Microsoft Help was supposed to call me between 8a and 10a yesterday to fix my Office365 issues. I couldn’t go out, waiting for the call. They hadn’t called by 10:30 so I called them. It took almost 6 minutes to get to a human. She looked it up and contacted the Level 2 guy. Waited another 10 minutes for all that. I told him I was not a happy camper. He worked on it for about 20 more minutes and finally had it fixed. Microsoft needs to improve its help line. I had to give my case number 3 different times before I could get help. I sure hope I don’t need to deal with them again.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

 

Rich lives in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. His sister, Barbara, lives in the Central European Time Zone, six hours ahead of him. Rich works 8a-5p in his local time and goes to sleep each evening at 10p. Barbara works 9a-6p and goes to sleep at 11:30p in her local time.

 

Is there any window in which Rich could call Barbara after his workday without interrupting her on the job or disturbing her sleep?

 

Historical Events

 

632 - Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, died in Medina.

 

1637 - René Descartes published Discourse on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences.

1783 (Volcano Eruption) Laki, Iceland, killed over 10,000 over a period of months, and caused a 7 year famine.

 

1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives

 

1824 Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec

 

1869 - Ives W. McGaffney of Chicago obtained the patent (#91,145) for a "sweeping machine"

 

1872 - The first US post card was authorized by Act of Congress.

1880 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow

 

1905 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal services

 

1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.

 

1948 - Texaco Star Theater (later The Milton Berle Show) was first broadcast on NBC

1948 John Rudder becomes 1st Negro commissioned officer in US marines

1949 Siam changes name to Thailand

 

1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.

1949 - The FBI reported notable Hollywood elite as communists, including John Garfield, Paul Robeson, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson.

1953 - The US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington DC, could not refuse to serve black patrons.

 

1966 - National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) announced that they would merge.

1969 - Founder Brian Jones quit The Rolling Stones. He died a month later, at age 27.

 

1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%

 

1990 - Charles Freeman, the owner of E-C Records store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was charged with illegally selling the 'legally obscene' 2 Live Crew's 'As Nasty As They Wanna Be' to an undercover officer.

 

2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"

 

2018 World's most powerful supercomputer, Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia

 

Birthdays Today

 

@92-1^st Lady Barbara Bush (d. 2018)

@ 92-Actor Jerry Stiller (d. 2020)

 

@91-Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (d. 1959)

@81-Comedian Joan Rivers (d. 2014)

80-Singer Nancy Sinatra

 

69-Singer Bonnie Tyler

43-Rapper Kanye West

Puzzle Answer

 Call between 5 and 5:30p. EST