Jul 16

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Jul 16, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 198

86004:   H 86° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  13mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  128mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1961]   Record Low: 37°[2001]

Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)

 

Today’s  Quote

"Success is not final;

failure is not fatal:

It is the courage to continue that counts."

-Winston S. Churchill

 

Random Tidbits

 French Roast Coffee

After World War II, Americans had forgotten what it was like to drink good coffee. During wartime, importing good beans was too expensive, and good coffee took a back seat to more pressing issues. When the war was over, people forgot that better coffee was out there. When Alfred Peet made his way to the United States from Holland, he could not figure out why the richest country in the world was drinking the world’s worst coffee. He made it his mission to change the coffee-drinking culture.

In 1966, Peet set up his own coffee shop in California and started making dark roast coffee that Americans had not seen before. He called one of his brews “French roast.” By using superior beans and brewing dark roast coffee, Peet inspired the craft coffee revolution and even helped Starbucks get its start. French roast coffee is the invention of a Dutch coffee maker in California.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#12                 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning."

Robert Duvall            Apocalypse Now    1979

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
National Vodka Week: 12-18  Link
Operation Safe Driver Week: 12-18  Link
Sports Cliché Week: 12-18 Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19 cancelling the MLB Games.
Democratic National Convention: 13-16 Postponed until Aug 17-20
Family Golf Week: 15-18  Link
National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week: 15-18  Link  
National Ventriloquism Week: 15-18  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Rabbit Week: 15-21
Hemingway Look-Alike Days: 16-20   Link Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Fresh Spinach Day

Get to Know Your Customers Day 
National Guinea Pig Day Link
National Corn Fritter Day

National Ice Cream Day
National Personal Chef's Day Link 
World Snake Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Dental went well. New crown and only one filling. In and out.

A warm day, but certainly bearable.

Living on the very rural Navajo Rez, I learned that a Post Office is not always a Post Office. Sometimes they are contracted offices. They do have their zip code but are not really part of the US Postal Service. It really doesn’t matter unless the contractor decides not to renew the contract, or if the USPS cancels a contract for some reason. There is a small community, Munds Park, about 30 miles outside Flagstaff. Until recently, they had a contract Post Office. For an undisclosed reason, the USPS canceled the contract. This meant that the residents had to drive to the real Flagstaff PO to get their mail. This has placed a real hardship on the elderly who receive their meds through the USPS. It is also a hardship to stand outside in a line for about 30 minutes to pick up their mail. There is a pandemic after all. The local Flagstaff Postmaster has said that mail to the Munds Park locale will start again by Friday. Not a pleasant situation.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

You have discovered a clue to open the door to a secret chamber said to be filled with riches awaiting those with the correct password.

The password is seven characters long and is a mixture of numbers and letters.  Your clue is “You force heaven to be empty”.

What is the password to enter the secret chamber?

 

Historical Events

1661 - The first banknotes in Europe were issued by the Swedish bank Stockholm’s Banco.

1769 - Father Junípero Serra founded California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá, alter known as San Diego, California.

1790 - The District of Columbia was established as the capital of the United States with the Residence Act.

1915 - The Boy Scout's First Order of the Arrow ceremony took place and the Order of the Arrow was founded.

1935 - The world's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The first US patent for the device was filed by Roger W. Babson.

1941 - Joe DiMaggio hit safely for the 56th consecutive game, a MLB record that still stands.

1945 - (Manhattan Project) The United States successfully detonated a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo, New Mexico.

1951 - The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was published for the first time, by Little, Brown and Company.

1956 - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed its last "Big Tent" show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1965 - The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opened.

1969 - Apollo 11 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

1994 - Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 collided with Jupiter, through July 22.

1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

2004 - Millennium Park was opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

 

Birthdays Today

@90 - Bess Myerson, American model, actress, game show panelist, Miss America 1945 (d. 2014)

@88 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman, founded Orville Redenbacher's (d. 1995)

@83 - Ginger Rogers [Virginia Katherine McMath], actor, singer, dancer (d. 1995)

@82 - Barbara Stanwyck [Ruby Catherine Stevens], American actor (d. 1990)

@64 - Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951; heart attack)

53 - Will Ferrell, American comedic actor

52 - Larry Sanger, co-founded Wikipedia

49 - Corey Feldman, American actor

 

Puzzle Answer

U472BMT  You = U,  Force Heaven = 47, To = 2, Empty = MT

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