Jul 22

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Jul 22, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 204

86004:   H 70° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 90%

Wind:   0mph\Gusts:  2mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  96mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1996]   Record Low: 38°[1995]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon

 

Random Tidbits

The most dangerous time to go to the hospital is during the summer, especially July. The most experienced medical residents graduate and leave hospitals in July, just as new physicians (or last year's medical students) arrive. Death rates increase between 8%-24% in July.

According to Rolling Stone, the top 10 best summer songs of all time are 1) "Dancing in the Street," Martha & The Vandellas; 2) "Summertime Blues," Eddie Cochran; 3) "School's Out," Alice Cooper; 4) "California Girls," The Beach Boys; 5) "Rockaway Beach," The Ramones; 6) "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly & the Family Stone; 7) "Summer in the City," Lovin' Spoonful; 8) "Vacation," The Go-Gos; 9) "Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince; and 10) "Cruel Summer," Bananarama.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#6                   "Go ahead, make my day."

Clint Eastwood         Sudden Impact       1983

 

Observations This Week

National Scrabble Week: 18-25  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Moth Week: 18-26 Link
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25 
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25 Link 
National Independent Retailers Week: 19-25 Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week:19-25 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
RAGBRAI: 19-25
Women in Baseball Week: 19-25 
International Lace Week: 20-24  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Baby Food Week: 22-25  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Casual Pi Day (22/7) Pi Approximation Day
Fragile X Awareness Day
Hammock Day

National Penuche Day

Rat catcher's Day

Spooners (Spoonerism) Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

I woke up to a cloudy day. Then a nice rain, then another nice rain. Over the years, Flagstaff monsoon season is lots of thunder, lightning, and male rain. This year’s monsoon has been mostly female rain. It is almost like the monsoon knows we need the rain, but with the virus, we do not need any more terror. Just sayin’.

Jim Ryun was the first high schooler to break the 4-minute mile back in the day. He is being given the Presidential Medal of Freedom soon. Very nice. He joins the other athletes: Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali, and Patricia Summit [basketball coach].

Coconino County, where I live, just passed 100 deaths due to Covid19. We are a huge sq. mi. county, but this is still frightening. On the same day this was announced, NAU, our local University, told us they had ‘a few’ positive cases among athletes who have returned to campus and that no faculty has tested positive. Of course, they have not released the real number, nor how many of the faculty have been tested. Crazy in this time of a pandemic.

Smile: Local school board is deciding whether or not to make kids wear masks at school. I stole this…

Here's how I think requiring masks might work in elementary:

Please don’t snap Billy's mask in his face.

Your mask is not a necklace, bracelet, or any other form of jewelry.

You should not be using your mask as a slingshot. Please put it back on your face.

Please do not chew on your mask.

Your mask should be on your face, not on the back of your head

I’m sorry your mask is wet, but that's what happens when you lick the inside of it.

I’m sorry you sneezed. Here's a tissue. Wipe out the snot as well as you can.

No, you may not blow your nose in your mask.

Why is your mask soaking wet? You just came back from the bathroom?

And you put it back on your face after you dropped it?

I’m sorry you broke the elastic on your mask by seeing how far the band would stretch. Now you'll have to hold the mask on your face ... or use this duct tape.

Please take the mask off your eyes and watch where you're walking. I don’t care if you have X-ray vision.

Please take the mask off of your pencil and stop twirling it.

I know the mask fits over your pants like a knee pad, but please take it off of your leg and put it on your face.

What do you mean you tried to eat your lunch through your mask?

Please don't share your mask or trade masks. I don’t care if you like Ingrid's mask better than yours.

I’m sorry, but your mask is not school appropriate.

We're not comparing our masks to other kids' masks… everyone’s mask is unique and special.

No, you may not decorate your mask instead of doing your work. I don’t care if you have a Sharpie.

You're not a pirate, please take your mask off your eye.

Try to get the gum off as much as you can.

Please don't use your mask to pick your nose.

I’m sorry you tripped, but that’s what happens when you put your feet inside the elastic of your mask.

No, your mask doesn't make it hard to get your work done.

Your Mom will need to get you a new mask since you chewed a hole in that one.

Why is there a shoe print on your mask?

No, you cannot eat the snow through your mask.

I don’t care if you were in art class and being creative; we do not decorate our masks.

We do not beam other kids in the face with balls. No, their masks don’t make it not hurt.

Please don't plug your nose holes with your mask.

Who's making that noise?

I’m sorry your ponytail is stuck, that’s what happens when you see how many times you can wrap it around your mask.

I’m sorry to tell you, but your child thought her mask made her a superhero. She tried to fly off the jungle gym at recess …

I’m sorry your breath stinks in your mask, maybe we should all try to brush better.

Please take those cookies out of your mask. No, you are not a chipmunk.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Three little letters

A paradox to some.

The worse that it is the better it becomes.

What is it?

 

Historical Events

1835 Smolny Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, Russia is consecrated, originally commissioned by Elizabeth of Russia

1864 Battle of Atlanta: General Sherman's Union side defeats Confederate troops under General Hood, with 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US casualties

1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents

1937 US Senate rejects FDR's proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp

1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1975 US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research

2018 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

 

Birthdays Today

@104 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American matriarch, (d. 1995)

@82 - Oscar de la Renta, Domincan American fashion designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (d. 2014)

80 – Alex Trebek, Jeopardy host

74 – Danny Glover, actor

@66 - Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette (d. 1974; fall)

65 – Willem Defoe, actor

55 – David Spade, comedian

@38 - Emma Lazarus, Americn poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty), (d. 1887; Hodgkin's lymphoma)

28 – Selena Gomez, pop singer

6 – Prince George of UK

 

Puzzle Answer

A pun

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