Jul 25

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Jul 25, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 207

86004:   H 78° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  17mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  26mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1931]   Record Low: 41°[1913]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life."

-John Wooden

The most dangerous place for the Black man to live

is in the mind of the white man.

D L Hughley

 

Random Tidbits

The air wing of one Nimitz-class carrier is more powerful than the entire air force of more than half the world's nations. A Nimitz carrier can carry up to 90 combat aircraft.

During World War II two aircraft carriers were stationed on the Great Lakes as training ships. Originally built as commercial paddle steamers, both ships were purchased by the navy in 1942 and converted into carriers. They trained over 17,800 pilots. One of them was future president George H. W. Bush.  

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#15                 "E.T. phone home."

Pat Welsh                     E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial                                1982

 

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
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 23-25  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comic Con International: 23-26 Cancelled due to COVID-19 To be virtual
Garlic Days: 24-26 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 24-26 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Rope Skipping Week: 24-8/3  Link
National Little League Baseball Week: 25-8/23  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day Link
Culinarians DayHire A Veteran Day   Link
National Chili Dog Day

National Day of the Cowboy  Link  
National Day of Lament Link
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day  Link
National Water Gun Fight Day  Link
Red Shoe Day (Internat’l)  Link  Link  (Lyme Disease)
Thread The Needle Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

I am having a ‘busy’ day…grocery shopping, haircut…all in one day. Haha. When I was getting my haircut around my ears, I asked if she wanted me to remove my mask…like I did last time with a different cutter. She laughed, and might have smiled through her mask, when she said “I never thought I would have to learn to cut hair around these straps…but I did.” I was happy I didn’t have to take it off at all. Got it all done before the monsoon came. Yeah!

I usually buy a 24 pack of Coke Zero when needed. The last two times I needed it, they weren’t carrying the 24 pack. Not sure what is happening, since they had 24 packs of Pepsi…yuck…and 24 packs of Coke Orange, Coke, etc. Oh well.

When I got home, I opened my computer, only to discover that Microsoft365 would not open…AGAIN. I’ve had the program for 3 months, and every month it won’t open. It takes 5 minutes to get a live tech and then about 45 minutes to repair it. So much for doing the on-line version. And now I was told to do manual updates every month, and he turned off automatic updates as they are causing at least some of the problem. Crazy tech world.

From what I hear on the TV and see on the internet, we are going to be wearing masks for quite a while. I believe in ‘Better safe than sorry’ but this morning it was cool…like 60…and humid. When I put my mask on, it fogged my glasses.

Just announced: NAU classes begin online on Aug. 12; in class on Aug 31.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What number does each letter represent:

                XXXX

                YYYY

            +  ZZZZ

             XYYYZ

 

Historical Events

306 - Constantine I (Constantine The Great) was proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.

315 - The Arch of Constantine was completed near the Colosseum in Rome

1593 - Henry IV of France converted from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.

1788 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No. 40 in G minor.

1861 - United States Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.

1866 - Ulysses S. Grant named 1st General of Army

1868 - The Wyoming Territory was established.

1925 - Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was established.

1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team at Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

1959 - The SR.N1 hovercraft crossed the English Channel from Calais, France to Dover, England in just over two hours.

1965 - Bob Dylan played an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, surprising fans of folk and rock music.

1975 - Broadway Show - A Chorus Line (Musical) opened

1976 - Viking 1 took the now-famous Face on Mars photo.

1978 - Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby" (in vitro fertilisation, or IVF)was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, England.

1984 - Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk.

2010 - WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history.

2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo

2018 Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"

2019 Highest ever UK temperature of 38.7C (101.6F) recorded in Cambridge, England

 

Birthdays Today

@84 - Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)

@80 - Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)

65 - Iman, Somalian-English model and actress

54 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor

@45 - Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (d. 1999)

42 - Louise Brown, first human to be born via IVF

@25 - Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008; OD)

@14 - Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955)

 

Puzzle Answer

              1111

             9999

           +8888

           19998

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