Jul 31

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Jul 31, 2020 Week: 31 Day: 213

86004:   H 90° \ L 59° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

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

Nearest lightning:  450mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 91°[1977]   Record Low: 43°[1997]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure,

you will fail above everyone else's success."

-James Cameron

 

Random Tidbits

Today, large fish species are one-fifth to one-half as big as they used to be. Why? Fishing has been removing large individuals from those species' gene pools for hundreds of years.

Mercury is not allowed on a flight. Even a small amount of mercury can seriously damage aluminum, which is what most planes are made from. Airplanes that are exposed to mercury are usually quarantined.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#1                               "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Clark Gable                  Gone with the Wind            1939

 

Observations This Week

World Rope Skipping Week: 24-8/3  Link
National Little League Baseball Week: 25-8/23  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19
Lollapalooza: 30-8/2 (Virtual)
Quilt Odyssey Week: 30-8/1 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Lumberjack Championships: 30-8/1  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow: 31-8/11 Link
Satchmo Week: 31-8/2 Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Eid-Al-Adha
Mutt's Day

National Avocado Day  Link
National Cotton Candy Day

National Get Narly Day Link  
National Mutt Day Link  
National Raspberry Cake Day

National Talk in An Elevator Day Link
System Administrator Appreciation Day Link  Link 
Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day  Link
World Ranger Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Internet was on and off most of yesterday…thus no posting.

Today will be a hot one, with no moisture in sight. We got a small amount yesterday.

Covid has cut the number of tourists around our mountain town. That means better driving conditions, and less revenue for the city to operate on. It is also the time of road construction. There are two ways to get to my place. That is it…two. Both take drivers to US89…al part of Route 66. A repaving project is doing its best to make that impossible with cones and only one lane each way. The only way to turn left off 89 is to drive 4 miles, turn around and drive back to the wanted street. To turn off 89 to get back in, it is a 1-mile drive past the turn, a U-turn, and then return. I have seen other paving projects on this stretch, and it has never been this complicated. Glad I do not have to leave that often. I have empathy for my neighbors who navigate this mess twice daily just to get to work.

The monsoon has helped lift some of the fire restrictions in the city and in the forest. I sure hope it is not too soon.

The Senate bill for Covid relief just happens to include millions to build a new FBI building that just happens to be very near Trump property with a hotel…and it will not extend pandemic food stamp eased regulations but does triple [to 100%] the business deduction for 3-maritini lunches. Of course.

I am wondering why Lindsey Graham’s latest political ad altered to skin tone of his opponent, so he appears to have much darker skin than he really has. I guess they accidently clicked on the wrong filter…computers can be so difficult. Yeah, right!

I watched the John Lewis final funeral celebration today. The speakers repeated the true message of his life to all of us. Very beneficial.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What word becomes shorter by adding two letters to it?

 

Historical Events

781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.

1492 - Jews were expelled from Spain when the Alhambra Decree took effect.

1790 - The first US patent (X000001) as issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.

1930 - The radio mystery program The Shadow aired for the first time.

1948 - Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) was dedicated.

1961 - At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in Major League Baseball history happened, after the game was stopped in the ninth inning because of rain.

1989 - Game Boy released, Video game

1995 - The Walt Disney Company announced their plans to purchase both ABC and ESPN

2006 - Cuba's Fidel Castro handed over power to brother, Raul Castro.

2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end

2017 Anthony Scaramucci removed as White House Communications Director after less than 2 weeks

2018 Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics

2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin orders Russian army to help put out huge wildfires in Siberia covering three million hectares (7.4 million acres) after 700,000 people sign petition

 

Birthdays Today

@94 – Milton Friedman, economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)

@90 – Marion Talbot, influential American educator (d. 1948)

@79 – Fred Quimby, American animation producer [Tom & Jerry] (d. 1965)

@86 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor (d. 2006)

62 – Mark Cuban, American businessman

58 – Wesley Snipes, actor

55 – J. K. Rowling, English author, film producer

54 – Dean Cain, American actor

42 – Zac Brown, American country singer-songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

Short

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