Aug 4

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Aug 4, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 217

86004:   H 88° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 45%

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  30mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  284mi.; Nearest active fire:  37mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 91°[1994]   Record Low: 35°[1956]

Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"It is better to fail in originality

than to succeed in imitation."

-Herman Melville

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Random Tidbits

 ‘The fig is also a fertility symbol and the Arab association with male genitals is so strong that the original word "fig" is considered improper.

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A little humor

Green is my favorite color. I like it better than blue and yellow combined.

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Observations This Month

Psoriasis Awareness Month Link
Read-A-Romance Month
Rye Month Link
Tomboy Tools Month Link
What Will Be Your Legacy Month
World Mutt-i-grees Rescue Month  Link

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Observations This Week

Gallup Internat’l Tribal Indian Powwow: thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7  Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Pluto Demotion Day

Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8  
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8  Link 
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link  
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8  Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 Link
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9  
National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link  Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 4-8 Link   Moved from June.
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money): 4-8
Rock for Life Week: 4-7 Link

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Observations for Today

Coast Guard Day
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day Link
National Night Out Link  Moved to October 6, due to COVID-19
Raisin Bran Day  Link
Single Working Women's Day
Social Security Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Week is starting off warm with high clouds. Hoping for moisture later today. Yesterday brought an old-fashioned thunderstorm for about 45 minutes. It was nice.

While the president is pushing to open schools for in person instruction, the school where he sends his son will not open for in person instruction until Oct. at the earliest.

Five years ago, while a private citizen was on CNN promising that he could come up with a better plan than Obamacare. As the clock is ticking on his first term, there has been no plan or bill for anything better. Hmmm

I got an email from SonoraQuest, that I had a pending blood draw from June 26^th. I couldn’t figure it out, so I drove over to see what was up. She asked if I had received a call from my doctor; I said no, just an email from you. She checked and their system showed a request from my doctor, which I know I had, and another from another doctor from 2018 which I also had. I think they did both tests and somehow sent them to the doctors, but forgot to hit the ‘bill insurance’ button. Hmmm.

While I was out, the road construction people are back at work doing the other two lanes of resurfacing near my place. Traffic was horrendous through the construction but nice drivers let me in coming and going. I still had to drive an extra mile to turn around and get back into my neighborhood.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am the only human organ

to have given itself its own name.

What am I?

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Historical Events

70 – The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans.

1693 – Celebratory date for Dom Perignon’s invention of Champagne.

1790 – A tariff act created the need for the Revenue Cutter Service, later renamed The United States Coast Guard.

1892 – The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden were found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. Lizzie was acquitted of the crime.

1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann

1944 – Anne Frank was arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified

1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda

1977 – US President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

1987 – The Federal Communications Commission rescinded the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues “fairly”.

2005 Prime Minister Paul Martin announces that Michaëlle Jean will be Canada's 27th and first black Governor General

2009 Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.

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Birthdays Today

@101 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, British consort of King George VI and Queen Mother after his death, born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2002)

87 - Sheldon Adelson, American business magnate (CEO of Las Vegas Sands), born in Boston, Massachusetts

@70 - Louis Vuitton, French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH, born in Anchay, France (d. 1892)

@69 – Louie Armstrong, trumpeter (d. 1971; heart attack)

65 – Billy Bob Thornton, actor

59 - Barack Obama, 44th United States President (Democrat: 2009-17) and first African-American president, born in Honolulu, Hawaii

58 - Lori Lightfoot, American lawyer and politician, 1st female African American Mayor of Chicago (2019-), born in Massillon, Ohio

52 – Daniel Dae Kim [born Kim Dae-hyun], actor

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Puzzle Answer

The Brain

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