Sep 20

 

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Sep 20, 2020  Week: 39 Day: 264                   Local:   H 80° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  12mph                           Nearest lightning:  479mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

high Risk of Fire                                               Visibility:  10mi

Record: 83°[2000]   Record: 23°[1971]                 Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"It does not matter how slowly you go

as long as you do not stop."

-Confucius

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Random Tidbits

 Close but no cigar

Carnival games nowadays give out stuffed animals as prizes, but in the late 19th century, the games were targeted to adults, not kids. Instead of getting a giant teddy bear, winners might get a cigar. If they almost won but didn’t earn that prize, they’d be “close, but no cigar.” By the 1930s, the phrase extended beyond fairgrounds to everyday close shots.

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A little humor

From Actual Medical Records

The patient experienced sudden onset of severe shortness of breath with a picture of acute pulmonary edema at home while having sex which gradually deteriorated in the emergency room.

Patient has chest pains if she lies on her left side for over a year.

Sunday Bonus:

My child will not eat fish, what can I replace it with?

A cat, cats love fish.

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True Things

 A 99-year-old California woman broke two Guinness World Records when she piloted a plane and gave a flight lesson in the air. Robina Asti, 99, was named the world's oldest flight instructor and active pilot after she gave her final flight lesson Sunday at NextGen Flight Academy at Riverside Municipal Airport. "I love getting people to experience what it's like to lift off this Earth," Asti told local news. "It is so good." Asti said she wanted to show that senior citizens are still capable of making valuable contributions. The flight instructor took the world's oldest pilot record from an Iowa man who flew a plane at the age of 98.

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Observations This Week

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National Guitar Flat-Picking Days: 16-20  Link (Virtual)	International Women's E-Commerce Days: 20-26
Constitution Week: 17-23	National Dog Week: 20-26 Link   Link  Link
Hummingbird Celebration: 17-20 Link	National Employ Older Workers Week: 20-26  Link
National Ballroom Dance Week: 18-27  Link	National Farm & Ranch Safety & Health Week: 20-26
Clean Up The World Weekend: 18-20 Link	Natl Historically Black Colleges/Univ. Week: 20-26
Farm Animal Awareness Week: 19-25	National Indoor Plant Week: 20-26
Build A Better Image Week: 20-26	National Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 20-26
Child Passenger Safety Week: 20-26 Link	National Singles Week: 20-26
Deaf Dog Awareness Week: 20-26 Link	Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26
International Clean Hands Week: 20-26	Tolkien Week: 20-26
Internat’l Interpreters-Translators Week: 20-26	World Reflexology Week: 20-26

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Observations for Today

Bay to Breakers Race  Link   Note: Oldest Footrace in America!   Moved from May due to COVID-19	National Punch Day / Rum Punch Day
International Doodle Dog Day  Link   Moved from May 2 due to COVID-19	National String Cheese Day  Link
National Fried Rice Day Link	National Women's Friendship Day
National Pepperoni Pizza Day	Wife Appreciation Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice warm day. I started the morning with a nice walk around the neighborhood.

Today, in 1971, I started my BIA career. I had my swearing in Gallup then a 3+ hour drive to Shonto. The beginning was a bit rough. I had student taught in 6^th grade, and another guy I met at Gallup student taught in 4^th grade. Upon arrival the retired Navy principal assigned me to 3^rd grade and the other guy to 7^th grade. I stayed 5 years at Shonto, he stayed one year. Then we were taken to the housing area. We were each assigned a furnished one-bedroom apartment. The principal opened the first apartment, and discovered, much to his surprise, that someone lived there. After some 2-way radio conversation, I was assigned the empty apartment next door. There was no TV, only KOMA at night on the radio, and the nearest phone was in front of the school. It took about a month to get a phone in my apartment, and TV arrived in year 3 with one channel and a 30’ antenna my dad put up.

I probably survived the Shonto experience because I had spent 3 summers on my uncle’s ranch with no radio…except KOMA, and one TV station and no phone for the first summer. The other 2 summers there was a phone on a 5-party line. His ring was one short, two long, one short.

This is also the day that my father passed at 80 years old in 1994. I was fortunate enough to make it to Denver before he passed. My mom, brother, and I were all at his side when he peacefully passed. Still miss him. At his funeral a few days later, there was a small snowfall…a sign, according to Navajo tradition, of a great man.

The Flagstaff school district put all sports on hold indefinitely due to positive Covid tests on one high school football team. Smart move.

The passing of Assoc. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is very sad. She made a real mark on our country during her life. I have never been a fan of the Trump administration, nor of the current US Senate. When Conservative Scalia passed, Mitch said that February was too close to the Nov. election, and he would let the next President pick the judge. And he did that. Now, when liberal Ginsberg passed, he waits about 40 minutes after the announcement to say the Senate will vote on Trump’s nominee before the election. He just wants to keep his conservatives in power. It has nothing to do with the constitution, the law, or normal protocol. As if our country isn’t divided enough, this will only further divide us. So disappointed, mostly saddened, and just a tad angry.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I can be long or I can be short.

I can be grown and I can be bought.

I can be painted or left bare.

I can be round or square.

What am I?

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Historical Events

 

451 Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Chalons-sur-Marne), halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul

1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.

1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President

1904 Orville & Wilbur Wright fly a circle in their Flyer II

1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1960 – The Flintstones debuted on ABC

1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon

 

 

1973 – An estimated 90 million people watched ‘The Battle of the Sexes.’ Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.

1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women

1993 – Vicki Van Meter took off from Maine, landing in San Diego three days later, becoming the youngest female pilot to fly across the U.S.

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, US President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror"

2009 – Barack Obama appeared on five Sunday news/talk shows on the same day: CBS’s Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, CNN’s State of the Union with John King, NBC/MSNBC’s Meet The Press and on Univision.

2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba

2019 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg

2019 Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal"

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Birthdays Today

@90 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1968)	72 – George R.R. Martin, American novelist, short story writer
86 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress	@69 – Jay Ward, American animator, producer, (d. 1989; renal cancer)
@85 – Anne Meara, American comedic actress, playwright (d.2015)

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Puzzle Answer

A fingernail

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