Oct 18

 

 

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Oct 18, 2020  Week: 43 Day: 292	Local:  H 74°\ L 32°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  11mph	Nearest lightning:  1302mi.; active fire:  59mi
EXTREME Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 78°[1921]   Record: 10°[1971]	Sep Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

I think whether you're having setbacks or not,

the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Colin Powell

 

Random Tidbits

At the Himba of Namibia in Southern Africa, the date of birth of a child is fixed, not at the time of its arrival in the world, nor in its design, but much earlier: since the day the child is thought in His Mother's mind.⠀

When a woman decides she's going to have a child, she settle down and rests under a tree, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child who wants to be born. And after she heard this child's song, she comes back to the man who will be the father of the child to teach him that song. And then, when they make love to physically design the child, they sing the song of the child, to invite him.⠀⠀

When the mother is pregnant, she teaches the singing of this child to the midwives and older women of the village. So, when the child is born, old women and people around him sing his song to welcome him.⠀

As the child grows, the other villagers learn his song. So if the child falls, or gets hurt, he always finds someone to pick him up and sing his song. Similarly, if the child does something wonderful, or successfully passes through the rites of passage, the people of the village sing his song to honor him.⠀⠀

In the tribe, there is another opportunity where villagers sing for the child. If, at any time during his life, the person commits an aberrant crime or social act, the individual is called in the center of the village and the people of the community form a circle around him. Then they sing his song.⠀

The tribe recognizes that the correction of antisocial behavior does not pass through punishment, it is by love and reminder of identity. When you recognize your own song, you don't want or need to do anything that would harm the other.⠀

And the same way through their lives. In Marriage, songs are sung together.⠀

And when, getting old, this kid is lying in his bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his song, and they sing, for the last time, his song.

 

A little humor

Never let it be said that ground crews lack a sense of humor. Here are actual maintenance complaints submitted by UPS pilots ("P") and solutions recorded ("S") by maintenance engineers:

P: Mouse in cockpit.

S: Cat installed.

P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget

 

True Things

"Injun"

A very derogatory term used against Natives. It is really a distortion of "Indian". This word is to Natives as the "N" word is to African-Americans.

 

Observations This Week

Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week: 12-20 Link	National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week:18-24 Link
Apple Butter Stirrin' Week: 16-18	National Forest Products Week: 18-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week: 17-24	National Friends of Libraries Week:18-24
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week: 18-24	National Pharmacy Week: 18-24   Link
Freedom From Bullies Week: 18-24	National School Bus Safety Week: 18-24
International Infection Prevention Week: 18-24 Link	National Teen Drivers Safety Week: 18-24 Link
National Business Women's Week: 18-24 Link	Rodent Awareness Week: 18-24
National Character Counts Week: 18-24	Spiritual Care Week: 18-24
National Chemistry Week: 18-24	YWCA Week Without Violence: 18-24 Link

 

Observations for Today

Birth of The Bab	National Meatloaf Appreciation Day
Birth of Baha'u'Llah	National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day Link	Newspaper Comic Strip Appreciation Day
International Legging Day Link	No Beard Day
International Necktie Day  Link	World Menopause Day
National Chocolate Cupcake Day	World Toy Camera Day
National Exascale Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday’s phlebotomy was an experience. It usually takes 25 minutes and one glass vacuum bottle. I had to be poked three times, she used 5 bottles because the vacuum wasn’t working. She even tried the syringe method. It took almost 2 hours. I am currently having a talk with my arm veins everyday to remind them the importance of giving up blood, and that they need to be much more cooperative. Hope it works.

On Thursday night, thanks to Phoenix TV, the two town halls were not on at the same time. First came Biden, then after that Trump. I watched both and listened to what they had to offer. Interesting, and just helped solidify my vote.

I guess this is the last time I’m voting on election day. Flagstaff has had a couple of mail-only elections. I fill out my ballot and drive to the drop box on election day and no sooner. Watching the numbers of early voters, waiting seems a waste of time. Sorry to see that norm disappear. The US was one of the only major countries giving same day voting results. Now we will join the majority of democratic countries who wait several days for results. If Trump wins, we may be using the ‘ink on the finger’ when we vote to prevent non-existent voter fraud.

Who is the world’s richest King…he is worth over $70billionUSD? Turns out it is the young King of Thailand. The next three are Saudi Arabia, Brunei, and UK.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

If I Am Holding A Bee, What Do I Have In My Eye?

 

Historical Events

1386 – The University of Heidelberg opened.

1620 – The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.

1851 – Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick was first published as ‘The Whale.’

1867 – “Seward’s Folly” United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.

1898 – The United States took possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.

1910 E. M. Forster publishes novel "Howards End"

1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (Corporation) BBC was founded.

1954 – Texas Instruments introduced the first Transistor radio.

1968 – The US Olympic Committee suspended Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a “Black Power” salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games.

1988 – Roseanne premiered on ABC

1997 The groundbreaking Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I in Bilbao, Spain

2017 19th Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing with President Xi Jinping delivering 3hr 23min speech heralding “new era”

2019 1st all-female spacewalk by NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir outside the International Space Station

 

Birthdays Today

@90 – Chuck Berry, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)

82 – Dawn Wells, American model, and actress, Miss Nevada 1959

81 – Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster

@74 – Frederick August Otto Schwarz, American businessman, founded FAO Schwarz (d. 1911)

@71 – George C. Scott, American actor, and director (d. 1999; aneurysm)

68 – Chuck Lorre, American director, producer, and screenwriter

64 – Martina Navratilova, Czech-American tennis player

60 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist

33 – Zac Efron, American actor

 

Puzzle Answer

This riddle is a play on the proverb, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." If you're literally holding a bee, you are the bee-holder. Accordingly, beauty is in your eye.