Oct 5

 

 

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Oct 5, 2020  Week: 41 Day: 279	Local: H 79° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  16mph	Nearest lightning:  1573mi.; active fire:  59mi
EXREME Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 80°[1991]   Record: 14°[1969]	Sep Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

Ralph Marsto

 

Random Tidbits

 The top of the Washington Monument is capped with an 8.9-inch aluminum pyramid. The aluminum cap initially served as the apex of the monument's lightning rod.

Around the United States, aluminum is recycled 50 percent of the time compared to glass and plastic, which are reprocessed less than 25 percent. In a mere 60 days, an aluminum can is recycled, turned into a new can, and back on a store shelf.

 

A little humor

A local dentist was arrested for dealing drugs.

To say I was surprised would be an understatement. I’ve been going to him for 10 years and never knew he was a dentist.

 

True Things

 A cattle rancher in New Jersey is credited for inventing glitter, and it was by accident. Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey was a machinist who crushed plastic while trying to find a way to dispose of it and thus made glitter in 1934.

 

Observations This Month

Nat’l Aesthetician Month  Link	Nat’l "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
Nat’l AIDS Awareness Month  Link	Nat’l Go On A Field Trip Month
Nat’l Animal Safety and Protection Month Link  Link	Nat’l Kitchen & Bath Month Link
Nat’l Arts & Humanities Month	Nat’l Liver Awareness Month
Nat’l Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month	Nat’l Medical Librarian Month
Nat’l Bake and Decorate Month	Nat’l Medicine Abuse Awareness Month  Link
Nat’l Bullying Prevention Awareness Month	Nat’l Orthodontic Health Month
Nat’l Caramel Month  Link	Nat’l Physical Therapy Month
Nat’l Chili Month	Nat’l Physical Therapy Month
Nat’l Chiropractic Health Month	Nat’l Popcorn Poppin' Month
Nat’l Cookbook Month	Nat’l Pork Month Link
Nat’l Crime Prevention Month	Nat’l Protect Your Hearing Month Link
Nat’l Critical Illness Awareness Month	Nat’l Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month Link
Nat’l Cyber Security Awareness Month Link	Nat’l Reading Group Month
Nat’l Dental Hygiene Month	Nat’l Retirement Security Month Link
Nat’l Disability Employment Awareness Month Link	Nat’l Roller Skating Month
Nat’l Depression Education & Awareness Month	Nat’l RSV Awareness Month Link
Nat’l Disability Employment Awareness Month	Nat’l Sarcastic Awareness Month
Nat’l Domestic Violence Awareness Month	Nat’l Seafood Month Link
Nat’l Down Syndrome Month	Nat’l Spina Bifida Awareness Month
Nat’l Dwarfism Awareness Month  Link	Nat’l Stamp Collecting Month
Nat’l Ergonomics Month Link	Nat’l Stop Bullying Month
Nat’l Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk! Link	Nat’l Substance Abuse Prevention Month Link
Nat’l Field Trip Month	Nat’l Toilet Tank Repair Month Link
Nat’l Window Covering Safety Month Link	Nat’l Work and Family Month

 

Observations This Week

3-11	Albuquerque Internat’l Balloon Fiesta: Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19	4-10	Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
3-10	No Salt Week	4-10	Great Books Week
		4-10	Kids' Goal Setting Week   International Post Card WeekLink    Mental Illness Awareness Week
3-10	Sea Otter Awareness Week:Link	4-10	Mystery Series Week National Carry A Tune Week  Link   National Health Care Food Service Week Link  National Metric Week10
3-10	World Hearing Aid Awareness Week	4-10	National Midwifery Week Link National Work From Home Week
1-5	Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link	4-10	Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week World Space Week Link
1-7	National Walk Your Dog Week: Link   Link Universal Children's Week	5-9	Customer Service Week Link Drive Safely Work Week Link
4-10	4-H Week: Link Cancelled due to COVID-19	5-9	Financial Planning Week National Heimlich Heroes Week
4-10	Fire Prevention Week  Link	5-9	Primary Care Physicians Week
4-10	Death Penalty Focus Week	5-11	Spinning & Weaving Week Link

 

 

Observations for Today

Blue Shirt Day/World Day of Bullying Prevention	Nat’l Consignment Day  Link
Chic Spy Day	Rocky Mountain Oyster Day
Do Something Nice Day	Supreme Court Opening Day Link
International Day of No Prostitution  Link	The Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day  Link
National Apple Betty Day	World Day of Architecture Link
Nat’l Child Health Day	World Day of Bullying Prevention
Nat’l Dupuytren Disease Awareness Day	World Habitat Day
Nat’l Get Funky Day Link	World Teacher's Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Great fall day. Warm and enjoyable.

Cardinals lost AGAIN.

The border wall is a touchy subject here in AZ. This just adds to the controversy:

The construction leaves lots of scrap metal while building the wall. The contractor is dumping the scrap metal on the Mexican side of the border. It is illegal by US law to do this. Mexican Nationals take the scrap metal and sell it. Remember that scrap metal was paid for with Federal Tax Dollars, basically being given to Mexican Nationals. Unbelievable.

I got caught up in a Netflix movie and didn’t go to sleep until about 1:30 this morning. So today is a lazy day.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

 What has a mouth but cannot eat, what moves but has no legs and what has a bank but cannot put money in it?

 

Historical Events

1274 Around 1,000 soldiers of the Mongol army land on the Japanese island of Tsushima, the first attack of Kublai Khan's Mongol invasion of Japan

1793 French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

1944 – Suffrage was extended to women in France.

1947 – The first televised White House address was given by US President Harry S. Truman.

1950 – You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premiered on NBC.

1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.

1966 There was a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, near Detroit, Michigan.

1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus aired on BBC One. It ran 45 episodes, until 1974.

1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) began broadcasting and National Educational Television (NET) closed.

1982 – Johnson & Johnson began a nationwide product recall in the US for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago were found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

1983 Lech Wałęsa wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984 – Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, flying aboard the US Space Shuttle Challenger.

2001 – Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire’s single-season home run total with the 71st and 72nd home runs.

2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the "right to die"

 

Birthdays Today

97 – Glynis Johns, South African-born British actress

@89 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist, Family Circus (d. 2011)

77 – Steve Miller, American singer-songwriter

73 – Steve Johnson, Rock singer [AC/DC]

@72 – Larry Fine, American comedian, Founding Stooge (d. 1975; strokes)

@62 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and engineer (d.1945; cancer)

62 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author

@57 – Chester A. Arthur, American politician, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886; stroke)

45 – Kate Winslet, actor

 

Puzzle Answer

River