May 7

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May 7, 2020 Week: 19 Day: 128

86004: H 81° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 528mi.; Nearest active fire: 506mi.

Record High: 81°[1989] Record Low: 15°[1938]

May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"Climb the mountain so you can see the world,

not so the world can see you."

— David McCullough

Random Tidbits

Morocco

Credit: Rudolf Ernst/ iStock

Watch a lot of movies, and you might imagine the city of Casablanca is the capital of Morocco. Even with the likes of Bogie and Bergman gracing your screens and making you fall in love with Morocco, this beautiful city isn't the capital. Nor is the popular tourist hot spot Marrakech. The capital of this international destination is actually Rabat, a coastal city on the banks of the Mediterranean Sea.

Home to the Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Rabat is a hidden gem with a lot to offer. The mausoleum is a preserved holy place that's open to the public. Three members of the Alaouite dynasty are interred within. The architectural style is reminiscent of the dynasty's time.

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Q. How do you make the number one disappear?
A. Just add a 'g' and it's gone!
Q.What do you call a pudgy psychic?

A.  A four-chin teller.

Observations This Month

Older Americans Month
Personal History Month LinkPet Cancer Awareness Month Link
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month Link
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/11-6/15)
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Save Your Tooth Month
Social Security Education Awareness Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month  LinkSpiritual Literacy Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sturge-Weber Awareness Month Link

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

Choose Privacy Week: 1-7 Link
Be Kind To Animals Week: 3-9
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week: 3-9 Link 
Drinking Water Week: 3-9 Link 
Flexible Work Arrangement Week: 3-9
Goodwill Industries Week: 3-9 
Hurricane Preparedness Week: 3-9 Link
International Clitoris Awareness Week: 3-9
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week: 3-9
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week: 3-9
National Correctional Officer's Week:3-9
National Family Week: 3-9
National Hug Holiday Week: 3-9
National Raisin Week: 3-9 Link
National Root Canal Appreciation Week: 3-9  Link
National Tourism Week: 3-9 Link  
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week: 3-9 Link
Public Service Recognition Week: 3-9 Link
National Pet Week: 3-9 Link 
National Small Business Week: 3-9 Link
Update Your References Week: 3-9 
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week: 3-11 Link
Air Quality Awareness Week: 4-8  Link 
Children's Book Week: 4-10 
Economic Development Week: 4-9  Link
International Coaching Week: 4-10  Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Constuction Falls): 4-8 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Sun Safety Week: 4-10 Link
National WildflowerWeek: 4-10 
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week: 4-10 Link
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week: 4-8 
Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week): 4-10 Link Teacher Appreciation Week: 4-8 Link 
National Nurses Day and Week: 6-12 Link  Link

Observations for Today

Beaufort Scale (Wind) Day
Cosmopolitan Day (Drink)
Cystinosis Awareness Day
Design Packaging Day  Link
Day of Vesak Link
National Barrier Awareness DayNational Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
National Day of Prayer Link
National Day of Reason National Roast Leg of Lamb Day

National Tourism Day

Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy Link
World Password Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

It's another Spring day...nice day for a long walk. Enjoyable.

In my younger days I could watch TV or visit with friends until 1am, get up, shower, and be at work at 7:30am with no side effects. Last night was another Netflix night, I stayed up until 1:30am and finally got up about 7:45 this morning. After my walk I felt like I had been up forever. I'd like to blame it on Covid-19 stay-at-home order, but is probably something else...like getting older.

I got a text last night about 9pm that a former co-worker and friend had passed from this virus. She was a hard worker, beloved by staff and students at Grey Hills High School in Tuba, with three grown kids. She raised them after losing her husband and son in a climbing accident on the rez. So sad.

Bipolar news...the Corona Task Force is back on indefinitely, just one day after the President announced it would be ending. Always keep them guessing is the plan.

Yesterday President Trump visited AZ and a Honeywell plant that is making masks. Then he held a news conference with the AZ governor, the 2^nd lady of the Navajo Nation, and the Governor of Gila River Reservation. The last two have much praise to Trump for the money he was sending to Indian Country for virus release. The AZ Governor thanked him for the money for AZ. Then Trump talked about how his wall was saving the country. After all the talk about 'Indian Country', neither Native leader said a word about how his wall was dividing the land of the Tohono O’odham (formerly Papago) Nation. Being a politician is a difficult job. Already some in Indian Country is not pleased.

There was a macabre mistake in Seattle. A local health center that serves Native Americans in that community ordered 6000 test kits for Covid-19 from the Feds. When they opened the boxes, they found 6000 white body bags. There is now a full investigation as to how this happened.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

No matter how smart you are there is one thing you always overlook. 

What is it?

Historical Events

1718 - La Nouvelle-Orleans (now New Orleans) was founded by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, the Regent of France.

1896 - Dr. H. H. Holmes, one of America's first well-known serial killers, was hanged to death in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Over 200 bodies were found in his property.

1915 - A German U-boat sank the Lusitania.

1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit chip was first presented, at a Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington DC, by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.

1994 - Norway's most famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893), was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo.

1998 - Germany's Daimler-Benz announced the purchase of the Chrysler Corporation, forming DaimlerChrysler AG. It was sold again in 2006, forming Chrysler LLC.

1999 Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.

2008 Dmitry Medvedev is sworn in as the 3rd President of the Russian Federation

2012 Vladimir Putin sworn in for third six-year term as President of Russia

2013 Delaware becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage

2015 British General Elections: Conservative Party win outright majority and David Cameron returns as Prime Minister

2015 Underwater explorers discover a silver ingot of Captain William Kidd's treasure near Madagascar

2018 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years

2019 Denver is the first US city to decriminalize psilocybin "magic mushrooms"

2019 Hackers seize control of the computer system of the US city of Baltimore, demanding a ransom in Bitcoins to unlock them

Birthdays Today

@83- Character actor George "Gabby" Hayes

@83- Actor Darren McGavin [William Lyle Richardson](d. 2006)

@62- Actor, Anne Baxter (d. 1985; stroke)

@60- Actor Gary Cooper (d. 1961; cancer)

@53- Composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1893)

51- Actor Traci Lords [Nora Louise Kuzma]

@33- politician Eva Peron (d. 1952)

Puzzle Answer:

Your nose