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May 8, 2020 Week: 19 Day: 130

86004: H 77° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 302mi.; Nearest active fire: 280mi.

Record High: 81°[1934] Record Low: 14°[1930]

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

Today’s Quote

"Why do you go away?

So that you can come back."

— Terry Pratchett

Random Tidbits

Teachers first; then fame

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was working as a substitute at his alma mater, Hunter College High School in New York when the school offered him a permanent job

Future president Lyndon Johnson taught speech at a high school in Houston, where he drilled relentlessly, putting the debate team through dozens of practice competitions.

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Question:What is the best time to go to the dentist?
Answer: Tooth Hurty (2:30)

I believe the finest shoes are made of smooth leather.
My opinion will never be suede. (Swayed)

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

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
Children's Book Week: 4-10 
Economic Development Week: 4-9  Link
International Coaching Week: 4-10  Link
National Sun Safety Week: 4-10 Link
National WildflowerWeek: 4-10 
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week: 4-10 Link
Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week): 4-10 Link
National Nurses Day and Week: 6-12 Link  Link
National Public Gardens Week: 8-17  Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16  Link 

Observations for Today

American Indian Day Link
Bereaved Mother's Day
Birthmother's Day Link
Clean Up Your Room Day

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Awareness Day Link
International Migratory Bird Day Link
Letter Carrier's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Lost Sock Memorial Day

Mother Ocean Day National Archery Day  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Babysitters Day  National Dog Mom's Day
National Foodies Day

National Miniature Golf Day National Moscato Day
National Sleepover Day  Link
National Train Day

National Windmill Day

Stay Up All Night
Time of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During The Second World War

World Belly Dance Day
World Fair Trade Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A great spring day for a nice walk in the forest. Done!

This is my new shopping day. Yesterday I broke a key on my keyboard, so made an extra stop for a new one. After groceries and Sam's, I stopped at Best Buy. Customers need a appointment to enter the store. Thankfully they have a clerk who looks up what you want on their phone, then goes inside and get it for you. It's a fast system, and easy.

One of the craziest things about this stay-at-home thing is that every store that is open has a different protocol for shopping. When a customer arrives at a given store, they have no idea what the protocol is. Some stores, you just walk in and shop. Others, you have to have a mask. Some stores hand out wipes, others don't. Many have main aisles marked to you know if you are 6' apart, others have arrows for one-way traffic in the aisle. Instead to each store or chain store making its own policy, it seems the CDC professionals should set up clear, concise guidelines for all open stores to follow.

Back in the day, Frontier Airlines was a great way to get from Flag to Denver. I used them often, until they left our airport. The only bad part was that on occasion, I had to do a puddle-jumper flight that had lots of landings and take-offs. Years later, I took a Frontier flight from Phoenix. Checked Bags were $25 and there were no carryons. At the gate, a carryon was taken and you were charged $125. I learned the hard way. Well they just found another way to gouge their customers...for an extra $40 fee you are guaranteed and empty middle seat on your flight. Hmm.

Today is Cheryl's birthday. Our retirement group can't do lunch because of the virus. I had a nice talk with her. We all really miss our weekly lunches. She and her family are doing well during this mess. She too is tired of staying home and not being able to travel to California to see her son and his family. But we all agreed that this can't last forever.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday?

Historical Events

1662 - Famous puppet Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.

1865 - The patent (#47,631) was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, which was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate and ease of loading into a single device.

1882 - William F. Ford was issued a patent (#257,487) for his stethoscope.

1887 - Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London, England.

1893 - The first motion picture exhibition was presented by Thomas Edison in Brooklyn, New York to an audience of 400 people at the Dept of Physics, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, NY using his Kinetograph.

1914 - Although referred to since the late 1800s, US President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Mother's Day holiday on this date.

1926 - Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett made the first flight over the North Pole.

1950 - L. Ron Hubbard (Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

1955 - West Germany joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

1958 - Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.

1960 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill: Enovid-10.

1961 - Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to television as the "vast wasteland"

1992 - The Golden Girls aired their series finale.

1992 Salem Village Witchcraft Victims' Memorial dedicated in Danvers (formally Salem Village) to mark 300 year anniversary of trials

1997 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam

2005 Liberal commentary website The Huffington Post is launched

2012 United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage

2016 Boris Johnson resigns as Mayor of London, succeeded by Sadiq Khan

2017 US President Donald Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey

2017 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)

2018 India's Supreme Court criticises the country’s archaeological conservation body for failing to protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime

2018 Iranians and their president Hassan Rouhani react angrily to President Trump pulling the US out the Iran Nuclear deal

2019 Pope Francis introduces new rules on reporting sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, criticized for not going far enough

2019 Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents published

Birthdays Today

@82-Actor Albert Finney (d. 2019)

80-Director James L Brooks

71-Singer Billy Joel

59-Actor, Singer John Corbett

41-Singer, actor Rosario Dawson

29-Actor Mitchel Musso

Puzzle Answer:

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow