May 17

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May 17, 2020 Week: 21 Day: 138

86004: H 78° \ L 43° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind: mph\Gusts: mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 665mi.; Nearest active fire: 306mi.

High Risk of Fire

Record High: 82°[2009] Record Low: 28°[1943]

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

Today’s Quote

"The future belongs to those

who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

Before they were famous

Before he was the lead singer of the Police, Gordon Sumner was a teacher in England

Before he was Rocky, Sylvester Stallone worked as a gym teacher in Switzerland.

Mr. T also once worked as a teacher. He was a gym instructor in Chicago

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

It happened on Zoom teleconferences

"I didn't have the heart to tell my boss that the entire team could see his bong sitting on the mantle."

“I had a goal to learn to play the guitar. On a particularly boring conference call, I pulled out the guitar and started strumming away. Of course, I thought I was muted but I wasn't. As I paused to figure out my next finger placement, I heard my boss say, ‘Whoever is playing the guitar, will you please stop?’”

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

National Public Gardens Week: 8-17  Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Return To Work Week:  10-17
Reading is Fun Week:  10-17 Link  Salvation Army Week: 10-17 
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17 
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19  Link
PGA Championship: 14-17 Moved to August due to COVID-19  Link
National Foul Ball Week: 16-21
National Safe Boating Week: 16-22 
EMS (Emergency Medical Services)Week: 17-23  Link
International Heritage Breeds Week: 17-23 Link  
National Eosinophil Awareness Week: 17-23  Link  
National Medical Transcription Week: 17-23  Link
International New Friends,Old Friends Week:17-23
National Unicycle Week: 17-23
World Trade Week: 17-23 

Observations for Today

International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia  Link
National Cherry Cobbler Day

Pack Rat Day

Ride A Unicycle Day ;Rural Life SundayTake Your Parents To The Playground Day Link
Rogation Sunday
Same Sex Marriage Day
World Hypertension Day  Link
World Telecommunications & Information Society Day  Link
World Neurofibromatosis Day (NF Day)  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Weather is great...long walk in the forest made it better.

For most of his career my dad was an accountant at Armour & Company...a meat producer in Denver back in the day. Down around 48^th & Washington were Armour, Swift, and Cudahy. They are now a distant memory as they were bought out to even larger packers. So here we are today in America. Most of the meat packers, producers are huge foreign owned businesses. The meat processing plants are humongous compared to the ones in my dad's day. The producers (of cattle, pigs, and chickens) have plenty of animals to feed our country. The supply chain problem is at the processors. Many are closed as COVID19 has decimated their employees. To prevent this in the future, it is time to use the Anti-trust laws to break up these foreign businesses. A system of smaller processors around the country will help solve the problemd. The same is true for wheat, soy beans, corn and other items.

I have a former student who works as an anthropologist at the Grand Canyon. He just recently got a full-time job, but has worked there as a temporary employee for almost a decade on and off. He lives in a trailer at the South Rim. If he leaves the park, he has to stay in his trailer for 14 days quarantine. Now the Grand Canyon is beginning to reopen at the South Rim. All the Canyon workers are very concerned. So is the Navajo Nation as Many tourists get to the South Rim by going through Cameron...on the reservation. Every weekend the Navajo Nation is on lock-down, and President Nez has said that now all businesses on the Rez will also be closed on weekends from 6p Friday until 5a on Monday. Such a mess.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Here is a clue with numerals and letters; you have to figure out what the letters stand for.

Ex. 360 D in a C = 360 degrees in a circle

1. 101 D

2. 206 B in the HB

3. 88 K on a P

4. 30 C on the D

5. 118 E in the PT

Historical Events

1536 - The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's marriage.

1792 - The New York Stock Exchange was formed.

1875 - Aristides won the first Kentucky Derby.

1890 - Comic Cuts, the first British weekly comic paper, was published in London by Alfred Northcliffe.

1954 - The US Supreme Court handed down an unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities was unconstitutional.

1955 - Nathan Kline, appeared before the U.S. Congress to explain his work with Reserpine, an early antihypertensive/ antipsychotic psychopharmacology drug.

1965 - Written in 1955, the FBI Laboratory, after a formal investigation that began in 1964, declared the lyrics of Louie Louie to be officially 'Unintelligible at any speed.'

1970 - Thor Heyerdahl and a multinational crew set out from Morocco across the Atlantic Ocean in Ra II in 57 days.

2004 - The first legal same-sex marriages in the US were performed in the state of Massachusetts.

2015 Gun fight between rival biker gangs and police in Waco, Texas leaves 9 dead and 18 injured. 170 later arrested for organized crime.

2018 Gina Haspel confirmed as the first female director of the CIA by the US Senate

2018 Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo spreads to the city of Mbandaka

Birthdays Today

@87-Actor Maureen O'Sullivan (d. 1998)

@74-Actor Dennis Hopper (d. 2010; cancer)

64-Actor Bob Saget

@61-Actor Bill Paxton (d. 2016; stroke)

59-Singer Enya

49-Athlete Mia Hamm

35-Dancer Derrick Hough

30-Actor Ross Butler

Puzzle Answer:

1. 101 Dalmatians

2. 206 bones in the human body

3. 88 keys on a piano

4. 30 companies on the Dow

5. 118 elements in the periodic table