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Jun 8, 2020 Week: 24 Day: 160
86004:
H 74° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
10mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 257mi.; Nearest active fire: 115mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 91°[2013]
Record Low: 24°[1950]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma --which is living
with the results of other people's thinking."
-Steve Jobs
Random Tidbits
The Iron Curtain refers
to the border dividing Europe between noncommunist Western Europe and Communist
Eastern Europe. Physically, the Iron Curtain stretched 4,225 miles.
Largely in response to
the Cold War, twelve western nations created the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). If the Soviet Union attacked one country, the others would
defend them.
Have a smile
True conversations while flying
Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff
behind Eastern 702, contact Departure on frequency 124.7… Did you copy that
report from Eastern 702?"
Continental
635: "Continental 635, cleared for
takeoff, roger; and yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our
caterers."
Observations This Week
International Clothesline Week: 6-13
National
Lemonade Days: 6-13 Link August due to COVID-19
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13
Community Health Improvement Week (CHI): 7-13 Link
End Mountain Top Removal Week: 7-13 Link
Nat'l
Automotive Service Professionals Week: 7-13
National Business Etiquette Week: 7-13
National Headache Awareness Week: 7-13 Link
Pet Appreciation Week: 7-13 Link
Observations for Today
Ghostbusters Day Link
Name Your Poison Day
Nat’l Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National
Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
Upsy Daisy Day
World Ocean Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
A
windy Sunday. Expecting 40+mph wind by this afternoon. Took a nice walk before
the wind whipped up. Now staying inside.
I am
a little disappointed in many of the news channels in their coverage last week
about the Insurrection Act. In every story I heard it was pointed out this was act
was from 1809…I looked it up and Thomas Jefferson was President. I did some
digging yesterday and learned that the
same act was used in 1957 (Ike) to integrate Little Rock Schools, several times
during the Civil Rights Movement (JFK, LBJ) and in 1992 during the Rodney King
Riots (Bush). To be honest, the media blew it. They made it sound like this
administration had dug through history and find this Act. That is far from the
truth. I am sad.
I
have an eye appointment tomorrow and a video appointment with another doctor.
Then on Wednesday I get my teeth cleaned. The eye doctor always sends a text
reminder, but didn’t this time so I have to call at 8am to see if my 9am appointment
is a go. I have gotten used to phone reminders when I have an appointment…disappointed
the eye doctor didn’t use.
Microsoft
Help was supposed to call me between 8a and 10a yesterday to fix my Office365
issues. I couldn’t go out, waiting for the call. They hadn’t called by 10:30 so
I called them. It took almost 6 minutes to get to a human. She looked it up and
contacted the Level 2 guy. Waited another 10 minutes for all that. I told him I
was not a happy camper. He worked on it for about 20 more minutes and finally
had it fixed. Microsoft needs to improve its help line. I had to give my case
number 3 different times before I could get help. I sure hope I don’t need to
deal with them again.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
Rich lives in the Eastern Standard Time
Zone. His sister, Barbara, lives in the Central European Time Zone, six hours
ahead of him. Rich works 8a-5p in his local time and goes to sleep each evening
at 10p. Barbara works 9a-6p and goes to sleep at 11:30p in her local time.
Is there any window in which Rich could
call Barbara after his workday without interrupting her on the job or
disturbing her sleep?
Historical Events
632 - Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, died
in Medina.
1637 - René Descartes published Discourse
on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason, and Seeking Truth in the Sciences.
1783
(Volcano Eruption) Laki, Iceland, killed over 10,000 over a period of months,
and caused a 7 year famine.
1789 James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US
House of Representatives
1824 Washing machine patented by Noah
Cushing of Quebec
1869 - Ives W. McGaffney of Chicago
obtained the patent (#91,145) for a "sweeping machine"
1872 - The first US post card was authorized by Act of Congress.
1880 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at
the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow
1905 US President Theodore Roosevelt sends identical notes to Japan and
Russia urging them to negotiate and end hostilities, offering his personal
services
1906 - Theodore Roosevelt signed the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of
certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
1948 - Texaco Star Theater (later The
Milton Berle Show) was first broadcast on NBC
1948 John Rudder becomes 1st Negro
commissioned officer in US marines
1949
Siam changes name to Thailand
1949 - George Orwell's Nineteen
Eighty-Four was published.
1949 -
The FBI reported notable Hollywood elite as communists, including John
Garfield, Paul Robeson, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson.
1953 -
The US Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in Washington DC, could not refuse
to serve black patrons.
1966 - National Football League (NFL) and
American Football League (AFL) announced that they would merge.
1969 -
Founder Brian Jones quit The Rolling Stones. He died a month later, at age 27.
1988 Nippon Airways announces that painting
eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
1990 - Charles Freeman, the owner of E-C
Records store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was charged with illegally selling
the 'legally obscene' 2 Live Crew's 'As Nasty As They Wanna Be' to an
undercover officer.
2017 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that
US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"
2018 World's most powerful supercomputer,
Summit, can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second, launched at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, by IBM and NVidia
Birthdays Today
@92-1st
Lady Barbara Bush (d. 2018)
@ 92-Actor
Jerry Stiller (d. 2020)
@91-Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (d. 1959)
@81-Comedian
Joan Rivers (d. 2014)
80-Singer
Nancy Sinatra
69-Singer Bonnie Tyler
43-Rapper
Kanye West
Puzzle Answer
