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Jun 16, 2020 Week: 25 Day: 168
86004: H 81° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 10mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 206mi.; Nearest active
fire: 104mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1940]
Record Low: 24°[1907]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"It is during our darkest moments
that we must focus to see the light."
-Aristotle
Random
Tidbits
Israel Isidore Baline was born May 11, 1888 in Mohilev, Russia.
In the early 1890s, Berlin's parents moved their family of eight (Israel, who
was 5 at the time, was the youngest of six) from Russia to New York City's
Lower East Side. He went by Izzy in America in an attempt to assimilate, and
when his first composition was printed, it bore the name "I. Berlin."
He had no formal musical training.
Despite Berlin's incredible songwriting success, he was neither
classically trained nor educated in music theory. He only knew how to play the
piano in F sharp, so in order to write songs that didn't all sound the same, he
bought transposing keyboards. These special keyboards changed the key, allowing
him to play the same notes but produce different sounds. Berlin also paid music
secretaries who notated and transcribed his music.
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
Question: Why is ‘dark’
spelled with the letter K?
Because you can’t -c-
(see) in the dark!
I accused my wife of adding dirt to the
garden.
She denied it.
The plot thickens...
Observations
This Week
National Hermit Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 14-20 Link Link
Greencare For Troops Week: 14-20
National
Little League Week: 14-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Play Catch Week: 14-20
National Pet Wedding Week:14-20 Link
National
Right of Way Professionals Week: 14-20 Link
National Flag Week: 14-20
National
Waste & Recycling Workers Week: 14-20 Link
Bartender
of The Year Week: 15-18 Link
Meet A Mate Week: 15-21
Men's
Health Week: 15-21 Link Link
US Open Golf
Championship: 15-21 (Note: Canceled due
to the COVID19 )
Royal Ascot:
16-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Bloomsday Link
Fudge Day Link
Ladies' Day (Baseball)
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice
weather to start a new week. I was out at Andy’s to water plants before the
wind starts. Nice. I’ve got a check up on my blood and a cavity to be filled
this week. Life during Covid19. And AZ surpasses 1000 new cases a day.
Read
this on the internet machine: If pants really caught on fire, the political news
would be much more interesting.
Many
saw the photo of the Black man carrying an injured white protester out of the
crowd in London. I heard the rest of the story this morning: The Black guy and
a few friends were at the protest for Black Lives Manner. The older white guy
was demonstrating against the BLM demonstrators. When he fell, other protesters were trampling him. The guy broke through the crowd, scooped up the injured guy
and carried him to nearby police. He, nor his friends, know who the injured
guy is. Being British he added: I wish
American police could be more like we British.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
A traveler comes to a fork in the road which leads to two
different villages. In one village the people always tell lies, and in the
other village the people always tell the truth. The traveler needs to meet
someone in the village where everyone tells the truth.
A man from one of the villages is standing in the middle of the
fork, but there is no indication of which village he is from. The traveler
approaches the man and asks him one question. From the villager’s answer, he
knows which road to follow. What did the traveler ask?
Historical
Events
1816 - Lord Byron read
'Fantasmagoriana' to his four house guests - Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley,
Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspired his challenge that each guest
write a ghost story.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln gave
his "a house divided against itself cannot stand" speech.
1884 - The first public roller
coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway" (patent
#310,966) opened in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
1893 - Cracker Jack, invented by R.W. Rueckheim, was introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's World Fair.
1903 - The Pepsi-Cola Co.
registered the Pepsi-Cola trademark.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company
was incorporated by Henry Ford and 11 investors.
1904 - Bloomsday is a
commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during
which the events of his novel, Ulysses, takes place.
1911 - IBM as founded as the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1961 - Dancer Rudolf Nureyev
defected to the US from the Soviet Union.
1963 - Cosmonaut Valentina
Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space on Vostok 6.
1967 - The Monterey Pop
Festival began.
2010 - Hot in Cleveland premiered
on TV Land.
2017 US President Donald Trump
reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by
President Obama
2019 Sara Netanyahu, wife of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits to misuse of state funds in
court
2019 India imposes retaliatory
tariffs on 28 US goods
Birthdays
Today
@82-Actor Barbara Stynwyck [Ruby
Catherine Stevens] (d. 1990)
@74-Comedian Stan Laurel (d. 1965; heart attack)
@74-Actor Jack Albertson (d. 1981; colon cancer)
50-Golpher Phil Mickelson
@25-Rapper/Actor Tupac Shakur
(d. 1996; shot)
Puzzle
Answer
The traveler asked, “Which
road goes to your village?”. He could then take the road the villager pointed
to because a truthful person would point toward the truthful village, and the
liar would also point to the truthful village since he is a liar and would not
point to his own village.
