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Jun 25, 2020
Week: 26 Day: 177
86004: H 90° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind: 9mph\Gusts:
15mph Visibility: 10mi
Nearest
lightning: 190mi.; Nearest active
fire: 91mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1972]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Life is never fair,
and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not."
-Oscar Wilde
Random
Tidbits
While bananas are known for being rich in
potassium, avocados have even more. A single avocado has 975 milligrams, while
a banana only has 487 milligrams.
Approximately
75% of an avocado's energy comes from fat.
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
"I
wish I were dumber so I could be more certain about my opinions. It looks
fun.”– Scott Adams
N E W--Remember these movie quotes?
25 "Show me the
money!"from Jerry Maguire 1996 Spoken by Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Observations
This Week
National Nursing
Assistants Week: 18-25 Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 21-27
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 21-27 Link
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 21-27 Link
Nat'l Craft Spirits
Week: 21-27 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National
Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 21-27 Link
Universal
Father's Week: 21-27
Windjammer
Days: 21-27 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Insect Week: 22-28
National Pollinator Week: 22-28 Link
Old Time
Fiddlers Week: 22-27 (3rd Week) Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
American
Library Week: 25-30
Watermelon
Thump Seed Spitting Week: 25-28 Link Cancelled COVID-19
Observations
for Today
Chinese
Dragon Boat Festival
Color TV Day (CBS)
Day of The Seafarer Link
Global Beatles Day Link
Global Smurfs Day Link
Leon Day Link
Log Cabin
Day
National
Bomb Pop Day Link
National Catfish Day
National
Hand Shake Day
National
Catfish Day Link
National Strawberry Parfait Day
Please Take my Children to Work Day
School Prayer Banned Anniversary
Victory Day (Battle
of Little Big Horn)
My
Rambling Thoughts
By
ten this morning it was already 89. It’s going to be very hot. I did a couple
of loads of laundry much earlier.
I
had good conversations with both Mary and Cheryl this week. We are all doing
well and are tired of this virus and all the precautions. None of us are ready
for a restaurant lunch but may do a delivered lunch on Mary’s back patio in the
not to distant future. AZ us still reporting high cases and we want to remain
safe.
The
EU is considering a ban on travel from the US due to our bad numbers. That is
not happy news for the travelers who are already suffering from cabin fever.
Watch that closely.
From
what I understand the Appeals Court has stopped the prosecution of Flynn for
his lying to the FBI. Hmmm
I
use Imodium every so often. I went to the drug store and tried to buy a bottle.
Turns out they are only available in blister packs. I thought it must be a
Covid shortage, but I checked with the pharmacist. Turns out it is the Opioid
Crisis. Those who are addicted use large doses when they can’t get the opioid of
choice, so the FDA ruled that Imodium has to be sold in individual blister
packs. The other way to get a bottle is with a script from a doctor for the
generic version. So it’s blister packs until I can call the doctor.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
Mark went to a
restaurant for dinner last night. When
he received his check, he paid with a hundred dollar bill.
When the waiter
returned his change, Mark received one of every denomination of common currency
under one hundred dollars.
What was the total
cost of Mark’s meal?
Historical
Events
1867 -
Barbed wire was patented (#66,182) by Lucien B. Smith of Kent, Ohio.
1876 -
Native American forces, led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, defeated
the US Army troops lead by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a
battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
1910 - The US Congress passed the Mann Act,
which prohibited interstate transport of females for "immoral
purposes."
1910 -
Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird premiered in Paris
1947
- The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of
Anne Frank) was published.
1949 - The cartoon classic, Long-Haired
Hare starring Bugs Bunny, was released in theaters.
1967 -
The special Our World was the first live worldwide "via
satellite" TV broadcast, transmitting to 30 countries via the BBC. The
Beatles closed the show ith All You Need Is Love. Performers include Mick
Jagger, opera singer Maria Callas, Vienna Boys' Choir, Keith Richards, Keith
Moon, Eric Clapton, Pattie Harrison, Jane Asher, Graham Nash, and others. The
show lasted 2 and a half hours.
1978 -
The rainbow flag, representing gay pride, was flown for the first time in the
San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
1996 -
The Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia killed 19 US servicemen.
1998 -
Microsoft Windows 98 was released.
2009 -
Michael Jackson died after suffering from cardiac arrest caused by a fatal
combination of drugs given to him by his personal doctor, Conrad Murray.
2015 Obamacare subsidies in The Affordable
Care Act preserved by US Supreme Court Ruling in King v Burwell 6-3
2018 Californian Governor Jerry Brown
declares State of Emergency for wildfire spread over 8,200 acres in Lake County
2018
Motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson announces it plans to move some production
abroad in response to EU retaliatory tariffs
Birthdays
Today
@77-Cartoonist-Alex Toth (d. 2006;
heart attack)[Fantastic Four and others]
@61- Chef Anthony Bourdain (d.2018; suicide)
59-Comedian Ricky Gervais
@53-Singer George Michael [ Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou] (d. 2016; heart problems)
@46-Novelist George
Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (d. 1950; burst artery)
Puzzle
Answer
$13.59, the waiter
returned to him a $50 bill, a $20 bill, a $10 bill, a $5 bill, a $1 bill, a
quarter, a dime, a nickel, and a cent.
