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Aug 10, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 223
86004:
H 85° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind:
11mph\Gusts: 0mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 252mi.; Nearest active fire: 59mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 89°[2002]
Record Low: 40°[2009]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Things work out best for those who
make the best of how things work out."
-John Wooden
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Random
Tidbits
After returning to Earth, many astronauts have a
difficult time adjusting to gravity and often forget that things fall if you
drop them.
NASA officials have
maintained that astronauts have never had sex on the International Space
Station or during any space shuttle missions. Scientists speculate, however,
that while sex in space might pose some mechanical problems, conceiving a child
could be dangerous. Low gravity could raise the risk of an ectopic pregnancy,
and radiation could raise the risk of birth defects.
While no NASA astronauts
have had sex in space, in 1999 porn stars Silvia Saint and Nick Lang did a
20-second zero-gravity intercourse scene for the film The Uranus Experiment:
Part Two.
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A little
humor
How do you know you’re
in the presence of a real Coloradan?
He carries his $3,000
mountain bike atop his $500 car.
My parents didn’t want
to move to Florida,
but they turned 60 and
that’s the law.
- Jerry Seinfeld
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State Name
Origins
Credit the Spanish conquistadors for naming California.
The name of the nation's largest state comes from the Califia, a legendary
queen of the island paradise described in a Spanish romance novel from the
early 16th century.
Another state whose name owes it origins to
the Spanish is Colorado. The state's name means "colored red"
or "color rojo" in Spanish. It was used for the Colorado River
because of the abundance of red sandstone soil in the region.
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Observations
This Week
Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance
Dog Week: 9-15 Link Link
Perseid Meteor Showers: 9-13
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 Link Link
National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16
Weird Contest Week: 9-16
Safe and Sound Week: 10-16 Link
US
Amateur Golf Week: 10-16
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Observations
for Today
Assistance Dog
Day Link Link
Lazy Day
National Duran Duran
Appreciation Day
National Shapewear Day Link
Paul Bunyan Day Link Link
Skyscraper Appreciation Day Link
Smithsonian Day
World Lion Day
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice Sunday. Got my walk in before the wind started.
While moving my first load of wash to the dryer…some 2 feet away…I
was wondering if there was an easier way. Then I remembered my mom doing laundry.
In my incredibly young days, she had a wringer washer downstairs in our
partially finished basement. After wringing out the clothes, she would carry
them up the stairs, out to the clothesline, hang them to dry. Then when dry, she
would carry them back downstairs to get ironed. Then back upstairs to put in
the proper place. She always ironed the sheets and our jeans. I guess I am
doing it the easiest way possible.
I’ve talked about the Navajo Nation curfew over the weekends. I knew
that most Navajo gov’t offices were closed all the time, with many workers
doing their work on the internet. Yesterday I learned that water hauling is now
a problem. Both livestock water windmills and chapter house drinking water
stations are usually closed. If a windmill malfunctions, it takes days to get
someone to fix it. Since the Chapter House is closed, that means only outside
drinking water stations [about 20% of the total stations] are opened. If they
malfunction, there is really no one to report it to.
Pay close attention to the government workings. The Post Office,
Social Security, and Medicare are all in the crosshairs. Trump’s latest EO says
it will cut payroll taxes, that is doublespeak for no new money into Social Security
or Medicare until the cut expires. By slowing down mail delivery, cutting Overtime
to zero, mail in ballots will be in jeopardy. Making America Great Again.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
We
can hurt without moving.
We
can poison without touching.
We
can bear the truth and lies.
We
are not to be judged by our size.
What
are we?
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Historical
Events
610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when
Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an
1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight
Madagascar
1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone
of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London
1793 Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central
des Arts
1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state
1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian
Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex
1921 FDR stricken with a paralytic illness at summer home on
Canadian island of Campobello. At the time it was thought to be polio, but
could possibly have been Guillain–Barré syndrome
1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots
1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St.
Lawrence Seaway is held.
1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of
a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice
2001 US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi
Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund
infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity
2017 US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a
national emergency
2019 Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide
in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges
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Birthdays
Today
@90 - Herbert
Hoover, 31st US President (d. 1964)
@81 – Jimmy Dean,
singer, sausage maker
@75 - Henri
Nestlé, German-Swiss industrialist (founder of Nestlé), (d. 1890)
60 – Antonio Banderas,
Actor30 – Lucas Till, actor
30 – Lucas Till,
TV actor
23- Kylie Jenner,
reality show
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Puzzle
Answer
Words
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