Oct 6

 

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Oct 6, 2020  Week: 41 Day: 280	Local: H 79° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   1mph\Gusts:  4mph	Nearest lightning:  1716mi.; active fire:  59mi
EXTREME Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 81°[1987]   Record: 18°[1912]	Sep Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,

there is one factor that can make the difference

between damaging your relationship and deepening it.

That factor is attitude.

William James

 

Random Tidbits

 While marriage rates in the United States are down right now, and have been declining for a while, it is still an incredibly popular institution with about 31 marriages for every 1,000 unmarried women.

In the United States, over 50 percent of first marriages end in divorce, 67 percent of second marriages end in divorce, and nearly 74 percent of third marriages end in divorce.

 

A little humor

Why did the king go to the dentist?

To get his teeth crowned!

 

True Things

 Victor Frankenstein’s Creature is actually vegetarian. Frankenstein and Creature are fictional characters created by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, Creature says, “My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.”

 

Observations This Month

National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month	Spinach Lovers Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month	Squirrel Awareness Month Link
Photographer Appreciation Month	Talk About Medicines Month
Pizza Month Link  Link	Teen Services Month
Polish American Heritage Month	Vegetarian Month
Positive Attitude Month	Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Raptor Month	Women Walking In Their Own Shoes Month
Raynauds Awareness Month  Link	Workplace Politics Awareness Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month	World Menopause Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month	Sausage Month Link
Self-Promotion Month

 

Observations This Week

3-11	Albuquerque Internat’l Balloon Fiesta: Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19	4-10	Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
3-10	No Salt Week	4-10	Great Books Week
		4-10	Kids' Goal Setting Week   International Post Card WeekLink    Mental Illness Awareness Week
3-10	Sea Otter Awareness Week:Link	4-10	Mystery Series Week National Carry A Tune Week  Link   National Health Care Food Service Week Link  National Metric Week10
3-10	World Hearing Aid Awareness Week	4-10	National Midwifery Week Link National Work From Home Week
1-5	Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link	4-10	Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week World Space Week Link
1-7	National Walk Your Dog Week: Link   Link Universal Children's Week	5-9	Customer Service Week Link Drive Safely Work Week Link
4-10	4-H Week: Link Cancelled due to COVID-19	5-9	Financial Planning Week National Heimlich Heroes Week
4-10	Fire Prevention Week  Link	5-9	Primary Care Physicians Week
6-12	National Physicians Assistant Week	6-11	World Dairy Expo
4-10	Death Penalty Focus Week	5-11	Spinning & Weaving Week Link

 

Observations for Today

American Libraries Day	National Night Out: 4 Link  Moved from August 4 due to COVID-19
Come and Take it Day	National Noodle Day
Jackie Mayer Rehab Day	National Orange Wine Day  Link
Mad Hatter Day Link	National Plus Size Appreciation Day  Link
National Eat Fruit At Work Day Link	Physician Assistant Day
National German-American Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Starting the week off with another very warm day. Nice to be out and walking.

The infamous CPAP supplier said they don’t have an order I made last week, so new supplies will be in Wed. Just crazy.

This morning I updated the Focus Travel site to reflect the new dates for our Tahiti trip in March. Check it out. Many countries are not as time oriented as the US.  Guess Tahiti is one of those countries.

I’m not sure why, but my cell phone is getting daily calls from the “Social Security” telling me I have suspicious activity on my account. In the last week I have blocked 8 different numbers, and the calls just keep coming. I know it’s a scam because the real Social Security Administration never calls taxpayers.

When I was doing my blood treatments a year ago, I also got a steroid. My experience is that it does have you in a happy state, feeling good…even when you aren’t. At my next visit to the blood doctor, I asked about it, he said you are still healing, but the steroids do make you feel better than you are. Too bad the President’s doctor is not so blunt.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man is trapped in a sealed room with only two doors. One of them leads to a fire-breathing dragon, while the other one leads to a room made up of magnifying glass, anyone who dares to enter it is charred off before they know it. How does he escape?

 

Historical Events

1876 – The American Library Association was founded.

1948 – The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, is broadcast by the DuMont Network.

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters

1981 – Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat was murdered by Khalid Islambouli.

2007 – Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe (pedal power).

2019 Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks

 

Birthdays Today

@87 – Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer, and explorer (died in 2002)

@67 – Jenny Lind, Swedish opera singer, “The Swedish Nightingale”(d.1887)

@67 – George Westinghouse, American businessman (died in 1914)

@57 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress

 

Puzzle Answer

He will wait for nightfall and then step out from the glass room!