Nov 29

 

‘Tis the Season

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Nov 29, 2020  Week: 49 Day: 334	Local:  H 50°\ L 19°\Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  10mph	Nearest lightning:  1620mi.; active fire:  59mi
Moderate Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 68°[1949]   Record: -8°[1905]	Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life,

trying to stay that way.

I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day.

It keeps everything in perspective.

Tim Tebow

 

Random Tidbits

 Although George Washington was the first to create a national day of thanksgiving, it didn't become a national holiday (with a set date) until Lincoln officially made it the last Thursday of November. For the interim 74 years, each state scheduled its own Thanksgiving at different times. The original document that proclaimed the exact date of Thanksgiving was written by Secretary of State William Seward in 1863, and then sold a year later to benefit Union troops.

 

A little humor

When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.

 

True Things

 A New York state police officer said he pulled a car over for speeding in a carpool lane and discovered the passenger was a wooden dummy in a hooded sweatshirt. Suffolk County Highway Patrol Officer Jonathan Abrams said he spotted a car speeding in the high-occupancy vehicle lane on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hill about 6:30 a.m. Friday. Abrams pulled over James Campbell, 56, and quickly "realized that the front seat passenger wasn't human," the officer told WABC-TV. "I was trying not to laugh at the guy because I thought it was quite silly," Abrams told WNBC-TV. Abrams said Campbell told him he was using the dummy so he could take the HOV lane and be on time for his new job. Campbell said he has been using the dummy to travel in HOV lanes "for months." He said being cited for speeding and an occupancy violation has not changed his habits -- Campbell said he used the dummy to drive in the HOV lane on his way home Friday.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link	Church/State Separation Week: 22-28   GERD Awareness Week: 22-28  Link
Nat’l Bible Week: 22-29  Nat’l Family Week: 22-28	Nat’l Game & Puzzle Week: 22-28
American Sand Sculpting Competition: 19-28/Link  Cancelled in 2020.	Better Conversation Week: 23-28

 

Observations for Today

Advent Begins

Computer Security Day

Electronic Greetings Day

Internat’l Day of Solidarity with The Palestinian People

Nat’l Chocolates Day
Nat’al Lemon Creme Pie Day
National Rice Cake Day

Square Dance Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Chilly night, only warming up to a balmy 50.

Christmas in Mexico is getting more iffy…CDC says not to travel. Not worried until it gets closer. Limited time in one airport. My Kn95 masks for traveling should arrive on Monday.

Times have certainly changed. Remember the Energy crisis? The President announced that the national speed limit would be 55. Citizens, including me, were not happy with it. It added an extra 30 minutes each way from the Rez to Flagstaff. I remember being glad I had cruise control and a radar detector in my vehicle. I don’t remember any protests in the streets. The government assured that while getting gas was a pain, we had gas, we had electricity and we could heat our homes. Today the government recommends that everyone wear a mask and keep 6’ distance and people go crazy. A sad state of affairs for sure.

Back in March, the medical staff of our country were begging for PPE masks, gowns, gloves. That was in the news for a couple of weeks. Now, as we are deep into the 2^nd wave, again, no PPE’s for medical staff. Why are we not prepared for this wave? We have been hearing it was coming since July. Did the administration fail to do what was necessary to have the PPE needed? Why didn’t the PPE manufactures prepare for the 2^nd wave. Did some executives decide it would too costly, if the 2^nd wave never arrived? I am more than disappointed that we are not prepared.

Andy and Faith will be getting back Sunday evening. Andy says it was a very good visit. One of my neighbors texted that he is returning Sunday or Monday. He lost his father to a heart attack a couple of weeks ago and has been on the Rez ever since.   

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why?

 

Historical Events

533 (Earthquake) Aleppo (now Syria) – 130,000 people estimated killed.

1681 – The Royal College of Physicians, in Edinburgh, Scotland, was granted its charter by King Charles II.

1825 – First Italian opera in the US, Barber of Seville premiered (in New York City, at the Park Theatre)

1910 – The US patent (#976,939) for inventing the traffic lights system was issued to Ernest Sirrine. Similar patents were granted to others later.

1932 – The patent (#1,889,729) was issued for the first card game table with an automatic dealing device, to Laurens Hammond of Chicago, Ill. He later invented the Hammond organ.

1933 – First state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania). It may be true that the state of Pennsylvania is the largest buyer of wine and spirits in the world.

1935 – Physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment ‘Schrödinger’s cat’, a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Once the cat is in the box, do you know if it really alive, or dead?

1947 – The United Nations voted in favor of separating Palestine and allowed for the creation of an Independent Jewish State – Israel.

1951 – The first U.S. underground atom bomb test, designated “Uncle”, was detonated. The low-yield 1.2 kiloton bomb was buried 17-ft sub-surface at Frenchman Flat, a 123-square-mile (320-sq.km.) dry lake bed at the Nevada Test Site (NTS).

1959 – The Grammy Awards were first televised on NBC.

1961 – Mercury-Atlas 5 was launched with Enos (a chimpanzee) on board. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles south of Bermuda. The flight lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes. Enos survived and later died on November 4, 1962.

1972 – Atari presented Pong, as an arcade game. By 1974 there was a home version.

2004 – Godzilla got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2011 – Dr. Conrad Murray received a four-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter, in Michael Jackson’s death.

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

2019 Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus' manger returned to Bethlehem after 1400 years by Pope Francis

 

Birthdays Today

93 – Vin Scully, American sportscaster

85 – Diane Ladd, American actress

80 – Chuck Mangione, American horn player, and composer

74 – Suzy Chaffee, American skier

@66 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016; blood disease)

65 – Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian, actor, and TV host

@64 – C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, British novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1963)

56 – Don Cheadle, American actor, and producer

@55 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, and poet (d. 1888; stroke)

@49 – Christian Doppler, Austrian mathematician, and physicist: doppler Effect, (d. 1853; heart disease)

@43 – Chadwick Boseman, actor (d. 2020; )

 

Puzzle Answer

All the people were married

Enjoy the Holiday