Jun 10

 

 

 

Jun 10, 2021   Week: 24    Day: 161

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 60%

Local: H 81°\ L 46°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  17mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 535mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Samuel Smiles

 

Random Tidbits

 

The next advance in steam engine technology involved the realization that steam itself, rather than the condensing of steam to create a vacuum, could power an engine. In 1804, American inventor Oliver Evans (1755-1819) designed the first high-pressure, non-condensing engine.

Steam was successfully adapted to power boats in 1802 and railways in 1829. Later, some of the first automobiles were powered by steam.

 

Humor

 

An elderly Mormon visits his doctor and asks if he’ll live to be a hundred.

“Do you smoke or drink?” asks the doctor.

“Those things have never and will never touch my lips,” says the man.

“Do you gamble, drive fast cars, and fool around with women?”

“Nope, don’t believe in doing any of that, either.”

“Well then,” says the doctor, “what do you want to live to be a hundred for?”

 

Real Cities

 

Chugwater, Wyoming is a town in Platte County, Wyoming. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 212.

Some historians hold that the name "Chugwater" is derived from a Mandan account of a bison hunt. According to this narrative, a chief was disabled during the hunt and his son took charge of the hunt or "buffalo jump". Under his direction, hunters drove the bison over nearby cliffs; when the animals reached the ground below, a sound of "chugging" was heard by the hunters. The story concludes with an etymology: since a stream was near the base of the cliffs, the site of the stampede has been called "the place" or "water at the place where the buffalo chug."

 

True Things

 

Creepy!

Samantha Hartsoe noticed a draft in her New York City apartment and traced it to the mirror in her bathroom, the New York Post reported on March 4. With the help of friends, Hartsoe removed the mirror and found a hole in the wall behind it leading to ... another apartment. As she documented her adventure on TikTok, Hartsoe climbed through the hole into a hallway leading to a room at the end and "a whole other apartment" with three bedrooms, a disconnected toilet, a staircase and an unlocked door (which she promptly locked). Hartsoe returned to her own apartment, showered and vowed her landlord would get an unusual call the next day. [New York Post, 3/4/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Clothesline Week	5-12
National Lemonade Days Link	5-13
Bedbug Awareness Week Link Black Single Parents Week End Mountain Top Removal Week Link    National Automotive Service Professionals Week National Business Etiquette Week  National Headache Awareness Week Link   Pet Appreciation Week Link	6-12
Duct Tape Days: Cancelled	10-12

 

Today’s Observations

 

Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) Day Ball Point Pen Day 1943 Black Cow Day Herb and Spices Day Iced Tea Day National Egg Roll Day Link Race Unity Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It is a cloudy and nice day with no precipitation.  The fire outside Flagstaff has grown to 2000 acres and Highway 180 is closed ‘for the foreseeable future’. My parents were married on June 10, 1939 and had a 55-year marriage until my father passed. So many great memories. The FBI has been busy in a world-wide sting that collected 32 tons of drugs, 250 firearms, 50 luxury vehicles and $14.8million in raids in various countries. The FBI handled the US action with Interpol and others worked in other countries. Biden’s trip, along with Harris’ trip is showing the world that America has returned to the global scene. It is the time for tax reform. After seeing the results of a recent study, the richest Americans are paying extraordinarily little, if any, income tax. What they are doing is perfectly legal. The Congress over the decades of Income Tax have given so many loopholes available to the rich. I certainly used some loopholes when I was working…educators could deduct newspapers and news magazines as a business expense, I could deduct my government rent because it was required housing, I could deduct my oil/gas investments for several years due to the Energy Crisis. I thought it was weird, but I did it. While I was working, I paid in a much higher tax bracket because I was single and had no dependents, so I took the weird loopholes. Not everyone can pay a good tax person to find these loopholes or have the money to invest to get the deductions. The IRS laws need to be reviewed, get rid of the loopholes that allow multi-billionaires to pay less tax than the secretary who answers their phone calls. I bought into the idea that educators aren’t paid much so they should have special deductions and that the gas/oil investment helped the country move to lower dependency on foreign countries, so my country helped me. Everyone should pay a fair tax…no more, no less.

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?

 

Historical Events

 

1692 – Bridget Bishop was hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certain Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries.”

1752 Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment

1809 – The first steamboat to navigate the open seas, the Phoenix paddlewheel steamboat took 13 days to sail from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1845 Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" is removed from his funeral for swearing at The Hermitage, Tennessee. Funeral attendee William Menefee Norment recorded: "Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house”

1854 – The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduated.

1902 – The US patent (#701,839) for a window envelope was issued to Americus F. Callahan of Chicago, Ill., which he called the outlook envelope.

1916 – An Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire led by Lawrence of Arabia began.

1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Dr. Robert Smith and Bill Wilson.

1943 – Laszlo Biro filed for a British patent (British #564172) on a practical ballpoint pen with quick-drying ink.

1944 – 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds became the youngest player ever in a Major League Baseball game.

1947 – Saab produced its first automobile.

1991 – 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she was freed in 2009.

1994 – Pay television content descriptors which describe the varying degrees of suggestive or explicit content in a series and movies began being broadcast by pay channels such as HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime.

2003 – The Spirit rover was launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.

2007 – HBO’s critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning Mob-family drama The Sopranos ended with a sudden cut to black and silence, leaving many fans to wonder whether Tony Soprano was dead or still alive.

2020 Statues of Confederate figures and explorers become focus of #BlackLivesMatter protests, with many removed including of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and of Christopher Columbus in Richmond

 

Birthdays Today

 

@99 – Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 2021)

88 – F. Lee Bailey, lawyer

@59 – Hattie McDaniel, Oscar winning actress (d. 1952; breast cancer)

56 – Elizabeth Hurley, English model, and character actress

@47 – Judy Garland, American singer, actress (d. 1969; OD)

29 – Kate Upton, American model

 

Puzzle Answer

 

A barber