Jul 30

 

Jul  30, 2021 Week: 31 Day: 211

Ave. Sky Cover: 40% \Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   81°\ 58° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 10mph

Low risk of fire Active fire: 38mi. \ Lightning: 4mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	23-8/8
RAGBRAI: Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa Women in Baseball Week	25-31
Great Texas Mosquitos Days Quilt Odyssey Week World Lumberjack Championships	29-31
Lollapalooza	29-8/1

 

Favorite Memes

Daily Oberservations

 

Father-in-Law Day

International Day of Friendship

National Cheesecake Day

National Intern Day

Paperback Book Day

Share a Hug Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Did some quick shopping this morning and now just awaiting the afternoon rain.

The pandemic has kept people from many things. One new startup is doing great. It’s called ‘swimply’. It works like Airbnb. You can rent a pool at someone’s home by the hour. They carry insurance, furnish the pool and towels along with wifi access. This summer’s heat waves have helped increase reservations in the hottest areas. In some areas their reservations have increased 300% over last year. Nice!

One addition to yesterday’s post about Luis Grijalva, the runner from our local University. He will be running for Guatemala in his 5000m run.

I enjoyed the swimming and synchronized diving last night. Things have changed a lot since I was swimming on a team.

When I saw the headline about the 8.2 earthquake in Alaska, I remembered the great quake in the mid-60’s. Luckily, the tsunami didn’t happen, and major damage was limited.

The Flagstaff mayor just announced that beginning tomorrow at 8a there is a mask requirement for all city facilities, even if fully vaccinated. Here we go again. Sad.

 

Historical Events

 

 762 – Baghdad was founded by Caliph Al-Mansur.

1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States was constituted in Massachusetts.

1866 – New Orleans, Louisiana’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

1935 – The first softcover paperback books were introduced, in Germany.

1956 – A joint resolution of the US Congress was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we Trust as the US national motto.

1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, officially opened.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He was declared dead on July 30, 1982.

2003 – In Mexico, the last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.

2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions

2020 The US economy posts the largest quarterly fall on record with GDP down 9.5% for the 3 months to June 30

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Henry W. Bloch, co-founded H&R Block (d. 2019)

@85 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player, manager (d. 1975)

@83 – Henry Ford, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)

82 – Peter Bogdanovich, American actor and director

80 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter

74 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California

65 – Delta Burke, American actress

65 – Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic

58 – Lisa Kudrow, American actress

57 – Vivica A. Fox, American actress

53 – Terry Crews, American football player and actor

51 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, screenwriter

50 – Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor

47 – Hilary Swank, American actress