Aug 13

 

Aug 13, 2021 Week: 33 Day: 225
Ave. Sky Cover:  40%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   82°\ 55° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 9mph
Low risk of fire Active fire: 362mi. \ Lightning: 84mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20
Sturgis Rally: Link	6-15
National Motorcycle Week Link  Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  Link   National Resurrect Romance Week Weird Contest Week	8-14
Safe and Sound Week Link US Amateur Golf Week	9-15
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money)	10-14
Elvis Week Link	11-17
National Hobo Week Link	12-15

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Filet Mignon Day Left-Handers Day Prosecco Day

  

Favorite Memes

 

  

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I woke up to a nice gentle monsoon rain this morning. Still looks like more is coming my way. Yeah!

NPR is reporting that a former college instruction/professor has been arrested for starting numerous fires in CA. That is insane.

The Navajo Nation returned to ‘Orange’ status due to the recent increase in Covid cases. This is not a good sign for anyone.

I’ve been a Jeopardy! fan since childhood. Last season I began DVRing the nightly episodes as I was missing too many and can now watch them without long commercial breaks. I have enjoyed the rotation of the hosts. I am pleased with the two newly named permanent hosts. One little quirk I have: many of the rotating hosts say, ‘Welcome back to Double Jeopardy…it should be something like ‘welcome back, it’s time for Double Jeopardy!’ How can the audience be welcomed back to something that hasn’t even started yet?

All Republican Arizona Legislators have signed a letter to Gov. Ducey, also a Republican, to stop all Federal and state funding to any school district that mandates either masks or vaccinations. That is so crazy...protecting youth should be our #1 concern. Our local University, NAU, also just mandated masks in all classrooms and labs.

Covid has changed everyone’s life in the US. Today I got a phone call from our local hospital that the reason they are no longer doing phlebotomies at the outpatient clinic is due to Covid.  I was talking to a young bureaucrat. She was sorry for the change, but said it was in the best interest of the organization. I get that there are staff shortages. She said it takes up too much time for the nurses. She said the Prescott Valley clinic was happy to accommodate me…making it sound like they had some kind of conversation about the number of patients, the time and staffing involved at their clinic, etc.  The clinic is a good 90 miles away. When I called to see what they needed, the director of the infusion clinic said I was the 2^nd caller today and she wondered why the Flag hospital was no longer doing any therapeutic phlebotomies.  I guess they never called your organization. She said, they didn’t talk to me. I’m sending records to them, so I am registered when I need my next one. Hope this works.

Historical Events

 

3114 BC According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Mayan calendar

1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire

1732 Voltaire's tragic play "Zaire" premieres in Paris

1886 John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia

1920 Flag designed by Marcus Garvey consisting of three horizontal stripes of red, black and green is adopted as the pan-African flag

1950 US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bảo Đại

2015 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion

2015 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001

2020 New details about enormous "Terror Crocodile" (Deinosuchus), the size of a bus, with teeth as big as bananas, that lived during late Cretaceous period (75-84 million years ago) in North America published

 

Birthdays Today

 

@90 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, 15th President (d. 2016)

@80 – Alfred Hitchcock, director,cameo performer (d. 1980)

@76 – Don Ho, singer and ukulele player (d. 2007; heart disease)

@72 – Bert Lahr, American actor (dd.1967; pneunomia)

@66 – Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Mosey], American target shooter (d. 1926; anemia)

62 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor, and DJ

57 – Debi Mazar, American actress

@56 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented a television (d.1946; stroke)

@56 – Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter (d. 2007; prostate cancer)

39 – Sarah Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant