Aug 23

 

Aug 23, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 235
Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   75°\ 48° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 15mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 133mi. \ Lightning: 165mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

Minority Enterprise Development Week	18-24
National Little League Week Link	19-29
Brake Safety Week Link	22-28
National Composites Week  Lin`k National Safe at Home Week World Water Week  Link	23-27

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Ride Like the Wind Day Sponge cake Day The Festival of Vulcan (The Vulcanalia, no longer celebrated)

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

Why couldn't the sailor play cards? The captain was standing on the deck

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Dog days continue. Warm, slight breeze, enjoyable.

Broncos beat Seattle last night. I couldn’t watch the game as it wasn’t on any channel I have. But I could follow on the internet machine.

CNN advertised the We Love NYC concert all week. I watched it on and off. When Elton John came on, there had been some light drizzle, but now there was lightning. Elton’s song was stopped. NYC Mayor came out to say “Seek shelter now. We will resume after the storm passes.” Then a few minutes later an unseen announcer said ‘The concert is cancelled.’ CNN must have had no other programming available because Anderson Cooper and his cohost turn it into a New Year’s Eve type program. They joked, cajoled, then started interviewing people and then interviewing performers who were backstage and simply calling in. This lasted the rest of the time allocation of the program. It turned out to be quite entertaining and crazy at the same time.

 

Historical Events

 

79 – Mount Vesuvius the volcano erupted and buried the ancient Roman city of Pompeii under a thick carpet of volcanic ash.

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England

1793 French Revolution: The National Convention adopts the levée en masse, conscripting all able-bodied men between 18 and 25 for military service during the French Revolutionary Wars

1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II

1991 – The World Wide Web was available to the public.

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane

2006 – Pluto was demoted from full planet status to “dwarf planet”.

 

Birthdays Today

90 – Barbara Eden [Barbara Jean Morehead], American actress

@83 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1996)

@76 – Ernie Bushmiller, cartoonist, Nancy comic strip (d. 1982; Parkinson’s)

72 – Shelley Long, American actress

72 – Rick Springfield, Australian-American singer-songwriter, actor

45 – Scott Caan, actor

@41 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020; plane crash) 

@32 – Keith Moon, English drummer, The Who (d. 1978; OD)

@23 – River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993; OD)