Aug 27

 

Aug 27, 2021 Week: 35 Day: 239
Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   84°\ 53° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 12mph
\High risk of fire Active fire: 133mi. \ Lightning: 109mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Little League Week Link	19-29
Brake Safety Week Link	22-28
National Composites Week  Link National Safe at Home Week World Water Week  Link	23-27
Paralympic Games	24-9/5
Be Kind To Humankind Week	25-31

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Banana Lovers Day The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day Perhaps the most important reason to celebrate this day is to honor Margaret Hungerford, who made great contributions to literature. She captured the essence of modern society at the time, often using the setting of Ireland as the setting for her novels, but also as the backdrop for her stories. To maintain morality appropriate to the time, relying on flirtatious dialogue and tender love scenes, Margaret’s turn-of-the-century romance style was very en vogue, keeping moral values upright and morally contemporary. The Irish author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford was not actually a duchess, but a celebrated novelist of the late 19th century who wrote largely under the assumed name “The Duchess”. Just Because Day Pots du Creme Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

The genie asked, "What’s your first wish?" Steve replied, "I wish I was rich!" The genie nodded and said, "What’s your second wish, Rich? "Rich exclaimed, "I want lots of money!"

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A warm and nice day. I had lunch with Mary. Good food, better conversation. Nice all around.

My day started with an email from Medicare. Turns out my CPAP machine might be recalled. I called my CPAP provider as soon as they opened. He said I needed to call the tollfree number in the email and that he can’t do anything. I called, had a terrible connection, finally just hung up and called again. They registered the machine and said to keep checking the website for updates. They said I shouldn’t use the machine. I called back to the CPAP provider and spoke to the respiratory therapist. Finally got some answers. Phillips, the company who makes the machine, discovered that those people who use the ‘So Clean’ machine to keep the machine clean also causes something inside to deteriorate which leaves black foam particles in the water. That can be inhaled and cause problems for the patient. The problem has happened to 0.02% of users. He said he has been dealing with this for 2 months. He said I have to make my own decisions. There are no new machines available due to ‘manufacturing’ problems. He said to call my physician. I called and left a message regarding the machine. I’m sure I’ll get the same answers. The therapist also said he has been checking the website for 2+ months and no new information has been posted in all that time.

Then I turned on the TV to see the horror in Afghanistan. What a mess and everybody is very busy spinning the story and pointing fingers. That doesn’t help the dead Marines or the dead Afghans.

The new governor of NY has revised the number of  people who died from COVID in the early days…that number jumped by 12,000 the Cuomo administration had not released. Very sad and disturbing.

 

Historical Events

 

1776 – In what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeated Americans under General George Washington in The Revolutionary War’s Battle of Long Island..

1859 – Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.

1883 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1942 Soviet woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko arrives in Washington D.C., the 1st Soviet citizen welcomed at the White House, by Eleanor Roosevelt

1984 US President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project

2000 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.

2003 – The initial six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

2018 UN releases report saying Myanmar military leaders should face genocide and crimes against humanity charges for violence against Rohingya

 

Birthdays Today

 

@78 – Martha Raye, actress, comedian (d.1994; pneumonia)

78 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

74 – Barbara Bach, American actress

69 – Paul Ruebens, Pee Wee Herman, actor

@64 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (d. 1973; heart attack)

52 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

42 – Aaron Paul, American actor

@32 – Charles Rolls, English engineer, and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910; air crash)

29 – Blake Jenner, American actor, singer