Aug 4

 

Aug 4, 2021 Week: 32 Day: 216

Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   83°\ 51° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 6mph

High risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 255mi.

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	7/23-8/8
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
Rock for Life Week: Link	4-7

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Chocolate Chip Cookie Day US Coast Guard Day Single Working Women’s Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

An almost cloudless sky…looks like no monsoon for today. It’s OK, as last year we had 2.61” on rain in July. This year there was 5.66” in July, not the 2013 record of 7.57”

The US was a month late in hitting our 70% vaccinated, but we made it. More need to get vaccinations.

NY Gov. Cuomo seems to be in quite a bit of trouble. Any charges appear to be sexual harassment as there isn’t enough for sexual assault. That makes it civil, not criminal. The question will be who stands beside him and who want impeachment or resignation. When will office workers learn that anything like this is unacceptable. It looks like Fox’s Judge Napolitano is out for comments he made to young males at Fox.

I was never a gymnast, and never enjoyed the gymnastic units in high school gym class. However, I really enjoy watching all the gymnastics. There has been plenty of drama in Tokyo. Great comebacks after defeat, some amazing performances, and some very good performances. Then the last night’s 400M Men’s hurdles…what a finish with a new world’s record. WOW! Our local DACA runner didn’t make the finals in his heat. Still a great story. 

Historical Events

1693 – This date is traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne.

1821 Russian Antarctic expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen returns to Kronshtadt after becoming the 1st to circumnavigate Antarctica

1821 – The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper. It is now published periodically throughout the year.

1919 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor Auguste Rodin

1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda

1977 – The United States Department of Energy was formed.

2020 UN says COVID-19 pandemic has created biggest educational disruption in history affecting nearly 1.6 million students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide 

Birthdays Today

 @101 –Elizabeth, The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)

@92 – Helen Thomas, American journalist, author (d 2013)

77 – Richard Belzer, American actor

@70 – Louis Vuitton, founded Louis Vuitton (d. 1892)

@69 – Louis Armstrong, trumpet player (d. 1971; heart attack)

66 – Billy Bob Thornton, American actor

60 – Barack Obama, American politician, 44th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate

59 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player

53 -- Daniel Dae Kim, S. Korean actor

50 – Jeff Gordon, American race car driver

40 – Meghan Markle, American actress

@29 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, playwright (d. 1822; drowned)

29 – Dylan Sprouse, American actor

29 – Cole Sprouse, American actor