Sep 11

 

Sep 11, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 254
Ave. Sky Cover:  %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   81°\ 51° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 7mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 179mi. \ Lightning: 197mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
Play Days	7-11
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Craft Brewers Week Link	9-12
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
Popcorn Days Link	9-11
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance	10-12
Mushroom Days  Link	11-12

 

Daily Observations

 

Hot Cross Bun Day Make Your Bed Day National Day of Service Remembrance/Patriot Dayx

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What country doesn't take cash or credit? The Czech Republic

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another nice day as my recovery continues…All good. Went to Sam’s to pick up some stuff. I always go to the self-checkout to avoid the lines. Today the scanner wouldn’t recognize my card, A guy came and fixed it. I was buying some soap and the scanner put 3 on the computer, instead of one. I removed the two but needed the guy again to really take them off. Got everything done, ready to pay. Machine froze. The same guy came over and said these machines are really old and cause problems all the time. He had to do several tries but got is to accept my card. Then the receipt showed I bought 6 items, when I really bought 7. I checked the receipt and couldn’t figure out what was missing. Headed for the last stop to check my receipt. He did his thing and said I was free to go. So, I left. It got really cloudy in the late afternoon, then after dark there was lots of lightning, lots of thunder, lightning within 2 miles. All that activity to get no moisture falling from the sky. Discouraging. Those undecided people are a tough bunch. In a recent survey on unvaccinated said: 94% say an international travel ban will not change their mind, 95% say FDA approval will not change their mind, and 87% say employer mandate will not change their mind. Coconino, one of our two high schools had to cancel their opening football game set for tonight because one student-athlete tested positive for COVID. Not a great way to start a season. Tough on the seniors on that team. The 10th was my brother and Laura’s 21st wedding anniversary. Wishing them continued happiness. It is hard to believe it is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Everyone I know remembers that day. That day changed America in ways we would never have believed. There is now a Dept. Homeland Security; the TSA; immigration problems; pulling out of a war we would never win, and a division this country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. So sad.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1297 – The Scots, led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray, defeated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

1609 – Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island.

1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1792 – The Tavernier Blue was stolen in France, and recut. It was renamed The Hope Diamond in 1839.

1847 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)

1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1941 Charles Lindbergh, claims the "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into World War II

1959 – Food Stamps were authorized by congress.

1977 – Atari 2600 released, Video Game Console

2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people

2019 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

Birthdays Today

 

81 – Brian De Palma, American director

59 – Kristy McNichol, American actress

54 – Harry Connick Jr., American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor

@47 – O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], short story writer (d. 1910; cirrhosis)

@44 – D.H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, critic (d. 1930; TB)

34 – Tyler Hoechlin, American actor