Sep 8

Sep 8, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 251
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   83°\ 51° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Extreme risk of fire Active fire: 131mi. \ Lightning: 366mi.
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 

National Payroll Week

6-10 

Play Days

7-11 

World Orienteering Days Link  

8-14  

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Ampersand Day

Date-Nut Bread Day

Literacy Day

Pardon Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 




 

 




 

 

A quick smile!

 

 

Why do bakers always carry extra cash?

Because they never know when a bit of extra dough might be kneaded

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

My dentist was in, so I got an appointment for 10:00. After an X-ray I got the news that it had to be extracted. At that point, I just wanted the pain to go away. It was an easy extraction. I was out before 11:00, picked up an antibiotic and pain med and came home. Took a long nap. All good.

The Afghan airport is open again for domestic flights. No international flights because there is no radar, so all flights are what the pilot sees out his window.

Ida sure did damage. Just read that there were over 350 reported oil spills in the waters around Louisiana. Expect gas price to go up again. When I filled with gas this morning before the dentist Sam’s Regular was $3.09.

AZ has a state senator, Wendy Rogers, who ran twice for office before getting a seat. She is a conservative’s conservative.  On Labor Day she tweeted: “Labor Day is a Communist Holiday”. She gave no explanation as to why she believes that horse pucky.

 

 Historical Events

 Historical Events

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

1921 The First ‘Fall Frolic” was held in Atlantic City, and won by Margaret Gorman. Herb Test coined the term for the winner: “Miss America.”

1935 – US Senator from Louisiana was shot by Carl Weiss, a political rival. He died from the wounds 2 days later.

1941 WWII: Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives

1952 Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man & the Sea" published

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

1986 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally

1998 – Mark McGuire hit his 62nd home run, breaking Roger Maris’s record. He finished the season with a total of 70.

2015 Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church

2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are 4 species not just 1, as previously assumed

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician, and activist (d. 2019)

@91 – Sid Caesar, American comedic actor (d. 2014)

80 – Bernie Sanders, American politician

@62 – Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer and academic (d. 1904; influenza)

@54 – Peter Sellers, English comedic actor (d. 1980; heart attack)

42 – Pink (Alecia Beth Moore), American singer-songwriter

34 – Wiz Khalifa, Haitian rapper

@30 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963; plane crash)

@28 – Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish EDM artist (d. 2018; suicide)

 

 

 

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