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Week: 45 Day: 305 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   59°\ 33° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 13mph Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 127mi. \ Lightning: 506mi. Nov Averages: 51°\23° (3 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Adopt A Senior Pet Month Link  Link Adopt A Turkey Month Link American Diabetes Month American Indian Heritage Month Link   Aviation History Month Banana Pudding Lovers Month Children's Grief Awareness Month  Link Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month  Link Diabetic Eye Disease Month Epilepsy Awareness Month Link Eye Donation Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

25-11/11	World Origami Days
1-7	National Fig Week World Communication Week
1-5	National Patient Accessibility Week National Veterans Small Business Week   Link
1-6	World Karaoke Championships Link

 Daily Observations

 

Favorite Memes

 

Trivia

Number of copies sold 7. The Dream of the Red Table by Cao Xueqin: 100 million copies sold This popular Chinese novel has an entire literary field dedicated to its study. 8. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien: 100 million copies sold When this book was adapted to a movie, the film crew used all the gold paint in New Zealand when creating Smaug's lair. They had to import more from Germany in order to finish the project.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s a nice fall day. College towns lost population in the 2020 census due to the pandemic. Many students were living at home while taking classes in other cities. Now as the final figures are released, college towns are trying to deal with the consequences of smaller than expected population. What a mess. Lots of big government meetings: In Rome, they couldn’t agree on climate initiatives to save OUR planet…Now it is off to Glasgow to try again. A human’s ‘normal temperature’ is 98.6°. If our internal temperature rose 1.5°C it would be 101.3°F. At that temperature we would call a physician. Scientists are saying we must keep the earth’s temperature rise below 1.5°C per year. Why politicians won’t deal with this is unconscionable and very detrimental. Broncos are playing, Cards aren’t. Still can’t have the Broncos game on my TV. Crazy. Broncos are  beating the Washington Football team at halftime.

 

 

Historical Events

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited 1848 WHSmith opens its 1st railway bookstall, at Euston Station in London, England 1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981 1993 – The European Union was established. 2020 Slovakia completes testing two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06% test positive out of 3.625 million   *Mexico’s Day of the Dead is celebrated, honoring deceased children and infants on November 1, and honoring dead adults on November 2.

 

Birthdays Today

72 @70 64 61 49 @28

– David Foster, Canadian Musician – Marcia Wallace, American actress, comedian (d. 2013; sepsis) – Lyle Lovett, American Musician – Tim Cook, American Businessman, current CEO of Apple Inc. – Jenny McCarthy, American actress, model – Stephen Crane, American Author (d. 1900; TB)