Jul 23

 

 

 

Jul  23, 2021 Week: 30 Day: 204

Ave. Sky Cover: 60%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  82°\ 56° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 13mph

Low risk of fire Active fire: 70mi. \ Lightning: 6mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

A fruitarian is a type of vegetarian in which a person eats just fruits, nuts, seeds, and other plant material that can be harvested without killing the plant.

Approximately 25 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of wheat. Around 2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 pound of meat. Many vegetarians argue that more people eating a meat-free diet would lower the strain that meat production puts on the environment.

 

True Things

 

Extreme Reaction

A couple in Sheffield, United Kingdom, have taken drastic measures over their neighbor's tree, which sits right on the property line and overhangs their driveway. Bharat Mistry, 56, the tree's owner, told the BBC that his neighbor had been complaining for some time about the tree, home to nesting pigeons that relieved themselves on the driveway and cars. First, the angry neighbor asked Mistry to remove the tree altogether. Mistry suggested trimming and installing netting to keep the birds out, but the neighbor called in his own tree surgeon, who completely removed the side of the canopy that was hanging over the drive. "It looks awful," said Brian Parkes, who lives nearby. "It's done, you can't undo it." [BBC, 6/24/2021]

 

N E W  English Language Oddities

 

“Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.

Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Hemp History Week Link National Moth Week Link	17-23
Captive Nations Week Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link  National Independent Retailers Week Link   National Zoo Keeper Week Link	18-24
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week	18-25
International Lace Week  Link	19-23
National Baby Food Week Link	21-24
Comic Con International	22-25
Hemingway Look-Alike Days Link	22-24
Annie Oakley Days Garlic Days Link National Parenting Gifted Children Week Lin`k	23-25
XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	23-8/8

 

Today’s Observations

 

Gorgeous Grandma Day Hot Enough For Ya Day Lumberjack Day National Pajama Day Link National Penuche Day Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony Vanilla Ice Cream Day Yada. yada yada. Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Monsoon continues. That also means lightning. Yesterday, several tourists were injured at the Grand Canyon after numerous lightning strikes on Bright Angel Trail. Scary. The weather guy says lots of rain the next few days with showers during the day and showers at night. The local monsoon is usually just in the day, so this is quite a change.

My dad was born July 23, 1914, and lived 80 great years. He was a fantastic dad, husband, and friend. Still miss him.

I planned on enjoying the Olympics. Now I’m not even sure I will watch very much. There have already been 80 athletes who have tested positive for Covid since arriving. The main story looks like it will be the increase in positive cases each day. It is so discouraging for the athletes. So expensive for Japan and the Olympic Committee. Oh well, the Winter Olympics are just around the corner.

This sure sounds like a ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’ story: Three reservoirs in Colorado are going to increase their output to Lake Powell, on the AZ-Utah Border. They are concerned that the levels in Lake Powell are soon going to be below the minimum for the hydroelectric process to continue. That would affect millions in California where the power goes. In other water news: a friend of mine is at the Oregon fires. He is headed there to protect archaeological sites from the fire. He reported back that the rivers in Oregon, near the fire, are very, very low. Water is life and these two stories are devastating. Now some good news: the AZ National Guard has arrived in Flagstaff to help mitigate the daily flooding from a couple of burn areas.

The NFL just announced some new rules for the upcoming football season. If a team has a case of Covid…and the player<s> is/are unvaccinated…and the game can’t be rescheduled…then the team with Covid will lose the game, and no players on either team will receive pay for the game. However, the Covid team will have to pay the salary of the non-Covid team for that game.  A tad complicated but it sure sends a message to team owners. Some teams are at 30% vaccination while the NFL overall is at 52% vaccination. This will probably increase vaccination rates before the season starts.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

egg egg easy

E or not

 

Historical Events

 

1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patented (#5581X) the typographer, an early typewriter.

1926 – Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system, for recording sound onto film.

1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front was founded in Nicaragua.

1962 – Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live, trans-Atlantic television program, featuring CBS’s Walter Cronkite and NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels.

1984 – Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign when she surrendered her crown after (earlier) nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.

1995 – Comet Hale – Bopp was discovered, and was visible to the naked eye on Earth in 1996.

1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander

2018 Slum homes for 30,000 people demolished to make way for a dual carriage way in Nairobi, Kenya

2018 International Monetary Fund predicts inflation of 1 million percent in Venezuela by end of 2018

2019 Boris Johnson is chosen the new British Prime Minister by the ruling Conservative Party to replace Theresa May

2020 US President Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash

 

Birthdays Today

 

@83 – Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)

@81 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor, television personality (d. 1975)

@81 – Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1999)

@79 – Don Imus, American radio host (d. 2019; lung disease)

71 – Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter (April Wine)

@70 – Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist,screenwriter(d. 1959; uremia)

60 – Woody Harrelson, American actor

59 – Eriq La Salle, American actor

@46 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)

39 – Paul Wesley, American actor

32 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Eggs over easy                                                                    Ready or not