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