Aug 13, 2021 Week: 33 Day: 225
Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 82°\ 55° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 9mph
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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National
Environmental Services Week: Link |
2-20 |
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Sturgis
Rally: Link |
6-15 |
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National
Motorcycle Week Link |
8-14 |
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Safe and
Sound Week Link US
Amateur Golf Week |
9-15 |
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Numismatic
Week (World's Fair of Money) |
10-14 |
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Elvis
Week Link |
11-17 |
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National
Hobo Week Link |
12-15 |
Daily Oberservations
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Filet
Mignon Day Left-Handers
Day Prosecco
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Favorite Memes
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My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I woke up to a nice gentle monsoon rain this morning. Still looks like more is coming my way. Yeah!
NPR
is reporting that a former college instruction/professor has been arrested for
starting numerous fires in CA. That is insane.
The
Navajo Nation returned to ‘Orange’ status due to the recent increase in Covid
cases. This is not a good sign for anyone.
I’ve
been a Jeopardy! fan since childhood. Last season I began DVRing the nightly episodes
as I was missing too many and can now watch them without long commercial
breaks. I have enjoyed the rotation of the hosts. I am pleased with the two newly
named permanent hosts. One little quirk I have: many of the rotating hosts say,
‘Welcome back to Double Jeopardy…it should be something like ‘welcome back, it’s
time for Double Jeopardy!’ How can the audience be welcomed back to something
that hasn’t even started yet?
All
Republican Arizona Legislators have signed a letter to Gov. Ducey, also a
Republican, to stop all Federal and state funding to any school district that
mandates either masks or vaccinations. That is so crazy...protecting youth
should be our #1 concern. Our local University, NAU, also just mandated masks
in all classrooms and labs.
Covid
has changed everyone’s life in the US. Today I got a phone call from our local
hospital that the reason they are no longer doing phlebotomies at the outpatient
clinic is due to Covid. I was talking to
a young bureaucrat. She was sorry for the change, but said it was in the best
interest of the organization. I get that there are staff shortages. She said it
takes up too much time for the nurses. She said the Prescott Valley clinic was
happy to accommodate me…making it sound like they had some kind of conversation
about the number of patients, the time and staffing involved at their clinic,
etc. The clinic is a good 90 miles away.
When I called to see what they needed, the director of the infusion clinic said
I was the 2nd caller today and she wondered why the Flag hospital was
no longer doing any therapeutic phlebotomies.
I guess they never called your organization. She said, they didn’t talk
to me. I’m sending records to them, so I am registered when I need my next one.
Hope this works.
Historical
Events
3114
BC According to the Lounsbury correlation, the start of the Mayan calendar
1521
Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in
Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire
1732
Voltaire's tragic play "Zaire" premieres in Paris
1886
John A. Macdonald uses a silver hammer to pound a gold spike, officially
completing the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway in British Columbia
1920
Flag designed by Marcus Garvey consisting of three horizontal stripes of red,
black and green is adopted as the pan-African flag
1950
US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bảo Đại
2015
Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion
2015
US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse,
stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001
2020
New details about enormous "Terror Crocodile" (Deinosuchus), the size
of a bus, with teeth as big as bananas, that lived during late Cretaceous
period (75-84 million years ago) in North America published
Birthdays
Today
@90 – Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, 15th President (d. 2016)
@80 – Alfred Hitchcock, director,cameo performer (d. 1980)
@76 – Don Ho, singer and ukulele player (d. 2007; heart disease)
@72 – Bert Lahr, American actor (dd.1967; pneunomia)
@66 – Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Mosey], American target shooter (d. 1926; anemia)
62
– Danny Bonaduce, American actor, and DJ
57
– Debi Mazar, American actress
@56 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented a television (d.1946;
stroke)
@56 – Dan Fogelberg, singer-songwriter (d. 2007; prostate cancer)
39
– Sarah Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant
