Sep 11,
2021 Week: 37 Day: 254
Ave.
Sky Cover: %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local
Temp: 81°\ 51° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 7mph
Today’s
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Weekly
Observations
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US Open Tennis Championships |
30-9/12 |
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International
Air Ambulance Week Link |
4-12 |
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Substitute Teacher
Appreciation Week |
5-11 |
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Play Days |
7-11 |
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World Orienteering Days Link |
8-14 |
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Craft
Brewers Week Link |
9-12 |
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Direct
Support Professional Recognition Week Link |
9-15 |
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Popcorn Days Link |
9-11 |
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National Days of Prayer
& Remembrance |
10-12 |
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Mushroom Days Link |
11-12 |
Daily Observations
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Hot Cross Bun Day Make Your Bed Day National Day of Service Remembrance/Patriot Dayx |
Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What country
doesn't take cash or credit? The Czech
Republic |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Another nice
day as my recovery continues…All good. Went to Sam’s
to pick up some stuff. I always go to the self-checkout to avoid the lines.
Today the scanner wouldn’t recognize my card, A guy came and fixed it. I was
buying some soap and the scanner put 3 on the computer, instead of one. I
removed the two but needed the guy again to really take them off. Got
everything done, ready to pay. Machine froze. The same guy came over and said
these machines are really old and cause problems all the time. He had to do
several tries but got is to accept my card. Then the receipt showed I bought
6 items, when I really bought 7. I checked the receipt and couldn’t figure
out what was missing. Headed for the last stop to check my receipt. He did
his thing and said I was free to go. So, I left. It got really
cloudy in the late afternoon, then after dark there was lots of lightning,
lots of thunder, lightning within 2 miles. All that activity to get no
moisture falling from the sky. Discouraging. Those undecided
people are a tough bunch. In a recent survey on unvaccinated said: 94% say an
international travel ban will not change their mind, 95% say FDA approval
will not change their mind, and 87% say employer mandate will not change
their mind. Coconino, one
of our two high schools had to cancel their opening football game set for
tonight because one student-athlete tested positive for COVID. Not a great
way to start a season. Tough on the seniors on that team. The 10th
was my brother and Laura’s 21st wedding anniversary. Wishing them continued
happiness. It is hard to
believe it is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Everyone I know
remembers that day. That day changed America in ways we would never have
believed. There is now a Dept. Homeland Security; the TSA; immigration
problems; pulling out of a war we would never win, and a division this
country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. So sad. |
Historical Events
1297 – The
Scots, led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray, defeated the English at the
Battle of Stirling Bridge.
1609 – Henry
Hudson discovered Manhattan Island.
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a
good war or bad peace"
1792 – The
Tavernier Blue was stolen in France, and recut. It was renamed The Hope Diamond
in 1839.
1847 1st singing
of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1906 Mahatma
Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence
movement in South Africa.
1941 Charles
Lindbergh, claims the "British, Jewish and Roosevelt administration"
are trying to get the US into World War II
1959 – Food
Stamps were authorized by congress.
1977 – Atari
2600 released, Video Game Console
2001 Two
passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash into New York's World
Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,606 people
2019 Water
detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b
110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"
Birthdays Today
81 – Brian
De Palma, American director
59 – Kristy
McNichol, American actress
54 – Harry
Connick Jr., American singer-songwriter, pianist and actor
@47 – O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], short story
writer (d. 1910; cirrhosis)
@44 – D.H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, critic (d.
1930; TB)
34 – Tyler
Hoechlin, American actor
