Week: 40 Day: 272
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Today’s
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Weekly
Observations
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Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link |
22-10/21 |
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International Sand
Sculpting Championships Link |
24-10/3 |
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Banned Books Week |
26-10/2 |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What jumps higher than a building? All animals and people can jump higher than a building. Buildings do not jump. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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A decent fall
day. Leaves have not started changing yet here in town, they are changing on
the mountain. Beautiful. Weather guy
says monsoon season is ending soon. We have had several light showers the
past two days…usually just enough to dirty the windshield. Yesterday a
judge in AZ struck down the recent law that blocked schools from requiring
masks. It’s AZ so there will be lots of court cases, and probably a recount
of this judge’s opinion. Flagstaff has
one indoor mall with 4 outside entrances. It is a good 30 years old.
Yesterday, a crazy drove a stolen Fed Ex truck through the doors (4) of one
entrance, while the mall was open. He jumped out, ran into the parking lot
where he attempted to hijack two vehicles, failing at that, he tried to break
into a parked vehicle. He ran and the cops caught him at a fast-food place
across the 4-lane highway from the mall. No one was injured, the entrance is
a total loss. More on the
cable company…it took forever to program the two new remotes. On one I had to
type in 7 different codes to find my TV. On the other one, it works but can’t
program it to turn off the TV. Crazy. |
Historical Events
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1829 – Scotland Yard began activity. 1907 – The cornerstone was laid at the
Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Washington National Cathedral)
in Washington, DC. 1916 American oil tycoon John D.
Rockefeller becomes the world's first billionaire 1962 JFK authorized use of federal troops
to integrate U of Mississippi 1988 – NASA launched Discovery (STS-26),
the first mission since the Challenger disaster. 2020 Scientists confirm the existence of
three new underground lakes on Mars using radar on Esa's Mars Express
spacecraft |
Birthdays Today
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@91 – Gene Autry,
American singer, actor (d. 1998) @87 – Stanley
Kramer, American director, and producer (died in 2001) 86 – Jerry Lee Lewis, American
singer-songwriter and pianist @86 – László BÃró,
Hungarian-Argentinian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (d. 1985) 78 – Lech Walesa, Polish electrician, politician,
2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate @66 – Miguel de
Cervantes, Spanish novelist, poet, playwright (d.1616; Diabetes?) @57 – Madeline
Kahn, American actress (d. 1999; ovarian cancer) @53 – Enrico
Fermi, Italian American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1954; stomach
cancer) 33 – Kevin Durant, NBA |
