Week: 40
Day: 276
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Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
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October
[Navajo] is Ghaaji’ which means End of Growing Season Caffeine
Addiction Recovery Month |
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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National
Walk Your Dog Week Link Link Universal Children's Week |
1-7 |
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Trichotillomania, Skin
Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link |
1-5 |
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National
Storytelling Weekend: 1-3 Albuquerque International
Balloon Fiesta Link |
2-10 |
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Fire Prevention Week Link International Post Card Week Link 4-H Week Link |
3-9 |
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No Salt Week |
3-10 |
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World
Goat Days Link |
3-8 |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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A quick smile!
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What is the
center of Gravity? The letter V. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
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A nice
fall day…every night is a bit cooler. Yesterday
started like a typical Friday. I did some shopping and drove home, put the
stuff away. When I went out to lock my vehicle, I saw that the tire was low.
I drove to Discount Tire about 4 miles away. The guy checked me in and said
they could get to it at 2:15p…It was 11:30. He also said the tires were 12
years old and needed to be replaced…even though the tread was still good. They
only had 2 tires in my size. I got two and ordered 2 more. I reached in my
pocket to call a friend and realized I had not brought my cell phone. He
called a taxi company and they were booked up until 4pm. So, I sat there,
took a quick walk to Safeway next door, and sat and waited. I got out at
2:45pm with a much bigger credit card bill. I’ve been driving since I was 16
and never knew tires could ‘get old.’
I’ve never kept a vehicle this long either. For the past year I have
had a ‘low tire’ light on. I checked the tires, and no tire was low. The guy
who brought my car out saw it, said he’d check it. He took a device and touched
all 4 tires, the plugged the device in under the dash. No more light. Amazing.
Not the way I had planned to spend Friday, but it all worked out well. And there
was a screw in the low tire. The UK
is having a very real fuel crisis. The truckers who hauled petrol to the gas
stations were mostly from the EU on Visas. With Brexit, those Visas ended so
the drivers returned to the EU. Now there are not enough drivers to deliver
fuel for vehicles. Recycling
is complicated and confusing. Maine has come up with a new law. Now producers
must pay into a fund that helps municipalities pay for recycling costs. The
cost is based on how their material is recycled. It will take about a year to
get the regulations worked out. Sounds good to me. It became a really big
deal when China stopped accepting recycling stuff a few years ago…leaving municipalities
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Historical Events
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1863 – US
President Abraham Lincoln designates
last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day 1922 – Mrs. Rebecca
Felton was the first female US Senator (Georgia, for two days) 1955 – The Mickey Mouse
Club premiered on ABC 1990 – Germany
Reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany 1974 – Frank Robinson
was named the first African-American MLB manager (Cleveland Indians) 2020 The UK's wettest
day on record, with average of 31.7mm (1.24ins) across the country in wake of
Storm Alex |
Birthdays Today
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@86 – Gore Vidal, American novelist,
screenwriter, and critic (died in 2012) 80 – Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans],
American singer-songwriter 72 – Lindsey
Buckingham, American singer-songwriter 67 – Al Sharpton,
American minister, and political activist 52 – Gwen Stefani,
American singer-songwriter |
