nov 1

 

Week: 45 Day: 305
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   59°\ 33° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 13mph
Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 127mi. \ Lightning: 506mi.
Nov Averages: 51°\23° (3 days w/moisture)


Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

 

Adopt A Senior Pet Month Link  Link
Adopt A Turkey Month 
Link
American Diabetes Month
American Indian Heritage Month 
Link  
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Children's Grief Awareness Month  
Link
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month 
 Link
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
 Link
Eye Donation Month

 

 

Weekly Observations

 

25-11/11

World Origami Days

1-7

National Fig Week
World Communication Week

1-5  

National Patient Accessibility Week
National Veterans Small Business Week   Link

1-6

World Karaoke Championships Link 

 Daily Observations

 

 

 

Favorite Memes

 










 

 


 

 

Trivia

 

Number of copies sold

7. The Dream of the Red Table by Cao Xueqin: 100 million copies sold

This popular Chinese novel has an entire literary field dedicated to its study.

8. The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien: 100 million copies sold

When this book was adapted to a movie, the film crew used all the gold paint in New Zealand when creating Smaug's lair. They had to import more from Germany in order to finish the project.

 

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 It’s a nice fall day.

College towns lost population in the 2020 census due to the pandemic. Many students were living at home while taking classes in other cities. Now as the final figures are released, college towns are trying to deal with the consequences of smaller than expected population. What a mess.

Lots of big government meetings: In Rome, they couldn’t agree on climate initiatives to save OUR planet…Now it is off to Glasgow to try again. A human’s ‘normal temperature’ is 98.6°. If our internal temperature rose 1.5°C it would be 101.3°F. At that temperature we would call a physician. Scientists are saying we must keep the earth’s temperature rise below 1.5°C per year. Why politicians won’t deal with this is unconscionable and very detrimental.

Broncos are playing, Cards aren’t. Still can’t have the Broncos game on my TV. Crazy. Broncos are  beating the Washington Football team at halftime.

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited

1848 WHSmith opens its 1st railway bookstall, at Euston Station in London, England

1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981

1993 – The European Union was established.

2020 Slovakia completes testing two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06% test positive out of 3.625 million

 

*Mexico’s Day of the Dead is celebrated, honoring deceased children and infants on November 1, and honoring dead adults on November 2.

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

72

@70

64

61

49

@28

 

 

– David Foster, Canadian Musician

– Marcia Wallace, American actress, comedian (d. 2013; sepsis)

– Lyle Lovett, American Musician

– Tim Cook, American Businessman, current CEO of Apple Inc.

– Jenny McCarthy, American actress, model

– Stephen Crane, American Author (d. 1900; TB)

 

 

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.