30 Oct

 

 

 

 

 



Week 41 Day 304 Flag Today  49°/26°

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine

Wind 10 mph Gusts 18 mph Gentle Breeze

Active Fire: A miles away Risk of fire: Low 

Nearest Lightning: 334 miles away

Oct. Averages: Temps: 64°\32° Moisture:  3 Days

 

Weekly Observations

23-31
Red Ribbon Week
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Disarmament Week

24-30
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
24-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week
26-11/1  

Kids Care Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week
National Massage Therapy Week
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National Respiratory Care Week
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Pastoral Care Week
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27-31

Nuclear Science Week

Daily Observations

Buy a Doughnut Day
Candy Corn Day
Carignan Day  
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Checklist Day
Create A Great Funeral Day  
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Devil's Night or Mischief Night

Haunted Refrigerator Night   Link
National Candy Corn Day   
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National Publicist Day   
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Radio Drama Day 

Speak Up For Service Day   Link
World Audio Drama Day

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Today’s Meme

 



Thoughts for the day

Yesterday’s phlebotomy was a bust. They needed 500 blood and after an hour only had 150. Trying again today.

Overnight our town got over an inch of rain. This is almost unheard of. It was loud and it was very wet.

Early voting takes preparation. In Oregon they added fire suppression devices in all the drop off boxes for voting. They didn’t in Washington state. Both had fire bombs put in some drop boxes. Oregon lost 3 ballots and notified the voter of the problem. Washington lost many more and is still trying to figure out which ballots were destroyed. This is America today. Sad.

Note to self: Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was many things. It was NOT as Donald said “An absolute love fest”. Watch the tape.

Every Trump rally plays Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’. He is even selling bibles with the lyrics included. Now he is also selling ‘God Bless You Canada.’ With only a few words changed.  Weird.

 Riddles

What has legs, but does not walk?

Random Thoughts…

Marvel Comics and DC comics jointly own a trademark on the word “superhero.”


Film composer John Williams is the second most Academy Award-nominated person in history with 49 nominations, right after Walt Disney.


Queen Victoria was never confirmed to have said “we are not amused”, a phrase commonly attributed to her.


The term “shotgun seat” in a car is derived from the Old West, when stagecoaches employed a man armed with a shotgun to sit next to the driver and fend off bandits.

Ancient Roman Life

The Price of Theft

Exploding toilets in communal bathrooms were seemingly common in Roman times

The most well-known of their bathroom activities was still the fact that they used communal toilets for personal use. They could be found all over Rome and had lines of toilets next to each other. Everything was then flushed down the drains.

The sewer system was not the same as it is now. It wasn’t long before hazardous gasses like methane began to build up in the sewers. They were known to cause explosions or cause toilets to burst into flames. Although there have been no reported cases of people losing their lives due to toilets, it is possible.

Historic Events

1485 - Henry Tudor, who was crowned Henry VII on this day in 1485, founded the Tudor dynasty, ended the Wars of the Roses, used his children's marriages to build alliances, and signed treaties that increased England's power.
2003 - American basketball player LeBron James, who was drafted directly out of high school, made his NBA debut with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
1974 - Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle,” regaining the world heavyweight boxing title.
1938 - Orson Welles's radio dramatization of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds was broadcast, causing great alarm—though reports of a nationwide panic were unfounded—as some listeners feared a genuine invasion from Mars.
130 - The Roman emperor Hadrian officially founded the city of Antinoöpolis in ancient Egypt.

Riddles Answer

Answer: A chair.

Birthdays

Devin Booker, 28; Basketball Player

Ivanka Trump, 43; Business Executive

Gavin Rossdale, 59; Rock Singer

Henry Winkler, 79; TV Actor

 

@90 - John Adam, 2nd president d. 1826


@88 - Ruth Gordon American writer, actress d. 1985


@87 - Ezra Pound - American poet d.1972


@80 - Charles Atlas [Angelo Siciliano], American bodybuilder d. 1972


@63 - Louis Malle - French director d. 1995; lymphoma

 

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