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Monthly Observations
Air-Conditioning
Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15) Link Cell Phone Courtesy
Month
Alopecia Month for Women Dog
Days (7/3 to 8/11) Link
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month Dry
Eye Awareness Month
Bikini Month Link Eye
Injury Prevention Month Link
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month Family Golf Month
Weekly Observations
National
Independent Living Week: 1-7 National
Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Daily Observations
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Day
Canada Day Link
Estee Lauder Day
Drug Enforcement Administration Day
Freedom From
Fear of Speaking Day International Tartan Day Link
I Forgot Day
International Joke Day
Made in the USA Day
Medicare's Birthday
National
Financial Freedom Day
National GSA Employee Day
National Postal Workers Day Link Link Link Link
National
Television Heritage Day
Resolution Renewal Day
Special
Recreation for the Disabled Day
U.S. Postage Stamp Day
World Sports
Journalists Day
World UFO Day
Zip
Code Day
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for the day
A nice very warm summer day.
Yesterday I had a great report from the doctor and my treatment did not have
a steroid. My lymph nodes are shrinking just a planned and it is thumbs up for
a full recovery.
While I was getting my treatment, the nurse manager, Allison, was working
with a lady who needed to have ER evaluate her low grade fever. The nurse
manager was one of the nurses who did my early phlebotomies before getting
promoted. She was kind and sympathetic but the lady just couldn’t understand.
Her husband had borrowed a wheelchair from the office to get his wife to the
office. He was bemoaning having to take her back to the car, then bring the wheelchair
back, then go to ER and get another wheelchair. Allison is very compassionate
and volunteered to take the wife down to the car and bring the wheelchair back
to the office. She ended up controlling the wheelchair so the husband could
walk beside his wife.
When I was out shopping, I picked up a small plant for Allison. I
delivered it. I told her compassion was always there and that I had noticed how
she went above and beyond. She said I tried so hard to help and when I got
home, I still was concerned that there was more I could have done. She took the
plant, thanked me, hugged me, and through her tears said ‘You will never know
how much this means.’ She hugged me again and I felt good too.
60 Minutes followed up on a story about how US tech companies use
Kenyans in Africa to train AI. The books show that these workers are hired at
$12.50/hr to private contractors. The employee works 8-hour days identifying
porn, illicit sex, and other traumatic events so AI can recognize it. When they
are paid, they only get about $2/hr. In many cases these poor people are hired
for 40 hours of work, after 35 or so hours are fired, without any pay, because they
broke an unknown rule. This is disgusting.
After a marathon session the Senate passed the ‘big beautiful bill’. Now the
House has to review it and vote again.
Famous Quotes That People Have Always
Misinterpreted
"Let them eat cake" – Marie Antoinette ©Photo
Credit: M G White/Shutterstock
It’s been a common misconception that Marie Antoinette, Queen
of France during the French Revolution, said this quote. However, according
to History
Hit, it was actually the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau
who said this. It’s tarnished Marie Antoinette’s reputation ever since and was
even used in propaganda at the time.
Famous Historical Myths That People
Still Believe Today
The Moon Landing Was Faked ©Neil Armstrong on Wikimedia
Commons
Some still believe the 1969 moon landing was staged, but
overwhelming evidence proves otherwise. Moon rocks, independent tracking, and
modern high-resolution images confirm it happened. The hoax theory ignores the
sheer number of people involved who would have had to keep involved to keep it
a secret for decades.
Random Thoughts…
The constitutions of 7 states (AR, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX) specifically
ban atheists from holding public office.
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US in 1849.
Wandering around an unfamiliar grocery store is as close to foraging for food as most of us will ever experience.
You don’t walk through a door, you walk through a hole in the wall.
Texas is roughly 10% larger than France and almost twice as large as Germany.
Historic Events
Birthdays
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