Oct 6

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Oct. 6, 2019 Week: 41  Day: 279

86004:   H 73° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest active fire:  82mi.  Nearest lightning:  547mi

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  17mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 81°[1987]   Record Low: 18°[1912]

Oct. Averages: 63°\32° ( 4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

If opportunity doesn't knock,

build a door.

Milton Berle

Bonus Quote

"I've lived by a man's code designed to fit a man's world,

yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick."

-Carole Lombard

Random Tidbits

Bestselling novels of all time

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: 500 million copies sold

This novel, published in 1612, follows the adventures of Quixote as he ventures into the Spanish countryside.

2. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: 200 million copies sold

In this book, Dickens wrote the timeless phrase "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times."

Observances This Month

Bat Appreciation Month
(World) Blindness Awareness Month Link
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Cut Out Dissection Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Financial Planning Month Link
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
Go Sober For October Link
Home Eye Safety Month
Italian-American Heritage Month Link
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
LGBT History Month Link

Observances This Week

1-6

International Sand Sculpting Championships  Link

1-7

National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-5

Great American Beer Festival Link

3-10

No Salt Week

4-6

World Space Week

National Storytelling Weekend

4-10

World Space Week Link

5-6

Old-time Fiddler Days

5-13

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link

6-12

4-H Week
Death Penalty Focus Week
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week  Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week
International Post Card Week Link 
Mental Illness Awareness Week

Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week  Link  
National Metric Week 
National Physicians Assistant Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week

Observances for Today

American Libraries Day
Change A Light Day Link 
Come and Take it Day

Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day  
Intergeneration Day  
International African Diaspora Day 
International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)
Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
Mad Hatter Day Link
National German-American Day
National Noodle Day
National Orange Wine Day  Link
National Plus Size Appreciation Day  Link
Physician Assistant Day

Pickle Day Link  
World Communion Day  

My Rambling Thoughts

Condolences to one of my travel mates…Harvey Meyer, on the loss of his wife Martha. She had a massive stroke last week and passed. Harvey and I did several trips together, since his wife could only take cruises, the result of a stroke some 20 years ago. Harvey, Martha, and I were on the Florida to St. Lawrence Cruise with Focus. She was an inspiration and a joy to have on the cruise. I talked to Harvey this morning and his daughter is emailing a pic or two to add to the Focus website.

It’s a nice fall day and I can open the window in my office and the front door.  Enjoying the fall day by being lazy and staying away from all news channels. If anything important happens I’m sure my phone will alert me.

My new iPhoneXSMax is working great. After they ran a diagnostic for 24 hours, and checking the results, my phone can again have screen turnoff with a simple click. It took several phone calls, my first call, then two return calls from AppleCare to figure out the problem, but I’m a happy Apple phone user again.  

I’m hoping to have some time to watch the AZ-CU football game this afternoon. Since it’s being played in Folsom Stadium in Boulder, lots of AZ sports channels are carrying the game live. May even get to see Ralphie. Game starting and CU scored a field goal. Great start, just keep it up.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I caused my mother’s death and didn’t get convicted.

I married 100 women and never got divorced.

I got born before my father, but I am considered perfectly normal?

Who am I?

Historical Events

1876 - The American Library Association was founded.

1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, in New York City.

1948 (Earthquake) Ashgabat, Soviet Union

1948 - The first television network soap opera, Faraway Hill, is broadcast by the DuMont Network.

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1973 - #1 Hit: Cher - Half-Breed

1979 - #1 Hit: Robert John - Sad Eyes

1981 - Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat was murdered by Khalid Islambouli.

1990 - #1 Hit: Maxi Priest - Close To You

2000 - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on CBS

2007 - Jason Lewis completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe (pedal power).

2012 Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

2017 British writer Kazuo Ishiguro is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature

2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

2018 Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation

2018 Oil tanker collision with a car leaves at least 50 people dead and one hundred with serious burns near Kisantu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Birthdays Today

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer

          (d. 2002 @87)

Jenny Lind, Opera singer

(d. 1887 @67)

Elisabeth Shue, movie actor (56)

Matthew Sweet, rock-alternative singer (55)

Carole Lombard, actor in ‘screwball comedies’

(d. 1942 @33; plane crash)

Clark Gable’s wife @ her death

Puzzle answer:

A priest, whose mother dies from labor, who marries 100 women to 100 men, and whose father attends his birth.

Oct 5

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Oct. 5, 2019 Week: 40 Day: 278

86004:   H 69° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest active fire:  51mi.  Nearest lightning:  242mi

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 80°[1991]   Record Low: 14°[1969]

Oct. Averages: 63°\32° ( 4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Work is accomplished by those employees

who have not yet reached their level

of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Random Tidbits

At the start of World War I, the US Air Force (then a component of the US army) had only 18 pilots and 5 - 12 airplanes.

In 1838, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (President of Mexico) had his leg amputated after his ankle was destroyed by canon-fire. He ordered a full military burial for it.

Observances This Month

American Pharmacists Month Link

Contact Lens Safety Month

Corn Month Link

Eat Better, Eat Together Month

Eye Injury Prevention Month  Link 

I'm Just Me Because Month  Link
Learn To Bowl Month  Link

Month of Free Thought
National Aesthetician Month  Link
National Animal Safety and Protection Month Link  Link
National Caramel Month  Link
National Chili Month
Right Brainers Rule! Month
Self-Promotion Month

Observances This Week

1-5

Trichotillomania,Skin Picking,Related BFRB Awareness Week  Link

National Chimney Safety Week

National Fall Foliage Week  Link 

1-6

International Sand Sculpting Championships  Link

1-7

National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-5

Great American Beer Festival Link

3-10

No Salt Week

4-6

World Space Week

National Storytelling Weekend

4-10

World Space Week Link

5-6

Old-time Fiddler Days

5-13

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link

Observances for Today

Astronomy Day

Cephalopod Awareness Day 
Chic Spy Day
Do Something Nice Day

Get Funky Day Link
Fall Astronomy Day  Link
Frugal Fun Day 
Inter-American Water Day  Link
International Day of No Prostitution  Link
International Frugal Fun Day

National Apple Betty Day

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day: thru 6  Link 
Rocky Mountain Oyster Day

The Victims of Marijuana Prohibition Day  Link
Walk A Mile In Her Shoes Day Link 
Woofstock
World Card Making Day
World Porridge Day Link   
World Teachers Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Not a surprise, but today is windy again. Sun is shining, most of the sky is blue, temperature is warm…decent fall day.

I headed out early to pick up a few things, then returned to my non-windy interior.

Wind like this always brings back memories of the Rez’s fine red sand that stuck to my face, stuck in my hair, stuck in my ears, etc. I remember that my parents came to visit me in Shonto. My dad was a ‘fix-it-guy’, something I barely learned. I had a bedroom socket that wasn’t working. He took off the cover plate and a stream of fine red sand ran down to the floor. He fixed the socket. So, being the great dad he took off every cover plate in my apartment and cleaned out all the sand. The apartment was only about 6 years old when I moved in. I’m sure no one has done that since.

Looking forward to a quiet weekend. It’s fair season on the Rez, so most of my friends from there are heading for Shiprock Fair this weekend, and Tuba Fair next weekend. So I doubt if any Rez visitors will stop by.

Our Discussion group has finished all the topics in the book, but will be meeting some Sat. in October to discuss ‘Artificial Intelligence’. I’m just waiting for an email with the readings.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

What can run, but never walks,

Has a mouth, but never talks,

Has a head, but never weeps,

Has a bed, but never sleeps?

Historical Events

October 5, 1994 was the first celebration of World Teachers Day. This day is set aside to commemorate and celebrate teachers in the local community. The day has been recognized by The United Nations. Communities are encouraged to sponsor and plan events around the day. Many countries including the United States celebrate this day.

1944 - Suffrage was extended to women in France.

1947 - The first televised White House address was given by US President Harry S. Truman.

1950 - You Bet Your Life, featuring Groucho Marx, premiered on NBC.

1957 - #1 Hit: Jimmie Rodgers - Honeycomb

1959 - #1 Hit: Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife

1962 - Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, was released.

1966 There was a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor, near Detroit, Michigan.

1969 - The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on BBC One. It ran 45 episodes, until 1974.

1970 - The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) began broadcasting and National Educational Television (NET) closed.

1974 - #1 Hit: Olivia Newton-John - I Honestly Love You

1982 - Johnson & Johnson began a nationwide product recall in the US for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago were found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.

1984 - Marc Garneau became the first Canadian in space, flying aboard the US Space Shuttle Challenger.

1991 - #1 Hit: Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch featuring Loleatta Holloway - Good Vibrations

1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel (version 0.02) was released.

2001 - Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire's single-season home run total with the 71st and 72nd home runs.

2002 - #1 Hit: Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This

2011 - American Horror Story premiered on FX

2015 Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement announced by trade ministers of 12 countries in Atlanta

2015 Floods in South Carolina a "1,000-year storm" result in 12 deaths and 9 dams to fail

2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown signs a bill giving terminally ill patients the "right to die"

2018 Nobel Peace Prize awarded jointly to Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi activist Nadia Murad for "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war"

2018 US unemployment figures hit lowest level since 1969 - 3.7% according to Department of Labor

2018 Most expensive whisky ever sold at auction for $1.1 million, the Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, in Edinburgh, Scotland

Birthdays Today

Glynis Johns, actor, singer, dancer (96)

Ray Kroc, fast food king

(d. 1984 @ 81)

Michael Morpurgo, English Children’s author (76)

Steve Miller, guitarist, singer (76)

Donald Pleasance, character actor (Halloween)

(d. 1995 @75; heart failure)

Brian Johnson, singer (AD/DC) (72)

Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges)

(d. 1972 @72; strokes)

Bob Geldof, Irish singer, activist (68)

Clive Barker, horror author, director (67)

Neil deGrasse-Tyson, astrophysist (61)

Daniel Baldwin, actor, director (59)

Chester A. Arthur, 21^st US President

(d. 1886 @57; stroke)

Bernie Mac, TV actor

(d. 2008 @50; Sarcoidosis)

Kate Winslet, movie actor (44)

Puzzle answer:

RIVER