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Jun
4, 2020 Week: 23 Day: 157
86004:
H 86° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
10mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 374mi.; Nearest active fire: 220mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 88°[2010]
Record Low: 25°[1943]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood."
-Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Random Tidbits
There is no definitive
history about how the word "barbecue" originated - or why it's
sometimes used as a noun, verb, or adjective. Some say the Spaniards get the
credit for the word, derived from their "barbacoa" which is an
American-Indian word for the framework of green wood on which foods were placed
for cooking over hot coals. Others think the French were responsible, offering
the explanation that when the Caribbean pirates arrived on our Southern shores,
they cooked animals on a spit-like devise that ran from "whiskers to
tail" or "de barbe a' queue."
Have a smile
True conversations while flying
A DC-10
had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long roll out after
touching down. San Jose Tower Noted:
"American 751, make a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you
are able. If you are not able, take the Guadeloupe exit off Highway 101, make a
right at the lights and return to the airport."
Observations This Month
Oral Health Month Link
Outdoor Marketing Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism
Month Link
Potty Training Awareness Month Link
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month Link
Rebuild Your Life Month
Scleroderma Awareness Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Sorghum Month Link
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Observations This Week
Hemp History Week: 1-7 Link
Great American
Brass Band Week: 4-7 Link September 12 due to COVID-19
Observations for Today
Apple II Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Doughnut Day or Donut Day Link
Festival of
Popular Delusions Day Link
Horseradish Days-7 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
Hot Air Balloon Day
National
Doughnut Day
National Ketchup
/ Catsup Day
National
Moonshine Day
National Veggie Burgers Day Link
Ryan Moran Day Link
World Environment Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Still
pretty warm, but enjoying the clear blue sky.
Navajo
Nation announced they are suspending the weekend curfew that has kept families
on their own property for the past 5 weekends. It will be reinstated if the
case count increases.
Arvada,
CO has a great idea in place on any celebration on Independence Day. They are
asking families to decorate their front porch with patriotic material for all
to enjoy.
Grrrrreat idea.
I
read earlier this week that Botswana is having many unexplained elephant
deaths. They have no idea why after there were no signs of anthrax, other poisoning,
or poaching. Botswana has one of the largest population of elephants and this
is devastating, disgusting, and needs to be explained.
When
a mall is closed due to the virus, do tenants still owe rent money? Does it
matter who closed the mall…the property owner or the state? This will be
answered in the courts. Simon Property owns most of the malls in the US. They
are suing
GAP for $65.9 million in rent after malls were closed due to the virus. Gap is
claiming they don’t owe any rent because they were closed by the virus and
couldn’t conduct regular business. The property owner claims they have leases
on the property and still must pay. On the day the suit was filed, GAP stock
dropped less than 1% and Simon Property stock went up 4%.
A couple
of months ago my internet based computer tech company suddenly disappeared.
Just before this, my Office Suite I had bought from them quit working. They
gave me a free suite from the internet that I hated. Saying they would fix it
in a week. That week passed and they were gone. Yesterday I broke down and
bought Office 365 from Microsoft. I’m having a few problems with activation,
but it works for now.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
An old man
wanted to leave his fortune to one of his three sons, so he came up with a task
to see who could solve it the best. He gave each of them a small amount of
money to buy something that would be able to fill their living room.
The first son
bought straw but it was not enough to fill his living room. The next son bought
sticks but he was also unable to fill the room. The third son purchased two
small items and was able to easily fill the room.
What did he
buy?
Historical Events
1805 1st recorded tornado
in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
1851 - Harriet Beecher
Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin (or Life
Among the Lowly) began a ten-month run in the National Era, an abolitionist newspaper.
1883 - The first regularly scheduled Orient Express left Paris.
1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1933 - US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt took the United States off of the "Gold
Standard", a result of the Great Depression. President Nixon, in 1971,
completed the transition when he announced that the United States would no
longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, $35 an ounce at that time.
1937 Henry Ford initiates a
32 hour work week
1944 As part of Operation
Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the
D-Day invasion
1947 US Secretary of State
George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western
Europe
1966 - The Beatles had a
taped appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show,
debuting music videos for Rain and Paperback Writer.
1968 - Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed at the Ambassador Hotel in Los
Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian.
1970 The Falls Road curfew
in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons,
is lifted after a march by women breaches the British Army cordon
1975 Egyptian president
Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)
1977 - The Apple II went in
sale.
1981 - The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five people in Los
Angeles, California, had a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with
weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of
AIDS.
1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests ended violently in Beijing by the People's
Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead. Many western journalists had errantly
speculated that the army would not fight against the people.
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev
receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
2013 The first article
based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian
Newspaper in the UK
2018 US President Donald
Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their
families violates international law according to the UN
2019 Average person ingests
50,000 pieces of microplastic a year and breathes in similar amount according
to first-ever such study published in journal "Environmental Science and
Technology"
Birthdays Today
53-Actor Ron Livingston
64-Saxaphonist Kenny G [Kenneth Bruce Gorelick]
51-Singer/ActorBrian
McKnight
49-Actor Mark Wahlberg
@45-Revolutionist Poncho
Villa
[José Doroteo
Arango Arámbula] (1878; assasinated)
41-Bassist Pete
Wentz
Puzzle Answer
The third son
bough a candle and a match. He used the match to light the candle and filled
the room with the candles light.
