Aug 9

 

Aug , 2021 Week: 33 Day: 221

Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   83°\ 51° Wind: 8mph\ Gusts: 14mph

High risk of fire Active fire: 279mi. \ Lightning: 368mi.

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

  

Weekly Observations

 

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
National Environmental Services Week: Li`nk	2-20
Sturgis Rally: Link	6-15
National Motorcycle Week Link  Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  Link   National Resurrect Romance Week Weird Contest Week	8-14
Safe and Sound Week Link US Amateur Golf Week	9-15

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Book Lovers Day Rice Pudding Day Veep Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A warm day with a breeze that makes it tolerable.

A friend called about 9a and needed to be taken to Auto-Zone for a part. I went outside and my ride wouldn’t start. Lucky for me a repair guy pulled in to work on my neighbor’s place. He had jumper cables and my car stated. Then I had to clean off the battery posts and everything worked great. I took my friend to Auto-Zone, stayed in the car with the engine running, took the friend back home. Then I came home before turning off the vehicle. It gave plenty of time for the battery to recharge. I turned off the engine, waited a few minutes, and checked…it restarted right up. I’ll take the battery in for a check. It may be time to buy a new one.

The final games were great yesterday. I decided not to tape the closing, so I will watch it tonight…unfortunately with commercials. With all the concerns about Covid, the lack of audiences at all events, the athletes gave us a good Olympics. I enjoyed everything I watched. I even learned about some sports I was not familiar with.

While cruising around this morning, I listened to an NPR show with the travel guy Rick Steves. He was talking about Covid and travel. He was very upbeat and gave some great ideas for travelers in the future. The last part of the show was call-in, and participants told their travel during the pandemic stories. One lady was in Marrakesh, Morocco with friends when they couldn’t get out of Morocco for a few days, then had to fly to Europe to get back to the US. A friend in the US was able to book flights for travelers on the internet, as she couldn’t get anyone to answer a phone in Morocco, or in Poland. She said the airlines and booking companies were understaffed and overwhelmed. Another group of 12 was stranded in a small town in Italy for two weeks when the town locked down. The great thing…every call-in traveler is traveling again as soon as it is allowed/safe. They all realized you just deal with it the best you can, enjoy what you can, and be grateful that it could have been much worse.  A very uplifting program for travelers. 

Historical Events

 

1790 – Robert Gray, sailing The Columbia, became the first person to circumnavigate the Earth, from and to Boston, MA.

1803 Robert Fulton tests his steam paddleboat on the River Seine, France, but it sinks

1848 US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president

1854 American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"

1877 Henry Morton Stanley's party reaches Boma, Congo, after 999 days, losing half of the 228 members.

1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" motion and campaign by the All-India Congress

1945 – The second atomic bomb was dropped on Japan. “Fat Boy” was dropped over Nagasaki, due to the city of Kokura blocked by clouds.

1974 – US President Nixon resigned from office.

2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle

2017 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US White House as a political protest

 

Birthdays Today

77 – Sam Elliott, American actor

64 – Melanie Griffith, American actress

62 – Michael Kors, American fashion designer

57 – Hoda Kotb, American journalist, television personality

53 – Gillian Anderson, actor

51 – Chris Cuomo, American lawyer, and journalist

@48 – Whitney Houston, singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)

 

 

 

Aug 8

 
Aug , 2021 Week: 33 Day: 220
Ave. Sky Cover:  25%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   82°\ 52° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 6mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 234mi. \ Lightning: 140mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	7/23-8/8
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
National Bargain Hunting Week Single Working Women's Week Link	2-8
National Environmental Services Week: Li`nk	2-20
International Tree Climbing Days Cancelled	6-8
Sturgis Rally: Link	6-15
National Motorcycle Week Link  Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  Link   National Resurrect Romance Week Weird Contest Week	8-14

 

Daily Oberservations

 

CBD Day Dollar Day Frozen Custard Day Happiness Happens Day Wear Your Mothers Jewelry Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another warm day with no moisture predicted. Flag needs the monsoon to hurry back.

Still enjoying the Olympics. Some good swimming, diving this morning.

Luis Grijalva, the NAU 5K runner broke his home country’s record time and finished 12^th. Glad he could participate. Then there is Felix. She now holds the Olympic record for most medals won by a female. WOW!

Don’t relax just yet…the next variant is Lambda, and it too is spreading.

Interesting…9\11 families have to President Biden not to come to any 20^th anniversary events until he fulfills his campaign promise to release files about Saudi involvement in the attack. Good for them. It has been too long. The lack of release from all previous administrations has many, including me, wondering why we support the Saudi’s but won’t release their involvement. The clock is ticking.

I’ve heard many of the conspiracy theories about a ‘stolen election’. There was the bamboo one, the hacked computers that were never attacked to the internet, the newest one is that the Chinese used special thermometers that changed the heat inside the machines that would then change the vote from one candidate to another. Seriously, this was a story on CNN.

 

Historical Events

 

1508 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León founds Caparra the first European settlement in Puerto Rico

1844 Brigham Young chosen as head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints following the death of Joseph Smith

1945 President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter

1962 – Sabado Gigante premiered on Chilean television. It concluded in 2015.

1963 – England’s Great Train Robbery, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England, £2.6 million was stolen.

1978 – featured the first appearance of “Odie” in the Garfield comic strip.

2007 Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world's richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to "Fortune"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@91 – Esther Williams, American swimmer, and actress (d. 2013)

@91 – Richard Anderson, actor $6 million dollar man (d. 2017)

86 – Donald P. Bellisario, director, producer, screenwriter

@85 – Mel Tillis, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2017)

84 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor

83 – Connie Stevens, American actress

74 – Larry Wilcox, American actor

72 – Keith Carradine, American actor

@71 – Bob Smith, the American physician, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (d. 1950; colon cancer)

69 – Robin Quivers, American radio host/personality

45 – JC Chasez, American singer

40 – Roger Federer, tennis great

23 – Shawn Mendes, singer

 

 

 

Aug 7

 

Aug 7, 2021 Week: 32 Day: 219

Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   84°\ 55° Wind: 10mph\ Gusts: 21mph

High risk of fire Active fire: 132mi. \ Lightning: 90mi.

Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020):	7/23-8/8
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow	7/31-8/9
Gold Panning Week:  Link  Cancelled	2-7
National Bargain Hunting Week Single Working Women's Week Link	2-8
National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Lighthouse Day Professional Speakers Day Raspberries & Cream Day

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another warm day and another day of a breeze making it bearable. Hoping the monsoon returns very soon.

I’m still enjoying the Tokyo games. I’m not into the equestrian events, but the gymnastics is very enjoyable. The 50K walk race was interesting. I never did understand the yellow and red card stuff. Given the opportunity I wouldn’t walk 50K in that heat and humidity, let alone call it a race. Some parts of the walk were over 90° at 70% humidity. This was the last time it will be an Olympic event.

When a family member passes on the Navajo Rez, there are four nights of ‘meetings’ where friends and relatives meet, make plans for the funeral and burial, collect donations, share food and stories of the lost relative/friend. The funeral is then the next morning. In the case of our business tech, the final arrangements were not announced until the last night meeting. I got a text from a friend about 9:30 last night with the final arrangements. I then notified some friends who had asked. I would have had to leave Flagstaff at 6am to make the 9am funeral, due to daylight time on the Rez. I let them know I couldn’t make it. Since she was Miss Western Navajo in 1982, the service was at the Tuba Community Center to honor her accomplishments. Nice.

 

Historical Events

 

1782 – General George Washington ordered the creation of the badge that would become America’s Purple Heart.

1802 Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St Domingue (Haiti)

1882 – The famous Hatfield & McCoy Feud began at the Kentucky/West Virginia border.

1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1947 Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean

1959 – US satellite Explorer 6 took the first photograph of Earth from space.

1978 – Love Canal, NY, near Niagara Falls, was declared a disaster area by President Jimmy Carter.

1990 – Operation Desert Shield began in response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

2007 – Barry Bonds beat Hank Aarons home record with his 756th home run. 

 

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2015)

79 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, and radio host

@78 – B.J. Thomas, American singer (d. 2021)

61 – David Duchovny, American actor

55 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founder of Wikipedia

@41 – Mata Hari [Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod], Dutch dancer, and spy (d. 1917; executed)