Sep 9

 

Sep 9, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 252
Ave. Sky Cover:  %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   84°\ 47° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 6mph
Extreme risk of fire Active fire: 178mi. \ Lightning: 433mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10
Play Days	7-11
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Craft Brewers Week Link	9-12
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
Popcorn Days Link	9-11

 

Daily Observations

 

Teddy Bear Day Wiener Schnitzel Day Wonderful Weirdos Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What can you always hear at a bowling alley?   A pin drop.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice day…I’m surviving my tooth extraction. I’m just tired today. The early morning earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico didn’t effect my brother, his wife, the dogs, or the property. Good news. Nebraska Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry introduced the Care for Her Act, legislation that seeks to bridge gaps between existing resources for women facing unplanned pregnancies. The bill would not restrict abortion. Instead, it would make expectant mothers eligible for the existing child tax credit. It would also create “a new Federal-State entity” to access and publicize resources for expectant mothers and families, including job training and food and housing resources, as well as provide grants for those services. It would also incentivize states to improve maternal and child health outcomes by awarding grants to states that reduce their maternal and infant mortality rates. Good news.

 

Historical Events

 

1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

1888 Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the Pacific is annexed by Chile

1888 – The body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found in London.

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited.

1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va

1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log

1957 US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1999, Sega Dreamcast released, Video Game Console

September 9 is the most popular birthdate in the United States.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

2019 Poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 has survived with his annotations according to scholar Jason Scott-Warren in Philadelphia library, could be world's most important modern literary discovery

 

Birthdays Today

 

@90 – Colonel ‘Harland’ Sanders, businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)

@82 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, playwright (d. 1910)

69 – Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress

61 – Hugh Grant, English actor

55 – Adam Sandler, American actor, and screenwriter

46 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter

 

 

Sep 8

Sep 8, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 251
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   83°\ 51° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Extreme risk of fire Active fire: 131mi. \ Lightning: 366mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10
Play Days	7-11
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14

 

Daily Observations

 

Ampersand Day Date-Nut Bread Day Literacy Day Pardon Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

Why do bakers always carry extra cash? Because they never know when a bit of extra dough might be kneaded

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

My dentist was in, so I got an appointment for 10:00. After an X-ray I got the news that it had to be extracted. At that point, I just wanted the pain to go away. It was an easy extraction. I was out before 11:00, picked up an antibiotic and pain med and came home. Took a long nap. All good. The Afghan airport is open again for domestic flights. No international flights because there is no radar, so all flights are what the pilot sees out his window. Ida sure did damage. Just read that there were over 350 reported oil spills in the waters around Louisiana. Expect gas price to go up again. When I filled with gas this morning before the dentist Sam’s Regular was $3.09. AZ has a state senator, Wendy Rogers, who ran twice for office before getting a seat. She is a conservative’s conservative.  On Labor Day she tweeted: “Labor Day is a Communist Holiday”. She gave no explanation as to why she believes that horse pucky.

 Historical Events

 Historical Events

1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

1921 The First ‘Fall Frolic” was held in Atlantic City, and won by Margaret Gorman. Herb Test coined the term for the winner: “Miss America.”

1935 – US Senator from Louisiana was shot by Carl Weiss, a political rival. He died from the wounds 2 days later.

1941 WWII: Siege of Leningrad by German, Finnish, and eventually Spanish troops begins; battle lasted over 28 months, as Russia repels the invasion; well over a million lives

1952 Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man & the Sea" published

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

1986 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is first broadcast nationally

1998 – Mark McGuire hit his 62nd home run, breaking Roger Maris’s record. He finished the season with a total of 70.

2015 Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church

2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are 4 species not just 1, as previously assumed

 

Birthdays Today

 

@96 – Lyndon LaRouche, American politician, and activist (d. 2019)

@91 – Sid Caesar, American comedic actor (d. 2014)

80 – Bernie Sanders, American politician

@62 – Antonín Dvorák, Czech composer and academic (d. 1904; influenza)

@54 – Peter Sellers, English comedic actor (d. 1980; heart attack)

42 – Pink (Alecia Beth Moore), American singer-songwriter

34 – Wiz Khalifa, Haitian rapper

@30 – Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (d. 1963; plane crash)

@28 – Avicii [Tim Bergling], Swedish EDM artist (d. 2018; suicide)