Sep 14

 

Sep 14, 2021 Week: 38 Day: 257
Ave. Sky Cover:  %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   81°\ 49° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 5mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 178mi. \ Lightning: 394mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
International Housekeepers Week: Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link	12-18
Be A Mench Week Line Dance Week   National NeoNatal Nurses Week  Link	13-19

 

Daily Observations

 

Crab Fest Day Cream Filled Donut Day Hug Your Hound Day Live Creative Day Sober Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What can you have more of & see less? Darkness.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Weather is great. Hard to believe fall is just around the corner. Broncos beat the Giants yesterday. Yeah. While I am doing fine, I’m still not back to 100% after my tooth extraction. I moved my Covid booster to nest week, just to play it safe. Wednesday a plumber is coming to repair my master bath toilet. The seal broke a couple of months ago, and they did a temporary fix until they had an open day to do a complete day to fix it. Can’t wait. The hearings on the American withdrawal from Afghanistan are happening. Lots of finger pointing on both sides of the aisle. Everyone seems to agree it is a black eye on our country nationally and internationally. Agree. I did some quick shopping this morning. Nothing big was needed so shopping took little time. I did meet another self-checkout machine that questioned why I would be buying cough syrup. Took a while for the human to find me and verify that I was not a drug addled meth head. I just smiled for him, but didn’t show my missing tooth, just in case.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo

1752 – The British Empire adopted the Gregorian (modern) calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2).

1901 – US President William McKinley died after being shot on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz.

1939 World’s 1st practical helicopter, the VS-300 designed by Igor Sikorsky takes (tethered) flight in Stratford, Connecticut

1969 – September 14 was the First Draft Lottery date for the US Selective Service.

1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born American to be canonized as a Catholic saint.

1994 – The Major League Baseball season was canceled because of a players’ strike.

2000 – Microsoft released Windows Me. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006.

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2020 WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417

 

Birthdays Today

 

@86 – Margaret Sanger, nurse, activist, founder of Planned Parenthood (d. 1966)

@85 – Clayton Moore, American actor, The Lone Ranger (d. 1999)

77 – Joey Heatherton, American actress, dancer

74 – Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor

48 – Nas, American rapper

@27 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d, 2011; OD)

 

 

sep 13

 

Sep 13, 2021 Week: 38 Day: 256
Ave. Sky Cover: 5 %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   80°\ 50° Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 8mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 143mi. \ Lightning: 299mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
International Housekeepers Week: Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link	12-18
Be A Mench Week Line Dance Week   National NeoNatal Nurses Week  Link	13-19

 

Daily Observations

 

Bald Is Beautiful Day Defy Superstition Day Fortune Cookie Day Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day National Celiac Awareness Day Peanut Day Positive Thinking Day Roald Dahl Day Uncle Sam Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What kind of shoes do Ninjas wear? Sneakers   Do you remember the joke about the Chiropractor? It was about a weak back.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Great weather day Sunday. Doors and windows open. All good. I have a Navajo friend who is raising her 2 grandkids. She has had them since they started school and the oldest graduates from High School this year. She has found friends to help her with music camp, swimming camp, band, and the list goes on. She is a retired dorm aide, so her income is very limited. The other day she called to say the grandkids were doing a laps contest to raise money for swim team transportation to meets. One could pledge 50 cents or $1 per lap. I picked the lower. She called yesterday. It turns out the laps was the cumulative laps of the entire team; I had pledged $176. I was shocked but haven’t help her for months, so when she said she would stop by Sunday, I said fine. She picked up the check that was made out to the swim team, so I know where the money is going. I’ll remember to ask more questions next time. Football news: CU Buffs lost to Texas A&M; Cardinals are surprising the betting community as they are beating the Titans with only one quarter to go. Broncos play the Giants later, but of course, it won’t be on my TV, but I can follow it on the internet machine. Congratulations to Niagara Rockbridge on being crowned the new Miss Navajo Nation. Her predecessor served 2019-2021 as the pageant was cancelled last year. The crowning and many of the events were only open virtually. This is a big deal on the Rez, and she will be busy attending community and school events around the Rez this upcoming year.

 

Historical Events

 122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England

1501 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture

1790 – The US Capitol was moved to New York City from Philadelphia.

1899 – Henry Bliss was the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab who struck Bliss, was charged but acquitted.

1814 – Francis Scott Key composed his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”- which later became The Star-Spangled Banner.

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use disk storage, was introduced.

1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1985 – Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES.

2017 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar

2018 Spanish parliament votes to exhume former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen

 

Birthdays Today

 

@88 – Milton S. Hershey, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)

@74 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, screenwriter (d. 1990; blood cancer)

@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d.2014; heart attack)

@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, conductor (d. 2015; liver failure)

70 – Jean Smart, American actress

@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, and singer (d. 2003; heart disease)

52—Tyler Perry, actor, producer

@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, and biologist (d. 1902; peritonitis)