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Lightning: 1845mi
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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3- 5/1 Ramadan 16-22 INVICTUS GAMES 16-24 National Park Week: Link |
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17-23 Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link |
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18-22 Undergraduate Research
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18-23 Cleaning For A Reason
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19-21 National Catholic
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Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I had a very
nice Easter. I had a great phone call with my brother. They are spending the
week in San Miguel. I called Lori, Bob Eckhardt’s eldest. She is doing well after
losing her husband in January. She and her sister are planning a memorial for
Bob in late July. Sure hope I can make it. She is also attending a couple of
art shows that will honor Lynn. One in in Loveland, where they met, and the
other is in Fort Robinson, where they spent many days and where they were
married.
I was
shocked then I read that the Grand Gateway Hotel in Rapid City is denying all
natives to their property. Sioux tribal leaders from several tribes, including
Pine Ridge, are suing in Federal Court over an 1868 treaty that forbids such
actions. It is difficult to understand how this hatred still exists in 2022.
HBO is
showing Spielberg’s West Side Story. I watched it last night. It is very
well done. It was nice to see Rita Moreno. Congrats to the cast and producers
for a great movie.
Sweden and
Finland are now discussing joining NATO after the mess in Ukraine. To be honest
I just assumed they were already members.
Technology
is great until it doesn’t work. I spent several hours making a video presentation
of my recent Focus trip to French Polynesia. I used the free video program that
came with my less than a year-old computer. I finally got what I wanted and
told the program to finish the presentation so I could post it. It was only 5
minutes long. As the machine was processing my fantastic pictures, a message
popped up that I had an old driver, and the process could not be completed. I
spent about 30 minutes trying to find the needed driver…all with no luck. So I
updated a program I have been using for years…at a cost of $30. Now I’m ready
to start all over.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
He worked in
the woods as a lumberjack, but I just couldn’t hack it, so they gave me the
axe.
Trivia
o With Italian, Greek, German, Japanese and
every other style of restaurant you can think of practically on every street
corner, it may seem difficult to come up with some examples of good ol'
authentic American cuisine. Following are a couple of examples that might
surprise you.
o Most Chinese Food. All across America,
Chinese buffets offer endless arrays of beautiful, deep-fried, grease-soaked
food. General Tso's chicken, chop suey, egg rolls, chow mein, fortune cookies.
What do all these dishes have in common? They were all invented in America.
Chinese people typically eat rice with vegetables and maybe a little meat. And
it's not battered or fried, and it's certainly not filled with cheese. That's
all American.
Historical Events
Ø 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the
eastern coast of what is now Australia.
Ø 1775 – The American Revolution began in
Lexington, Massachusetts.
Ø 1897 – The first Boston Marathon was
held.
Ø 1927 – Mae West was sentenced to ten days
in jail for obscenity for her play Sex in New York. She served eight days with
two days off for good behavior.
Ø 1975 – India’s first satellite,
Aryabhata, was launched.
Ø 1982 – NASA announced that the first
black astronaut would be Guion S. Bluford, Jr., and the first woman astronaut
would be Sally K. Ride.
Ø 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents
laid siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The
Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas.
Ø 1987 – The Simpsons first appeared as a
series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show,
Ø 1993 – At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas,
the FBI launched a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending
with a fire that killed 81 members, including 22 children.
Ø 1995 – A massive truck bomb exploded
outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
killing 168 people.
Ø 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is
later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
Birthdays Today
@91 – Hugh O’Brian, American actor (d.
2016)
76
– Tim Curry, English actor
@66 – Dudley Moore, English comedic actor
and pianist (d. 2002; rare brain disease)
57
– Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
@54 – Eliot Ness, American law
enforcement agent (d. 1957; heart attack)
54
– Ashley Judd, American actress
44
– James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
43 – Kate Hudson, American actress
@34 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d.
1967; car crash)
