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Week 21 Day 143 Flag Today 74°/32° Wind 7 mph Gusts 13 mph Active Fire: 195 miles away Risk of fire Extreme Nearest Lightning: 443 miles away Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine Smoky May Averages: Temps: 68°\34° Moisture: 3 Days |
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Weekly Observations
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14-25 Cannes Film
Festival International
Heritage Breeds Week Link EMS
Week Link Link Link National
Eosinophil Awareness Week Link |
19-25 con’t. National
Seat Belt Reinforcement Week Link Undergraduate
Research Week Link Fleet Week Mule Days Link |
Daily Observations
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Buy a
Musical Instrument Day |
National
Maritime Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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The most important things
are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. --Stephen King |
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Today’s Thoughts
Enjoying the great
spring weather with a nice walk around the neighborhood. Prescribed burns
nearby made it a little smoky. There is still smoke settling in at my place.
Smiling: AZ has been
trying to serve Rudy Giuliani for a couple of weeks. It is about his involvement
with the ‘fake’ electors in AZ from the 2020 election. He couldn’t be found.
Then he posted on X taunting the process servers at his 80th party
in Florida. He didn’t know they were sitting in the parking lot of the venue
and were just waiting for him to leave. They served him as he was walking to
his car. Good job.
The jury in the Trump
trial will be back Tuesday next to hear closing arguments. The judge reminded
them not to talk about the case. That must be quite a difficult task.
Did you Know?
Origin of common phrases
Piece
of cake
In the 19th century, it was common to award cakes to winners at competitions, hence the idea of something being a "piece of
cake." "Cakewalk,"
which has a similar meaning, was actually the name of a dance competition.
Plantation owners in the pre-Civil War South served as judges at cakewalks,
wherein enslaved people went through a series of complicated dance moves that
were most likely done in mockery of the plantation owners.
Historic Events
1804 – The Lewis and
Clark Expedition officially began, from St. Charles, Missouri.
US President #16
Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to receive a patent, on his
floating drydock on May 22, 1849, US patent #6469.
1906 – The Wright
brothers were granted US Patent (#821,393) for their “Flying-Machine”.
1964 – Lyndon B.
Johnson launched The Great Society.
1990 – Microsoft
Windows 3.0 was released.
Birthdays with some quotes
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85 – Richard Benjamin, American character actor and director 58 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter (New Edition) 54 – Naomi Campbell, English model “If you have to talk to
more than three people about the same problem, you don’t want help, you want
attention.” 37 – Novak Djokovic, Tennis player 25 – Camren Bicondova, American actress “I think it’s weird
seeing myself on the television, but it’s great!” |
@81
– Ted Kaczynski, American anarchist, serial
murderer, the Unabomber (d. 2023) @79
– Sun Ra,
American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993) “The possible has been
tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible.” @75
– Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi),
Belgian author, illustrator (d. 1983) “By believing in his
dreams, man turns them into reality.” @71
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
British writer (d. 1930; heart attack) “You see, but you do not
observe.” “Life is infinitely
stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” @69
– Richard Wagner,
German composer (d. 1883) @65
– Quinn Martin,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987; heart attack) |
…The End for today…
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