17 Sept

Weather Expectations Week 38 Day 260 Today  70°/52°                            

Wind 12mph Gusts 19mph Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Breezy

Risk of fire: Very Low    Active Fire: 114 miles away

Nearest Lightning: 4 miles away Humidity: 54%

Sept Averages: Temps: 74°\43° 8 days with rain

Today’s Observances:

Citizenship Day
Constitution Day
International Day of Listening Link 
International Country Music Day Link
International NYC Day Link
National Monte Cristo Day Link
National PawPaw Day
National Professional House Cleaners Day  Link Link Link Link
National Table Shuffleboard Day
National Teach Ag Day
Responsible Dog Ownership Day Link 
Time's Up Day  Link
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
World Patient Safety Day

Weekly Observances:

National Neonatal Nurses Week: 12-18  Link
Balance Awareness Week: 13-19 Link   
Be A Mench Week: 13-19
Build A Better Image Week: 13-19
International Housekeepers Week: 13-19 Link
International Women's E-Commerce Days: 13-19
National Assisted Living Week: 13-19
National Ballroom Dance Week: 13-19 Link
National Construction Appreciation Week: 13-19  
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week:13-19
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week: 13-19
National Indoor Plant Week: 13-19
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 13-19
National Security Officer Appreciation Week: 13-19
National Singles Week: 13-19
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: 13-19 Link

Nephrology Nurses Week: 13-19  Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 13-19

National Chef Appreciation Week: 14-18 Link 
International Go-Kart Week: 14-20
Line Dance Week: 14-19 
Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week: 14-20 Link
National Love Your Files Week: 14-18 Link 
Pollution Prevention Week: 14-20  Link
National Medicare Education Week: 15-21
National Championship Air Races: 16-20 Link
National Guitar Flat-Picking Days: 16-20 Link 
Hummingbird Celebration: 17-20 Link

Constitution Week: 17-23

Fresh Quotation:

 

Today’s Reflection:

A cloudy day here. It’s OK, maybe there will be some rain.

About a week ago I was looking for a new scent diffuser for my bedroom. The Facebook minions started posting at least 10 ads/day for diffusers. Yesterday, I was fed up. So whenever I saw a diffuser ad, I clicked on the X. hid the ad, and said I had already purchased it. Good news is that today there are no diffuser ads on my feed. I never found one I liked so didn’t buy on. Haha machine.

Since the war in Iran is ruining our economy and costing every taxpayer a whole lot, here’s an old idea for the government…if you want to have a war simply ask Americans to send a check to the government every few months to pay for it. Those who want war will do it, those who don’t want war will not send the check.

No surprise, but the House has adjourned until after the midterms without voting on an AI rules that might save humanity. How is this good?

The hacienda is having another photo shoot. More advertising will be good.

Historical events

17 Sept History Video

Cool to know:

Baby sea otters can't swim right away.

Their moms will wrap them in pieces of kelp while they hunt until the buoyant pups learn how to paddle around on their own. A raft of otters will also hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart!

 

AI positive and negative:

Deep Learning and Generative AI

Modern AI systems can recognize patterns, generate content, and even simulate human-like interactions.

Artificial Excellence (Next Phase)

The next stage is systems that integrate intelligence, adaptability, ethics, and optimization to achieve excellence across multiple domains. 

Picture of the Day:

 

Interesting Space Facts:

If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.

For 20 years, a team of astronomers observed a star at the center of our galaxy orbiting a black hole.

The star has now got close enough to the black hole for “gravitational redshift” to occur which is where the star’s light loses energy as the black hole’s gravity intensified.

 

Harper’s Index from Funny Times:

Estimated percentage in which immigrants to the US pay more in taxes, on average, than those US-born citizens: 17

Percentage of Americans ho said that ‘a great deal’ or ‘almost all’ of the Federal government spending was wasteful in 2025: 57

In 2026: 70

Today’s Birthdays:

Patrick Mahomes Football Player 31 years old

Birthplace Tyler, TX

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Narendra Modi World Leader- India 76 years old

Birthplace Vadnagar, India

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Hank Williams Sr. Country Singer [1923-1953] @29 "acute rt. ventricular dilation"

Birthplace Mount Olive, AL

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John Ritter TV Actor [1954-2003] @54 aortic dissection

Birthplace Burbank, CA

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Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano) Movie Actress [1931-2005] @73 uterine cancer

Birthplace The Bronx, NY

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