Two things before I begin.
As you are aware, sleeping has been a problem with me. I saw Dr.Oppenheimer again yesterday. He examined my eyes even further. Subjected me to an eye test that I have never had in the 50 years I have been wearing glasses. He concluded the medicine I am taking to sleep was screwing up my eyes and to cease taking it immediately.
I did and guess what happened last night? I slept six hours. Does not make sense, I know. The medicine was not helping me to sleep in addition to screwing up my eyes. Note I have not slept six hours in ages.
Now my eyes have to adjust.
Today’s blog will be about the small things in life. Neither Trump nor politics today. We get enough of both without my contributing everyday also.
To the small but interesting and/or important things in life.
Pure stupidity! A Scottish museum pulled its Egyptian mummies from display because there is no record that the ancient Egyptians agreed to be shown. Some call the action “woke nonsense.”
What would happen if all museums in the U.S. displaying mummies did the same? Much of ancient history is not recorded. Only recalled through the years.
A rare hailstorm in Phoenix smashed car windows and covered everything in general. The hail ice balls were the size of golf balls.
A retired house painter in England on selling a Pokémon card collection he had kept in his attic for 15 years for $2.1 million: “I know people always talk about finding treasure in the attic, but in my case that is literally true.”
Four days of the week are named after Norse gods: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
There have been 60 U.S. Presidential elections. Twenty three Presidents served one full term or less.
Aristotle wrote a treatise on animals. Titled “History of Animals.” It consisted of nine books.
Comic books were very popular in the 1940s. For example in 1944 when I was 9 years old, 95 percent of boys 6-11 read comic books.
There are seven denominations of U.S. paper currency: $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100.
The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882.
Thirty percent of countries drive on the left side of the road.
Russia was the first to fly in space. The pilot was Yuri Gagarin. He orbited the earth one time. He never made it to the Moon on that first trip nor was his trip intended to reach the Moon.
Benjamin Franklin’s only surviving home is located in England.
Four U.S. Vice Presidents have been elected President: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, and George H. W. Bush.
The Presidential line of succession, to wit, the Vice President ascending to the Presidency if the President died or resigned, did not become law till 1967. The 25th Amendment at that time provided ascending to the Presidency as a matter of course rather than policy.
In World War II, Germany built a secret weather station that was not discovered till 1977.
Social Security data: Workers paid into Social Security $183 million in 2023, the rate of the payroll deduction funding Social Security is 12.4 percent, 67 million people collected Social Security in 2024, the Social Security Administration employs 59,000.
The Washington Monument is 555 feet tall, took 40 years to complete from dedication to completion, and consists of 36,000 marble and granite blocks.
The year Eggo Waffles slogan “Leggo My Eggo” debuted was 1972.
Each President’s face on Mount Rushmore is 60 feet in height. Four hundred fifty thousand tons of rock were removed to create Mount Rushmore, mostly by dynamite.
Concrete used big time. Thirty million metric tons used worldwide each year.
Edinburgh Castle is located in Scotland. It was built on an extinct volcano.
Manholes are located everywhere. Twenty million in the U.S. alone.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “Politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance are intent in dragging America through the mud.”
The Ebola crisis in Africa is the largest geographically widespread Ebola outbreak in history. Dangerous!
Johnny Carson: “Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.”
Van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” was painted by him in 1889 as he watched the sky before sunrise from his room at the asylum in Saint-Remy in southern France.
Enough for today. More than I have written in ages. The six hour sleep helped. My eyes still screwed up, however.
Enjoy your day!