Today is the 24th day of September, 2021, the 267th day of the year. If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 97 days would still be left in the year. This day, today, is the day for benevolence. With benevolence, good roots prevail in all the situations in life
The sun rose at 7:28 a.m. this morning and will set at 7:29 p.m. Three days past the Equinox, and we're still one minute away from equanimity. The waning gibbous moon is 79% full and will rise at 10:15 p.m. this evening and will set at 12:41 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.
Out in the Atlantic, Sam has grown into a Category 3 major hurricane, and is forecast to become a Category 4 storm by tomorrow. Sam is the fourth major hurricane to form this year. With over a month of hurricane season still left to go, this year could well make the record books. The year with the most major hurricanes was 1950 with 8; 2005 came in second with 7. Six years (1926, 1955, 1961, 1964, 1996, and 1999) are tied with 6 major hurricanes each.
The average number of new covid cases per day in Georgia is now down to 4,561, a 50% decrease from the August 31 peak (9,244 cases per day). If this rate of decline continues, we should be down to around 3,800 cases per day by September 29, when I hope to see Oh Sees play at Variety Playhouse. That sounds like a low number when compared to the peak average of 9,244, but it's still high. We didn't experience 3,800 cases per day during the first two waves of the virus, only reaching that level in December 2020 during the early days of the third wave.
On this date in 1980, Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham died. The morning before, on his way to rehearsals for a planned North American tour, Bonham stopped for breakfast, where he reportedly drank four quadruple vodka screwdrivers (16 shots). He continued to drink heavily throughout the day's rehearsals. After midnight on September 25, Bonham fell asleep. Someone took him to bed and placed him on his side. He was found unresponsive that afternoon and was later pronounced dead at 32 years old. Impermanence is swift. An inquest showed that in 24 hours, Bonham had consumed around 40 shots of 80-proof vodka, after which he vomited and choked, the same cause (pulmonary aspiration) that killed Jimi Hendrix a decade earlier.
On the day than Bonham died, rapper T.I. was born as Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. in the Bankhead neighborhood of Northwest Atlanta. His childhood nickname was "Tip," from which he derived the stage name "T.I." A highly successful performed and entrepreneur, T.I. has released 11 studio albums to date and won three Grammy Awards. He is the author of two novels, Power & Beauty and Trouble & Triumph. He's also had a successful acting career, starring in the films ATL, Takers, Get Hard, Identity Thief, and in the Marvel films Ant-Man and its sequel. T.I. also starred in the American reality television series The Grand Hustle, T.I.'s Road to Redemption, and T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle.
He's served two terms in county jail for probation violations, and a term in federal prison on a weapons charge. He released his seventh studio album, No Mercy, in 2010 while serving an 11-month term. As of March 2021, more than 30 women and at least one man have accused T.I., his wife Tiny, and their associates of "forced drugging, kidnapping, rape, and intimidation" in at least two states (California and Georgia), which allegedly occurred since at least 2005. The accusers allege that "prior to or upon immediately entering T&T's home, hotel, or tour bus [they] were coerced by Tiny to ingest drugs or [were] unknowingly administered drugs to impair the victims' ability to consent to subsequent vile sexual acts." T.I. has denied the allegations and claimed that all of his sexual encounters had been consensual, but as a result of the allegations, production of T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle was suspended.
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