11 Oct

 

October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 284 \ Ave. Sky Cover 20% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \36° 
Wind 8mph \ Gusts 14mph  Air Quality Fair       Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 101mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

3-10
No Salt Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link  

4-10 
World Space Week Link
World Dairy Expo 

6-12
National Physician’s Assistant Week

9-15  
Death Penalty Focus Week
National Metric Week  
National Women's Motorcycle Week  Link 
Drink Local Wine Week   
Earth Science Week Link 
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week  Link 
National Chestnut Week 
Teen Read Week  

9-16
Sukkot Jewish Holiday

10-17
Take Your Medicine Americans Week

10-15
World Rainforest Week: Link  
Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link  
National School Lunch Week

Daily Observations

Ada Lovelace Day
Coming Out Day
General Pulaski Memorial Day (President)  
International Day of The Girl Child Link
International Face Your Fears Day  
It’s My Party Day
Kof Awareness Day (Hebrew Link
Myths & Legends Day For All Fantasy Movie, Books and Legends Cephalopods  Link
National Coming Out Day
Sausage Pizza Day
Southern Food Heritage Day
World Child Development Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice fall day. Heading in for a phlebotomy about 2pm.

I did my monthly run to Walmart this morning. They are rearranging the entire store. I had to ask to find several items. I kept repeating to myself ‘Change is good’ so that I would believe it. I’m still not a believer.

The Cards lost to the Eagles. They had chances to tie, but just kept blowing the plays. Neither the Cards nor the Broncos are having good seasons. Oh well! 

Favorite Memes

 

 

 

Superstitions

Breaking a Wishbone

The wishbone superstition started thousands of years ago with the Etruscan Italian empire. They predicted the future by observing chickens and viewed the collarbone as a sacred part of the bird. The Etruscans would let the collarbones dry out and then keep them to make wishes. Romans adopted this tradition and started breaking the bones among two people due to a lack of availability. 

US Facts

Football coach

In over half of the US states, the highest paying job is a football coach.

Historical Events

1811 -The Juliana, began operation as the first steam-powered ferry service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey.
1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, opened.
1887 – The first adding machine (the Comptometer) was patented, by Dorr Eugene Felt.
1890 The Daughters of the American Revolution were founded, in Washington, DC.
1962 – Pope John XXIII convenes the Second Vatican Council, changing several rules, including saying The mass in the local languages and having the celebrant (priest) face the congregation.
1975 – Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC.
1984 – Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first American woman to perform a spacewalk, on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Birthdays Today

@91 – Earle Hyman, American actor (d. 2017)
@78 – Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, 39th First Lady (d. 1962; cardiac failure)
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
76 – Daryl Hall, American singer-songwriter
“If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don’t have their assistants and entourage, it’s funny to see what happens.”– Daryl Hall
@74 – Henry J. Heinz, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d. 1919; pneumonia)
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”– Henry John Heinz
60 – Joan Cusack, actor
@58 – Dottie West, American singer-songwriter (d. 1991; car crash)
57 – Sean Patrick Flanery, American actor
@52 – Luke Perry, American actor, and producer (d. 2019)
“Why doesn’t Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that’s where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it’s the key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world’s biggest problems.”– Luke Perry
54 – Jane Krakowski, American actress, and singer
45 – Matt Bomer, American actor
37 – Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
30 – Cardi B, American rapper

 

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