13 Oct

 

October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 286 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 69° \36° 
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality:  Fair   High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 29mi \ Nearest Lightning 328mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

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

12-20 
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

Daily Observations

English Language Day Link
International Day for Disaster Reduction
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National Chess Day Link 
National No Bra Day Link  
Navy Birthday  Link
Silly Sayings Day
Skeptics Day
Train Your Brain Day
US Navy Birthday
World Sight Day Link 
World Thrombosis Day 
World Thrombosis Day  Link
Yorkshire Pudding Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s an almost cloudless day. Nice!

It must be getting chilly…the furnace came on this morning about 7:30am. Probably ran during the night too.

A CT jury awarded millions to parents of Sandy Hook to be paid by convicted Alex Jones. The total was $965 million. I wonder if they will ever see that much money. This was the 2nd of 3 trials. A Texas jury has already ordered him to pay $50million in the first case.

Iran has admitted that some of the student protesters, regarding hijab wearing, have now been sent to psychiatric institutions.

A young Native couple from Alaska were walking after a big storm. They found a huge dinosaur femur in the storm’s aftermath. Selling it will allow them to build their first home. Nice!

Favorite Memes









 

 

Superstitions

Four-Leaf Clovers

You might think the myth of the four-leaf clover has Celtic origins, but you’d be wrong. The hype around the shamrock started with Adam and Eve when Eve took a four-leaf clover from the Garden of Eden as a souvenir from the beautiful paradise they were leaving behind when they were exiled. Other cultures including the ancient Egyptians and yes, the Druid priests of Ireland, who believed that the clovers had healing properties and could ward off evil. It is estimated that the chances of finding a four-leaf clover is one in 10,000. 

US Facts

Weird coincidence

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Historical Events

1269 – The present church building at Westminster Abbey was consecrated.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy, almost 25 million light-years away, was discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Navy (Continental Navy) was authorized by the Second Continental Congress.
1792 – The cornerstone for the White House was laid.
2010 – The 2010 Copiapo mining accident in Copiapo, Chile ended as all 33 miners came to the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground.

Birthdays Today

@87 – Margaret Thatcher, British PM (d. 2013)
81 – Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter
80 – Jerry Jones, American businessman, longtime owner of The Dallas Cowboys
“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said I gotta use that one.”– Paul Simon
@70 – Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (d. 1991; heart attack)
“Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.”– Yves Montand
66 – Chris Carter, American director, producer, and screenwriter, The X-Files
63 – Marie Osmond, American singer, actress, and television spokesperson
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”– Marie Osmond
60 – Jerry Rice, American football player
@57 – Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020; breast cancer)
53 – Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
51 – Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian, actor
42 – Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas, American singer-songwriter
“It’s so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.”– Ashanti
@40 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966; OD)
“The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals; it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.”– Lenny Bruce
33 – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, politician
22 – Caleb McLaughlin, American actor

 

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.