24 Oct

 

24 October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 44 Day 297 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 50° \23° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 27mph    Air Quality: Fair           Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 263mi \ Nearest Lightning qmi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

17-23 
Career in Energy Week
Freedom of Speech Week Link 
Medical Assistants Recognition Week Link
Mediation Week  Link 

17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

23-29
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
Kids Care Week
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link 
National Massage Therapy Week Link 
National Respiratory Care Week Link 
Pastoral Care Week   Link 
Pro Bono Week   Link

23-31  
Red Ribbon Week Link  

24-30
Asexuality Week:   Link
Disarmament Week

24-31
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

24-11/11
World Origami Days

Daily Observations

Accountant's Day or Accounting Day
Bologna Day
Crazy Day
Diwali Link
Food Day Link
Recycle Your Mercury Thermostat Day
Take Back Your Time Day
United Nations Day
World Development Information Day
World Polio Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Windy, cloudy, rainy with snow on the Peaks.

I was prepared to wake up to a slight covering of snow. Instead, it was raining and there were dead pine needles everywhere from the wind. Guess I’ll wait a little longer for snow.

Unsettling news story: The biological sisters of Sacheen Littlefeather, the lady who refused Marlon Brando’s Academy Award decades ago and to whom the Academy had apologized, are now saying that their sister lived in a fantasy world. Her father was Mexican, her mother was white. Her grandfather had abused her father in his youth. They showed biographical records to support their story. There are also no records showing that she is White Mountain Apache, as she claimed. If this account is true, it is discouraging that the media, Brando, or her family did not speak of this decades ago. If it is true, I get that the White Mountain Apache did not speak out as there are ‘wannabes’ [want to be Indians] all around.

Favorite Memes

 

 

Superstitions

The Ides of March

In early Roman calendars, Martius (March) was the first month of the year and dates were expressed by lunar phases as Kalends (Kal), Nones (Non), and Ides (Id). Ides of March referred to the first full moon of the year. Full moons have their own association with bad juju, but the real negative context of March 15 started with the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Centuries later, the day continued to be marred by everything from catastrophic weather events to the cancelation of the Ed Sullivan Show. 

They live among us

I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked,

'Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?'

To which I replied, 'If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?'

He smiled knowingly and nodded, 'That's why we ask.'

Historical Events

1901 – Annie Edson Taylor, at age 63, became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1929 – Black Thursday in the stock market.
1945 – The United Nations was founded.
1946 – A camera onboard the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space.
2007 – China successfully launched its first space probe, Chang’e-1.
2008 – Many of the world’s stock exchanges experienced their worst declines in history – “Bloody Friday”

Birthdays Today

@83 – Bob Kane, American comic book author and illustrator, co-created Batman (d. 1998)
86 – Bill Wyman, English singer-songwriter and bass player, The Rolling Stones
“I’m not a musician, I just play bass.”– Bill Wyman 83 – F. Murray Abraham, American actor
@82 – Ken Utsui, Japanese actor (d. 2014)
75 – Kevin Kline, American actor
“I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera – both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.”– Kevin Kline
62 – BD Wong, American actor
@56 – Melvin Purvis, FBI agentf, arrested Dillinger and others  (d. 1960; shot)
36 – Drake, Canadian rapper, actor
“I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”– Drake
33 – PewDiePie [Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg], Swedish YouTuber
@28 – The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter (d. 1959) #thedaythemusicdied
24 – Daya, American singer

 

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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.