13 Nov

 

November 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 47 Day 317 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 46° \13° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 10mph  Air Quality: Fair\ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 124mi \ Nearest Lightning 1331mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
National Donor Sabbath: 10-12
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 11-17
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 12-18 
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International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18  
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National Cider Week: 12-19 
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National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18
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National Nurse Practioner's Week: 12-18 
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Perioperative Nurse Week: 12-18 
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Roc Your Moc Week: 12-18 
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World Kindness Week: 12-18  
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Daily Observations

Actor’s Day
National Indian Pudding Day
National Mom’s and Dad’s Day
Sadie Hawkins Day (official since 1937)
Sandwich Day  Link
Start a Rumor Day (we heard)
World Kindness Day  Link 
World Orphans Day
World Orphans Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It’s another nice fall day. I was out and about getting gas at Sam’s, when I stopped in to the new Home Goods store, that took over BB&B’s space. A nice store with lots of stuff. Didn’t need any stuff so I just browsed.

The AZ election results are being made public at a snail’s pace. In my congressional district the incumbent Dem lost to a Republican. Sec. of State has gone to a Dem over an election denier. Mark Kelly, a Dem remains our senator. No decision on the Gov race yet. Lake, the Trumpian candidate, still believes she will win. Every day she adds to her list of ‘during hour one of day one I will…’. So far it is to fix the election process, close the border, declare several emergencies to help with the border crisis, and the list goes on. I’m hoping she has checked out the office printer so she won’t be out of ink, like happened with the voting machines in her county.

It is interesting that all those people who told Kaepernick and LeBron to “stick to sports” haven’t said a word to Herschel Walker.

I leave next Saturday for my Thanksgiving/Early Christmas in Mexico. Getting excited.

Favorite Memes


 

Best Instrumentals

"Cliffs of Dover" by Eric Johnson (1990)

Joining Joe Satriani as one of the most technically sound instrumental guitarists of all time, Johnson has dabbled in all types of musical genres during his stellar career. Whether focusing on rock, jazz, new age, and classical, just to name a few, Johnson has awed listeners for decades. This piece, though, is arguably his most renowned in recognizable to a mass audience. 

Meaning/history of a phrase

Taken aback

This expression is often used when one is caught off guard, not expecting something. It's origins are also quite dark.

It comes from the idea of attacking someone from behind. The element of surprise usually makes it an effective way to conduct an attack.

Historical Events

1789 – Ben Franklin wrote “nothing is certain, but death and taxes” in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.
1855 – A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, to connect Boulogne to Dover.
1940 – Walt Disney released Fantasia, an film experience mixing animation and classical music, at New York’s Broadway Theatre.
1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1947 – The Soviet Union completed the development of the AK-47.
1956 – The US Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1971 – Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, reaching Mars.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument consisting of two black granite walls engraved with the names of 58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam, was dedicated in Washington D.C.
2015 – Terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people and injured hundreds.

Birthdays Today

@84 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer, jurist (‘right to privacy’ d. 1941)
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. “– Louis Brandeis
@84 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, founded the Westboro Baptist Church, (d. 2014)
@81 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, producer (d. 2016)
81 – David Green, American businessman, philanthropist (founded Hobby Lobby)
75 – Joe Mantegna, American actor, voice artist
67 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, talk show host
@67 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000; cancer)
65 – Greg Abbott, Gov. of TX
59 – Vinny Testaverde, American football player
55 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, talk show host
53 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
@44 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (d. 1894; stroke)
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”– Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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