30 Nov

30 November 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 49 Day 334 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 42° \22° 
Wind 8mph \ Gusts 13mph  Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 132mi \ Nearest Lightning 800mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)

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Daily Observations

Blue Beanie Day
Cities for Life Day 
Computer Security Day
Day of Remembrance of All Victims of Chemical Warfare
National Mason Jar Day 
National Meth Awareness Day
National Mousse Day
National Personal Space Day
National Stay At Home Because You’re Well Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I had a great Thanksgiving with my brother and his wife and her father and stepmom. We had a Thanksgiving dinner for 45 friends and family. My brother and his wife have lots of Ex-Pats as friends living in the area. A local Mayan family came in and cooked Turkey and ‘meat pies’ wrapped in banana leaves underground. The ‘meat pies’ were like 12” round tamales. Everybody brought side dishes, so we had plenty of food. While there, we went to my first cenote…underground river with cave and warm water. The Mayans knew about these underground rivers and considered them sacred. ‘Spectacular’ doesn’t even come close to describing the experience. We all swam in the cenote about 2 hours. It was a great 10 days with warm (90°) days and nice nights (75°).

I flew home from Merida to Mexico City to LA to Phx. All went well until leaving LAX. The minor 10-minute mechanical issue turned into almost 2 hours. That meant I missed my shuttle and had to wait until 10:30 for the next one. I got up at the hacienda at 3:45am and walked into my house at 1:45am. I went to bed and slept in until 7:30 this morning.

Been running around getting my mail, some scripts, and stopping at the bank to make my brother my beneficiary. It is amazing how complicated it is to set up a beneficiary. My mom was on the list…even though I had taken her off when she passed in 2008. Somehow it never happened. It’s all good now. I’ve had the accounts since 1980 and the lady helping me had never seen ‘typewriter’ forms before.

Favorite Memes

 




 

 

Little known Native American History

If you managed to get through school without hearing about Maria Tallchief, you missed out on hearing about a pioneering woman who changed the world. Tallchief, whose father was a member of the Osage Nation, dreamed of being a ballet dancer from the time she was a little girl. At 17, she moved to New York City to pursue a career as a ballerina but racism stood in her way. She was advised many times to change her last name so her Native American heritage wouldn't be readily apparent, but Tallchief refused. Her hard work, talent, and unwavering persistence paid off. Maria Tallchief eventually broke barriers as the first American to dance with the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She became the prima ballerina at the New York City Ballet and was regarded as one of the greatest dancers in the world. 

Slang Origins

1921: Bee’s knees

Meaning: a highly admired, excellent person or thing

Calling someone “the bee’s knees” might seem like nonsense, but that’s the point. “Bee’s knees” is just one of many 1920s nonsense catchphrases. Others included “elephant’s adenoids,” “caterpillar's kimono,” “tiger’s spots,” and “the cat’s pajamas.” The only thing these strange sayings had in common was the comparison between a good thing and a part of an animal that didn’t exist.

Historical Events

1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transferred the Louisiana Territory to France. Just a few weeks later, France transferred the same land to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase
1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. Four thousand people watched the scoreless game.
1982 – Michael Jackson’s sixth solo studio album, Thriller, was released worldwide.
1998 – Exxon and Mobil signed a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company at that time.

Birthdays Today

@95 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
@90 – Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, UK PM (Nobel Prize laureate, d. 1965)
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”– Winston Churchill
@90 – G. Gordon Liddy, American lawyer, radio host (d. 2021)
@89 – Robert Guillaume, American actor, singer (d. 2017)
86 – Woody Allen, actor, director
85 – Ridley Scott, English director, and producer (Alien, Blade Runner)
@84 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
@82 – Dick Clark, American TV host, and producer (founded Dick Clark Productions, d. 2012)
“I don’t set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.” “Music is the soundtrack of your life.”– Dick Clark
@77 – Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist, and essayist (d. 1745)
“When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
– Jonathan Swift
@76 – Richard Crenna, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2003; cancer)
@74 – Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (d. 1910)
“A sound heart is a safer guide than an ill-trained conscience.”– Mark Twain
70 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor, and singer
67 – Billy Idol, English Singer/Songwriter (White Wedding, Mony Mony)
70 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor
60 – Bo Jackson, American football, baseball player
57 – Ben Stiller, actor
@52 – Abbie Hoffman, activist, author (founded the Youth International Party, d. 1989; OD)
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”– Abbie Hoffman
@48 – Allan Sherman, actor, comedian, singer, producer, screenwriter (d. 1973; lung disease)
@45 – John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, poet In Flanders Fields, (d. 1918; pneumonia)
45 – Steve Aoki, American DJ, producer (founded Dim Mak Records)
44 – Clay Aiken, American singer (American Idol)
40 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
37 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress (Big Bang Theory)
37 – Chrissy Teigen, American model

 


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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.