Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 35 Day 233 \ Ave. Sky Cover 25% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \52°
Wind 9mph \ Gusts 14mph Air Quality Moderate
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest
Lightning 84mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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15-21
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18-24
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18-9/6
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21-27
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Daily Observations
Brazilian
Blow-out Day Link
Internat’l Day of Remembrance & Tribute To The Victims of Terrorism
Internet Self-care Day Link
National Spumoni Day Link
Poet's Day
Senior Citizen's Day
Spumoni Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
First day in
a week that there is no rain expected. Nice day to enjoy.
I got a call
from Ellie last night. It seems that the Focus Travel Club is no longer
working. I did some checking, and it seems that Weebly, the internet provider,
without notifying its users that the site fees have changed dramatically. Since
Ellie is retiring Focus Travel Club after the Portugal trip, she decided not to
pay any more for the site. She is sending out an email to explain the whole
thing and how to contact her. I have been the Focus Travel Club webmaster for
about 3 years and have enjoyed doing it. I will miss putting up all the
information. It is hard to say goodbye to such a great travel group. In my
opinion, there are way too many tech people out there who have decided that part
of their job is to make more money by finding new ways to charge customers.
I order two
scripts from Caremark, which has much cheaper prices than local pharmacies. At
the pharmacy each one is about $120/90 days…at Caremark each one is $40/90
days. Part of that is because I have Federal BC as my insurer. Both scripts
need to be refrigerated. I ordered refills on Wed. This morning I got an email
that the script was delivered by UPS last night at 6:45. I was home; it was not
delivered. I checked outside again. No box. I called Caremark and they said
they would send a new box on Monday…at no charge. Then I called the local UPS
to see if they might have it. I was calling an 888 number, so I knew it was not
here in Flag. The guy took my
information and said I’d be on hold about 2 minutes while he checked. About 35
minutes later he came back on the line and said that the ‘office’ was very busy
and he would call me back in an hour. That was at 9a. At 11:30 the UPS truck
pulled up. I met the guy at the door and asked him why I got the delivered
text. He said he didn’t know and was just a relief driver. My guess is that
last night the driver just scanned the box and left it in the truck until this
morning where another driver had to deliver it. Since I never got a call back,
that’s the story I’m going with.
There is a
TV show called The Con. It is narrated by Whoopie Goldberg and tells the story
of recent big cons. I recorded it on
Monday evening and watched it this morning. I recommend the series…it is always
interesting. The latest one was about a Malaysian guy named Jho Low, who embezzled
several billion dollars with the help of others high in the Malaysian
government. He is still on-the-run. Much of the billions was raised through
Goldman Sachs and was to build infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur, but the project
never moved beyond a few fences and signs. I remember when our guide in Kuala
Lumpur told us they were a developing nation and wanted to soon be a developed
nation. It won’t happen when politicians are so corrupt.
Favorite Memes
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One Hit Wonders
Maurice Williams
& The Zodiacs: 'Stay'
First
released by Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs in 1960, bands The Hollies and
The Four Seasons and musician Jackson Browne would go on to release their own
versions. The song saw new life when the popular 1987 film “Dirty Dancing”
added the Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs version to the soundtrack.
Historical Events
1911 – The Mona Lisa was stolen by
Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. It was returned to the Louvre on January
4, 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison for the crime.
1939 – 5 young African-Americans were
denied library cards at the Alexandria, VA Library and arrested after sitting
down and reading books. The civil disobedience was one of the earliest in the
American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 – Motown released what would be its
first #1 hit, Please Mr. Postman by The Marvelettes.
1986 – The Lake Nyos, Cameroon disaster
resulted in the deaths of 1800 people when a volcano suddenly burst with a wave
of carbon dioxide.
Birthdays Today
@85 – William
Murdoch, Scottish engineer, inventor, created gas-powered lighting (d. 1839)
@82 – Blossom Rock,
American actress (d. 1978)
@81 – Kenny Rogers,
American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2020)
” I’ve always said
music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.”– Kenny Rogers
81
– Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter
@79 – Count Basie,
American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1984)
“Learn to deal with
the valleys and the hills will take care of themselves.”– Count Basie
66
– Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
@63 – Wilt
Chamberlain, American basketball player and coach (d. 1999; heart disease)
“It is said that
good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those
who work.”– Wilt Chamberlain
@57 – Stephen
Hillenburg, American marine biologist, animator [SpongeBob]
“You don’t want to work on a job where you’re looking at your
watch.”– Stephen Hillenburg
43
– Kelis Rogers, American singer-songwriter
” As a child, I’d
help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous – she had the correct gadget or utensil
for everything. ‘Stop! Don’t use that, I have exactly the right utensil.’ After
I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her.
Now I’ve become her.” – Kelis
36
– Usain Bolt, Jamaican runner
34
– Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter
32
– Hayden Panettiere, American actress
