8 November 2022...Midterm elections
Week 46 Day 312 \ Ave. Sky Cover 30% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 60° \31°
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week:
5-11 Link
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11 Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11 Link
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11 Link
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11 Link (Also May 2-8)
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut)
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut) Link
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
Daily Observations
Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
Dunce Day Link
Election Day
First Folio Day
International Pathology Day Link
National Cappuccino Day
National Harvey Wallbanger Day
National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day Link
Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day
X-ray Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another
nice fall day…awaiting the next storm.
Yesterday
the AZ Cardinals lost to the Seahawks. No wonder…Cards had SEVEN pre-snap
penalties. Denver enjoyed a bye.
Twitter
chaos continues. I opened an account after Trump was inaugurated to allow me to
keep up with his news. I followed him for a couple of months. Then I deleted my
account. Elon
Musk now owns Twitter. I still see no reason to sign up again and certainly am
not going to pay any money to them for a blue check or for anything else. Musk
says he wants a public square, like there was during the American Revolution.
Great! Back then people did not have to pay anything to be in the square. I doubt
people were hiding their identity when they spoke at those squares. Musk has developed
his own bumps in his road as he has tweeted a conspiracy theory that has been
debunked. He announces then changes the price for that blue check…first it was
$20/mo., then$8/mo. I’ll let this all play out and if he fixes it, fine, I will
consider rejoining…until then I just watch.
Favorite
Memes
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Best
Instrumentals
"YYZ" by Rush (1981)
Off the
commercially successful Moving Pictures, this is the first of several Rush
instrumental songs nominated for a Grammy Award. While it's a complete band
effort, the song truly highlights the talent of bassist Geddy Lee and late
legendary drummer Neil Peart. (They co-wrote the piece.) In terms of Peart's
performance, it's one that influenced many youngsters to pick the sticks and
sit down beyond a drum kit.
Meaning/history
of a phrase
Crocodile tears
This is a popular phrase usually used to
describe false sorrow and faking an emotional response. But the whole phrase is
based on a medieval myth.
People back then believed that crocodiles
actually cried tears of sadness while they killed and ate their prey.
Historical
Events
1519 – Cortez and his troops took
Montezuma, the Aztek Emporer, hostage, effectively taking over the nation.
1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin
opened the first US library. It was an idea he had with his Junto Club, which
was basically a Philly Businessman’s Association.
1889 – Montana was admitted as the 41st
U.S. state.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
unveiled the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create
jobs for more than 4 million unemployed in 1933.
1966, US President Lyndon B. Johnson
signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League
(NFL) to merge with the American Football League (AFL).
HBO launched with the broadcast of the
1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
1999 – Bruce Miller was killed near
Flint, Michigan. His wife, Sharee Miller, convinced her online lover Jerry
Cassaday to kill him, was convicted of the crime, in what became the world’s
first Internet murder.
Birthdays
Today
@85 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d.
1742)
@84 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (d.
2016)
@74 – Milton Bradley, founded the Milton Bradley
Company, (d. 1911)
@78 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998; diabetes)
@78 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d.
2001; asthma attack)
73
– Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, activist
73
– Bonnie Raitt, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist
“We can live in fear
or act out of hope.”– Bonnie Raitt
72
– Mary Hart, American journalist, and actress
@64 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist, and critic created Count
Dracula, (d. 1912; stokes)
“Nothing is too
small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises.
Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from
failure, not from success!”– Bram Stoker
68
– Rickie Lee Jones, American Singer/Songwriter, producer
61
– Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality
56
– Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and TV host /personality
“Chefs are nutters.
They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and
absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”– Gordon Ramsay
55
– Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
52
– Tom Anderson, American businessman (co-founded Myspace)
51
– Tech N9ne [Aaron Dontez Yates],
American musician, record producer, actor
49
– David Muir, journalist
@48 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949;
hit by car)
“Every problem has
two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”–
Margaret Mitchell
47
– Tara Reid, American actress
@37 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d.
1922; peritonitis)
