December 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 51 Day 347 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 32° \16°
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 10smph Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 384mi \ Nearest Lightning 1546mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
Andisop (Meteorological
Fiddling): 5-24 Link
Computer Science Education Week: 5-11 Link
Human Rights Week: 10-17
Daily Observations
Day Of The
Horse
National Cocoa Day
National Day of the Horse
National Guard Birthday Link
National Violin Day
Pick a Pathologist Pal Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I
woke up to about 5” of snow covering just about everything outside.
Schools
are on a two-hour delay today. Only one
guy came to clear our sidewalk, he did a great job and was finished by 9:30am.
When it’s a team, they usually finish by 8am.
The
Chiefs played ball and beat the Broncos. My Broncos are not having a good year.
The
Libyan bomb maker that killed 270 over Lockerbie Scotland 34 years ago is now
in US custody. Some closure for the many who lost loved ones.
60
Minutes did a segment on the College of Magic in Cape
Town South Africa. It serves students 11-18 years old from all backgrounds. It
was nice to see that in action. They believe the creativity they learn through
magic will assist them in many areas of future employment. What a great idea.
Favorite
Memes
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Did you
Know?
Lincoln
Borglum spent his young adulthood assisting his father on Mount Rushmore,
ultimately overseeing the monument’s completion. To increase worker morale, on
game days Lincoln parked his car close to the hoist operator and left the radio
tuned to baseball; the hoist operator then phoned game updates to those
stationed on the mountain. In 1938, Lincoln started recruiting amateur baseball
players to work on the monument, and soon founded the Rushmore Drillers. Six
days a week, practices followed the 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. work shifts, and games
were played on Sundays. The team was good enough to make it to the semifinals
of the State Amateur Baseball Tournament in 1939, but the Drillers disbanded when
the government declared Mount Rushmore finished in 1941.
Slang
Origins
1934: Belch water
Meaning: seltzer water
Soda fountains may be a thing of the past, but during the Depression, they created a unique culture and language. “Belch water” is one example of this “soda jerk” slang, studied and recorded by Harold W. Bentley between 1934 and 1935.
Corny
jokes
What did the bartender
say to the turkey sandwich when it tried to order a beer?
“Sorry, we don’t serve
food here.”
….
Why do seagulls fly
over the sea?
If they flew over the
bay, they would be bagels.
Historical
Events
1294 – Saint Celestine V resigned from
the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic
hermit.
1962 – NASA launched Relay 1, the 1st
active repeater communications satellite in Earth orbit.
1972 – Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt
began the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or “Moonwalk” of
Apollo 17.
1991 – North and South Korea officially
ended their war. (Fighting stopped in 1953)
Birthdays
Today
97
– Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
@91 – Christopher
Plummer, Canadian actor (d. 2021)
81
– John Davidson, American actor, and game show host
@77 – Richard D.
Zanuck, American film producer (d. 2012; heart attack)
74
– Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter
72
– Wendy Malick, American actress
65
– Steve Buscemi, American actor
@63 – Mary Todd
Lincoln, 16th First Lady (d. 1882; stroke)
@62 – Van Heflin,
American actor (d. 1971; heart attack)
55
– Jamie Foxx, American actor, and comedian
41
– Amy Lee (Amy Lynn Hartzler), American singer-songwriter
“Honestly I just wear what I like. You know why? ‘Cause I can, I’m a
rock star.”– Amy Lee
33
– Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter
