20 Dec

 

20 December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 52 Day 354 \ Ave. Sky Cover a% \ Visibility 22 miles Flagstaff Today 41° \10° 
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality:  Good\ VeryLow Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 312mi \ Nearest Lightning 953mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Andisop (Meteorological Fiddling): 5-24   Link
Christmas Bird Count Week: 14-1/5 Link 
Halcyon Days: 14-28 
Halcyon Days: 14-28 
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 15 - 1/1/23  Link 
Posadas: 16-24
Saturnalia: 17-23
Chanukah: 18-26
Gluten-free Baking Week: 18-24  Link 
Cookie Exchange Week: 19-23 

Daily Observations

Games Day Link
Go Caroling Day
International Human Solidarity Day
Mudd Day
National Sangria Day 
Poet Laureate Day
Sacagawea Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another very chilly morning but it is slowly warming up.

I picked up my CPAP supplies this morning. I asked about when they were going to service my Concentrator, since it has been over a year. Their records showed that I got a new concentrator in  August. I didn’t and the last service was on 10/12/21. They said a guy would be out on Wednesday. Strange for sure.

The Broncos beat the Cards yesterday. Both teams have losing records this season, but after all, a win is a win.

The House hearings are not concluded. There sure has been a lot of information. Now we wait to see what the DOJ is going to do.

Favorite Memes

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• If at first you don’t succeed, then don’t try skydiving.

Slang Origins

1942: Cut a rug

Meaning: to dance, especially to the jitterbug

Jitterbug dancing took the U.S. by storm through the '30s and '40s, and spread to the rest of the world with American soldiers after the U.S.' entry into WWII. It was a lively and exuberant dance, and when many couples danced at the same time, it could make the carpet look like it had been damaged.

Corny jokes

When do computers overheat?

When they need to vent.

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Why do bees have sticky hair?

Because they use honeycombs.

Historical Events

1832 – England’s HMS Clio, under the command of Captain Onslow, arrived at Port Egmont, taking possession of the Falkland Islands
1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders was founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.
1989 – The United States invasion of Panama deposed Manuel Noriega.
2007 – Elizabeth II became the oldest monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years and 243 days

Birthdays Today

@69 – Harvey Firestone, American inventor (Firestone tires) (d. 1938; heart attack)
@91 – Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)
@81 – George Roy Hill, American director [Butch Cassidy…, The Sting] (d. 2002)
@86 – Charlie Callas, American actor, comedian (d. 2011)
@84 – John Hillerman, American actor (d. 2017)
76 – Peter Criss, American singer-songwriter, drummer (KISS)
76 – Uri Geller, Israeli-English magician, psychic
76 – Dick Wolf, American TV producer
“The environment doesn’t change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.”– Dick Wolf
74 – Alan Parsons, English keyboard player, producer
65 – Billy Bragg, English singer
“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.”– Billy Bragg
64 – Anita Ward, American singer
63 – Jackie Fox (Jacqueline Louise Fuchs), American attorney, Jeopardy! champ, bass player- The Runaways
“I have lived in the canyon for 20 years and the sound of a pack of coyotes yipping still makes my hairs stand on end.”-Jackie Fox
39 – Jonah Hill, American actor
“It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”– Jonah Hill
32 – JoJo, American singer