22December 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 52 Day 356 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 50° \13°
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 9mph Air Quality: Good\ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest
active fire 479mi \ Nearest Lightning 1777mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
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
Abilities
Day
Be a Lover of Silence Day
Forefathers Day Link
National Cookie Exchange Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
nice day. Sunshine is nice!
I
had lunch with Andy and Faith. They are doing well. Logan and Kayla will be at
their place for Christmas Eve, then heading back to Phoenix where it will be
warmer.
Denver
may be hit with a real cold spell. Glad to read that the Denver Coliseum is
opening its doors as a warming shelter due to the cold.
Zelensky
is in DC. Hoping it goes well for him and his constituents.
Favorite
Memes
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If…
• You should keep your voice down in
cornfields because there are so many ears.
Slang
Origins
1944: Square
Meaning: old-fashioned, boring
The African American jazz community,
vibrant since the 1920s, continued to produce new sounds and words. Calling
those who didn’t understand this new music “square” is said to come from the
conducting patterns of a standard four-beat rhythm. It later shed its strictly
musical connotation and could be applied to any boring person.
Mysteries…
WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA?
The teamster union leader known for his
involvement in organized crime disappeared in Oakland County, Michigan, on July
30, 1975, and is presumed to be dead. The identity of his killer(s) and the
location of his body are ongoing mysteries. Police and forensic anthropologists
have searched a number of sites in Detroit and Oakland County to no avail.
One popular theory was that Hoffa's body
was buried beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey. However, this theory has been
debunked. On Oct. 25 and 26, 2021, FBI agents visited a former landfill in New
Jersey to conduct a "site survey," according to The New York Times.
The survey is a follow-up to a deathbed confession by a landfill worker
claiming that people had charged he and his father with burying Hoffa's body in
a steel barrel under the dump in 1975. The agents apparently didn't find the
steel barrel, Live Science reported.
The identity of his killer is also
unclear. Before his death in 2006, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, a
hit man, claimed to have killed Hoffa and dumped his body in a scrap yard, The
Guardian reported. An author named Philip Carlo visited Kuklinski in prison
before he died and wrote a book on Kuklinski's confessions. After the book came
out, a number of police officers cast doubt on the confession in media
interviews. As the years go by, it appears increasingly unlikely that Hoffa's
remains will ever be found.
Historical
Events
1956 – Colo, born at the Columbus, Ohio
Zoo, was the first gorilla born in Peru.
December 22, 2012 (fiction) After a lot
of planning, the alien colonization began on Earth on The X-Files, TV.
1990 – Lech Walesa was elected President
of Poland.
2010 – The repeal of the ‘Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell’ policy, the policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United
States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Birthdays
Today
@94 – Barbara
Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010)
“Don’t think your dreams don’t come true, because they do. You’d
better be careful what you wish for.”– Barbara Billingsley
@93 – Connie Mack,
American baseball player, icon (d. 1956)
77
– Diane Sawyer, American journalist
“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide
you to your destination.”– Diane Sawyer
74
– Steve Garvey, American baseball player
@65 – Giacomo
Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924; heart attack)
60
– Ralph Fiennes, English actor
“I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever
power they may have to push their beliefs unless they’re extremely well
informed.”-Ralph Fiennes
@59 – Jean-Baptiste
Racine, French playwright (d. 1699; liver cancer)
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”– Jean-Baptiste
Racine
52
– Ted Cruz, American politician
33
– Jordin Sparks, American singer
“It’s OK to feel crappy sometimes and it’s OK to feel like you don’t
look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful
and you are strong and you are worth it. It’s important to know that.”– Jordin
Sparks
29
– Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter
@27 – Pamela
Courson, American girlfriend of Jim Morrison (d. 1974; OD) #27club
