2 July

2 July 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 27 Day 183 Ave. Sky Cover 5%\ Visibility  33mi. Flagstaff Today  85° \ 46° 
Wind  2mph \ Gusts  3mph  Nearest active fire: 21miles Nearest Lightning:  461mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 0 days
Risk of fire: Extreme July Averages: Temps 82° \ 51° Moisture 8 Days
Sunshine 

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Family Golf Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Fragile X Awareness Month Link
Fuel Safety Month  Link
Get Ready For Kindergarten Month
Grange Month Link
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month Link

Herbal/Prescription Interaction Awareness Month
Independent Retailer Month Link
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month Link
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month Link

Weekly Observations

6/26-7/2  
National Tire Safety Week  Link
6/27-7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
6/28-7/4
Fireworks Safety Week
Eid-Al-Adha, Feast of Sacrifice
6/30-7/6
Nat’l Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance
6/30-7/2 
Roswell UFO Days Link 
6/30-7/4 
National Tom Sawyer Days Link  (aka Fence Painting Days)

1-4
Tom Sawyer Days
1-7
National Independent Living Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
1-24
Tour de France 
2-8
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
National Bikini Contest Week
National Farriers Week


Daily Observations

Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day
I Forgot Day
International Joke Day
Made in the USA Day
National Financial Freedom Day
National Television Heritage Day

National Wildland Firefighter Day Link
Second Half of The Year Day Link 
Special Recreation for the Disabled Day
World Sports Journalists Day
World UFO Day
Link
Zip Code Day

Today’s Thoughts

Another very warm, but much cooler than Phx.

As I mentioned before, our local semi-daily paper has been around since the late 1890’s. The price for the print edition has risen exponentially. The e-edition is also very expensive. Recently they redesigned the e-edition. The upside is that the e-mail already has me signed in most days, so I don’t have to log in to see the e-edition.  The downside is that there is less local news than before. The other downside is that on the 4 days there is no print edition, the e-edition is simply repeats news already seen. Then today, the first Saturday of the new version had the Sunday Comics. It is hard to watch the death of local news here.

A few thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness. I did 4 years for my BS, and 5 summers for my MA. I never had to take out a loan. I worked from my sophomore year of high school to do that. Students today couldn’t do that. University costs are outrageous and much higher than simply COLA. Many students signed up for ‘University’ classes by a business that was not a 4-year University and promising great jobs after graduation with good salaries. Neither the ‘degree’ nor the high salary ever happened. Those students were scammed, and most have gotten their debt forgiven, and those paper-mills were shut down. At many of those type of schools, the student owed the entire amount even if they didn’t finish the program.

Then there are the ones the SCOTUS dealt with yesterday. These are students who took out loans to go to a 4-year institution that was accredited. The payback program was never fully explained and varied from university and from time to time. Interest rates on these loans vary from 4.9 to 7.9 and can change from year to year. The college loan issue is very complicated and not clearly explained to either parents or students, whichever is paying. While I understand the recent court decision, what really needs to happen is for Congress to investigate the whole loan process and fix it. When you take out a car loan your are told the interest rate, the monthly payment, and the number of payments. A similar system should work for students.

Enjoy…

 

Idioms explained…

Beat Around the Bush

This from gingersoftware.com > The origin of the idiom ‘beating around the bush’ is associated with hunting. In medieval times, hunters hired men to beat the area around bushes with sticks in order to flush out game taking cover underneath. They avoided hitting the bushes directly because this could sometimes prove dangerous; whacking a bees nest, for example, would put a swift and unwelcome end to the hunt.

Random Trivia…

Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411. (tootsie.com)

The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.

Canada is south of Detroit (just look at a map).

The original name for the search engine Google was Backrub. It was renamed Google after the googol, which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. (about.google)

Historic Events

  • 1788 – The US Constitution went into effect
  • 1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared over the South Pacific Ocean
  • 1964 – The US Civil Right Act was signed into law
  • 2002 – Steve Fossett traveled around the world in a balloon, 19,400 miles between June 18 and July 2nd.

Birthdays with some quotes

@98 – Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 2020)
93 – Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines, shoe collector
@92 – René Lacoste, French tennis player, businessman, invented the polo shirt (d. 1996)
86 – Polly Holliday, American actress
86 – Richard Petty, American race car driver and sportscaster
“The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.”– Richard Petty
@85 – Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, painter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.”– Hermann Hesse
@84 – Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, US Supreme Court 1967-1991 (d. 1993)
@78 – Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005; cancer)
@74 – Ken Curtis, American actor (d. 1991; heart attack)
76 – Larry David, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
” Sometimes you have to wander a bit, and do what you don’t want to in order to figure out what it is you’re supposed to do.”– Larry David
@69 – Dave Thomas, American businessman, philanthropist, founded Wendy’s (d. 2002; tumor)
“What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.”– Dave Thomas
@62 – Ron Silver, American actor, director, and political activist (d. 2009; cancer)
59 – Jose Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player
40 – Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter
38 – Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
“Don’t let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.”– Ashley Tisdale
37 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress
“No one is perfect. It’s not interesting to be perfect.”– Lindsay Lohan
33 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
“Everyone’s like, ‘overnight sensation.’ It’s not overnight. It’s years of hard work.”– Margot Robbie
28 – Ryan Murphy, American swimmer

…The End for today…

 


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