3 Apr

 

April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 14 Day 93 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 21 miles Flagstaff Today 62° \25°  Wind 10mph \ Gusts 21mph 
Air Quality: Moderate  \ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 302mi \ Nearest Lightning 683mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

Defeat Diabetes Month
Distracted Driving Awareness Month Link
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Fair Housing Month Link
Financial Literacy Month Link
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month  Link
Global Astronomy Month
Global Child Nutrition Month Link
Grange Month

Weekly Observations

3/19-4/16
National Cherry Blossom Festival 
3/22-4/20
Consider Christianity Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
3/26-4/9
Passiontide
Apr. 1-7
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) 
Week of The Young Child  
2-8
Bat Appreciation WeekHoly Week
National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
2-9
World Irish Dancing Week
3-9
Explore Your Career Options Week

Daily Observations

Chocolate Mousse Day
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day  Link  
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day Link 
National Film Score Day 
National Film Score Day Link
National IEP Writing Day
Pony Express Day
Tater Day ( It's Sweet Potatoes)  Link 
Tweed Day
Walk to Work Day
Weed Out Hate
World Party Day 
Tweed Day
Walk to Work Day
Weed Out Hate
World Party Day  Link 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice spring day.

Last night while preparing dinner, I knocked a 2 lb. box of spaghetti onto the floor.  I had already measured out the first use and as the box fell the remainder of the spaghetti flew out all over the floor. Clean up was no fun.

Flagstaff has had a lot of snow this winter. I can only say that the snow here is nothing compared to the mid-west Spring tornado season. Seeing the aftermath where entire towns are nothing but rubble, is devastating.

Enjoy…

Facts…

While this isn't a huge surprise, the exact inflation percentage of US college tuition from 1980 to 2020 is more than five times the percentage of overall US inflation. 

More Slang origins…

Tarnation

This is another famous Southern exclamation that we’re sure many of our readers have heard, usually in a sentence like “What in tarnation?”

So what does tarnation even mean? Scholars believe that it evolved from a mixture of “eternal” and damnation.” Mix those words together, and you’re left with something like “tarnation.” Obviously, eternal damnation is something worth getting worked up over!

Beauty in our 50 states…

15. Maine

Maine residents know they’ve got some of the best natural scenery in the Northeast and are totally content with you just sticking to the Portland area to eat lobstah so there’s more room up north for them. In addition to possessing some of the most breathtaking coastline in America (with thousands of jagged islands offshore bringing the total mileage of pebbly beach to over 3,000), Maine’s got the gorgeous Acadia National Park, Mount Katahdin (the tip of the Appalachian Trail), and countless acres of dense wilderness and rugged seashore for the L.L. Bean types (it’s basically, like, their uniform up there).

Historical Events

1860 – The first United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California took began.
2000 – Microsoft was ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive thumb” on its competitors in United States v. Microsoft Corp.
2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, revealed information on 214,488 offshore companies.

Birthdays Today

@97 – Doris Day(Doris Mary Kappelhoff), actor (d. 2019)
89 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist, anthropologist
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”– Jane Goodall
@80 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
81 – Marsha Mason, American actress
81 – Wayne Newton, American singer
“If it were not for the bad things that’ve happened to me, I wouldn’t be the person I am today.”– Wayne Newton
79 – Tony Orlando, American singer
@76 – Washington Irving, short story writer, essayist, historian (d. 1859; heart attack)
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving
70 – Sandra Boynton, American author, illustrator
“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.”– Sandra Boynton
@73 – Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2015; in sleep)
@69 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist [Mutt & Jeff] (d. 1954; cancer)
65 – Alec Baldwin, American actor and comedian
64 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
62 – Eddie Murphy, American comedic actor
@55 – William ‘Boss’ Tweed, American politician (d. 1878; pneumonia in prison)
“I don’t care who does the electing, as long as I get to do the nominating.”– Boss Tweed
51 – Jennie Garth, American actress
@50 – Leslie Howard, English actor (d. 1943; plane crash…shot down by Nazi)
50 – Adam Scott, American actor
@43 – Lyle Alzado, American football player, actor (d. 1992; cancer)
41 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
@40 – Ray Combs, American game show host (d. 1996; suicide)
37 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
24 – Paris Jackson, American celebrity