2 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week44 Day 306 Sky Cover 5%| Visibility|32mi.Flagstaff Today|57° \20° Wind5mph|Gusts9mph 
Nearest active fire: 50miles|Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning:2065mi  (N Pacific Ocean)
Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Windy Mostly Cloudy
Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days  

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Diabetic Eye Disease Month Epilepsy Awareness Month Link Eye Donation Month Family Stories Month Link Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month Hepatitis C (HCV) Education, Awareness and Screening Month Historic Bridge Awareness Month Link

International Games Month (Libraries) Link  Lung Cancer Awareness Month Manatee Awareness Month Link Movember Link MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/1- 1/1/24) Link Military Family Appreciation Month Link

Weekly Observations

World Origami Days: 10/24-11/11 National Veterans Small Business Week: 30-11/3  Link Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 1-3  Link

National Farm Toy Show Days: 1-3   National Fig Week: 1-7 World Communication Week: 1-7

Daily Observations

All Souls Day Allantide Link Bison Day   Birth of The Bab Cookie Monster Birthday  Link   Link  Digital Scrapbooking Day International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists   Digital Scrapbooking Day International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists  Link Internat’l Day Against Violence & Bullying @ School National  Broadcast Traffic Professionals Day

National Deviled Egg Day National Medical Science Liaison Appreciation Day National Play Outside Day Link  National Traffic Professionals Day National Traffic Professionals Day Plan Your Epitaph Day  Pumpkin Destruction Day Sadie Hawkins Day  Link Sausage and Kraut Day World Chili Day (Internat’l Chili Championships in Terlingua, TX) World Numbat Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

It has warmed up from the overnight low of 20°.

D-back fell 11-7 in Phoenix. They need to find their winning attitude or it’s all over tonight.

I’m doing my PT exercises faithfully. Slept through the night without pain. Yeah!

I heard a good story about the dilemma Pharmacists are in. Over the past few years, the Pharmacy assistants have had hour cut or lost their jobs. And no changes in pay. My local Walgreens now gives all kinds of injections with little or no wait time, the on-duty pharmacist work up to 10 hours a day. When a picked up a script today, I went inside instead of the drive thru, to thank the pharmacy workers for their great work and the NPR report. They were appreciative.

While I was out, I looked for a ‘squishy’ ball to use in my exercises. I tried the 3 ‘Sports equipment places here…they had nothing. PT lady to order from Amazon…could have saved time if I had just listened, but I WANTED IT NOW…not in the 6 days to get it here by ordering on line. It is usually used for Pilates, so should be easy to find. Not in Flagstaff…Boo!

Enjoy

 

Facts that seem made up Trivia…

The fax machine was invented before the telephone!

The fax machine - the everywhere technology of the 1980s and 1990s. The fax machine was the way to send important documents across large distances during this time, and it appeared to be directly linked to the telephone. However, did you know that the fax machine was invented before the telephone?

While Alexander Graham Bell won the first US patent for the telephone in 1876, inventor Alexander Bain filed the first patent for a fax machine in 1843. It looked nothing like the fax machines of the 1980s and 1990s, and it sent messages over telegraph lines.

Random Trivia…

The Chance Case of the Curious Mummy©Pixabay

Found in 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, Ötzi “the Iceman” is the earliest natural human mummy ever found in Europe. Ötzi was alive from sometime between 3400 and 3100 BCE. The most surprising thing about him? He had tattoos! And not just a couple...researchers have identified a total of 61 different tattoos covering his body. That means he's not only the oldest tattooed person ever found, but also (probably) one of the oldest ancestors to today's Brooklyn hipsters.

The tattoo ink itself was produced from ash or soot and is believed to have been used as a form of pain relief.

Historic Events

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1920 – KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasted the results of the presidential election. It was the first scheduled radio broadcast.

Birthdays with some quotes

@90 – Steve Ditko, American author, and illustrator (d. 2018)
@86 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)
@85 – Daniel Boone, American hunter, and explorer (d. 1820)
85 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist, and politician
@80 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (d. 1994)
80 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
68 – Pat Croce, American businessman, and author
62 – k.d. lang, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, producer, and actress
57 – David Schwimmer, American actor
@53 – James K. Polk (11th President of the United States, d. 1849)
@57 – Warren G. Harding (29th President of the United States, d. 1923)
49 – Nelly, American rapper
@42 – Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017; sickle cell)
@37 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France (d. 1793; guillotined)
“Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? “

…The End for today…