1-11-13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 01 / Day: 011   

Today: L 28°…H 48°… Ave. humidity: 44%

Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  20mph  

Average Low: 16° Record Low:  -23° (1913)

Average High: 43° Record High:  63° (1990)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

1569 - 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul's Cathedral

1785 - Continental Congress convenes in NYC

1813 - 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii

1867 - Benito Juárez becomes the Mexican president again.

1879 - Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1913 - 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display

1922 - Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes

1949 - Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles

1963 - 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA

1966 - "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV

1989 - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Week ended with a good annual checkup from my doctor. Can’t beat that.

 

Interesting article in our local paper that people are becoming more wimpy about winter weather…staying inside more, not traveling as much during cold weather…so glad I don’t have to worry about getting to work or doing much on our really cold winter days. When I was working, several on my staff in Tuba had to commute from Flag everyday(75 miles one way)…their choice. Some days they had to leave about 4am, before the snow plows. While I worried about them getting to work safely, I had to remind myself that it was their choice not to live in Tuba. I encouraged them to stay with someone in Tuba when the weather was bad. Some did, some didn’t. Several had kids in school in Flagstaff and really didn’t have a choice.

 

I talked to Cheryl today about her credit union hassle after shopping at Target. Her phone got disconnected because the payment was refused…she worked that out quickly. Seems that if you are a month late with a payment, they give you a warning, but it your auto payment is rejected, the phone is turned off. Now she is checking about her SS and retirement auto deposit. She was glad I had called because she hadn’t even thought about that, and the credit union hadn’t told her it might be a problem…sure hope it works out quickly.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

My first is in riddle, but not in little. My second is in think, but not in brink. My third is in thyme, but not in time. My fourth is in mother, but not in brother. My last is in time, but not in climb. What am I?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Barney Miller: Nick and the Hooker

• Chuka (1967) - Fight scene

• The Story of LA's Whisky a Go-Go Club

• TV Intro - Daktari

• US National Anthem by the Academy Choirs

Suggested New State Mottos:

Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids

Something to Ponder in your free time…

• Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there?

• Why are they called "stands" when they are made for sitting?

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

• Alligator farms in the United States: 23

• Four-leaf clover farms: 1

Unusual Fact of the Day

When first published as a serial in Young Folks magazine, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island was titled The Sea Cook.

Joke-of-the-day

Way to keep healthy level of insanity in the workplace

1. Page yourself over the intercom. (Don't disguise your voice.)

2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is a different gender than you are.)

3. While sitting at your desk, soak your fingers in "Palmolive."

4. Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.

5. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask them if they want fries with that.

6. Put your garbage can on your desk. Label it "IN."

7. Determine how many cups of coffee are "too many."

8. Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.

9. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sexual favors."

10. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

11. When driving colleagues around insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep 'em tuned up."

12. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think?"

13. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a Parakeet.

14. Sit in the parking lot at lunchtime pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

15. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles".  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

You've become comfortable with a foreign language when you dream in that language.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

HACKENSACK, N.J. - A New Jersey smoke shop is angering some locals who say it's name, the Fu King Smoke Shop, contains a thinly veiled profanity. Michelle Tavares, president of the Parent Teacher Association at the Fairmount School a block from the Hackensack store, said the name is inappropriate for children, the Record of Hackensack reported Monday. "It's almost like it's an insult to the intelligence of our community. Do you really think we don't know what that is supposed to mean? That our children don't know what that means?" Tavares said. Other parents and residents have said they want city officials to force store owner Robert Reichert to remove the Fu King sign from outside of the store, which has yet to officially open. Reichert said the sign is not meant to be profane. He said Fu is a Chinese word meaning wealth or luck. "There is a meaning behind it," Reichert said. "It's not just words thrown up on the canvas. If they're offended by reading it, then it's the way their mind is looking at it." Reichert said the city gave him permission to put up the sign, but a city zoning official disputed his claim and has issued him a summons. The store owner said he will fight the summons in court.

• Somewhat Useless Information   

• Centipedes are carnivores, millipedes are vegetarians.

• The muscles that power a dragonfly's wings make up 23 percent of its body weight.

• Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to heavy metal music.

• Water freezes before a cockroach's blood will.

• A hive of honeybees eats up to 30 pounds of honey over the winter.

• Houseflies prefer to breed in the middle of a room.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

5-11

Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
8-11

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
8-14

Universal Letter Writing Week  
11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day

·        Fruitcake Toss Day

·        Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day

·        National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

^^^^^^

·        Independence Day (Morocco-1956-from Spain and France)

·        National Unity Day (Nepal- birthday (1723) of the late King Prithvi Narayan Shah founder of the modern Nepal)

Today’s Events through History  

1599 - Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove & muskaat

1759 - 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia

1984 - Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game

1990 - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Grant Tinker, broadcasting executive (NBC-TV) is 89

Rod Taylor, New South Wales, actor (The Birds, Time Machine) is 84

Naomi Judd, [Diana Ellen], Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me) is 68

Darryl Dawkins, NBA center (Philadelphia 76ers, NJ Nets) is 57

Stanley Tucci, actor, writer, film producer is 54

Mary Jane Blige, R&B singer-songwriter is 43

Amanda Peet, film, stage and television is 42

Remembered for being born today

1746 - William Curtis, English botanist/publisher (Botanical Magazine)

1755 - Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st US Secretary of the Treasury,
1887 - Aldo Leopold, founder (Wilderness Society)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Sheldon Leonard, producer/director (Dick Van Dyke) in 1997 @89

Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer/1st to climb Mt Everest in 20008 @88

Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, ace WW II pilot of cancer in 1988 @75 

Francis Scott Key, composer (Star Spangled Banner) of pleurisy in 1843 @63

Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets) of cancer in 1979 @61

Michael Bates, actor (Clockwork Orange, Salt & Pepper) of cancer in 1978 @57

Brain Teasers

The word: rhyme.

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

§    And That Is All for Now  §