Dec 30

 

Week: 1 Day: 364

Ave. Sky Cover:  90%Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:   27°\ 21° Wind: 10mph\ Gusts: 17mph

Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 254mi. \ Lightning: 1047mi.

Dec Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

25-31	It's About Time Week
26-1/1	Kwanzaa

Daily Observations

Favorite Memes

 

Have a laugh

Did you hear about the ATM that got addicted to money?

It suffered from withdrawal

 

Arizona Trivia

Built by Del Webb in 1960, Sun City, Arizona was the first 55-plus active adult retirement community in the country.

Petrified wood is the official state fossil. The Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona contains America's largest deposits of petrified wood.

Many of the founders of San Francisco in 1776 were Spanish colonists from Tubac, Arizona.

Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply military post Camp McDowell.

Rainfall averages for Arizona range from less than three inches in the deserts to more than 30 inches per year in the mountains.

Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I woke up to 3” of newly fallen snow. The snow crew was here before 7:30 to clear the sidewalks. It was a sweltering 25° at that time. Nice.

We lost two icons yesterday. Retired Senator Harry Reid at 82. NFLer John Madden at 85.

I kept getting popups on my iPhone that I needed more storage space. I hadn’t moved the 2019 Trans-Siberian Rail trip to my computer. This morning I found a new app that does it easily. Like all technology it took about 30 minutes to set it up and then it moved over 500 photos in about 30 seconds. Amazing.

I’m also doing 2 loads of laundry from my trip and finding places for my Christmas gifts. The second activity is always fun, the first activity, not so much.

I was watching a news segment on the horrific killing of the 14-year-old girl in LA. A retired police officer was commenting on the piece. He reminded me from my gun safety class in Boy Scouts, that the first thing to remember when firing a gun…’Look carefully to see what is behind your target and know where your bullet will go.’ Too bad the officer forgot that lesson. He also pointed out that the bodycam video did not show a need for lethal force at the time of the incident. So sad.

Historical Events

1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois killed at least 605 people.

1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was found in a Moscow river three days later.

1995 Lowest ever UK temperature recorded of -27.2°C iat Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands, equaling the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire on February 11, 1895 and January 10, 1982

2012 The opening of Line 6 of the Beijing subway makes it the longest metro network in the world at 442km

 

Birthdays Today

84 – Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter (Peter, Paul, & Mary)

@79 – Bo Diddley [Ellas Otha Bates], American singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2008)

@78 – Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, Monkee (d. 2021; heart failure)

@77 – Bert Parks, American actor, beauty pageant host (d. 1992; lung cancer)

@73 – Simon Guggenheim, American businessman (died in 1941)

@72 – Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004; cancer)

@70 – Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author (d.1936; perforated ulcer)

68 – Meredith Vieira, American journalist

@66 – Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter, actor, Monkee (d. 2012; heart attack)

62 – Tracey Ullman, English American actress

60 – Sean Hannity, American radio, television host

@55 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter (d. 1990; suicide)

48 – Jason Behr, American actor

46 – Tiger Woods, American golfer

37– LeBron James, NBA star

35 – Caity Lotz, American actress

29 – Carson Wentz, American football player