2021…at last
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Jan
5, 2021 Week: 1
Day: 5 |
Local: H 49°\ L 24°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 3mph\Gusts: 2mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1786mi.; Active fire: 59mi |
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Moderate Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 61°[1948] Record: -22°[1908] |
Jan
Averages: 44°/\16° (4 days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
He is richest who is
content with the least,
for content is the
wealth of nature.
Socrates
Random Tidbits
A
Fiery Night in Scotland
Don’t visit Scotland for
New Year’s Eve if you aren’t ready for some heat. Join the locals for Hogmanay,
a traditional celebration that incorporates fire into the festivities. Larger
cities like Edinburgh have torchlight processions where locals march together
in the streets to bring in the new year. However, the real thrill happens at
midnight in the city of Stonehaven. Here, Scots dressed in kilts wave poles
with fireballs around while they parade through streets filled with spectators.
They use the fire as a means to purify the new year. The spectacle ends in the
scenic town center near the harbor when they toss their fire sticks into the
sea. Visit a castle, have a drink and watch the sparks fly in one of these
beautiful Scottish towns.
Yellow for Luck in
Colombia
Historic Cartagena on
Colombia’s Caribbean coast is a beautiful choice for New Year’s Eve — complete
with palm trees, white beaches, fireworks and bright yellow underwear. If
you’re traveling to a country in Central or South America for the holiday, be
sure to pack your brightly colored undergarments. In many of these countries,
like Colombia, wearing red or yellow undergarments on New Year’s Eve can
increase your chances of finding love or luck in the new year. Yellow is by far
the most popular color choice, and if you forget yours, don’t worry — they even
sell them on the streets before the holiday.
A Little Humor
Q: How many people can
ride on a bird? Toucan..
I peed so hard that a
little laugh came out
True Things
Even Arnold
Schwarzenegger knew you don't stow away on an airplane in the wheel well.
Jumping from a moving jet is better than freezing to death in the unpressurized
under-belly at 45,000 feet.
But maybe the movie
'Commando' isn't very popular in Indonesia, because a man there took a free
ride in the landing gear of an aircraft this week, and actually survived the
high-altitude flight of nearly two hours in thin air and sub-zero temperatures.
Mario Stevan Ambarita,
21, was spotted staggering around the tarmac at Jakarta airport, shortly after
the Garuda Indonesia domestic flight landed from Sumatra Island to the north.
"The case was quite
a surprise to us," Garuda CEO Arif Wibowo told reporters.
The stowaway scaled a
8-foot fence to reach the aircraft, where he tucked himself into the rear wheel
housing.
He collapsed after the
flight and was taken to hospital with a bleeding ear and other light injuries
before spending the night in a police cell.
According to local media
reports, Ambarita had spent up to a year studying aircraft taking off and
landing, had learned from the Internet how to hide in the wheel well and had
made an unsuccessful attempt in the past to hitch a free plane ride.
Weekly Observations
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Christmas Bird Count Week Link |
Thru 1/5 |
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Diet Resolution Week |
1-7 |
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Silent Record Week |
1-7 |
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New Year's Resolutions Week |
1-8 Link |
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Someday We'll Laugh About This Week |
2-8 |
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National Personal Trainer Awareness
Week [cancelled] |
2-9 |
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Home Office Safety and Security
Week Link |
3-9 |
Today’s Observations
Earth at Perihelion
Golden Globes
National Keto Day Link
National Screenwriters Day Link
Monopoly Game Day Link
National Bird Day
National Screenwriters Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Twelfth Night
Whipped Cream Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
I headed out early to pick up my monthly essentials. I was even wearing
the free cool mask I got from BC/BS. It stretchy.
Yesterday was not a great day for Broncos or Cards. Both lost. The
highlight was that the Broncos only lost by a point. Wish I could have seen
that one.
A Flagstaff landmark has closed…The Museum Club. It started out as a
museum filled with taxidermized animals some 84 years ago. By the time I came
to Flag in the early 70’s, it was a Country/Western Nightclub…with some of the
stuffed animals still present. It was the first place to have off-track betting
along with lots of bands. It got new owners a few years ago and Covid killed
it. Sad.
I have voted in every election since I turned 21. Sometimes my
candidate wins, and I am happy. Sometimes my candidate loses, and I am not
happy. Never in my voting life have I even had a thought that the election was
rigged. I just don’t get how some news organizations can claim that 74 million
are outraged that the election was stolen. I also don’t get how so many can
claim the election was stolen at the top of the ballot but are pleased that so
many Conservatives won down ballot. I guess they believe that the ‘stealers’
were only smart enough to change Presidential office vote. Strange!
NPR interviewed the CEO of Dominion today. Those are the ballot
machines that ‘stole’ the election. Those machines were created so that the
state using them would have a paper-trail. Other brands did not provide the
paper-trail. Lawsuits are in the works against those who claim the machines
were changed. Sadly, many Dominion employees and executives are being harassed online,
at the place of business, and even at their homes. None of the allegations against
Dominion have been proven. The damage to their employees, executives, and the
company name may never be compensated for. Disgusting!
Daily Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Who makes it, has no need of it. Who buys it, has no use for it. Who
uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
Historical Events
1889 – The word hamburger first appeared in print in the Walla Walla
Union, a Walla Walla, Washington, newspaper.
1905 – The National Association of Audubon Society incorporated.
1933 – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge construction began
1945 – Pepe LePew debuted in Warner Brother’s Odor-able Kitty
1957 – Dodgers’ Jackie Robinson retired rather than be traded to New
York Giants
1998 – Vandals decapitated Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid
2019 Chinese government report predicts China's population will peak
at 1.44 billion in 2029 before declining
Birthdays Today
@93 – Jeane Dixon, American astrologer and psychic (d. 1997)
93 – Walter Mondale,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd VP
@90 – Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)
90 – Robert Duvall,
American actor
79 – Charlie Rose,
American journalist, and talk show host
@77 – King Camp Gillette, founded the Gillette Company (d. 1932)
75 – Diane Keaton,
American actress
71 – Chris Stein,
American guitarist, and songwriter [Blondie]
68 – George Tenet,
American civil servant
53 – Carrie Ann Inaba,
American actress, and dancer
52 – Marilyn Manson [Brian
Hugh Warner], American
singer-songwriter, AKA
@45 – George Reeves, American actor, and director (d. 1959;
murder/suicide?)
Puzzle Answer
A coffin.
