June 2

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 23 Day: 153 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 76° \35° 
Wind: 4mph \ Gusts: 10smph
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ Nearest Lightning: 663mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

California Avocado Month Link
Cancer From the Sun Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dementia Care Professionals Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Fireworks Safety Month

Weekly Observations

Thru 6/5   National Seat Belt Reinforcement Week Link National African Violet Week

Thru 6/3  Black Single Parents Week

Thru 9/5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

2-5 Great American Brass Band Week  Link

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice warm day. We need moisture.

Yesterday a squirrel caused a power outage to 6600 Flagstaff residents. Luckily, not where I live. The outage lasted about 3 hours until about 9am.

During the long Memorial Day weekend, 12 illegal campfires were reported. All received a citation. I guess those 12 thought ‘the rules are for thee, but not for me.’

I read an interesting article this morning. The argument was that President Biden does not have the authority to cancel student debt. The government helps students with grants that do not have to be repaid and for loans that do need to be repaid. Those taking out government loans fully understood that it was NOT a grant, and that it would have to be paid back. It seems that politically astute people would have pointed this out years ago. I think I’ll wait and see what Biden does and then follow the aftermath.

Favorite Memes

Everyday Phrases with a Dark Meaning

Meet a deadline

Probably one of the most popular phrases you'll hear throughout your entire life. First as a student, and then as an employee. Hopefully you won't die if you don't meet these deadlines but crossing the original deadline would have that result!

A deadline was an actual line drawn on Civil War prisons. If a prisoner escaped and crossed that line, he would be killed. Not quite the same consequence as not responding to an email, right?

Riddle of the Day

What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word? 

 

This is hard because it gets you thinking about gender and the ways they’re different. You must think of one word that holds the others. It’s easy when you think about it!

Answer: Heroine

Historical Events

  Ë 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ended as Crusader forces take the city. The crusades were a result of Muslim conquests of the Christian holy lands.
Ë 1692 – Prosecutions in the Salem Witch Trials began
Ë 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus began touring the United States.
Ë 1858 – The Donati Comet was first seen and named after its discoverer, Giovanni Battista Donati, in Florence.
Ë 1865 – Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, a commander of Confederate forces, signed the surrender terms offered by Union negotiators, ending the US civil war.
Ë 1928 – Kraft’s Velveeta Cheese was made available.
Ë 1953 – The coronation of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II.
Ë 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed.
Ë 1966 – Surveyor 1 landed in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon.
Ë 1997 – Timothy McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, in which 168 people died.
Ë 2004 – Ken Jennings began his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy.

Birthdays Today

@87 – Tom Hardy, English novelist (d. 1928)
81 – Stacy Keach, American character actor
@79 – Johnny Weissmuller, Hungarian-American swimmer, actor (d. 1984;   

           pulmonary edema)
@74 – Marquis de Sade, French philosopher, politician (d. 1814)
74 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
@70 – Martha Washington, 1st First Lady (d. 1802)
@68 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer, conductor (d. 2012; hypertension)
62 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver, sportscaster
53 – Wayne Brady, American actor
50 – Andy Cohen, comedian, game show host
44 – Justin Long, American actor
44 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
44 – Nikki Cox, American actress