20 Aug

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 34 Day 232 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 70° \52° 
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 12mph  Air Quality Fair
Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 6mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

14-20 National Motorcycle Week Link (2nd Week) Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link  Link   National Resurrect Romance Week National Resurrect Romance Week Weird Contest Week National Aviation Week

15-21 US Amateur Golf Week

16-20 Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money)

18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week

18-9/6   Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

Daily Observations

Bacon Lovers Day
Chocolate Pecan Pie Day
Chef Appreciation Day
Clear the Shelters Day Link  
International Geocaching Day 
International Homeless Animals Day 
Lemonade Day
National Honey Bee Day Link  
National Radio Day  Link
World Mosquito Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Rain is headed this way…again today.

The HOA finally cleaned up the pine needles in the back area and the gutters early this morning. My landlord had called on Tuesday to tell me that the HOA was sending out roof inspectors sometime this week or next. I mentioned the pine needle problem and that if I call the HOA they don’t care because I am not an owner. Fine, he called; it is fixed.

In the past five years I have leaned more about how our government operates and does not operate than I ever wanted to know. The Mar-A-Lago incident has taught me much. The judge may release some parts of the search warrant, after the DOJ gets to do redactions. If he disagrees with the redactions, he can un-redact and release. This will take time, but will, in the end will be within the law.

All the political talk has taken the Ukraine situation on the back burner on most news networks. Now that the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is in danger, it is back in the headlines. Now there is a fear of radiation leakage, and the UN is hoping the Russian troops will withdraw from the nuclear site and let the world rest a little easier. Time will tell.

Favorite Memes

One Hit Wonders

  The Tornados: 'Telstar'

Fresh-faced, clean-cut British band, the Tornados, had a hit with this instrumental song produced by legendary producer Joe Meek. “Telstar” was named after an experimental communications satellite launched into space in 1962, which seemed fitting given the space-like quality to the song that would be lumped with other songs of the same ilk known as “space rock.”

Historical Events

1000 – The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen.
1858 – Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
1882 – Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture debuted in Moscow, Russia.
1910 – The Great Fire of 1910 burned 3 Million acres in Washinton, Idaho, and Montana.
1920 – The first(?) commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), began operating in Detroit.
1920 – The National Football League was organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio.
1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood until
2013 years when it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shot and killed14 of his co-workers, injured 6 more, and then committed suicide. It was the initial example of “going postal”.
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
2014 – 72 people were killed in Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture by a series of landslides that were caused by a (typical) months’ worth of rain that fell in a single day.

Birthdays Today

91 – Don King, American boxing promoter
” If you want to sell a steak, you can’t just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.”– Don King
87 – Ron Paul, American politician, and physician
76 – Connie Chung, American journalist
74 – Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
“No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.”– Robert Plant
68 – Al Roker, American news anchor, and television personality
@67 – Benjamin Harrison, American politician, 23rd President (d. 1901; pneumonia)
@65 – Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2008)
” I don’t sit back and count up what I’ve done. There’s just always something else to do. There’s always a challenge ahead.” – Isaac Hayes
60 – James Marsters, American actor
57 – KRS-One [Lawrence "Kris" Parker], American rapper, producer
” Educate yourself make your world view bigger, visualize wealth, and put yourself in the picture.”– KRS-One
52 – Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter
@46 – H.P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist (d. 1937; cancer)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft
@40 – Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (d. 1964; private plane crash)
39 – Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
29 – Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.”– Demi Lovato