13 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 38 Day 256 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 76° \58° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality Fair
Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 257mi \ Nearest Lightning 162mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

11-17 Be A Mench Week Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link International Housekeepers Week Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link

12-17   Line Dance Week

12-18   National Chef Appreciation Week Link   National NeoNatal Nurses Week Link

Daily Observations

Ants On A Log Day  Link 
Bald Is Beautiful Day
Celiac Disease Awareness Day
Defy Superstition Day
Fortune Cookie Day
International Chocolate Day Link
International Programmers Day Link  
Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day
National Celiac Awareness Day
National Peanut Day Link
Positive Thinking Day
Roald Dahl Day
Scooby-Doo Day
Uncle Sam Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The monsoon should bring some moisture later today. The rain came a little earlier than expected and contained pea-sized hail.

Hopefully the Broncos will do well tonight. The CU Buffs lost to Air Force, Cards lost to Chiefs…one of my teams has to win.

I am still learning a lot about British Royalty as each day brings out more about how this succession is slowly happening. Scotland’s Parliament ceremony was very interesting. I can’t imagine our congress having so many parties, with each leader speaking.

AZ is getting a new governor, since the current Governor can’t run due to term limits. The Republican candidate is a full-blown ‘Trump won’ person and a former news reader in Phoenix. The Democrat candidate has refused to debate the Republican, claiming the primary debate on the Republican side was only about who won in 2020. Our state elections are turning into a real circus with way too many clowns on the ballot.

While I was out and about, I stopped at the dealership to figure out how to use the trip calculator. The guy who sold me the car tried, then got an ‘expert’ to figure it out. After about 5 minutes I now understand how it works. The actual trip only shows up on the screen when you scroll through the choices. The mileage on the lower left is the odometer, the milage on the lower left is how many miles until the car is out of gas. The sales guy thanked me for coming in so he could learn too. Live and learn.

Favorite Memes

Random trivia…

  Missing Persons

The FBI designates severe, urgent missing person cases as "endangered or involuntary." Approximately 15 percent of missing person cases are given that classification each year; most of them are applied to children.

In the mid-1980s, milk cartons with photos of missing children on them made their debut. The first child to appear on one of those milk cartons was Etan Patz, a 6-year-old from New York who disappeared walking to the bus stop in May 1975.

According to the U.S. Department of State, there are no statistics that track the number of Americans who go missing in a foreign country in a given year. The United Kingdom does, however. In 2008, 481 British disappeared abroad, an increase from 401 the previous year and 336 in 2006.

In 2008, there were 30 officially documented disappearances on cruise ships in the preceding five years.

Myth Buster

Hitler invented the highway

While the highway is, indeed, a German invention, attributing it to Adolf Hitler is incorrect. The first highway, the Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übung-Strasse (AVUS), opened on September 25, 1921, long before Hitler came to power. The dictator did inaugurate a section of the Autobahn for the first time in 1935, however. These long, straight roads between Frankfurt and Darmstadt were first used to break car speed records, but Hitler saw them as an excellent way to move his troops quickly.

Historical Events

1790 – The US Capitol was moved to New York City from Philadelphia.
1899 – Henry Bliss was the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab who struck Bliss, was charged but acquitted.
1814 – Francis Scott Key composed his poem “Defense of Fort McHenry”- which later became The Star-Spangled Banner.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC, the first commercial computer to use disk storage, was introduced.
1985 – Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan for the NES.
   1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat signed a historic peace agreement (true), ending centuries of discord in the middle east (not true).

Birthdays Today

@92 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (d. 1996)
@88 – Milton S. Hershey, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
@82 – Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave; founder of Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)
@74 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet,  screenwriter (d. 1990; rare cancer)
“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.” – Roald Dahl
@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, conductor (d. 2015; liver failure)
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”– Ray Charles
@73 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1999; stroke)
@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014; heart attack)
78 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, singer (d. 2003; heart failure)
71 – Jean Smart, American actress
58 – Tavis Smiley, American talk show host
“I don’t think I’d live anything over, even though I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I’m not one to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I’ll take my life the way it is.”– Tavis Smiley
53 – Tyler Perry, producer, director, actor
@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, biologist (d. 1902; peritonitis)
29 – Niall Horan, Irish singer