12 Nov

 

November 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 46 Day 316 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 40° \14° 
Wind 13mph \ Gusts 17mph  Air Quality: Fair\Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 124mi \ Nearest Lightning 864mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
National Donor Sabbath: 10-12
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 11-17
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 12-18 Link  
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18  
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18  Link   
National Cider Week: 12-19 
National Cider Week: 12-19 Link 
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18 Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week: 12-18 Link  Link
Perioperative Nurse Week: 12-18 Link
Roc Your Moc Week: 12-18 Link  
World Kindness Week: 12-18  
World Kindness Week: 12-18  Link 

Daily Observations

Chicken Soup For The Soul Day  Link
Diwali Link 
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  Link
Football Day Link
National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
National French Dip Day Link
National Happy Hour Day
National Pizza with the Works Except for Anchovies Day
Sigma Gamma Rho Day
World Pneumonia Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A very chilly Veteran’s Day. Being a Federal Holiday, I believe everyone should have a day off. I am staying around the house and not encouraging businesses that are open.

Family Flag is flying to honor our vets.

AZ is still waiting for our final election results…tired of the holding pattern.

A Federal judge from TX has struck down Biden’s College Loan Forgiveness Plan. I’m sure there will be numerous appeals.

Here is an interesting stat I found today: Native Americans service in the armed forces is at a rate FIVE times the national average.

During Native American Heritage Month, the Phoenix Suns NBA team is wearing uniforms to honor the 22 tribes of AZ. Very cool.

Favorite Memes

	Still figuring out my new ride :)

Best Instrumentals

"Always with Me, Always with You" by Joe Satriani (1989)

No doubt that Satriani is up there with the great guitarists in music history. From a technical standpoint, he could be the best. There are many great Satriani tracks to choose from, but this is one of his most celebrated. It's also likely his most recognizable as it earned plenty of FM radio airplay, and the video received some decent love on MTV. 

Meaning/history of a phrase

A snafu

This expression is often used when something has gone wrong. But what does it mean, really?

"Snafu" comes from the World War II military acronym S.N.A.F.U., which stands for Situation Normal, All F**** Up. Which, in a context of war, means exactly that.

Historical Events

1799 – Andrew Ellicott wrote the about first known record of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know they were the Leonids.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, the father of modern anesthetics, used chloroform (“perchloride of formyle”) for the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel connecting NY and NY – the world’s first underwater vehicular tunnel – officially opened.
1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party.
1929 – Commander Richard E. Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole.
1933 – First known photo of the so-called Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray.
1946 – The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois, instituted the first drive-in banking service in America.
1954 – Ellis Island in New York closed after providing entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1924.
1956 – The largest iceberg on record was sighted by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere. It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic. It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I made the closest approach to Saturn and took the first clear images of its rings.

Birthdays Today

@91 – DeWitt Wallace, philanthropist co-founded Reader’s Digest, (d. 1981)
@83 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017)
@79 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002; heart attack)
78 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
77 – Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer
@77 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
“To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature.”… “The more simple we are, the more complete we become.– Auguste Rodin
64 – Megan Mullally, American actress, singer
61 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast
54 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
53 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
“Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.”– Grace Kelly
“People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don’t give a damn.”– Tonya Harding
@52 – Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982; stoke)
46 – Tevin Campbell, American R&B Singer/Songwriter, actor
42 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer, and singer
40 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
38 – Omarion, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer