7 Nov

November 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 46 Day 311 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 55° \27° 
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 13mph  \Air Quality: Fair\Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 132mi \ Nearest Lightning 1618mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)day’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

World Origami Days: 24-11/11
National Fig Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 5-11  Link   
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11  
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11  Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11 Link   
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11 
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11 Link  
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11 
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11 Link  (Also May 2-8) 
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10  
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut) 
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10  
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut) Link
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13

Daily Observations

Employee Brotherhood Day Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Hug a Bear Day
Hug a Bear Day
International Merlot Day  Link
Little League Girls Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
Notary Public Day Link
Retinol Day  Link
“You Go, Girl” Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Beautiful late fall day.

I spent the morning reviewing the candidates and propositions that will be on my ballot on Tuesday. I’m now ready to vote! I also did a load of laundry during the review. Here is AZ, there are a whole slew of candidates that deny the 2020 Election for governor, Sec. of State, and other offices that oversee our elections.

An ABC reporter was covering Native American Heritage Month.  The female reporter referred to Indigenous people as ‘Indigenous creatures’. The mistake still hasn’t been corrected. Shame on ABC news for not apologizing. The Native community on social media has been posting memes to bring attention to this. Most are very humorous. I recall talking to the head of BIA education years ago and he said he dreaded November, because the BIA got thousands of calls with people asking where they could see a real Indian, or where they could go to buy traditional costumes for their family’s Thanksgiving dinner. It is sad that most of the American population knows little of the current happenings of Indigenous People in this country.

CU Buffs lost to Oregon in a very windy game.

I’m seriously interested in why the Republican party has not made a big deal about the fact that the guy who attacked Mr. Pelosi is an illegal. True, he just overstayed his Visa without returning to Canada…but still, he is an illegal by all definitions.

Favorite Memes

	This is the Actual Twitter Post from Elon Musk

Best Instrumentals

"La Villa Strangiato" by Rush (1978)

Die-hard Rush fans believe this is the progressive rock band's masterpiece — instrumental or otherwise. Off the Hemispheres album, this is Rush's first instrumental effort. It checks in at just over 9 1/2 minutes long and truly highlights each member of the legendary three-piece band. The concept was composed by guitarist Alex Lifeson. 

Meaning/history of a phrase

Sold down the river

One is "sold down the river" when one is victim of a betrayal, or you got screwed over/cheated by someone. The expression was used in reference to slave trade.

Slaves would literally be sold and sent down the Mississippi River to work on plantations in the South.

Historical Events

1665 – The first edition of the London Gazette was printed. At the time it was called “The Oxford Gazette”.
1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took place in the Indiana territory.
Thomas Nast used The Elephant for the first time as the Republican symbol in Harper’s Weekly magazine (1874)
1874 – The first cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our modern version of Santa Clause.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1908 – Professor Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter.
1917 – The Bolshevik Revolution began in Petrograd, Russia.
1962 – Richard M. Nixon, at a press conference, said “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
1989 – Douglas Wilder became the elected African-American governor in the US
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1954 – Face The Nation premiered on NBC.

Birthdays Today

@99 – Billy Graham, American minister, author (d. 2018)
80 – Johnny Rivers [John Henry Ramistella], American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer
@76 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player, bandleader (d. 1999; liver failure)
79 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
71 – Lawrence O’Donnell, American journalist and talk show host
@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist, and physicist Nobel Prize laureate, (d. 1934; radiation)
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”– Marie Curie
65 – Christopher Knight, American actor
@60 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist, and politician founded the Red Army, (d. 1940; killed)
@52 – Dee Clark, American Singer/Songwriter (d. 1990; heart attack)
52 – Morgan Spurlock, American director, producer, and screenwriter
@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960; car accident)
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”…
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”– Albert Camus
43 – Amy Purdy, American actress, model, snowboarder
@34 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999; OD/suicide)
26 – Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor], New Zealand Singer/Songwriter