8 Nov

 

8 November 2022...Midterm elections

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 46 Day 312 \ Ave. Sky Cover 30% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 60° \31° 
Wind 16mph \ Gusts 12mph  
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)
Air Quality: Fair\ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 132mi \ Nearest Lightning 706mi

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

World Origami Days: 24-11/11
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

Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
Dunce Day Link
Election Day
First Folio Day
International Pathology Day Link 
Intersex Day of Remembrance  Link
National Cappuccino Day
National Harvey Wallbanger Day
National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day   Link
Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day
X-ray Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another nice fall day…awaiting the next storm.

Yesterday the AZ Cardinals lost to the Seahawks. No wonder…Cards had SEVEN pre-snap penalties. Denver enjoyed a bye.

Twitter chaos continues. I opened an account after Trump was inaugurated to allow me to keep up with his news. I followed him for a couple of months. Then I deleted my account. Elon Musk now owns Twitter. I still see no reason to sign up again and certainly am not going to pay any money to them for a blue check or for anything else. Musk says he wants a public square, like there was during the American Revolution. Great! Back then people did not have to pay anything to be in the square. I doubt people were hiding their identity when they spoke at those squares. Musk has developed his own bumps in his road as he has tweeted a conspiracy theory that has been debunked. He announces then changes the price for that blue check…first it was $20/mo., then$8/mo. I’ll let this all play out and if he fixes it, fine, I will consider rejoining…until then I just watch.

Favorite Memes

Best Instrumentals

"YYZ" by Rush (1981)

Off the commercially successful Moving Pictures, this is the first of several Rush instrumental songs nominated for a Grammy Award. While it's a complete band effort, the song truly highlights the talent of bassist Geddy Lee and late legendary drummer Neil Peart. (They co-wrote the piece.) In terms of Peart's performance, it's one that influenced many youngsters to pick the sticks and sit down beyond a drum kit. 

Meaning/history of a phrase

Crocodile tears

This is a popular phrase usually used to describe false sorrow and faking an emotional response. But the whole phrase is based on a medieval myth.

People back then believed that crocodiles actually cried tears of sadness while they killed and ate their prey.

Historical Events

1519 – Cortez and his troops took Montezuma, the Aztek Emporer, hostage, effectively taking over the nation.
1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opened the first US library. It was an idea he had with his Junto Club, which was basically a Philly Businessman’s Association.
1889 – Montana was admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed in 1933.
1966, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League (NFL) to merge with the American Football League (AFL).
HBO launched with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
1999 – Bruce Miller was killed near Flint, Michigan. His wife, Sharee Miller, convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him, was convicted of the crime, in what became the world’s first Internet murder.

Birthdays Today

@85 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician (d. 1742)
@84 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author (d. 2016)
@74 – Milton Bradley, founded the Milton Bradley Company, (d. 1911)
@78 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998; diabetes)
@78 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001; asthma attack)
73 – Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author, activist
73 – Bonnie Raitt, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist
“We can live in fear or act out of hope.”– Bonnie Raitt
72 – Mary Hart, American journalist, and actress
@64 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist, and critic created Count Dracula, (d. 1912; stokes)
“Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!”– Bram Stoker
68 – Rickie Lee Jones, American Singer/Songwriter, producer
61 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and television personality
56 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and TV host /personality
“Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”– Gordon Ramsay
55 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
52 – Tom Anderson, American businessman (co-founded Myspace)
51 – Tech N9ne [Aaron Dontez Yates], American musician, record producer, actor
@49 – Joe Flynn, American actor (d. 1974; heart attack while swimming)
49 – David Muir, journalist
@48 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (d. 1949; hit by car)
“Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”– Margaret Mitchell
47 – Tara Reid, American actress
@37 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (d. 1922; peritonitis)