22 Dec

 

22December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff

Week 52 Day 356 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 50° \13° 

Wind 4mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality: Good\ Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 479mi \ Nearest Lightning 1777mi

Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `

 Sunshine

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Andisop (Meteorological Fiddling): 5-24   Link
Christmas Bird Count Week: 14-1/5 Link 
Halcyon Days: 14-28 
Halcyon Days: 14-28 
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 15 - 1/1/23  Link 
Posadas: 16-24
Saturnalia: 17-23
Chanukah: 18-26
Gluten-free Baking Week: 18-24  Link 
Cookie Exchange Week: 19-23  

Daily Observations

Abilities Day
Be a Lover of Silence Day
Forefathers Day Link
National Cookie Exchange Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice day. Sunshine is nice!

I had lunch with Andy and Faith. They are doing well. Logan and Kayla will be at their place for Christmas Eve, then heading back to Phoenix where it will be warmer.

Denver may be hit with a real cold spell. Glad to read that the Denver Coliseum is opening its doors as a warming shelter due to the cold.

Zelensky is in DC. Hoping it goes well for him and his constituents.  

Favorite Memes

If…

•          You should keep your voice down in cornfields because there are so many ears. 

Slang Origins

1944: Square

Meaning: old-fashioned, boring

The African American jazz community, vibrant since the 1920s, continued to produce new sounds and words. Calling those who didn’t understand this new music “square” is said to come from the conducting patterns of a standard four-beat rhythm. It later shed its strictly musical connotation and could be applied to any boring person.

Mysteries…

WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA?

The teamster union leader known for his involvement in organized crime disappeared in Oakland County, Michigan, on July 30, 1975, and is presumed to be dead. The identity of his killer(s) and the location of his body are ongoing mysteries. Police and forensic anthropologists have searched a number of sites in Detroit and Oakland County to no avail.

One popular theory was that Hoffa's body was buried beneath Giants Stadium in New Jersey. However, this theory has been debunked. On Oct. 25 and 26, 2021, FBI agents visited a former landfill in New Jersey to conduct a "site survey," according to The New York Times. The survey is a follow-up to a deathbed confession by a landfill worker claiming that people had charged he and his father with burying Hoffa's body in a steel barrel under the dump in 1975. The agents apparently didn't find the steel barrel, Live Science reported.

The identity of his killer is also unclear. Before his death in 2006, Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, a hit man, claimed to have killed Hoffa and dumped his body in a scrap yard, The Guardian reported. An author named Philip Carlo visited Kuklinski in prison before he died and wrote a book on Kuklinski's confessions. After the book came out, a number of police officers cast doubt on the confession in media interviews. As the years go by, it appears increasingly unlikely that Hoffa's remains will ever be found. 

Historical Events

1956 – Colo, born at the Columbus, Ohio Zoo, was the first gorilla born in Peru.
December 22, 2012 (fiction) After a lot of planning, the alien colonization began on Earth on The X-Files, TV.
1990 – Lech Walesa was elected President of Poland.
2010 – The repeal of the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, the policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, was signed into law by President Barack Obama. 

Birthdays Today

@94 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010)
“Don’t think your dreams don’t come true, because they do. You’d better be careful what you wish for.”– Barbara Billingsley
@93 – Connie Mack, American baseball player, icon (d. 1956)
77 – Diane Sawyer, American journalist
“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”– Diane Sawyer
74 – Steve Garvey, American baseball player
@65 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924; heart attack)
60 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor
“I don’t feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs unless they’re extremely well informed.”-Ralph Fiennes
@59 – Jean-Baptiste Racine, French playwright (d. 1699; liver cancer)
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”– Jean-Baptiste Racine
52 – Ted Cruz, American politician
33 – Jordin Sparks, American singer
“It’s OK to feel crappy sometimes and it’s OK to feel like you don’t look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It’s important to know that.”– Jordin Sparks
29 – Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter
@27 – Pamela Courson, American girlfriend of Jim Morrison (d. 1974; OD) #27club