7 Dec

 

December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 50 Day 341 \ Ave. Sky Cover 30% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 42° feels like 36°\32° 
Wind 9mph \ Gusts 4mph  Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 386mi \ Nearest Lightning 1262mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Partly cloudy

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7 Link
Clerc-Gallaudet Week: 3-10
National Hand Washing Awareness Week: 4-10 Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week: 4-10 
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling): 5-24   Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week: 5-9 Link 
Computer Science Education Week: 5-11 Link

Daily Observations

International Civil Aviation Day
Letter Writing Day
National Cotton Candy Day
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
International Civil Aviation Day
National Cotton Candy Day Link
National Fire Safety Council Day
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Special Kids Day Link  

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Weather guy says to expect 1-3” of snow tonight…I’ll wait and see if it happens.

I made a quick shopping trip to get some essentials. A tad chilly to be out and about.

I had planned to run my vehicle through the dealer car wash today.  It was too chilly to wipe it down after the blower leaves some parts still wet. I’ll do it when it warms up a tad. Hopefully that will happen before May.

Favorite Memes

So very good!
	Digis =  Crazy!

Little known Native American History

The origin of hockey

If you're a hockey fan, you may be unaware you have the Saux, Foxes, and Assiniboine people to thank. They were among the Native American tribes who played a game called "shinny." In shinny a buckskin ball was hit down the field using a curved stick. In the winter months, the game was played over ice. White settlers took note and over time, shinny was developed into the modern sport we call hockey.

Depending on how much you know about the constitution, you may be surprised to learn that Ben Franklin and the founding fathers modeled the United States constitution on the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. However, Pamala Silas, associate director of outreach and engagement for the Center For Native American and Indigenous Research at Northwestern University, says, "Ben Franklin left out the most important part. The clan mothers were the ones who picked the leaders at the representative level because they knew them the best." 

Slang Origins

1928: Horsefeathers

Meaning: nonsense, balderdash

“Horsefeathers” is an exclamation perfect for interrupting someone you disagree with. “Applesauce,” another word from the same time, could serve a similar purpose. Rumored to be having been coined by cartoonist Billy De Beck, some think it’s meant to serve as a replacement for a more vulgar term, but that definition only goes back to the 1940s.

Historical Events

1787 – Delaware became the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

1941 – Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA attacked by Japan.

2002 – In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were “View of the Sea st Scheveningen” and “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen.” They were found, along with the thieves shortly after the heist.

Birthdays Today

@98 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)

94 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist, and philosopher

Being able to do as one pleases is the natural goal of the libertarian, but having nothing to do is not. While it may be correct to say that the human species is badly prepared for having nothing to do, it is quite a different matter to say that it is badly prepared for the freedom to do as one pleases. People who are able to do as they please may work very hard, given the opportunity to do interesting work.– Noam Chomsky

90 – Ellen Burstyn, American actress

@80 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor, Donald Duck (d. 1985)

73 – Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.– Tom Waits

67 – Larry Bird, American basketball player

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.– Larry Bird

@67 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, performer (d. 1978; stroke)

@62 – Ted Knight, American actor, and comedian (d. 1986; cancer)

56 – C. Thomas Howell, American actor

@50 – Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of Sears (d. 1914; alcoholism)

49 – Terrell Owens, American football player, and actor

43 – Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter

@38 – Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981; auto accident)

Oh, if a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died what one man’s life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world?– Harry Chapin

@34 – Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter (d. 2022; in bathtub)

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.-Aaron Carter

33 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor