Jan 2

 

Week: 1 Day: 2
Ave. Sky Cover:  10% Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   30°\ 4° Wind: 13mph\ Gusts: 18mph
Very Low risk of fire Active fire: 478mi. \ Lightning: 965mi.
Jan Averages: 43°\17° (5 days w/moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Navajo: Yas Niłtʼees melting or cooking the snow

Get A Balanced Life Month
Get Organized Month
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month Link
International Child-Centered Divorce Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month Link
Menudo Month  Link

Weekly Observations

1-7	Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week
1-8	National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
2-8	Someday We'll Laugh About This Week: Home Office Safety and Security Week Link National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A chilly day after about an inch of new snow. Just a beautiful day to start the new year.

I vaguely remember The Betty White Show in very early TV and Password with Alan Ludden. I was a big fan of Mary Tyler Moore Show and Golden Girls. Betty White will be missed after her 99-year life.

Amanda Gorman wrote "New Day's Lyric" and read it last night at the CNN bash.

 

"This hope is our door, our portal," Gorman recited in the video. "Even if we never get back to normal, someday we can venture beyond it, to leave the known and take the first steps. So let us not return to what was normal, but reach toward what is next."

 

The whole poem is available on her Instagram page. It is worth a look.

 

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How do you insult a vacuum?

Tell it, it doesn't suck.

Arizona Trivia

·        A saguaro cactus can store up to nine tons of water.

·        The state of Massachusetts could fit inside Maricopa County (9,922 sq. miles).

·        The westernmost battle of the Civil War was fought at Picacho Pass on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak in Pinal County

·        There are 11.2 million acres of National Forest in Arizona, and one-fourth of the state forested.

·        Wyatt Earp was neither the town marshal nor the sheriff in Tombstone at the time of the shoot-out at the O..K. Corral. His brother Virgil was the town marshal.

Historical Events

Ø 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, was launched by the Soviet Union.

Ø 1974 – 55 MPH speed limit was imposed by the Richard Nixon administration.

Ø 2008 – Oil reached $100 per barrel for the first time.

Birthdays Today

·        @89 – Barry Goldwater, American politician, businessman, author (died in 1998)

·        @78 – Martha Carey Thomas, American suffragette, educator (died in 1935)

75 – Jack Hanna, American zoologist, author

·        @72 – Isaac Asimov, American Science Fiction writer (d. 1992; AIDS by blood transfusion)

·        @56 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992; throat cancer)

54 – Cuba Gooding, Jr., American actor, producer

51 – Taye Diggs, actor

47 – Dax Shepard. American actor

45 – Brian Boucher, American ice hockey player, sportscaster

39 – Kate Bosworth, American actress