Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 33 Day 221 \ Ave. Sky Cover 25% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 83° \56°
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 11mph Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire 29mi \ Nearest Lightning 81mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)
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Daily Observations
Book Lovers Day Link
International Day of The World's Indigenous People
Rice Pudding Day
Veep
Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice
summer day. Rain expected this afternoon.
I headed out
to check out new vehicles this morning. Neither Nissan nor Subaru had what I
was looking for. Nissan let me test drive a Rogue. They expect some in the last
week or August. A $1000 needed to hold the vehicle. I could get the money back
if I don’t like the one that comes in. Subaru only wants $500 to hold a Forester
that will come in a little sooner, but they don’t have any to even test drive.
I’m still thinking as I don’t like buying a vehicle without seeing it. I guess
if it is meant to be, it will happen.
Back in the
day when I was in high school and working at a grocery store, we placed our
orders every Monday and they were delivered on Wednesday by Associated Grocers.
I wrongly assumed that business was still done that way. Many still do, but Walmart
and Sam’s don’t. They have no warehouses. They really have no backroom or
warehouse inventory. When an item is low, they order from the manufacturing
site. With all the supply chain disruptions due to Covid, this model is hurting more than the warehouse
model.
Favorite Memes
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One Hit Wonders
Hugh Masekela: 'Grazing in
the Grass'
The South
African jazz trumpeter scored a hit in 1968 with this smooth instrumental song
composed by Philemon Hou. In 1969, the band The Friends of Distinction reworked
the song, adding lyrics, and turned it into another chart-topper.
Historical Events
1483 – Opening of the restored Sistine
Chapel in Rome. Renaissance painters Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino,
Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Cosimo Roselli contributed. Michelangelo
added his work on the ceiling in 1508-1512.
1790 – Robert Gray, sailing The Columbia,
became the first person to circumnavigate the Earth, from and to Boston, MA.
1854 – Henry David Thoreau published
Walden or Life in the Woods.
1892 – Thomas Edison received a patent
(#480,567) for a two-way telegraph.
1930 – Betty Boop made her cartoon debut
in Dizzy Dishes.
1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was
arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.
1944 – Nagasaki, Japan was decimated when
an atomic bomb, Fat Man, was dropped by the United States B-29 Bock’s Car.
1945 – The second atomic bomb was dropped
on Japan. “Fat Boy” was dropped over Nagasaki, due to the city of Kokura blocked
by clouds.
1969 – Followers of Charles Manson
murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), Abigail Folger,
Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring and Steven Parent. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca
were killed by the same crew the following day.
1974 – US President Nixon resigned from
office.
2001 – Gomer Pyle, the fictional TV
character, was made an honorary U.S. Marine and promoted to the rank of Lance
Corporal by the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
Birthdays Today
@86 – Daniel Keyes,
American short story writer, and novelist (d. 2014)
78
– Sam Elliott, American actor
@70 – Ken Norton,
American boxer (d. 2013; strokes)
65
– Melanie Griffith, American actress
63
– Michael Kors, American fashion designer
58
– Hoda Kotb, American journalist, television personality
54
– Gillian Anderson, TV actor
54
– Eric Bana, Australian actor
52
– Chris Cuomo, American lawyer, journalist
@48 – Whitney
Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2012)
46
– Jessica Capshaw, American actress
