30 Aug

 

 
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 36 Day 242 \ Ave. Sky Cover 10% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 82° \50° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 11mph  Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 326mi

Aug Averages for F

lagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

18-9/6   Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

23-9/1   World Water Week Link

25-31 Be Kind To Humankind Week

27-9/4 National Chuckwagon Races

29-9/11 US Open Tennis Championships

Daily Observations

Beach Day
Frankenstein Day
Grief Awareness Day
International Cabernet Sauvignon Day  Link
Internat’l Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances Link
International Whale Shark Day 
Marshmallow Toasting Day
National Grief Awareness Day  Link
National Holistic Pet Day
National Toasted Marshmallow Day  Link\

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Weather guy says the monsoon is taking a break until Sunday. It’s a nice day for sure.

Flooding is an international crisis. Some 3.3 million have been affected by flooding in Pakistan. This year’s weather is certainly different.

I went out to pick my CPAP supplies. Included was much needed head gear to hold the thing on my face.

I was excited about the scheduled Artemis launch to the moon. It got scrubbed.

My mail included my new title for my vehicle, and my new insurance cards…along with a bill. Now I’m just awaiting the license plate, so people won’t know I just got a new vehicle.

Favorite Memes

One Hit Wonders

  "The Hustle," Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony (1975)

McCoy was a celebrated figure during the disco era, but mostly as a songwriter, music arranger, and producer. However, his surprise 1975 hit "The Hustle," from the album Disco Baby, remains one of the most memorable songs from the era. The track, inspired by the popular disco dance move, topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart and even won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. McCoy had a few more singles that charted during his career as a recording artist, but nothing close to the prominence of "The Hustle."

Historical Events

70 – Titus ended the siege of Jerusalem after destroying The Second Temple.
1835 – Melbourne, Australia was founded.
1836 – The city of Houston, named after former General Sam Houston, was founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen.
1945 – Hong Kong was liberated from Japan by the British Armed Forces.
1963 – The Moscow to Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union went into operation.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983 – Lt. Col. Guion S. Bluford, JR was the first African American in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1984 – The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-41-D) takes off on its maiden voyage.
1993- David Letterman premiered his late-night talk show on CBS.
2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the decommissioned Russian submarine K-159 sank, taking nine of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

Birthdays Today

@94 – Shirley Booth [Marjory Ford], American actress (d. 1992)
92 – Warren Buffett, American businessman, and philanthropist
“Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”– Warren Buffett
@92 – Kitty Wells, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
@83 – Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
@83 – Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
@83 – Daryl Gates, created the D.A.R.E. Program (d. 2010)
@80 – Geoffrey Beene [Samuel Albert Bozeman Jr.], American fashion designer (d. 2004)
74 – Lewis Black, American comedian, and author
“It’s absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we’ve got rockets, we’ve got saran wrap – fix it!”– Lewis Black
@72 – Peggy Lipton, American model, actress (d. 2019; colon cancer)
@65 – John Phillips, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001; heart failure)
59 – Michael Chiklis, American actor
@53 – Mary Shelley, English novelist, playwright, Frankenstein (d. 1851; brain tumor)
“Live, and be happy, and make others so.”– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
50 – Cameron Diaz, American actress
48 – Lisa Ling, American journalist, author
“Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don’t have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.”– Lisa Ling
@42 – Huey Long, 40th Governor of Louisiana (d. 1935; assassinated)
33 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter