2 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 36 Day 245 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 83° \51° 
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 14mph  Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 57mi \ Nearest Lightning 327mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Children’s Good Manners Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Link
Cholesterol Education Month Link
Classical Music Month  Link
Co-op Awareness Month (9/24-10/31)
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month  Link
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Global Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month  Link
Go Wild for California Wild  Rice Month Link
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month

Weekly Observations

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

Thru 9/6   Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

Thru 9/11 US Open Tennis Championships

Thru 9/2 National Sweet Corn Week

1-4  Chuckwagon Races

1-7 International Enthusiasm Week National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link Self-University Week Link

1-5  Golden Onion Week

1-10  Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

2-5  Hog Days

2-3   Cow Chip Throwing Days US Snow Shoe Days

2-6  Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

Daily Observations

Bison-ten Yell Day
Blueberry Popsicle Day
Bring Your Manners To Work Day  
Cow Chip Throwing Days  Link  
National Chianti Day  Link   
National Doodle Day  Link
National Food Bank Day  Link  
National No Patrick Day Link  
Stand Up To Cancer Day Link 
National College Colors Day  Link
V-J Day
World Coconut Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another nice summer day. I’m enjoying the break from the monsoon.

I grew up in an era where fast-food restaurants were full of high schoolers working there after school, on weekends, and during vacations. Back then, very few saw this as a career job. A hamburger was 15 cents. Now many adults are working the jobs and it is their main source of income. CA has just passed a law that puts the minimum wage for fast-food workers at $22/hr. Times have certainly changed.

The UN inspectors are finally on site at the Ukraine Nuclear Plant. Hoping for some good news as they do their inspections.

Alaska just had a special election to fill a congressional seat after the member passed away. It was in the news because Sarah Palin was running. Somehow, a Democrat won…first time in over 50 years. Even more exciting is that Mary Peltola, a Yup’ik Eskimo, is the first Native American ever elected to Congress.  

Favorite Memes

Moon Facts…NEW

The Moon Has Been the Same Size For Millions of Years

For years, scientists thought that the moon’s volcanic activity ceased hundreds of millions of years ago with the interior cooling and the crust no longer retracting in size. As it turns out, this isn’t the case. The moon is, in fact, shrinking.

Data gathered during the Apollo program and again by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in the 2000s shows that the moon’s fault lines are still active and producing “moonquakes.” This has led scientists to believe that it’s highly likely the moon’s crust is still retracting in size.

Now, the moon isn’t going to be the size of a football any time soon. It’s thought to have only shrunk by about 150 feet in a few hundred million years so chances are good that it will still be there when we go back in 2024.

Historical Events

1666 – Great Fire of London

1789 – The US Treasury Department was established.

1864 – Union General William Sherman took Atlanta, Georgia in the Civil War.

1945 – Japan’s surrender from World War II was signed aboard the USS Missouri.

Birthdays Today

85 – Peter Ueberroth, American businessman
“Authority is 20% given and 80% taken…so take it!”– Peter Ueberroth
@79 – Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii (d. 1917)
74 – Terry Bradshaw, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
71 – Mark Harmon, American actor
70 – Jimmy Connors, American tennis player, and sportscaster
@59 – Billy Preston, American singer-songwriter, pianist, actor (d. 2006; kidney failure)
“I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.”– Billy Preston
58 – Keanu Reeves, Lebanese-Canadian actor
“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.”– Keanu Reeves
57 – Lennox Lewis, English-Canadian boxer
56 – Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
“Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.”– Salma Hayek
@55 – Hugo Montenegro, American composer, and conductor (d. 1981; emphysema)
51 – Katt Williams, American comedic actor
46 – Aziz Zakari, Ghanaian sprinter
@37 – Christa McAuliffe, American educator, and astronaut (d. 1986; Challenger disaster)
“May your future be limited only by your dreams!”– Christa McAuliffe
33 – Zedd [Anton Zaslavski], Russian-German record producer, and DJ