12 Oct

 

October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 285 \ Ave. Sky Cover 40% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \35° 
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 11mph  Air Quality Excellant   High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest Lightning 1mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

6-12 National Physician’s Assistant Week

9-15   Death Penalty Focus Week National Metric Week   National Women's Motorcycle Week  Link  Drink Local Wine Week    Earth Science Week Link  Emergency Nurses Week Fire Prevention Week  Link  National Chestnut Week  Teen Read Week

9-16 Sukkot Jewish Holiday

10-17 Take Your Medicine Americans Week

10-15 World Rainforest Week: Link   Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link   National School Lunch Week

12-20  Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

Daily Observations

Bullying Prevention Day  
Day of the Six Billion Link
Drink Local Wine Day
Emergency Nurses Day  Link
Farmer’s Day
Free Thought Day
Gumbo Day
International Day Against DRM  Link
International Moment of Frustration Scream Day
International Top Spinning Day   
National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day  
National Curves Day  Link  
National Farmer's Day  Link
National Fossil Day  Link  
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day Link 
National Savings Day Link
National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day 
Old Farmers Day
S.A.V.E. (Stop America's Violence Everywhere) Link 
Stem Cell Awareness Day  Link
Walk & Roll To School Day Link 
World Arthritis Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another cloudy fall day. Hoping for some moisture.

Yesterday’s phlebotomy was a big success…only to 15 minutes to get it done.

This year’s monsoon brought us 10.63” of moisture, making it the 15^th wettest monsoon. The Weather Bureau says the moisture MAY continue into the winter.

I grew up in Colorado and have seen Mount Evans many times. Now it is about to get a new name. It turns out that Governor Adams approved the Sand Creek Massacre. This is news to many in Colorado. A point to make, most of the Native tribes keep their history through oral tradition. I’m wondering if the Cheyenne and Arapahoe who were massacred passed down that the Governor of Colorado had approved of the deaths?

Favorite Memes

Superstitions

Horseshoes

Horseshoes are considered symbols of good luck because of a Christian story about the 10th century saint Dunstan. He was a blacksmith who was approached by the Devil (in disguise) to put shoes on his horse, but Dunstan saw through the disguise and put the shoes on the Devil’s feet instead. Dunstan agreed to remove the shoes only if the Devil agreed never to try and enter a home with a horseshoe hanging on its door. It is customary to hang your horseshoe with seven nails, but there is some debate over whether they should be hung with the ends point up so the shoe catches luck or down so that the shoe pours luck onto everyone who passes through the doorway. 

US Facts

Afterlife

Some 25% of Americans believe in reincarnation.

Historical Events

1279 – The Nichiren Shoshu branch of Buddhism was founded in Japan.
1492 – Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ The Bahamas.
1773 – Eastern State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first in America, opened..
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day in the US was held in New York City.
1810 – Oktoberfest begins: In Germany, the Bavarian royal family invited the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland began selling his ‘raincoat.’
1960 – Nikita Khrushchev famously pounded his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly.
1979 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams was published.
1999 – As of this day, 6 billion people were alive on Earth.
2000 – The USS Cole was badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

Birthdays Today

@88 – Art Clokey (Arthur C. Farrington), created Gumby (d, 2010)
86 – Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter, of Sam & Dave
73 – Carlos the Jackal (Illich Ramirez Sanchez), Venezuelan terrorist, murderer
@72 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist, author (d. 1947)
“It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people’s business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.”– Aleister Crowley
74 – Susan Anton, American actress, model
“And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God’s hands and leave it with Him.”– Edith Stein
@71 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007; pancreatic cancer)
“People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.”
– Luciano Pavarotti
@50 – Edith Stein, German/Polish nun and martyr; later canonized (d. 1942; executed)
54 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer
“In life, you don’t regret the things you do, you regret the things you don’t do.”– Hugh Jackman
52 – Kirk Cameron, American actor
@25 – Lane Frost, Bull Rider (d.1989; killed in arena at Cheyenne Frontier Days)