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November 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 44 Day 308 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 40° \18° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 10mph  Air Quality: Fair\  Very Low 
Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 283mi \ Nearest Lightning 177mi
Nov Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (3 days of moisture)

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Monthly Observations

NET Cancer Awareness Month  Link
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month 
Link
Pet Diabetes Month Link
Picture Book Month Link
PPHI Aids Awareness Month

Prematurity Awareness Month Link
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month Link
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month Link
Sweet Potato Awareness Month 
Link  (See also February)
Teff and Millet Month 
Link
Triple Crown of Surfing (11/12-12/20)  
Link
World Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month

Weekly Observations

World Origami Days: 24-11/11
National Fig Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
National Farm Toy Show Days: 3-5  

Daily Observations

Believe it or not, it’s National Skeptics Day
Bison Day  
Digital Scrapbooking Day (First Saturday)
National Chicken Lady Day, celebrating Dr. Marthenia “Tina” Dupree
National Candy Day Link
National Easy-Bake Oven Day
National Play Outside Day: 4 Link 
National Professional Paint Contractors Day  
National Professional Paint Contractors Day  Link
Pumpkin Destruction Day
Sausage and Kraut Day
Use Your Common Sense Day
Waiting for Barbarians Day, based on the title of a book by South African writer J.M. Coetzee and a poem by Constantine P. Cavafy.
World Chili Day (International Chili Championships in Terlingua, TX)
World Numbat Day Link   

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Snow has arrived. Crazy weather…first snow, then sunshine, then snow again. Not a lot sticking. Hopefully I will be able to make my Covid booster shot appointment this afternoon. On the brighter side, I’ll get to try out the remote start and the heated seat.

Now some of the 911 tapes have been released to the public. Shocking, horrifying. Will the officers ever be disciplined?

I’m tired of reading that inflation is at a 40-year high. They forget to mention that corporate profit is at a 70-year high.

AZ’s Kari Lake is on the national news everywhere. She is the Trump candidate and former news person from Phoenix who wants to be Governor. A video of a campaign stop shows here making a comment about the Pelosi break-in that had the audience and her campaign manager laughing. Very embarrassing for AZ for sure.     

Favorite Memes

 

 

 



Best Instrumentals

"Soul Sacrifice" by Santana (1969)

Long considered one of the great musical moments from the historic Woodstock festival in the summer of 1969. Carlos Santana was just a young pup when this song was released on his debut album at the end of the '60s. Checking in at a little more than 6 1/2 minutes, Santana's axe work and a stellar drum performance from the great Michael Shrieve are the highlights of the track. 

Meaning/history of a phrase

Bite the bullet

The phrase essentially means doing something/making a difficult decision that we've been hesitant to make.

It can be traced back to soldiers in the battlefield who would have to go under emergency procedures without anesthesia or alcohol to numb the pain. So they'd have to literally bite a bullet.

Historical Events

1841 – 1st wagon train arrived in California. They left Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841.
1846 – The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire.
1873 – A patent (#144,182) for a gold crown was issued to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on “artificial crowns for teeth”.
1879 – James Jacob Ritty and his brother John invented the first cash register, to stop the stealing by his bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant saloon in Dayton, Ohio.
1904 – First stadium built specifically for football opened (Harvard Stadium). Officially, when referring to more than one stadium, they should be called ‘stadia.’ But ‘stadiums’ works too.
1922 – King Tut’s Tomb was discovered.
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first female elected as governor in the United States.
1979 – The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran was seized.
1939 – First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) was exhibited, Chicago, Ill. The A/C option was available for $274 until 1941. WW II stopped the production of many luxury items. It wasn’t until 1953 that air conditioning was commercially available in cars again.
1946 – UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) was founded.
1948 – TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”
1952 – The United States government established the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1964 – The (toy) Easy Bake over was released.
2008 – Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.

Birthdays Today

@92 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (d. 2009)
“The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. Democracy is in danger. Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign resources, who have the largest bank accounts or own riches. That, I submit to you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful.”– Walter Cronkite
@90 – Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
“It’s okay to look back, just don’t stare.”– Doris Roberts
@85 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
85 – Loretta Swit, American actress, and singer
76 – Laura Bush, American educator, and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
71 – Markie Post, American actress
62 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian, and actress
60 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
61 – Jeff Probst, American TV host, and producer
@55 – Will Rogers, American actor, and screenwriter (d. 1935; plane crash)
“I never met a man I didn’t like.”-Will Rogers
53 –Matthew McConaughey, actor
52 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor
“I came in to win, you know. This is why I stay up late while other people are sleeping.”
– Puff Daddy
@42 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989; AIDS)

 

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.