November 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 46 Day 316 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today
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Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
National Donor Sabbath: 10-12
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 11-17
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
National Cider Week: 12-19
National Cider Week: 12-19 Link
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18 Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week: 12-18 Link Link
Perioperative Nurse Week: 12-18 Link
Roc Your Moc Week: 12-18 Link
World Kindness Week: 12-18
World Kindness Week: 12-18 Link
Daily Observations
Chicken Soup For The Soul
Day Link
Diwali Link
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day Link
Football Day Link
National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day
National French Dip Day Link
National Happy Hour Day
National Pizza with the
Works Except for Anchovies Day
Sigma Gamma Rho Day
World Pneumonia Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
very chilly Veteran’s Day. Being a Federal Holiday, I believe everyone should
have a day off. I am staying around the house and not encouraging businesses that
are open.
Family
Flag is flying to honor our vets.
AZ
is still waiting for our final election results…tired of the holding pattern.
A
Federal judge from TX has struck down Biden’s College Loan Forgiveness Plan. I’m
sure there will be numerous appeals.
Here
is an interesting stat I found today: Native Americans service in the armed
forces is at a rate FIVE times the national average.
During
Native American Heritage Month, the Phoenix Suns NBA team is wearing uniforms
to honor the 22 tribes of AZ. Very cool.
Favorite
Memes
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 Still figuring out my new ride :)
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Best
Instrumentals
"Always
with Me, Always with You" by Joe Satriani (1989)
No doubt
that Satriani is up there with the great guitarists in music history. From a
technical standpoint, he could be the best. There are many great Satriani
tracks to choose from, but this is one of his most celebrated. It's also likely
his most recognizable as it earned plenty of FM radio airplay, and the video
received some decent love on MTV.
Meaning/history
of a phrase
A snafu
This expression is often used when
something has gone wrong. But what does it mean, really?
"Snafu" comes from the World
War II military acronym S.N.A.F.U., which stands for Situation Normal, All
F**** Up. Which, in a context of war, means exactly that.
Historical
Events
1799 – Andrew Ellicott wrote the about
first known record of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know they were
the Leonids.
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, the
father of modern anesthetics, used chloroform (“perchloride of formyle”) for
the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel connecting NY
and NY – the world’s first underwater vehicular tunnel – officially opened.
1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the
Soviet Communist Party.
1929 – Commander Richard E. Byrd made the
first flight over the South Pole.
1933 – First known photo of the so-called
Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray.
1946 – The Exchange National Bank of
Chicago, Illinois, instituted the first drive-in banking service in America.
1954 – Ellis Island in New York closed
after providing entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and
1924.
1956 – The largest iceberg on record was
sighted by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of
Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere. It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf
in the Antarctic. It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I
made the closest approach to Saturn and took the first clear images of its
rings.
Birthdays
Today
@91 – DeWitt
Wallace, philanthropist co-founded Reader’s Digest, (d. 1981)
@83 – Charles
Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017)
@79 – Kim Hunter,
American actress (d. 2002; heart attack)
78
– Al Michaels, American sportscaster
77
– Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer
@77 – Auguste Rodin,
French sculptor, illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
“To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature.”… “The more
simple we are, the more complete we become.– Auguste Rodin
64
– Megan Mullally, American actress, singer
61
– Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast
54
– Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
53
– Tonya Harding, American figure skater
“Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.”– Grace Kelly
“People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said
before, I really don’t give a damn.”– Tonya Harding
@52 – Grace Kelly,
American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982; stoke)
46
– Tevin Campbell, American R&B Singer/Songwriter, actor
42
– Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer, and singer
40
– Anne Hathaway, American actress
38
– Omarion, American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer
