December 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 51 Day 349 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 34° \2°
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 6mph Air Quality: Fair \Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 131mi \ Nearest Lightning 1152mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
Andisop (Meteorological
Fiddling): 5-24 Link
Human Rights Week: 10-17
Christmas Bird Count Week: 14-1/5 Link
Halcyon Days: 14-28
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 15 - 1/1/23 Link
Daily Observations
Bill of Rights Day
Cat Herder’s Day Link
National Cupcake Day
National Lemon Cupcake Day
National Re-gifting Day Link
National Wear Your Pearls Day
Zamenhof Day (Esperato Literature Day) Link
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I
woke up to a very chilly morning. It is still crisp outside. The sun has been
shining all day, but the snow is only melting on the dark pavement.
It
has been a few months since I had my angioedema…swollen lips. It started as I
was going to bed last night. When I got up this morning, the lip was still
swollen. After about an hour I was back to normal. Weird.
Even
the elk must have been cold…a small herd of 10-15 got into a fenced area at one
of the local middle schools and were unable to escape. Forest Service is
deciding what to do next.
Our
country needs to revamp our campaigning laws NOW! I’m talking major changes…like
no campaigning until 90 days before the election and every candidate must list
ALL contributions to the campaign with names of human doners. There can be no
ore hiding behind a ‘super-PAC’ or any anonymous donations. If one dollar or one
million dollars arrives anonymously it must be returned to the sender or given
to a listed charity, like Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, Wounded Warriors,
etc. Politicians should be doing their job for the people they represent, not
to donors who have an agenda.
Favorite
Memes
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Did you
Know?
There's a
"floating rainforest" in the sea.
When most
people think of rainforests, they picture massive jungles filled with trees and
critters. However, somewhere in the Sargasso Sea sits the so-called
"floating rainforest" that consists not of dense vegetation on land,
but of seaweed under water.
According to
Smithsonian magazine, each strand of brown Sargassum marine algae can grow to
be the length of a school bus. When they become matted together in the water,
the masses - or "forests" - of algae can be as large as several
football fields. The seaweed is not only impressively long and large, but also
provides the perfect place for a diverse collection of animals to live - not
unlike an actual rainforest!
Slang
Origins
1936: The big house
Meaning: prison
The age of the gangster in the 1920s and 1930s may explain why so much of the slang from the ‘30s refers to prison, and some of these words are still used today. The big house is one of those that endured. It was also the title of a 1930 movie about a prison escape, considered by many to have defined the genre of prison dramas.
Corny
jokes
What do you call an alligator detective?
An investi-gator.
….
What kind of ghost has the best hearing?
The eeriest.
Historical
Events
1791 – The Bill of Rights was added to
the United States Constitution.
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the
United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited
the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.
1973 – The American Psychiatric
Association voted 13 to 0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of
psychiatric disorders.
Birthdays
Today
@91 – Alexandre
Eiffel, French engineer, Eiffel Tower (d. 1923)
@85 – Tim Conway,
American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
“It’s hard to be sad when you’re laughing, so I enjoy making people
happy.”– Tim Conway
@83 – J. Paul Getty,
American-English businessman, founder of Getty Oil (d. 1976)
83
– Dave Clark, English drummer
@78 – Uziel Gal,
German/Israeli inventor of the Uzi submachine gun (d. 2002; cancer)
76
– Carmine Appice, American drummer, songwriter
73
– Don Johnson, American actor
69
– J. M. DeMatteis, American author
“I’ve realized over the years that, with rare exceptions, most
writer’s block isn’t writer’s block at all: It’s necessary time that allows the
unconscious mind to do its deep work.”
– J.M. DeMatteis
59
– Helen Slater, American actress
50
– Stuart Townsend, Irish actor
@43 – Alan Freed,
American radio host (d. 1965; complications of alcoholism)
43
– Adam Brody, American actor
“Comic books aren’t nerdy. You’d have to be an idiot to think
computers are nerdy.”
-Adam Brody
@30 – Nero, Roman
emperor (d. 68; ordered his soldiers to kill him)
