11 Jan

 

11 January 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 2 Day 11 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 17 miles Flagstaff Today 52° \23°  Wind 5mph \ Gusts 10mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 325mi \ Nearest Lightning 273mi
Jan Averages for Flagstaff: 44° \ 16° \5 Days of moisture
High clouds

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

6-Feb 21
Carnival Season
7-14
National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
8-14
Home Office Safety and Security Week  
National Mocktail Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
11-20
Take A Friend Snowmobiling Week Link

Daily Observations

Cigarettes Are Hazardous To Your Health Day
Girl Hug Boy Day
Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day Link
National Hot Toddy Day
National Milk Day
Secret Pal Day
Stomp in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day (weather permitting)
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day Link
World Sketchnote Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A fast-moving storm is headed my way. They say it will be gone by noon tomorrow and leave an inch of so of the white stuff. I am patiently waiting.

I was glad to see that the House approved its rules for this session without too much hassle.

Just as things were calming down, Biden’s VP office discovered classified documents and notified the National Archives. After that, the media broke the story. Now some Republicans are out there wondering why the FBI didn’t raid Biden’s old office, how long the current President should be allowed to remain in office, and how soon he can be impeached. I am patiently waiting.

Great news that Damar Hamlin is back in Buffalo just one week after the incident. Thanks to all who assisted in his quick recovery.

Last summer I was following the trek of BearSun as he walked from LA to NYC to raise money for mental health, \Autism, cancer, the environment, and the disabled community. He has returned to Flagstaff to donate his moccasins to the Museum of Northern AZ. Very cool.

Just after I finished yesterday’s blog, the AZ Cardinals announced the firing of the Head Coach and General Manager. Probably the right move after a pathetic season.  

Today the Navajo Nation inaugurated a new President (Buu Nygren) and the first ever female VP (Richelle Montoya). President Nygren is the youngest President for the Navajo Nation, elected at 35 years old. Congrats.

Waterfalls around the world

Facts…

In 1900, about a third of vehicles were electric.

For centuries, getting around by horse and cart was the standard mode of transportation. By the 1800s, however, these hay-powered haulers were causing problems on busy city streets. As more people moved into cities, the number of horses dramatically increased, and with so many equines on the roads — New York City had around 150,000 horses in 1890 — came public health concerns over disease and mountains of manure. Horse travel, frankly put, was relatively dirty in comparison to making way by horseless carriage, aka the first electric vehicles. Marketed as clean, quiet, and easy to drive, early electric cars, which resembled traditional carriages, became so popular that by 1900 they accounted for around one-third of all automotive vehicles on roadways. 

Slang Origins

1962: Chrome dome

Meaning: a bald person

The hippie movement encouraged men in the movement to wear their hair long or in afros. “Chrome dome” became an insult for those not in the movement, especially those serving in the Vietnam War, who had to get their hair buzzed short to meet military requirements.

Historical Events

1759 – First American life insurance company incorporated, founded by the Presbyterian Synod of Philadelphia.

1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument was created. It became a National park in 1919.

1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

Birthdays Today

@102 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008)
@84 – James Paget, English surgeon and pathologist (d. 1899)
@89 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver, engineer, and businessman (d. 2012)
I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap anymore from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.– Carroll Shelby
@82 – David L. Wolper, American director and producer (d. 2010)
@76 – Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2022; suicide)
@65 – Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologians (d. 1972)
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.– Abraham Joshua Heschel
@58 – Darryl Dawkins, American basketball player, coach (d. 2015; heart attack)
52 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter
@49 – Alexander Hamilton, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804; lost duel)
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.– Alexander Hamilton
39 – Matt Mullenweg, American web developer, co-created WordPress
36 – Scotty Cranmer, American Professional BMX rider
I learned my lesson after seeing what guys like TJ Lavin, Ty Pinney, Stephen Murray and Mikey went through. And honestly, I feel like I’m disrespecting them by not wearing a helmet while riding at this level. I wish kids would start appreciating life and realize how everything can change in that one split second just because you’re not going to wear a helmet.– Scotty Cranmer