22 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 47 Day 325	Sky Cover 5%
Active fire:   132 miles Risk of fire: Moderate	Near Lightning: 1380mi
Wind 9mph Gusts 15mph	FlagToday  49° \32°
Air Quality: Fair Sunshine	Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

American Education Week: 17-23 Link  Geography Awareness Week: 17-23  Geography Awareness Week: 17-23 Link  International Restorative Justice Week: 17-23  International Restorative Justice Week: 17-23 Link

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 17-23 Link   World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24   World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24  Link National Farm-City Week: 22-28

Daily Observations

Educators Day Link  Humane Society Day International Musicians Day Link

Go For a (Bicycle) Ride Day National Stop The Violence Day Substitute Start Your Own Country Day

Today’s Thoughts

Slowly warming up.

I grew up where Black Friday was a big deal. My mom would be at the store when it opened about 7am come rain or shine or many times snow. She would pick up next year’s Christmas cards, some new Christmas decorations for the next year, and make necessary returns. When I retired, I too got the stores as they opened…by then about 5:30am and buy Christmas decorations and cards and a new poinsettia for 99 cents. I stopped that about 8 years ago. Most stores have Black Friday sales starting about Nov. 1^st. This year is the worst…I’ve seen DAILY Black Friday sales at most of the National stores here in Flagstaff all of November. In this time of tight money, grocery stores, prescription drug stores gas stations, and Utilities companies have never participated in any kind of Black Friday. Black Friday used to allow stores to sell Christmas stuff and slow selling inventory so they wouldn’t have to store it somewhere.  That still works, but they are also buying extra inventory of best sellers and reducing the price to make money. Times have changed.

Enjoy

 

Words pronounced differently in the North and South States…

Y'all ©Provided by ALot.com

There's a very major and obvious divide in the way people in the North and South address a group of two or more people. Most famously, Southerners address groups as "y'all." Most Northerners address a group of people as "you guys."

Best TV Quotes… TV quotes

"Winter is coming." — "Game of Thrones", 2011-2019.

Historic Events

1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

November 22, 1940 (fictional) The Justice Society met for the first time, DC Comics

The Humane Society of the United States was founded on November 22, 1954.

November 22, 1968 – The first airing of an interracial kiss took place on Star Trek between William Shatner (playing Captain Kirk) and Nichelle Nichols (playing Lieutenant Uhura) in an episode titled Plato’s Stepchildren.

November 22, 2013 – Xbox One released, Video Game Console

November 22, 2005 – Xbox 360 released, Video Game Console

Birthdays with some quotes

@83 – Thomas Cook, English businessman (founded Thomas Cook Group, d. 1892)
@82 – Hoagy Carmichael, American Singer/Songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1981)
“I did all sorts of jobs after drama school – working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.”
@82 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian, actor, rapper, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.”
@81 – Tom Conti, Scottish actor, and director
80 – Billie Jean King, American tennis player, and sportscaster
@79 – Charles de Gaulle (18th President of France, d. 1970)
67 – Richard Kind, American actor
66 – Donny Deutsch, American businessman, and TV host
65 – Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”
62 – Mariel Hemingway, American actress
58 – Mads Mikkelson, Demark actor
56 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor, and activist
@55 – Terry Stafford, American Singer/Songwriter (d. 1996; lengthy illness)
39 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress (Black Widow, Avengers)

…The End for today…

 

21 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 47 Day  325	Sky Cover 5%	Wind 5mph Gusts 14mph	FlagToday  45° \26°
Active fire:   63miles Risk of fire: Very Low	Near Lightning: 939mi	Air Quality: Fair Sunshine	Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

American Education Week: 17-23 Link  Geography Awareness Week: 17-23 Link  International Restorative Justice Week: 17-23 Link  National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 17-23 Link   World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24  Link

Daily Observations

Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor) Beaujolais Nouveau Day   Link Children's Grief Awareness Day Link  Educator For A Day Link  False Confession Day Great American Smokeout Link  National Parental Involvement Day  Link  National Red Mitten Day (Canada) Link

National Rural Health Day   Link National Stuffing Day Use Less Stuff Day Link  World Hello Day  Link World Pancreatic Cancer Day Link   World Philosophy Day World Television Day

Today’s Thoughts

Cool morning with a tad more wind than I like.

Football: Texas beat Cards, Broncos beat Vikings. Broncos’ win came with a touchdown with 1.08 left.

Former First Lady Roslyn Carter passed at 96 after 77 years of marriage. Mrs. Carter did amazing things for the betterment of the world. She did everything with her husband. She will be missed.

60 Minutes did a great report on Alabama descendant of slave-owning family on what they are doing for former slave descendant families. Worth a watch: https://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/ and scroll forward to 42:00 point if you don’t want to see the whole program.

When I saw the headline in today’s news that it is Joe Biden’s 81^st birthday I thought of my friends who are over 80. All are moving a little to a lot more slowly than in their 70’s, aare active to fairly active and are enjoying their retirement…even with their new infirmities. Each one of the dozen or so people have no desire to return to daily employment. Why does Biden want to continue?

Enjoy

Words pronounced differently in the North and South States…

Buggy ©Provided by ALot.com

Shopping carts are a staple of every grocery store, and most Northerners call them shopping carts. Southerners, on the other hand, call them 'buggies.'

Best TV quotes

How you doin'?" — "Friends", 1994-2004.

Historic Events

1789- North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution and was admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

1800 – The US Congress met in Washington for the first time.

1992 – Starting November 21, and lasting several days, the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawned over 100 tornadoes.

2002 – NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to become members.

2004 – Nintendo DS released, Video Game Console

Birthdays with some quotes

86 – Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer, activist

@83 – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French historian, playwright, philosopher (d. 1778)

“All mortals are equal; it is not their birth,

But virtue itself that makes the difference.”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”

82 – Juliet Mills, English-American actress

@81 – Hetty Green, American businesswoman, and financier (‘richest miser’ d. 1916)

78 – Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer

“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy.”75 – George Zimmer, American businessman, founded Men’s Wearhouse

73 – Livingston Taylor, American Singer/Songwriter, musician

@69 – Harold Ramis, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2014; auto immune disease)

“My characters aren’t losers. They’re rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else’s rules.”

60 – Nicollette Sheridan, English actress

58 – Björk, Icelandic Singer/Songwriter

54 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player, and actor

“You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.”

51 – Michael Strahan, football, talk shows

38 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, and actress

…The End for today…

 

20 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 47 Day  323	Sky Cover 95%	Wind 9mph Gusts 21mph	FlagToday  49° \25°
Active fire: 126miles Risk of fire: Very Low	Near Lightning: 71mi	Air Quality: Fair Overcast with light rain	Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

American Education Week: 17-23 Link  Geography Awareness Week: 17-23 Link  International Restorative Justice Week: 17-23 Link

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 17-23 Link   World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24  Link

Daily Observations

African Industrialization Day Beautiful Day Future Teachers of America Day Peanut Butter Fudge Day GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) Link  Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D.

Name Your PC Day  Link National Absurdity Day National Child's Day Link National Educational Support Professionals Day Link    National Peanut Butter Fudge Day  Link Transgender Day of Remembrance Universal Children's Day

Today’s Thoughts

It rained on and off all night. This morning there was only light rain. Then some heavy frozen rain, graupel. By noon, blue sky with clouds above the horizon.

A wildly known native artist, from Shonto, and a friend of mine, Baje Whitethorne, passed away yesterday. He was my age, was in the hospital in January with severe covid. He lived in Flag and Phoenix. He was home and died in his sleep. He was still weak from the covid. He is and will be missed.

In the second half, Cards are losing to the Texans. Bronco game should be good. Go Broncos!

Enjoy

Words pronounced differently in the North and South States…

Coke©Provided by ALot.com

Almost unanimously across the southern part of the United States, the generic term for a sweetened carbonated drink is 'coke.' This acts as an umbrella term, covering all the different types of soda, not just Coca-Cola. Meanwhile, most Northerners call soda's 'pop,' though some in the northeast just call them 'soda.'

Random Trivia…

Mr. First©pinsdaddy

From the late 1920s until the mid-1960s, a man by the name of Omero C. Catan became known as “Mr. First” in New York City. In what became an ongoing tradition, he was the first person to participate in over 500 openings in New York and beyond—including being the first person to skate on the Rockefeller Center rink.

He was also the first man to put a token in a parking meter, and the first man to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel. This seems impossible, but it's a fact! Maybe he just got lucky. 

Historic Events

Birthday boy Chester Gould’s friend, Al Gross invented the walkie-talkie, and that was the inspiration for Dick Tracey’s wrist radio in January 1946.

In 1789, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

In 1820, An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.

1945 – The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began, finishing on October 10, 1946.

1962 – In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation, ending The Cuban Missile Crisis.

November 20, 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.

Birthdays with some quotes

96 – Estelle Parsons, American actress (The Golden Girls)
@95 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist author (d. 2004)
@92 - Robert Byrd, American politician, (d. 2010)
@84 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, creator of Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
“The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There’s a doublecross on every corner. I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there. I decided that if the police couldn’t catch the gangsters, I’d create a fellow who could.”
@82 – Robert Armstrong, American actor (d. 1973)
(King Kong “it wasn’t the airplanes, t’was beauty killed the beast”
81 – Norman Greenbaum, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist (Spirit in the Sky)
80 – Joe Biden, American lawyer, and politician, (46th President)
@76 – Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, screenwriter Super Dave Osbourne (d. 2019; cancer)
76 – Joe Walsh, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
“You can’t be a legend in your parent’s basement.”
67 – Bo Derek, American actress, and producer
64 – Sean Young, American actress, and dancer
@63 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953; stroke)
62 – Jim Brickman, American Singer/Songwriter, and pianist
60 – Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress (Mulan, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.)
57 – Jill Thompson, American author, and illustrator
52 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
48 – Dierks Bentley, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
@42 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (assassinated in 1968)
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
“Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. “Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.” These men moved the world, and so can we all.”

…The End for today…