16 Jan

 

16 January 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 3 Day 16 \ Ave. Sky Cover 95% \ Visibility 5 miles Flagstaff Today 43° \19°  Wind 6mph \ Gusts 14mph 
Air Quality:  Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 330mi \ Nearest Lightning 1523mi
Jan Averages for Flagstaff: 44° \ 16° \5 Days of moisture
Snow

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Weekly Observations

14-22
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
15-21
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
Idiom Week
National Activity Professionals Week
Sugar Awareness Week
16-20
No Name Calling Week Link

Daily Observations

Appreciate A Dragon Day
Blue Monday  Link 
Book Publishers Day
Civil Service Day
Fig Newton Day Link  Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day
International Hot and Spicy Food Day
Martin Luther King Day
National Crowd Feed Day  
National Day of Service Link 
National Good Teen Day
National Nothing Day
National Quinoa Day
National Good Teen Day
National Nothing Day
National Quinoa Day
Religious Freedom Day Link 
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Robert E. Lee Day  
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Robert E. Lee Day   Link 
Without A Scalpel Day 
Without A Scalpel Day Link  Link
Zeta Phi Beta Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 I woke up to about a foot of snow, and it is still snowing. Looks like the weather guy got this storm correct. No need or plans to go anywhere for a few days. All good.

I spent the morning deep cleaning the two bathrooms I use. Not my favorite cleaning task, but the bathrooms now shine.

Last week the AZ Cardinals broke a fairly new 5-year contract with their head coach and fired him. The guy took the pay-off with no real publicity and bought a one-way ticket to Thailand.  It is believed he has no plans to coach again. Thailand is a nice country. Hope he enjoys it.

It is amazing to me how Ukraine is still fighting Russia. I hope we keep supporting them.

As the Biden probe into classified documents intensifies, it is interesting to me that Biden, with his decades in the government was not aware of his issues. Even stranger is that he is not being very transparent. I thought the mantra of long-time politicians was to admit a wrong and apologize before it becomes a bigger issues. Maybe this really is a way for Biden to not run in 2024. No election should be an excuse to not tell the whole truth.

The Big 5 of Africa…lions, leopards, elephants, African buffalo, & rhinoceroses

 

Facts…

Sand dunes can “sing.”

Most rock formations found in nature are revered for their stoic appearance — think snow-capped mountains or monoliths like the Rock of Gibraltar. But some more active landscapes, like ever-shifting sand dunes, have a livelier presence: They can “sing.” An estimated 35 sand dunes around the world, including some in the United Arab Emirates, Chile, and the U.S., are known to produce eerie, vibrational hums in a variety of tones. Some even produce booms or croaking sounds. Marco Polo noted the phenomenon during his travels, and many communities surrounding dunes have developed their own superstitions about the songs. Yet for centuries, no one really understood why or how these sounds happened.   

Slang Origins

1966: Marvy

Meaning: marvelous; delightful

Less ubiquitous than groovy, "marvy" was often used to convey the same feeling. Occasionally, “marvy” was combined with “groovy” to create “marvy-groovy,” ironically used to call something bad, the opposite of today’s use of “sick” to describe something great.

UNESCO sites…

America's First National Park Was Also One of Its First UNESCO Sites

The list of the first 12 places to be named World Heritage Sites featured two locations in the United States: Yellowstone National Park (located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana) and Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant designated Yellowstone National Park the country's first national park. Today, the park is famous for being home to approximately half of the world's geothermal sites, including the Old Faithful Geyser. Mesa Verde National Park, on the other hand, features 5,000 known archaeological sites, 600 of which are cliff dwellings made of sandstone and mud mortar. The park offers a glimpse into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people, who lived in the southwestern Colorado area for centuries.

Historical Events

The first ‘Modern Novel’ was published in 1605; The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes, in Madrid, Spain. About 500 million copies have been printed.
1920 – The League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1944 – Dwight Eisenhower assumed command of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe).
1991 – The Gulf War began.

Birthdays Today

88 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver
80 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer
79 – Jim Stafford, American singer-songwriter
@78 – Andre Michwlin, French industrialist, founder of Michelin Tire Company (d. 1931)
@76 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984; cancer)
I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they’d be up here on stage and I’d be out there watching them.– Ethel Merman
75 – John Carpenter, American director
@71 – Susan Sontag, American novelist, essayist, and critic (d. 2004; leukemia)
To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better. A better state of one’s feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one’s self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same.– Susan Sontag
@70 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
@64 – Dizzy Dean (Jay Hanna Dean), baseball player, sportscaster (d. 1974; heart attack)
It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up.– Dizzy Dean
64 – Sade (Helen Folasade Adu), Nigerian-English singer-songwriter
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.– Sade
60 – James May, British journalist/co-host of Top Gear
Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.– James May
@53 – Dian Fossey, Gorilla advocate (d. 1985; murdered)
49 – Kate Moss, English model
What people say isn’t going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.– Kate Moss
43 – Lin-Manuel Miranda, stage actor
38 – Joe Flacco, American football player
36 – Jake Epstein, Canadian actor
@22 – Aaliyah, American singer and actress (d. 2001)

 

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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.